Wheaton Warrenville Early Childhood Collaborative

The Wheaton Warrenville Early Childhood Collaborative is a partnership of:

  • Non-profit, social service and community based organizations and entities, all of whom have a vested interest in positive long term outcomes for young children and their families

  • Organizations who are core to this work include: Metropolitan Family Services, CUSD200, DuPage Foundation, Early Intervention, YWCA, World Relief, People’s Resource Center, DuPage Children’s Museum, Wheaton and Warrenville Public Libraries, Birth to Five IL, AOK Network, and the DuPage County Department of Health

What We Do:

  • WWECC’s mission is to collaborate with our partners to support the growth, learning and success of young children (0-5) and their families in Wheaton and Warrenville 

  • We serve families as an early learning community resource hub and connector by creating a linked, unified system of supports for families with young children so that community resources
    are well known, accessible and easy to use.

Why:

  • From birth to age 5, 90% of brain development occurs

  • Early cognitive and social emotional skills form a foundation for complex skill development

  • Research shows that high quality early childhood education and care usually benefits children
    with:

    • Improved social skills

    • Enhanced attention spans and fewer behavioral problems

    • Less or no need for special education instruction in subsequent school years

    • Higher rates of high school graduation and college attendance

    • Higher levels of employment and income as adults

How:

  • Promote protective factors including parental resilience, social connections, knowledge of child
    development and social emotional learning for children

  • We promote developmental screening for all children, aged birth to five

  • We increase professional and community knowledge of child development

  • We connect families to services including developmental screening, early intervention, home visiting, preschool, childcare, medical and dental services, early literacy programs, museum programming as well as other vital child and family supports

For more information, email Annie Behrns, Project Director for the Wheaton Warrenville Early Childhood Collaborative.