Resources for the practitioners supporting the adults who care for and educate young children

Welcome to your resource hub.

Early Childhood Professionals in technical assistance and consultative roles include a diverse array of specialists, each bringing their expertise to support different facets of early care and education. This includes professionals like coaches, mental health consultants, early intervention specialists, infant-toddler specialists, licensing specialists, and much more.

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Community Calendar

This shared community calendar was created to create awareness of events across Colorado for early childhood professionals in consultative roles. The purpose is to promote cohesiveness and to aid mindful scheduling of events.

Please reach out to the event host with questions. That information can be found by clicking on the event.

To report an error, please reach out to Sarah Roberts at the Colorado Department of Early Childhood.
Please fill out this form to submit an event. If you have issues with the form or need to make edits to your submission, please reach out to Enola Garland at ECCLA.

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Coaching and Consulting Resources and Tools

Resources to help you grow your professional practice, your career, or your consulting business.

2025 Colorado Coaching Consortium Conference Recordings:
- Cultivating Sustainable Relationships in Challenging Times
- Deepening the Work: Reflecting on Sustainable Coaching Relationships
- Balancing Roles, Building Trust: Coaching with Integrity
- Holding Space: Processing Trust, Boundaries, and Complexity in Coaching
- Well-Being: Confronting the Realities Facing Early Childhood Educators
- Stronger Together: Building Resilient Early Childhood Communities
- Hard Truths, Honest Conversations: Facing the Barriers to Meaningful Relationships
- Holding Space, Moving Forward
Consulting Essentials for Early Childhood Professionals
Free Courses from Horizons in Learning
- Advocacy Resource: The Case for Early Childhood Funding and Implementation

Tools for working with providers and families.

History of the Consultative Roles Advisory Group

The Consultative Roles group was formed under the Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC) in 2020. Due to funding constraints, ownership of the group shifted, and external consultants were brought in to help facilitate the work.

The group’s primary focus has been to bring together the technical assistance (TA) continuum in Colorado, promoting connections across consultative roles and building a stronger, more integrated system.

In 2023, the group organized the first Consultative Roles conference and developed a 3-page summary document to outline their goals and work. Although funding ended, there was a strong desire to continue the group’s work. As a result, ECCLA assumed responsibility for facilitating the group.

Many Early Childhood Councils serve as homes for consultative roles. With the ongoing challenge of securing funding, the group is now exploring the next steps around:

Continued knowledge sharing and networking
Promoting cohesion between consultative roles and agencies
Sustaining and advancing coaching efforts across the state
Data and evaluation around the effectiveness of these roles