Coinciding with this work, the Wyoming Department of Family Services, WY Quality Counts, and Align began to consider a new framework for delivery of early childhood professional development, utilizing regional trainers. As leaders involved in both efforts engaged in dialogue, clear linkages between program goals emerged and a collective vision of early childhood professional development in Wyoming began to solidify. The potential to increase impact by leveraging expertise and funding across agencies and programs became clear, and additional partnerships with existing professional development supports and programs were established, including a partnership with the Statewide Training and Resource System (STARS), to track professional development. In addition, Project ECHO in Early Childhood Education, a distance training model in the Wyoming Institute for Disabilities (WIND), agreed to align training content with Professional Learning Collaborative goals. With these key partnerships in place the Wyoming Early Childhood Professional Learning Collaborative was created.