In early 2016, a creative partnership linking homeless family services providers, early childhood educators, and childhood development experts launched a community-wide project to support families and young children experiencing homelessness in Philadelphia, PA -- Building Early Links for Learning (BELL). The two main goals of the BELL project were to (1) enhance the developmental-friendliness of emergency housing settings serving families in homelessness and (2) better understand and address barriers that keep young children in homeless families from reaping the benefits of quality early childhood education. This initiative has been working creatively and collaboratively across the community's homeless response system to promote strategies that support early childhood development while expanding active links between temporary housing sites and early childhood education programs. As partners in this multi-pronged project, subject matter experts from The Cloudburst Group designed and conducted a series of focus groups during Fall, 2016, that allowed for the gathering of unique parental and provider perspectives on core project concerns. Participants included 33 homeless parents/guardians of children aged 0-5 who were temporarily residing in local Emergency Shelter (ES) and Transitional Housing (TH) settings, as well as 19 homeless services and early childhood education providers from multiple programs in the community. Analysis of these dialogues then generated themes and insights that could be applied to help inform activities and commitments of the larger BELL project -- both those aimed at increasing enrollment in quality early childhood education (ECE) programs by young children staying in temporary housing and those focused on enhancing training and support for local services providers. (author abstract)