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WELCOME | DISCLAIMER | CONTACT US | NEW ACCOUNTS | MARKETING MATERIALS | PRIVACY POLICY
WELCOME to the Early Childhood Meeting Place: a gateway to information, services and resources for Indiana's early education professionals and families.
The Early Childhood Center at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, Indiana University-Bloomington sponsors and supports this site as a free service to agencies and organizations that provide research, training, services, and resources to Indiana's early childhood communities. In addition to an events calendar, the site provides a listing of research initiatives, early education career opportunities, news, and agency and organization profiles.
Additional funding is provided by DHHS/HRSA's Maternal and Child Health Bureau to the Indiana State Department of Health, Maternal and Children's Special Health Care Services, Sunny Start Project to support the Family Information and Resource Directory beginning in August 2006.
The Family Information and Resource Directory is organized around four general topic areas:
Community resources and financial assistance
Child care and early education options
Health care
Parenting resources.
Families can select a topic area and click on their county or surrounding counties to find available services.
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DISCLAIMER
Keeping information accurate and current is the responsibility of the participating agency and organization account holders posting to this site. Indiana University provides facilities for hosting the Early Childhood Meeting Place; however, content presented on this site does not necessarily reflect the position or policy of the university Trustees, and no official endorsement should be inferred.
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CONTACT US
Email eccenter@indiana.edu or call toll-free 1-800-825-4733
Early Childhood Center
Indiana Institute on Disability and Community
2853 East Tenth Street
Bloomington, IN 47408-2696
http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/ecc
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NEW ACCOUNTS
Organizations that want to set up an account should send an email to eccenter@indiana.edu with "New Account" in the subject line, and the following information in the body:
Contact person's first and last name
Contact person's email address
A login name and a password that you can easily remember.
We will set up an account for you and email instructions to get you started. Organizations post, update, and manage their own information. Access to the site is available 24/7.
The Family Information & Resources Directory includes capabilities to post information by counties served. Organizations with a presence in multiple counties may choose to establish separate accounts for each county office, or have one account that either posts information for each office or shares the login information so each office can post their information.
Items for the events calendar can be posted up to one year in advance. Organizations are encouraged to keep their posted information updated and current.
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MARKETING MATERIALS
Funding provided by the Sunny Start project, which sponsors the Family Information and Resources section of the Meeting Place, has made a number of marketing materials available. Agencies and organizations can order these FREE materials to distribute to their providers and families receiving their services to promote using the resources available on the Meeting Place.
An order form is available to request posters, flyers, a slide show on CD, and bookmarks. Click on this link or paste it into your browser:
http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/ecc/ECMP/2008MktgOrderForm.pdf
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PRIVACY POLICY
The Early Childhood Center, Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, wants you to be knowledgeable about your on-line experience, and for your experience to be informative, safe, and secure.
General
The confidentiality of information collected from your use of the Early Childhood Meeting Place (ECMP) web site is important to us. When you register with ECMP you provide us with some basic demographic information that allows us to better serve you. We want you to know that it will be used only for internal purposes. We do not sell, trade, or share information about you to other entities unless otherwise stated on the web site or required by law to do so.
This site contains links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other web sites.
Information Collected On-line
Account Holder Log-in Information & Registration Forms Information collected about your agency or organization on our on-line Account Holder information pages and registration forms is used only for the purpose stated. The information will remain within the Institute, protected by this privacy policy, and will not be shared, sold, or traded with any other entity unless otherwise stated on the web site or required by law to do so.
Cookies Cookies are on-line identification tags that allow us to recognize your computer each time you visit our site. However, they do not allow us to identify you by name, e-mail address, or other personal characteristics. This information is used only to evaluate use of our web site. By gathering this information, we can better estimate how many people visit our site and how many of those individuals are return visitors.
IP Address The IP address is the number assigned to your computer whenever you access the Internet. Like the cookie, the IP address does not allow us to identify you by name, e-mail address, or other personal characteristics. The IP address is only used internally to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer our web site, and to gather broad demographic information for evaluation purposes. Your ability to access our site has been optimized by our use of your IP address.
Security
For site security purposes and to ensure that service remains available to all users, the Institute employs software programs to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or otherwise cause damage to the web site.
Although no electronic system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, your personal profile information is password protected and is not accessible by the general public. Information that you submit using the ECMP Account Holder log-in features will be viewed by all individuals accessing the ECMP site on the web. Only registered users have access to the password protected log-in pages needed to post information.
Updating Profile Information
This site gives account holders the option of updating or deleting profile and section relevant information once they have registered at any time. You may change your PASSWORD at any time; however to ensure account security, changes to the LOGIN must be made by email to eccenter@indiana.edu.
Your Consent
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information posted by the ECMP account holders. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions contact us at
eccenter@indiana.edu or 1-800-825-4733.
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