Sarah Zucker serves as the Associate Director of Strategic Partnerships & Network Relations at the Help Me Grow National Center. In this capacity she leads efforts to promote impactful collaboration among Help Me Grow affiliates, the National Center, and national organizational partners. Sarah works to promote engagement, increase brand awareness, strengthen existing relationships, and cultivate new strategic partners.

Sarah has also led technical assistance efforts for the National Center, supporting new states and communities in efforts to explore the Help Me Grow Model and devise site-specific installation strategy. In this role she designed and implemented services to support affiliates in effective system-building efforts, including tools to assess the existing early childhood landscape, partnerships, leadership, and readiness to engage in systemic change, as well as tools to support affiliate implementation of the Core Components that support fidelity to the HMG Model. 

Before her work at Connecticut Children’s, Sarah led research efforts at the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness, a statewide, membership-based advocacy agency advancing a mission to end homelessness through leadership, community organizing, policy change, research, and education. She received a degree in Social Research from the University of Hartford.