Specifications include, but are not limited to: The goals for this competitive application are to provide funding to conferences that support the work of EEC by focusing on the following: • Developing a child’s full potential and shaping key academic, social, and cognitive skills that determine a child’s success in school and in life; • Enriching early learning environments with caring adults and engaging interactions; • High-quality preschool; • Continuum of high-quality early learning for a child – beginning at birth and continuing to age five; • Partnering with parents to support the most important role in promoting the healthy development of their children to promote long-lasting, positive impacts on parenting skills, children’s cognitive, language, and social-emotional development, and school readiness; • Supporting quality out of school time care; and • Supporting early childhood professional development.