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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Tricountydirectorsgroup [mailto:tricountydirectorsgroup-bounces@magixsolutions.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>firstnurseryschool@verizon.net<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 19, 2015 10:41 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> tricountydirectorsgroup@magixsolutions.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Tricountydirectorsgroup] Winning Beginning Workforce Survey<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please send the letter to me in English. I only received the Spanish version. Thank-you.<br>
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Oct 16, 2015 11:41:48 AM, <a href="mailto:tricountydirectorsgroup@magixsolutions.net">
tricountydirectorsgroup@magixsolutions.net</a> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Winning Beginning NY has reached out to the Child Care Resource and Referral agencies to ask for our help in disseminating a workforce survey (explanation
is below). We all know that the field of early education is low in areas of pay and benefits, but it is important to collect this information and be able to show that in concrete numbers. This is an opportunity to contribute and be the first step towards advocating
for change! Please consider completing the survey and having your staff do the same. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Here is the link to the survey</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HcvKE73v9mcSdez1w1lo0LpbJ05dMksT5beloQVLhgI/viewform?usp=send_form" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HcvKE73v9mcSdez1w1lo0LpbJ05dMksT5beloQVLhgI/viewform?usp=send_form</a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Thank you for your consideration of this request!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">~Happy Friday~<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Lorraine
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Dear Early Childhood Professional,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HcvKE73v9mcSdez1w1lo0LpbJ05dMksT5beloQVLhgI/viewform?usp=send_form" target="_blank"><b><i>We Need Your Input!</i></b></a><b><i>
</i></b>The Early Care & Learning Council is committed to ensuring the early childhood education profession is well supported and recognized as vital and performing a critical role in society. Compensation of early childhood professional is central to this
commitment and an issue we work to address in partnership with Winning Beginning NY (WBNY).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">WBNY’s Workforce issue group focuses on state policies and strategies to address critical issues impacting the early childhood workforce; specifically
to increase compensation and to improve access to effective early childhood professional preparation and development.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">WBNY has identified as one of its priorities to work towards improving early childhood professionals’ compensation and access to benefits. To inform this
work a survey has been developed to gather information on current compensation and benefits of New York’s early childhood workforce.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Your participation in
<a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HcvKE73v9mcSdez1w1lo0LpbJ05dMksT5beloQVLhgI/viewform?usp=send_form" target="_blank">
<b><i>this survey</i></b></a><b><i> </i></b>will provide essential information to support WBNY’s advocacy work on this critical issue. The survey is anonymous, and all individual data will be confidential. As the survey is being released by multiple partners
of WBNY, we ask that you help us ensure reliable results by completing the survey only once.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="color:black">Inside the attached letter you will find links to the survey (one in English, one in Spanish). Please utilize these to send to your network or providers.
A</span></b><span style="color:black"> summary of the survey findings will be available on the Winning Beginning NY website at
<a href="http://www.winningbeginningny.org" target="_blank"><b>www.winningbeginningny.org</b></a><cite><u>
</u></cite>after November 30th.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="color:black">Thank you in advance for your participation in this very important effort.</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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