PARTNERS

Early Connections is working with many individuals and organizations in the Greater Houston community in order to raise public awareness about the importance of the first years of life to a child’s long-term healthy development and to provide education to those that significantly influence the quality of care for young children.

Initial Funding Partners

Bank of America/Success By Six

Cockrell Foundation
Duke Energy*
Greater Houston Collaborative for Children (GHCC)
Greater Houston Community Foundation
Gulf Coast Workforce Board
Hogg Foundation for Mental Health

The Houston Chronicle*
Initiatives for Children*

Rockwell Fund
St. Luke’s Episcopal Health Charities
United Way of the Texas Gulf Coast

Connecting Partners in the Community

Numerous Houston-area organizations who interact with families of young children have joined the Early Connections effort.

Adoptation

Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse
AVANCE, Inc.- Houston
AVANCE Head Start

Baylor College of Medicine

Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Galveston-Houston
Center for Faith and Health Initiatives
Center for Hearing and Speech
Center for Houston’s Future
Child Advocates, Inc
Child Builders, Parents Under Construction
Child Care Licensing, TDFPS
Children’s Defense Fund
Child Development Center of the Houston -

         Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute
Children’s Assessment Center
Children at Risk 
Children’s Museum of Houston
Community Doula
Community Family Center, Inc.

Communities in Schools

Council on Alcohol and Drugs

Covenant House of Texas
DePelchin Children’s Center
East End Education Project
East End Healthy Children’s Collaborative
Early Childhood Intervention

ECI Keep Pace
ESCAPE Family Service Center
Family-Centered Child Care Collaborative
Family Services
Gulf Coast Communities Services Association Head Start

Harris County Breastfeeding Coalition

Harris County Department of Education

Harris County Department of Education Head Start

Harris County Office of Community Services
Houston Area Association for the Education of Young Children

Healthy Family Initiatives
Houston Community College Department of

         Child Development and Education
Houston PBS Channel 8
Houston Independent School District
Houston Public Library
Jewish Community Center of Houston
Joint City/County Commission on Children
Junior League of Houston

Local Infant Formula for Emergencies - LIFE/Houston
MALDEF Houston Parent Leadership Program
March of Dimes, Texas Gulf Coast Chapter
Mental Health Association of Greater Houston
Mental Health/Mental Retardation of Harris County
Mexican Institute of Greater Houston
National Council of Jewish Women, Greater Houston Section
Neighborhood Centers, Inc.
North Harris College Child Development and Family Studies Program

Northwest Assistance Ministries - The Children's Clinic

Project GRAD
Reach Out and Read Texas
Robert Eckels, County Judge of Harris County

San Jacinto College-Central, Child Develop. & Family Studies Dept.
Texas Children’s Hospital
Texas Program for Society and Health
The Arc of Greater Houston
The BRIDGE / El PUENTE and BRIDGE II
YMCA of the Greater Houston Area

*In-kind support