Connect 4 information: Communication hub

Members of the Connect 4 Success Family Resource Network are dedicated to connecting families with information and resources that empower them for success.  To that end, the Southern Illinois Coalition for Children and Families ( the Network’s Facilitator) has begun the assembly of an extensive email database ( over 1700 emails to date) for the primary purpose of sharing resources that are useful to professionals and information/ flyers, etc. to disseminate to families.   This email list/ service is very similar to that provided by SIH and the Healthy Communities Coalitions.  We encourage agencies or programs to continue to share information through their network so have concentrated the assembly of our database to different sectors.  The emails can be sorted by county, CCR&R region, Birth to Five regions and town. They can also be sorted by sector. Current sector emails include child care, PreK, Prevention Initiatives, Head Start, Elementary School Superintendents, Elementary School Principals, elementary school social workers, elementary school nurses, Directors of Health Departments, some WIC nurses, the University of Illinois Extension staff and libraries. Some smaller collections that need further development include Workforce Development, Higher Education, Mental health professionals,  healthcare, ECEC professionals, county board members, city staff, and child welfare workers. We hope our members will help grow this database to help our reach be as complete as possible.

• To utilize the email database, a program just needs to forward the information they wish to share to the Network’s email at connect4success@gmail.com.  along with the item(s) they wish to be shared with others along with the target audience. We ask that programs send the information they wish to be shared at least 3 days' notice before an item is to be forwarded.
• We will not review or edit information.
• All information will be forwarded with a statement about the initiating program and/ or agency. We will not forward information about fundraising events, sales of products, or something that is contrary to the mission and values of the Network and the Coalition. We reserve the right to make that determination and not forward the submitted materials If this is the case, we will notify the submitting organization as soon as possible.

We encourage Network members and others to utilize this valuable communication resource and ask that they assist in helping build the email database so we can be as effective as possible.
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If you have any questions about how to access the Network’s Communication hub, please feel free to contact us at connect4success@gmail.com.