Tom Copeland is Retiring!

After decades of sharing his knowledge and wisdom with FCC providers across the country, Tom Copeland is retiring. Crazy, right? Tom has long been THE expert in the business side of family child care and his knowledge and legendary generosity will be missed.

Early Child Investigations (ECI) is hosting a streaming retirement party for Tom and if you've benefited from his help over the years, now's the time to show him some love! From ECI's announcement email:

You are invited to attend this ceremony! To to added, simply go to the Early Childhood Investigations Webinars Facebook Page .You can RSVP on Facebook now to receive reminder notifications.

During the event you can send Tom comments and well‐wishes in the chat. Before the celebration, please add your congratulations, encouragements, wishes, and hopes for Tom’s next act by contributing to this padlet we created for him. To add your messages click the red plus button found in the bottom right corner of your screen to add your message. Feel free to use all the fun features of the padlet and be creative! We will capture your sentiments and send them to Tom.

If you know other who would like to attend but did not receive this email, please forward this email. We also encourage you to share the news with your networks and on social media. We want to send Tom off with a big splash!

With great anticipation,

Fran Simon, Early Childhood Investigations

Ellaine Miller, National Association for Family Child Care

Nikki Darling‐Kuria, Think Small Institute | Redleaf Press

To see the live stream, follow the link in the image above the ECI's webpage on the day/time of the event.