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• "Top Ten" Tips for Parents
  The Ohio Family Care Workgroup's "Top Ten" tips for parents choosing child care in Ohio. PDF - 104 KB
• Tufts University Child and Family Web Guide
  Tufts University Child and Family Web Guide. HTML
• Adoption Events Around Ohio
  Events, Training, Meetings: Foster, adoptive & kinship parents and caregivers; Foster adoption support team; Families for Waiting Children; Adopt special-needs children from public foster care. HTML
• Child Care in Ohio
  Online database of available childcare facilities in Ohio. Includes new map-based search. HTML
• ODMH Kids News: Building Ohio's Future
  Monthly newsletter providing news and resources related to children's mental health issues. HTML
• Car Safety Seats: A Guide for Families
  Car Safety Seats: A Guide for Families provides caregivers with information on how to use car safety seats and seat belts correctly. HTML
• Parent Central
  Parent Central provides resources and information about issues affecting children and families. Members can sign up to receive emails or visit the site to learn about opportunities to voice comments and concerns to decision makers. HTML
• Operation Child Care - National Guard and Reserve Members
  Operation Child Care provides a minimum of four hours of free volunteer child care services to National Guard and Reserve Members returning home from Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom for two weeks of R&R leave. HTML
• Terrific Transitions
  This Web site provides information and resources for families, professionals, and community partnerships to use as they address children's transitions into kindergarten. HTML
• Healthy Kids, Healthy Care
  This Web site is for parents of children who attend child care programs. Topics: caregiver, cleanliness, emotional, habits, safety, illness, chronic conditions, special needs HTML
• Learning and Growing Together
  Online scenarios and resources for families such as child development information; ways to enhance early learning for reading, writing and mathematics; and guides for parents about school. HTML
• Connect Me Ohio
  This Web site is for Ohio consumers, caregivers and providers who are looking for up-to-date information about programs and services for people with disabilities, regardless of age or location. HTML
• Child Care Ohio - Information and online search for child care in Ohio
  Resources and information to help parents in their search for child care and early education options in Ohio. Includes Links to Ohio's Child Care Resource & Referral (CCR&R) agency online child care provider databases, the most comprehensive, up-to-date, early care and education databases in Ohio. HTML
• AMBER Alert Plan
  The AMBER Alert Plan is a voluntary partnership between law-enforcement agencies and broadcasters to activate an urgent bulletin in the most serious child-abduction cases. HTML
• Parent Academy (Reading, Academic Content Standards)
  The Ohio Department of Education is offering two free workshops (2 hours in length) for families - one about children and reading, the other about Ohio's new Content Standards. ODE is currently updating this resource; it may not be available at this time. HTML
• Superintendent's Parent Advisory Council
  In fall 2002, the Ohio Department of Education formed a Parent Advisory Council to provide a much needed connection between Ohio parents, their children and the Department. HTML
• High Risk People Who Should Get the Flu Vaccine
  Who Should Get The Flu Vaccine? - All Children Aged 6-23 months HTML
• Affording Child Care
  Parents who are working or in school can apply for help to pay for their child care in the county where they live by contacting the county department of Job and Family Services (CDJFS). HTML
• Child Care Center Directory
  The Child Care Center Directory is categorized by county and maintained in PDF format (requires the Acrobat Reader to view). Click on the desired county for a listing of child care centers in that area. HTML
• Families Home Page - Ohio Department of Education
  This Web site includes programs and opportunities to help parents get involved in their child's education, information on Ohio's education system, resources for helping children succeed in school, and links to other Web sites that have additional resources. HTML
• Reach out and Read
  Reach Out and Read (ROR) is a program that promotes early literacy by bringing new books and advice about the importance of reading aloud into the pediatric exam room. HTML
• Family TLC
  This Web site includes family activities - games, sports, crafts, music, cooking, nature and more - sorted by the age of your child. Find parenting tips, articles on child development and hundreds of new age-appropriate child activities each month. HTML
• Human Development and Family Science Extension
  Parenting, Family Life, Young Children are just a few of the areas on this Web site developed by the Human Development and Family Science Extension of the College of Human Ecology at The Ohio State University. HTML
• Children with Special Needs resources
  * Behavioral Delays * Cognitive Delays * Mental Illness * Other Health Impairments * Physical Delays * Social-Emotional Delays * Speech and Language Delays * Vision and Hearing Delays * Laws and Public Policy * Record Keeping * Research and Statistics HTML
• Children, Youth and Families Education and Research network
  CYFERnet's Web site brings together the best, children, youth and family resources of all the public land-grant universities in the country. Materials are carefully reviewed by college and university faculty. HTML
• Early Childhood Quality Network Web Site
  An Early Childhood resource web site Keywords: childhood, literacy, health, infants, toddlers HTML