Founding Facts
This is the year our organization was founded.
What is 1985?
Our organization has always served clients in this sector.
What is Early Education? - Early childhood educators and early childhood education programs.
This is the year we rebranded as thread
What is 2008?
(2009 acceptable as well, as this is when we went public).
This is our organizations vision.
What is early education is available, accessible, and high quality for families and children across Alaska (What is access, affordable, high quality)?
This long-time agency resource provided books, toys, and curriculum to early childhood programs.
What is the lending library (or resource library)?
Our organization was originally known by this name.
What is Child Care Connection, Inc.?
This is the primary function of family services.
What is helping families learn about, find, and afford quality child care?
Between these two years, we moved our primary office across the state.
What is 2023 and 2024?
This was our first logo.
What is Teddy Bear?
This staff gathering was called the face-to-face meeting.
What is the Annual Staff Retreat & Training (or Network Meeting)?
Our FIRST office was in this city.
What is Anchorage, what is a closet in the DHSS?
This is the name of our long time flagship service offering to early educators.
What is Professional Development training?
Learn & Grow was created on this year.
What is 2016?
This is Alaska's Quality Recognition and Improvement System (QRIS).
What is Learn & Grow?
This holiday tradition at thread connected adult play to celebrating how young children learn.
What is Halloween or dressing up?
This is Mia Oxley.
Who is Child Care Connection's (thread's) first Executive Director/CEO?
These partners made up the long-time Child Care Resource and Referral Network.
Who is Thrivalaska (formally Play N Learn) and the Southeast Childhood Collective (formally SEA-AEYC)?
Our organization began leading this line of business in 2005.
What is Alaska SEED?
This is our official business name.
What is Child Care Connection, Incorporated dba thread?
This 2012 statewide quality initiative replaced cribs in every child care program across the state.
What is the Safe Sleep for Alaska's Babies Campaign?
This was the organization's first service.
What is the resource lending library?
Prior to the Summit, this was thread's signature community event for over 10 years.
What is Book Party in the Park?
This was the first year thread began the Summit on the Economic Impact of Early Care and Learning.
What was 2015?
This was thread's first marketing campaign.
What is "I've got thread"?
thread's 25th anniversary celebrated this ABC project - what did ABC stand for?
What is the Art By Children Project?