There are over 600 Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies around the country that maintain local databases of information on child care providers in your area. They can give you locations, hours of care, ages of children accepted, fees and… Continue reading
Connect for Kids, an award-winning multimedia project of the Benton foundation, helps adults make their communities better places for families and children. This Website offers a place on the Internet for adults-parents, grandparents, educators, policymakers and others-who want to become… Continue reading
Dolls, monsters, airplanes, football stars. Whatever your interests may be, there is a stamp for you. Stamp collecting is the most popular hobby throughout the world, and now is your chance to get in on the ground floor. The U.S.… Continue reading
Welfare reform, called Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), does more to help people not wind up on welfare. The new program includes free training, education, child care, and transportation assistance necessary to help you obtain employment. Child care is… Continue reading
Legal Services Corporation is a collection of over 269 government supported local offices that provide free legal services in their area. Over 5000 attorneys and paralegals are available to individuals and families that are under certain income limits. The maximum… Continue reading
Whether you like it or not! High pressure, low pressure, barometric pressure; if you feel the pressure to explain the differences to your little meteorologist, let the experts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration help. They can provide you… Continue reading
Seven days a week, 24 hours a day, you can call the hotline and not only get access to sources that will solve your immediate problem, but also get information and sources in your area that can explain your legal… Continue reading
The National Institute of Mental Health offers a very extensive document titled Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence and Disasters, that describes how young people react to trauma, how to help them, the condition known as post-traumatic stress disorder… Continue reading
What are wetlands and why are they so important? Wetlands play an important role in the food web with many birds and mammals relying on wetlands to provide food, water and shelter. To learn more the role of wetlands contact… Continue reading
Insure Kids Now! is a national campaign to link the nation’s 10 million uninsured children–from birth to age 18–to free and low-cost health insurance. For little or no cost, this insurance pays for doctor visits, prescription medicines, hospitalizations, and much… Continue reading