Welcome

Gateways to Opportunity is the single statewide professional development support system designed to provide guidance, encouragement, and recognition to individuals and programs serving children, youth, and families. Resources and services provided by Gateways to Opportunity include Credentials, Professional Development Advisors, Great START, Gateways to Opportunity Registry, the Illinois Trainers Network and Gateways to Opportunity Scholarship Program. For more information about Gateways to Opportunity, please click here.

 

New Links Provide Easier Access to Gateways Programs and Services

Apply for Gateways to Opportunity programs and services through a simplified application process. Click here to access the Participant Application.

 

Keep Informed!

Great START waiting list to begin May 1, 2011. Please click here for more information.

 

Illinois Action for Children, Illinois After-school Partnership, Ounce of Prevention, and Voices for Illinois Children provide action alerts to help you stay abreast of state and federal policy and budget decisions that impact services for children, youth, and families. Join thousands of early childhood advocates and call your Senator—Take Action today!

 

The Illinois government has a Web site that allows you to track the progress of various bills and amendments now in progress through the legislature. Go directly to www.ilga.gov/legislation/default.asp.

 

Inside Gateways Newsletter

Read the Winter 2012 issue of the Inside Gateways Newsletter.

Subscribe for your quarterly e-mail issue today!

 


News

 

Get current Illinois demographic data by county with early childhood program location data from FY 2010 from the Illinois Early Childhood Asset Map.

 

Illinois is highlighted in a paper by the National Professional Center on Inclusion that provides guidance to states as they develop early educator competencies in the context of inclusion.

 

A Gateways to Opportunity Professional Development Advisor (PDA) will help you explore early care and education career options, professional development opportunities, relevant credentials, and sources of financial assistance for education and training—all for free!

 

 

 

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