Free Childcare For Disaster Victims
Adventist Community Services provides trained volunteers who participate in the Cooperative Disaster Child Care (CDCC) program, an interagency collaborative that provides temporary day care centers for victims of disasters as they deal with reorganizing their lives. Contact Adventist Community Service,… Continue reading
Free Course Material For Teaching Energy
Want to learn about energy conservation, renewable energy, energy sources, or earth science? The Energy Information Administration’s National Energy Information Center can help. Its publication, Energy Education Resources: Kindergarten Through 12th Grade, is an annual directory of low-cost or no-cost… Continue reading
Free Health Care For Connecticut Residents
AmeriCares Free Clinics are open to individuals who are uninsured or underinsured and who are without the financial resources to afford medical care. Services include minor injuries, various tests, school and pre-employment exams, episodic and chronic illnesses, as well as… Continue reading
Foster Grandparents Offer Support for Your Child
Foster Grandparent Program is a non-profit volunteer program sponsored by the Corporation for National Service. Foster Grandparents offer emotional support and enrich the lives of children in need. The programs are made up of Senior Corps Volunteers that by offering… Continue reading
Tips for Parents and Teachers in Spanish, Urdu, Korean, Arabic, and English
Imagine how much harder this already unthinkable tragedy would be if you or your family had only limited understanding of the English language. Prepared by the National Association of School Psychologists and translators from the Fairfax, Virginia, Public Schools, this… Continue reading
Free Help Locating Missing Pets
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) has set up a hotline and is in the process of compiling a database of animals stranded in and around the evacuated areas affected by the attacks. The hotline… Continue reading
Free Legal Counsel for Crime Victims
The National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC) maintains a referral database of over 10,000 organizations that provide crisis intervention, information, criminal justice assistance, counseling, support groups and legal counsel. An affiliate of the Center is the National Crime Victim… Continue reading
Helping Children
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
Free Legal Help With Sexual Harassment at Work Or School
Free assistance to women and girls who are facing sex, or race discrimination, sexual harassment at work or at school, pregnancy, discrimination, or problems with family medical leave and other employment issues related specifically to women. The staff offers information… Continue reading
Weather Happens
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
