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Administration for Children, Youth and Families - Child Care Bureau
www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/ccb/index.html
The Child Care Bureau, Office of Family Assistance, supports low-income working families through child care financial assistance and promotes children's learning by improving the quality of early care and education and afterschool programs.
Adoption
www.childwelfare.gov/adoption/index.cfm
Child Welfare Information Gateway provides adoption resources.
American Academy of Pediatrics
www.aap.org/
This site contains information regarding children's health issues.
Better Kid Care
www.betterkidcare.psu.edu/
Penn State Cooperative Extension's Better Kid Care Program provides educational materials, satellite workshops, video learn-at-home units, and technical support child care providers, parents, and employers.
Caring for Our Children - The National Health and Safety in Child Care Performance Standards
http://nrc.uchsc.edu/CFOC/
This site contains the national health and safety standards for child care.
Child Abuse - Iowa Department of Human Services
www.dhs.iowa.gov/Consumers/Safety_and_Protection/Abuse_Reporting/ChildAbuse.html Information regarding types of abuse, how to report abuse, and information for mandatory reporters of child abuse.
Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP)
www.cacfp.org/index.html
The Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) is a federally funded program that provides meal reimbursement, nutrition education to child care centers, adult day care centers, homeless shelters and child care homes.
Child Care Law Center
www.childcarelaw.org
Advocating for children, families and communities facing barriers to high quality child care.
Child Care Weather Watch
www.idph.state.ia.us/hcci/common/pdf/weatherwatch.pdf
A guide produced by the Iowa Department of Public Health to assist child care professionals and families in determining hazardous weather conditions.
Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
www.cpsc.gov/
Includes recall, reports, and alerts for consumer products.
Council for Professional Recognition
www.cdacouncil.org
Home of the Child Development Associates (CDA) National Credentialing Program, and related professional improvement opportunities that contribute to the field of early childhood education.
CYFERNet
www.cyfernet.org
Children, Youth, Families, Education, and Research Network offers practical research based information from the nation's leading universities. Development birth through adolescence, best practices, public policy, program evaluation, data and trends are included topics.
Early
ACCESS
www.state.ia.us/earlyaccess
Early ACCESS is a partnership between families with young children, birth to age three, and providers from the Departments of Education, Public Health, Human Services, and the Child Health Specialty Clinics. Early Access helps families and staff work together in identifying, coordinating and providing needed services and resources that will help the family assist their infant or toddler to grow and develop.
Early Childhood Iowa
www.state.ia.us/earlychildhood/
Information about early care, health, and education programs in Iowa.
Early Childhood Iowa/Parents
www.state.ia.us/earlychildhood/Parents/
Early Childhood Iowa Parents provides free objective, medically accurate early care, health, and education information for families in Iowa.
Every Child Counts
www.everychildcountsiowa.org
Children cannot vote, and their issues and needs do not always receive the attention they deserve--in state and national policy. They do not have powerful interest groups that represent them, but they do have people who can and want to be powerful voices on their behalf. Every Child Counts mission is to activate these powerful friends of children to speak out on important child concerns--to public officials, agency directors and their employees, community and civic groups.
Federation for Children with Special Needs
http://fcsn.org/index.php
The Federation is a center for parents and parent organizations to work together on behalf of children with special needs and their families.
Hawk-I (Healthy and Well Kids in Iowa)
www.hawk-i.org
hawk-i is a program that provides health care coverage for Iowa children in families with limited incomes.
Head Start State Collaboration
www.iowaheadstart.org/iowa/collaboration.html
Since 1990, the Head Start Bureau has funded Head Start-State Collaboration grants to create the capacity to support the development of multi-agency and public/private partnerships at the State level. The Iowa Head Start State Collaboration Office was established through these funds in 1993.
Healthy Child Care Iowa
www.idph.state.ia.us/hcci/
A publicly funded campaign to improve the health and safety of Iowa children while they are enrolled in child care and early education. You can access child care weather watch posters, a childhood illness guide, a diapering and handwashing poster and much more.
Iowa Association for the Education of Young Children (Iowa AEYC)
www.iowaaeyc.org/
Iowa's state chapter affiliate of the National Association for Young Children (NAEYC.)
Iowa Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR&R)
www.iowaccrr.org/
Iowa Child Care Resources & Referral Agencies. To actively respond to community needs for affordable and accessible quality child care by providing resources, education, and advocacy for children, parents, child care providers, and employers.
Iowa Community Empowerment
www.empowerment.state.ia.us/
The Iowa Empowerment Board supports communities by demonstrating and facilitating leadership and the process towards collaboration to build a comprehensive and integrated system of supports and services to achieve results for children (0-5) and their families. There are 58 community empowerment boards statewide representing 99 counties. Each area has a citizen led board to support activities and promote collaboration and develop systems in the community for children and their young families.
Iowa Department of Education
www.iowa.gov/educate/ (select Early Childhood link)
The Iowa Department of Education offers information on literacy, special education, early childhood standards, and much more.
Iowa Department of Human Services
www.dhs.state.ia.us/
This site provides information on licensing, child care resource referral, and other child care programs. Once inside this informative site, visit the link for Children and Family Services.
Iowa Early Childhood Professional Development
www.iowa.gov/educate/ecpd/
Information about early childhood professional development.
Iowa State University Extension / Early Childhood www.extension.iastate.edu/childcare/
Iowa State University Extension provides information and training on child development, early childhood education, guidance and discipline, nutrition, and many other related topics.
Iowa State University Extension Online Store
www.extension.iastate.edu/store/
Iowa State University Extension provides publications on many topics. Many can be accessed on-line or purchased for a minimal cost.
Iowa Quality Preschool Program Standards (IQPPS)
www.iowa.gov/educate/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=681&Itemid=805
Iowa 's QPPS were developed as a continuum of quality early learning experiences that would align early childhood programs to work toward accreditation with NAEYC program standards and criteria.
Iowa Quality Rating System (QRS)
www.dhs.state.ia.us/iqrs/
A voluntary program that offers providers a guided way to improve the quality of child care they provide.
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National AfterSchool Association
www.naaweb.org/
NAA supports child care providers working with school-age children in before and after school and summer programs. The NAA has national standards for quality school-age care.
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
www.naeyc.org
NAEYC is a professional membership organization for child care providers. The NAEYC has materials and other resources for child care providers. NAEYC accreditation standards and process are listed.
National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC)
www.nafcc.org
NAFCC is a professional membership organization for family child care providers. This site has resources for both providers and parents. NAFCC accreditation information is also listed.
National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (NACCRRA)
www.naccrra.net/
NACCRRA is a professional organization supporting personnel of child care resource and referral agencies and child care providers. NACCRRA has materials for child care providers that focus on developing quality child care programs.
National Child Care Association (NCCA)
www.nccanet.org
NCCA serves the private, licensed childhood care and education community. NCCA issues the NAC certification for administrators.
National Child Care Information Center
www.nccic.org/
NCCIC promotes links with other expert resources for child care providers regarding quality child care.
National Network for Child Care
www.nncc.org
Extension's national source of more than 2,000 resources related to child care. It offers support and assistance from a variety of experts in the field of child care.
National Program for Playground Safety
www.uni.edu/playground/
The National Program for Playground Safety has resource materials and training available to improve the safety of children in outdoor play.
PITC (The Program for Infant and Toddler Care)
www.pitc.org
The Program for Infant Toddler Care seeks to ensure that America's infants get a safe, healthy, emotionally secure and intellectually rich start in life.
Playground Safety
www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/325.pdf
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission provides guidelines on playground safety for public playgrounds, including child care center playgrounds.
Positive Behavior Support (PBS)
www.vanderbilt.edu/csefel
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. CSEFEL is a national resource center funded by the Office of Head Start and Child Care Bureau for disseminating research and evidence-based practices to early childhood programs across the country.
Prevent Child Abuse Iowa
www.pcaiowa.org
Prevent Child Abuse Iowa works to end child abuse through statewide prevention programs, providing information to professionals, and advocating for laws, policies, and programs.
T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood® IOWA
www.iowaaeyc.org/teach.cfm
An early childhood workforce program for active early childhood professionals seeking to further their formal education; enabling them to increase their knowledge, improve their skills, receive financial supports, and continue to increase the availability of quality early care and education in local communities. Scholarships are available for those working towards an early childhood associate or bachelor degree, early childhood teaching license endorsement, or CDA Credential. T.E.A.C.H. is a program of the Iowa Association for the Education of Young Children, (515) 331-8000.
Zero to Three - National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families
www.zerotothree.org
Zero to Three promotes and supports professionals (including Early Head Start), parents, and policy for children birth through three years of age.
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