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Resources for Families

Links to sections of this page:

• Information from the Network
• Links to Trauma and Disaster Resources
• Web Resources for Families

Information from the Network

• Types of child care
• Choosing quality care
• Selecting Child Care Telephone and face-to-face interviews, checking references
• Making child care work: Contracts, Transitions, Communications, Complaints, Back-up Care
• Early Childhood Indicators of Progress: Signs of children's development and strategies caregivers and others can use to help.
• A Guide to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Child Care
• When can I leave my child home alone?

Links to Trauma and Disaster Resources

• The Child Advocate Disaster help for parents and children
   
  
• Coping and Contributing in Time of Crisis Tragedy and Trauma: An Educator's Guide (PDF)
  
  
• Coping with Traumatic Events Information from the National Institute of Mental Health.
  
  
• What’s the Plan?: Ask Your Child Care Provider Before A Disaster
  This colorful brochure is designated to help parents ensure the safety and well-being of their children during a disaster. What’s the Plan walks parents through 10 questions they should ask about the what, when, where, and how of their provider’s disaster plan.

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• Helping Families and Children Cope With Traumatic Events—tools for helping children and families cope with the tragedy, as well as resources for recognizing the early warning signs which may lead to youth violence.
  
  
• Nurturing Children After Natural Disaster: A Booklet for Child Care Providers (PDF)
  
  
• Preparing for Disaster—The Parent View NACCRRA offers resources that you can use to ask the right questions of your child care provider and play a role in planning for and recovering from any catastrophe that strikes.
  
  
• Publications to Help Families & Children Cope with Trauma in the Aftermath of Disaster
  
  
• Purple Wagon: A site for people interested in parents and children and their explorations and discussions of war, terrorism and peacemaking.
  
  
• Recognizing Stress in Children A disaster is frightening to everyone. Several factors play an important part in a child's reaction to the event. Children will be affected by the amount of direct exposure they have had to the disaster

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Web Resources

• Bridge to Benefits is a web-based screening tool that can help Minnesotan parents learn if they may qualify for programs that help pay for health care coverage, child care, food, school lunches, and heat.
  
  
• Caring for Children (PDF) This resource guide helps parents in immigrant and refugee families find and use child care in Minnesota.
  
  
• The Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (CSEFEL) is focused on promoting the social emotional development and school readiness of young children birth to age 5.
  
  
• ChildCareAware.org is a non-profit initiative committed to helping parents find the best information on locating quality child care and child care resources in their community.
  
  
• ChildCareFinancialAid.org helps parents find ways to pay for child care, including using tax credits, employer tax-free accounts, child care assistance programs, and grants and scholarships for parents attending college.
  
  
• Child Care Professional's Guide to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Child Care provides guidelines and resources for understanding your rights under the ADA.
  
  
• Earned Income Tax Credit Resource Center provides information about a refundable federal income tax credit for low-income working individuals and families.
  
  
• Encyclopedia of Early Childhood Development, an online encyclopedia from Canada's Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development offers a wide range of early development topics.
  
  
• A Guide to Caring for Infants and Toddlers is for all adults who care for infants and toddlers. This guide is intended to emphasize areas of knowledge and skill so that adults know what to do during this unique and critical stage.
  
  
• Learn the Signs. Act Early. information on child development and when to be concerned from the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control.
  
  
• Military Child Care Partnerships provides information about programs that can help families of those in the military get and pay for child care. Includes information about Operation Military Child Care subsidies.
  
  
• Minnesota Data Trends is a clearinghouse of data and trends that serves as a barometer for the well-being of Minnesota families. 
  
  
• MNParentsKnow provides resources on child development, parent education, child care and consumer safety information.
  
  
• NACCRRA's Parent page is a way to get connected to information and resources, and become part of a growing network of concerned parents.
  
  
• What Children Learn in High-Quality Pre-K is a 10-minute video, capturing the journeys of real pre-k children in a high-quality classroom.
  
  
• Working Families Resource Center offers seminars and online resources for working families.

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