Who We Are
Supporting Families Together Association is Wisconsin’s statewide member association for organizations and individuals committed to making every early childhood a great one. Wisconsin’s Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies (CCR&Rs) and Family Resource Centers (FRCs) are our members.
Quarterly Newsletters
The SFTA Quarterly Newsletter highlights the work of SFTA and our Member Agencies.
What Do We Do?
We provide services and supports to our member agencies in order to positively impact children, parents, child care providers, and the world of early childhood care and education throughout Wisconsin. By partnering with our members, we ensure effective family support and early childhood programming is available statewide; resources are strategically leveraged and maximized; and meaningful connections, relationships, and systems are built.
Our Mission: We cultivate a system of organizations and professionals across Wisconsin to promote quality, strengths-based, early childhood services in all communities.
Our Vision: In every Wisconsin community, all children have the opportunity to reach their highest potential and all adults embrace their role and responsibility to children.
Our Purpose: Our purpose is to optimize the developmental window of opportunity that early childhood presents for building a strong foundation for life.
Our Priorities
Quality Early Care and Education: SFTA is committed to working with community-based organizations to advocate, educate, and build Wisconsin’s capacity to deliver high quality early care and education experiences to all Wisconsin children.
Healthy Children: SFTA is actively engaged in a broad range of prevention and health promotion efforts that are designed to create better health outcomes for all Wisconsin children.
Strong Families: SFTA provides concrete support to families in a strengths-based and evidence-informed way.
Responsive Systems: SFTA builds systems and supports for early childhood that create opportunities for all children to reach their highest potential.
Read our Brochure
Learn more about why SFTA support early childhood, who our member are, and more.
Our Funding
SFTA is funded by both public and private entities. Our primary funder is the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families. Additional funding comes from the Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board, Roots & Wings Foundation, and Wisconsin Partnership Program at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Our Consistency is Key grant is funded by Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin/Medical College of Wisconsin. This funding is used to address social determinants that contribute to significant disparities in maternal and child health outcomes, with a focus on promoting equity.
Public dollars, allocated through the Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG), make up a significant portion of SFTA’s funding. These dollars ultimately come from taxpayers like you. We are committed to the responsible use of public dollars and we believe that the return on investment linked to early childhood initiatives presents the opportunity to maximize the impact of public funds.
Finally, donations from individuals and organizations support our ability to sustain our work on behalf of Wisconsin’s young children, their families and their early educators. Learn more and make an investment in Wisconsin’s youngest children.
Our Commitment to Transparency and Accountability
As a nonprofit organization that utilizes both public and private resources, we are committed to transparency and accountability in our programming and our operations. GuideStar is a nonprofit organization with a mission of revolutionizing philanthropy by providing information that advances transparency, enables users to make better decisions, and encourages charitable giving. SFTA is proud to have earned GuideStar Exchange’s Platinum Standard through increased transparency and accountability.
