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Strong Families

Featured site: Week of the Young Child
Shasta County celebration joins communities across the nation honoring young children with free family events and activities - April 12-19, 2008!

Responsible Fatherhood
Strengthening the role of fathers in families (Dept. of Health & Human Services - USA).

Center for the Improvement of Child Caring
Effective parenting resources including materials, seminars, and newsletters.

MVParents
Developmental Assets resource for raising smart, strong, responsive children.Promoting

www.safefromthestart.org
California Attorney General's Office - reducing children's exposure to violence.

Action Alliance for Children
Resources and library of child development articles; addressing current issues, trends, and public policies that affect children and families.. Offers The Children's Advocate bi-lingul newsletter.

Natural Child
Parent information and encouragement to treat children with unconditional love and respect.

Healthy Children

Featured site:  Smoke-free Families
Information about smoking and pregnancy - quitting smoking for you and your baby.

American Academy of Pediatrics
Physical, mental, and social health and well-being - addresses health topics from asthma to immunization.

Child & Family Webguide
Directory that evaluates, describes and provides hundreds of sites with child development research and practical advice.

CDC - Safer, Healthier, People
Health topics a-z for infants and children.

Discovery Health's Newborns Center
Articles and online resources on adoption, caring for baby, development, multiples, special needs and parenthood.

National Perinatal Information Center
Information and research resource to the perinatal community.

Pediatric Dentisty
American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry - infancy through adolescence; promoting optimal oral health and oral health care for children.

Early Learning and Quality Care

Featured site: Washington Learning Systems
FREE materials in English and Spanish that help build three key skills: language development, sounds and rhythms, and book awareness.

NAEYC Accreditation
Early care providers and preschools may raise the quality of early childhood education by pursuing accreditation.

Parents as Teachers
All parents are their child’s best first teachers. Learn more about Parents as Teachers.

Talaris - Advancing Knowledge of Early Brain Development
"Crib notes" of early brain development: research offered in easy to read spotlights on the capabilities of babies and children through age five.

Brain Connection
Supporting the learning potential of children as they grow.

Zero to Three

Informing, educating, and supporting adults who influence the lives of infants and toddlers.

National Network for Child Care
Newsletters, email forum, articles & resources including Ages & Stages of development for caregivers. 

Ready to Learn

Featured site:  40 Developmental Assets
Giving children the developmental assets they need to succeed.

Children NOW
Ensuring children are the top public policy priority. Topics include health, education, media, and investing in children; features 2007-08 California Report Card: The State of the State's Children.

Kids Count
State level data for over 100 measures of child well-being. Offers ability to generate custom reports for geographic areas.

Early Childhood and Parenting Collaborative
Archive of publications and resources from the former ERIC Clearinghouse (closed after 36 years)

National Center for Children in Poverty
Child poverty statistics, welfare reform, state and local initiatives.

California Department of Education
Child Development Division - resoures and information regarding child development programs funded by the state.

The World Bank - Early Child Development
Knowledge source for policy makers, program managers, and practitioners - promoting healthy growth and integral development of young children.