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notes & disclaimers
Note:
the websites on this page provide INFORMATION. Here are links to
SERVICES in the
Tulsa area, and PARENTING PROGRAMS & training
in the Tulsa area.
Download these award-winning materials from the Tulsa Community Conference on
Early Childhood Development, October 2003
A Celebration of Progress and a Call to Action
... Tulsa Community Conference on Early Childhood Development
Mayor LaFortune: "It's clear that the research findings
sound a loud call to action on behalf of young children. Here in the Tulsa
area and around the state of Oklahoma, many organizations and individuals have
answered the call, building momentum for Tulsa's growing community commitment
to assuring that all young children will enter school healthy and ready to
succeed."
(Design: HKH Advertising. Information prepared by the
conference committee and edited by the Community Service Council - Phil
Dessauer, Executive Director; Sharon Clark, Marketing/Communications
Director)
Tulsa's Young Children ... Facts at your Fingertips
In introducing this material, Mayor LaFortune said:
"When you hear those statistics about children living in poverty in this city
in which we live, it has to be compelling. And if it's not compelling, you
don't have a heart, period."
(Information prepared by the Community Service Council -
Melanie Poulter, Data Coordinator)
You Can Help ... Volunteer Today!
Mayor LaFortune: "There are thousands of volunteers
throughout the Tulsa area who are already working hard every day in the
interests of young children. But many more are needed. So please help spread
the word to interested individuals and groups and encourage them to get
involved in early childhood development and early childhood education efforts.
If they're interested, they can contact the Tulsa Volunteer Center to find out
how they can get involved, and be matched with volunteer jobs. There are
hundreds of volunteer opportunities available in Tulsa’s community non-profit
agencies and organizations."
The Tulsa Volunteer Center -- phone 918-585-5551; email
info@tulsavolunteercenter.org;
online --
www.tulsavolunteercenter.org.
(Information prepared by the Community Service Council's
Tulsa Volunteer Center - Mary Finley, Director)
Websites and links
- Tulsa and Oklahoma
Note:
the websites on this page provide INFORMATION. Here are links to
SERVICES in the
Tulsa area, and PARENTING PROGRAMS & training
in the Tulsa area.
Child Care Resource
Center, 918-836-CARE
Through this website,
find Tulsa-area child care referrals online, a training calendar, and
information and services for parents, caregivers, employers and the community.
The Child Care Resource
Center is a program of the
Community Service Council of Greater Tulsa. Its mission is to promote
quality, affordable child care in the Tulsa Metropolitan Area through
information sharing, advocacy, training, service development and education. CCRC
seeks to do this by increasing public awareness, supporting consumers and
providers of child care services, and improving policies and funding affecting
them. CCRC is a member of the
Oklahoma Child Care Resource & Referral Association.
Child Guidance Services, Tulsa Health Department
- 2005 Calendar of Parent Programs
Friends of Early
Education -- webmaster's note: please
check this JumpStart website again soon for information from their former
website!
Friends was a long-time Tulsa nonprofit [501 (c)(3)],
community service organization whose purpose was to meet the needs of adults
who teach and care for young children through training, supportive services
and public awareness. In 2004 Friends discontinued operations.
Operation of the Friends Bookstore is now part of the Child Care Resource
Center.
Website sections include:
ABOUT FOEE,
WORKSHOPS,
CONFERENCE,
BOOKSTORE,
NEWS, and an outstanding
well-indexed
LINKS page which
includes:
Guides to
Technology,
Teacher Resources,
Children's Literature,
Authors on
the Web,
Health, Safety and Nutrition,
Magazines Online,
Children's
Television,
Children's Music,
Other
Fun Things,
Oklahoma Education and Childcare,
National/Regional Organization & Information,
Childhood Advocacy,
For Kids Too,
Parents Too,
Libraries and General
Resources.
OklahomaChildCare.org - overview
of initiatives to enhance the quality of child care in Oklahoma.
Oklahoma Department of Health
- Links to materials available to
download:
Oklahoma Institute
for Child Advocacy
Contact the institute to find out how children are
faring in your state and community, and to find out how you can advocate on
behalf of children and families.
Website sections include: initiatives, statistics, advocacy tools, and events.
The Early Childhood Work Group is a
child advocacy group that exists to support the early childhood
legislative agenda of the Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy. The Early
Childhood Work Group listserv, a moderated forum, has been created to
allow open communication between individuals across Oklahoma who are
interested in supporting early childhood advocacy efforts of all types.
This forum is also used to share items of interest to the early childhood
professional community across Oklahoma.
Your postings are welcome. To post your
own message to the list, send a new email to:
Earlychildhoodworkgroup@topica.com
This listserv is maintained by Dawn Parton.
Please call 918-595-8039 or email dparton@tulsacc.edu if you have
questions or comments about the listserv.
Oklahoma KIDS COUNT
If you want to see how Oklahoma's children fared in health and achievement,
explore KIDS COUNT data. Find
county by county rankings from the Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy.
KIDS COUNT information for
Oklahoma City,
Tulsa, and the
U.S.
is also available. For more
Oklahoma data and reports, visit the OKLAHOMA page of the Connect for Kids
website.
www.okparent.org
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sponsored by The Oklahoma Department of Human Services (DHS)
The www.okparent .org website
is designed to provide Oklahoma families with current
information on parenting and child care. It is presented by the Oklahoma
Department of Human Services, in cooperation with Oklahoma State University at
Stillwater, OK, and in conjunction with Extension Educators in each county
office, who provide Oklahoma families with current information on parenting and
child care.
Follow the links below for information on various aspects of parenting and
links to many other
parenting websites:
General Parenting
addresses a wide range of General Parenting issues.
Special Situations
provides information related to single parenting and discipline.
Education provides
information on various educational opportunities for children and parents, home
schooling, and learning disabilities, as well as provides information about
various publications.
Family Roles
identifies the various roles and relationships between children, fatherhood,
motherhood, and grandparenting.
Family Transitions
provides general information related to life-changing events such as adoption,
child loss, marital problems, marriage building, and pregnancy.
Health can provide
information and links to information related to medical services, dental health,
and nutrition.
Support contains
information related to assistance of all kinds, including child care and family
finances. View a
statewide listing of more than 5,000 Oklahoma child care facilities.
Tulsa
City-County Library - see the library's website for
adults who work with kids. Its sections include:
CDA: Help for
students working toward the Child Development Associate Certificate,
Choosing
Books for Children,
Books and Babies,
Book Kits,
Parenting
Skills, and
Links for
Child Care Providers.
Tulsa Kids
- a monthly magazine "serving children, informing parents, enriching families.
TulsaKids serves parents and other
caregivers by providing the latest, most accurate information available on
topics ranging from physical and mental health to education to entertainment.
Includes a calendar, archives, guides, events."
Available
online: TulsaKids Baby
Guide;
Calendar
of Events for Parents.
More websites and links -
national; general
A Child Becomes a Reader: Birth through Preschool
National Institute for Literacy -- this 35-page booklet gives parents
suggestions, games, and activities for preparing their young child for
reading and writing later in life.
BrainWonders:
Helping Babies Grow and Develop
BrainWonders: Helping
Babies Grow and Develop is a website created by Boston University
School of Medicine,
Erikson Institute
and
ZERO TO THREE.
"This site is designed to provide
parents, caregivers and pediatric and family clinicians with meaningful
information about early brain development and the relationships between
babies and their parents and caregivers that support intellectual and
social-emotional development. New research in neuroscience has validated the
passionate conviction that parents of very young children and professionals
have long felt - that the experiences children have in the first three years
of life are crucial to their healthy physical, emotional and intellectual
development. While it is certainly true that the brain continues to develop
well beyond the first years of life, this site focuses on birth to age three
as a time when parents, child care providers and pediatric/family clinicians
can provide rich input to the developing brain. Rich environments and
nurturing relationships between babies and adults support growth in all
aspects of the baby's development.Yet this new knowledge has not been
readily available to those most able to apply it -
parents,
caregivers,
and
pediatric and family clinicians. BrainWonders provides this knowledge in
formats that meet the needs of each of these three distinct yet
inter-connected audiences so that everyone who relates to babies and
toddlers will have information about how to support healthy development."
This site features basic
research-based information about early brain development and caregiving
implications, by age group -- in versions for
parents,
child care
providers, and
pediatricians and family clinicians. Also -
brain development
FAQs, brain
quiz,
glossary of brain terms, and
early
literacy.
Center for for Improvement of Child
Caring
Website features parenting information, with helpful
sections for parents of children with special needs.
Center on the Social and Emotional
Foundations for Early Learning
is a national center focused on
strengthening the capacity of child care and Head Start programs to improve
the social and emotional outcomes of young children. The Center will develop
and disseminate evidence-based, user-friendly information to help early
childhood educators meet the needs of the growing number of children with
challenging behaviors and mental health challenges. Training modules; issue
briefs.
Child Care
Aware - national website, for
parents: choosing quality child care.
ChildTrends
- "dedicated to improving
the lives of children by conducting research and providing science-based
information to improve the decisions, programs, and policies that affect
children."
Connect for Kids
Education
Commission of the States - Early Learning Issues
"Information provided by ECS combines the best
of the most recent and useful research available." Searchable by topics.
Excellent sections on brain research, early learning, readiness,
pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, and more. Each of these sections provide an
overview, quick facts, what states are doing, selected research and
readings, and links; each covers several sub-issues, and related
initiatives.
Families and
Work Institute - steps and tips for a successful early childhood engagement campaign (downloadable files):
http://www.familiesandwork.org/forums/download/f11.html
FamilyEducation.com
-- http://familyeducation.com
Website for families: articles,
message boards, e-newsletter.
Healthy People Library Project
An
eBook series for having healthy babies. "A Child Becomes A
Reader" -- plus car safety tips, colic, Down syndrome, teen pregnancy, and
more. Some of the booklets are repeated in Spanish.
I Am Your
Child -- now Parents Action for Children; information
and resources
KidsCount,
a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, is a national and state-by-state
effort to track the status of children in the U.S. By providing
policymakers and citizens with benchmarks of child well-being, KIDS COUNT
seeks to enrich local, state, and national discussions concerning ways to
secure better futures for all children.
Publications
KidSource Online --
http://www.kidsource.com
A parent-run website, with many articles, resources and links.
NAEYC (National Association for the
Education of Young Children)
"Promoting excellence in early childhood
education" -- includes information and resources for parents as well as
early childhood professionals.
The
National Child Care Information Center (NCCIC),
a project of the Child Care
Bureau, is a national resource that links information and people to
complement, enhance, and promote the child care delivery system, working to
ensure that all children and families have access to high-quality
comprehensive services.
National
Institute for Literacy
Activities to strengthen literacy across the
lifespan; information on scientifically based reading research pertaining to
children, youth, and adults as well as information about development and
implementation of classroom reading programs based on the research.
The Institute's
35-page booklet,
A Child Becomes A Reader, gives parents suggestions, games, and activities
for preparing their young child for reading and writing later in life.
National Parenting
Center - information from experts, "seal of approval"
for products marketed to parents, parents corner, chat, much more
Parenthood.com - articles on
many topics, well-indexed; links to many other parenting sites, with
ratings.
Parents As Teachers (National) -
information and resources for parents and professionals
PBS: The Whole Child -
Development from Birth Through Age Five
Extensive information -- ABCs of child development; information for parents
and for caregivers. Spanish version too.
PBS Parents
Issues and advice; fun and games; TV shows; community. Spanish version too.
Parents
First - A Network of Care for Young Families - from
the Yale Child Study Center. Information on child care, and things to
do/places to go with children -- for parents and caregivers. Some
information is specific to Connecticut and Yale, but there is also some
great general information.
Reach Out and Read
- national nonprofit organization; website provides information and links to
many recommended early literacy websites.
Reading Rockets -
www.colorincolorado.org.
"A major new resource
about reading and supporting children in school, for Spanish-speaking
parents. This beautiful new bilingual website provides Spanish-speaking
parents with information on how to help children learn to read. Already
chosen as a 'hot site' by 'USA Today,' ColorinColorado.org is full of fun
tips, advice, and activities."
Smart
Start: North Carolina Partnership for Children
Website of North Carolina's award-winning national initiative. Excellent
resources for parents, professionals, and the early childhood field;
national technical assistance center.
Society for
Research in Child Development
"The Society is a multidisciplinary, not-for-profit, professional
association with a membership of approximately 5,500 researchers,
practitioners, and human development professionals from over 50 countries.
The purposes of the Society are to promote multidisciplinary research in the
field of human development, to foster the exchange of information among
scientists and other professionals of various disciplines, and to encourage
applications of research findings. Our goals are pursued through a variety
of programs with the cooperation and service of our governing council,
standing committees, and members."
See this article:
"Emotions Matter: Making the
Case for the Role of Young Children's Emotional Development for Early
School Readiness."
Success By 6®
"United Way
Success By 6® is a national community-based movement of public and private
partners that work together to deliver proven solutions that ensure all
children ages zero to six are healthy, nurtured and ready to succeed. In more
than 350 cities throughout the United States and Canada, United Way Success By
6® is creating effective community-based solutions that contribute to the
positive quality of life for young children."
Success
By 6 in Tulsa
Success By 6 in Louisville, KY
Success By 6 in Florida
Teach More / Love More
An excellent website,
www.teachmorelovemore.org, with great information for parents (in English
and Spanish), practitioners and the general public.
The Future of Children
offers an e-newsletter (subscribe
here), educational events, and publications. Publication:
School
Readiness: Closing Racial and Ethnic Gaps --
Spring 2005.
Journal
issue
Executive
summary
The next
volume of The Future of Children, Marriage and Child Wellbeing
(Vol. 15, No. 2) will be available in fall, 2005. Childhood
Overweight and Obesity (Vol. 16, No.1) will be available in spring,
2006.
The Future of Children: A Publication
of The Woodrow Wilson School of
Public and International Affairs at
Princeton University and The
Brookings Institution.
Contact
Us.
Zero to Three
- "the nation's leading resource on the first years of
life"
"We focus on the needs of the
'whole baby'—in the context of the family and community. Our job is to support
you in the important work you do." Information for parents and
professionals.
Developmental Milestones:
How I Grow In Your Care
[
En Español ]
The
first three years of life are a time of amazing learning for young children
and for the people who care for them every day. In these years, most children
develop new skills in a predictable order they crawl before they walk and
they point before they use words to tell you what they want. But every
child is unique. Every child develops at his own pace and reacts to people and
the world in his own way. Every child has his own style of communicating with
you.
That's
why ZERO TO THREE designed the following three charts to speak to you the
parent or caregiver in the child's voice. They are designed to help you see
at a glance the steps involved in a child's learning during the earliest
months and years of life.
Birth to 8 Months: Young
Infants
8 to 18 Months:
Explorers
18 Months to 3 Years:
Toddlers and Two-Year-Olds
Visit http://www.zerotothree.org/ztt_parents.html for these materials in English and Spanish,
plus much more information.
A few materials available to download
from the Internet
... please visit the other websites above for many additional publications and
resources
Starting Points: Meeting the Needs of Our Youngest
Children
(Carnegie Corporation, 1994) - summary; how to
order the full report
CONTENTS:
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The Quiet
Crisis
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Promote
Responsible Parenthood
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Guarantee
Quality Child Care Choices
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Ensure
Good Health and Protection
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Mobilize
Communities to Support Young Children and Their Families
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Recommendations and Call to Action
Early Childhood
Development
Click on your child's age to see what to
expect in your child's development from birth through age five, and what you
can do. Written from your growing child's point
of view!
Text for this Parent Resource Guide was prepared by the University of
Delaware Cooperative Extension for Delaware Health and Social Services
Early Intervention System. It has been made available through the
JumpStart website by special permission from the North Carolina
Partnership for Children - Smart Start.
Publications for parents and the community
A selection of useful resources from
Prevent
Child Abuse America, the
Center for the Study of Social Policy, and the
Harvard Family
Resource Project
Advice for new moms and dads
Protecting your toddler at home
Family involvement in early childhood education
Helping your child succeed at school
Family involvement in elementary education
Ten ways to prevent child abuse
Protective factors to prevent child abuse
Emotional child abuse fact sheet
An approach to preventing child abuse
Recognizing child abuse, what you should know
Twelve alternatives to lashing out at your children
Teaching children discipline
Shopping with your children
How to prevent long lasting effects of bullying
Home alone
tips
Family Fitness
Child Guidance Services has prepared these
flyers describing activities families can do to help their young children be
physically fit! (These are Word files. Click on the title to download.)
Online bookstores
Materials
from some respected national programs, available to purchase:
(Books, videos, booklets, reports on many topics, for parents,
professionals and communities)
Smart Start -
North Carolina Partnership for Children
Zero to Three
NAEYC (National Association for the
Education of Young Children)
I Am Your Child
Please come back soon for more
resources and links!
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Age-specific handouts that summarize take-home messages from
From Neurons
to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development, a report
by the National Academy of Sciences. These handouts are free to reproduce
and distribute for educational, nonprofit purposes.