Parents

Informative website links for parents to visit based on these areas:

Local Resources
Early Child Care & Education
Parenting Education & Family Support		 Physical & Health Care
Social-Emotional Health Care
Basic Needs

LINKS!!!!!

LOCAL RESOURCES

Local Service for Children and Families:

Saginaw Children's Yellow Pages  
Directory of resources and services in the Saginaw County Area.

MI Great Parents Website - Saginaw
Listing of services for parents in Saginaw County

Playgroups and Home-Visiting Programs for Children Under 5

Birth-to-Five Play Groups - Saginaw Intermediate School District
Play groups provide a safe, nurturing environment in which children and parents may interactively express themselves in the language of play. Play group activities are for children ages 0-5 and designed to enhance school readiness.  Play groups are offered at more than 15 sites across Saginaw County. Please call 989-249-8731 or 989-399-6850 for more information.
2007-2008 Play to Learn Group Schedule

Birth-Five Program - Saginaw Public Schools
Saginaw Pblic School's Birth-Five Program is a service offered to all families in the district.  Birth-Five works with families from birth to get their children ready to start school. Please call 989 399-6850 for more information.
Playgroup Schedule September 07 - May 08

Community Activities for Children

Saginaw Library: Children's Programs
Mother Goose Time, Preschool Story Time and many activites for parents and children throughout the year.

EARLY CHILD CARE & EDUCATION

American Library Association (ALA) Resources for Parents, Teens & Kids
list many links for parents, kids and teen with reading lists
http://www.ala.org/ala/pio/piopresskits/lcsignuppresskit/alaresources.htm

America Reads Challenge. . .Ready, Set, Read
Table of content leads to information about how to make even small children into readers
http://www.ed.gov/Family/RSRforFamily/index.shtml

Early On Michigan
http://earlychildhoodmichigan.org/

Family Education 
Contains games and activities for families and children of different ages
http://www.familyeducation.com

Free Pubs Library
Free books and publications on dozens of subjects, from autism to IEPs to zero tolerance
http://www.wrightslaw.com/links/free_pubs.htm#bullying

Get Ready to Read: Things to Do. . .for Parents
http://www.getreadytoread.org/forpathings.html

Foundation for Early Learning
Helps parents, caregivers, early childhood educators and kindergarten teachers support children to get ready for school and helps schools be ready to meet the needs of their students
http://www.earlylearning.org/

Michigan Directory of Service Providers for Infants, Toddlers,  and Students with Disabilities
Provides basic contact information for professionals and agencies who provide services to infants, toddlers, and students with disabilities.

National PTA
http://www.pta.org/

National Parenting Center
http://www.tnpc.com/

Office of Special Education and Early Intervention Services (MDE)
http://www.michigan.gov/mde

Parents as Teachers (PAT) National Center
http://www.parentsasteachers.org/site/pp.asp?c=ekIRLcMZJxE&b=272119

PBS Parents
http://www.pbs.org/parents/

Ready Sit Read
http://sites.target.com/site/en/readysitread/page.jsp?contentId=PRD03-000669

PARENTING EDUCATION & FAMILY SUPPORT

Baby Center (0-2)
Developmental Milestones, general topics from pregnancy to two years old. *ads are shown before videos.
http://www.babycenter.com/

Baby Web
Lists many links for parents including “Free Stuff”
http://www.baby-place.com/index.php

Bridges4Kids
Site gives list of services based on location and needed information
http://www.bridges4kids.org/

Exceptional Parent Magazine
http://www.eparent.com/

Family Education Network
Site offers ideas for activities with kids of different ages, recipes, advice from parents. *ads are shown but they can be skipped.
http://www.familyeducation.com/home/

Healthy Marriage
National web-based resource and clearinghouse for information and research relating to healthy marriages
http://www.healthymarriageinfo.org

Michigan Department of Education Parent Page
1-888-323-4231 Parent Help Line
http://www.michigan.gov/mde/0,1607,7-140-5233---,00.html

Michigan PTA
http://www.michiganpta.org/

National Center for Fathering
http://www.fathers.com/

Partnership for Learning
Topics Page great ideas and information sources
http://www.partnershipforlearning.org/category.asp?Category/Type=B5

Wisconsin Literacy Education and Reading Network Source
http://wilearns.state.wi.us/apps/default.asp?cid=16

Zero to Three: National Center for Infants Toddlers and Families
http://www.zerotothree.org/site/PageServer?pagename=par_parents

Early Childhood Central
http://www.earlychildhoodcentral.org/links.php

Cyfernet
http://cyfernet.ces.ncsu.edu/cyfres/browse_2.php?search=Child

Talaris Research
The Mission of the Talaris Research Institute: Advancing knowledge of early learning and the importance of parenting in the first years of life.
http://www.talaris.org/

PHYSICAL & HEALTH CARE

American Academy of Pediatrics - Parents
Topics on a wide variety of issues on children and health
http://www.aap.org/parents.html

Brain Wonders
Information about the importance of brain development in the first three years of life
http://www.zerotothree.org/site/PageServer?pagename=key_brain

Early Childhood Booklet
A free download booklet that presents parents and caregivers with simple ideas for physical activities that they can do with children from birth to age five.
http://www.aahperd.org/naspe/template.cfm?template=kids_brochure.html

Genetics Resource Center
1-866-852-1247
http://www.migeneticsconnection.org/

Health Care Coach
Provides basic information about health insurance and health care so that you can be a savvy health care consumer
http://healthcarecoach.com/

Healthy Weight for Kids
A guide to healthy weight for infants, toddlers and preschoolers.
http://www.healthyweightforkids.org/

Kids Health
http://www.kidshealth.org/

Lead Poisoning Hot Line
Symptoms of lead poisoning include headaches, irritability, abdominal pain, vomiting, anemia, weight loss, poor attention span, noticeable learning difficulty, slowed speech development, hyperactivity
http://www.bridges4kids.org/lead.html

Mayo's Clinic
http://www.mayoclinic.com/

Lice Education
for educational materials to fight against lice.1-800 RID-Lice

SOCIAL- EMOTIONAL HEALTH CARE

Family TLC Tools
to enhance parent/child relationship
http://www.familytlc.net/

Parenting Information
http://parentinginformation.org/

University of Michigan Child Development & Behavior Topics
http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/yourchild/topics.htm

BASIC NEEDS (ECONOMIC SECURITY & CHILD SAFETY)

Michigan Assistance and Referral Services
Self referral to programs offered by the State of Michigan that help families in need (medical, nutritional, food, day care, temporary cash etc.)

http://www.mfia.state.mi.us/mars/

Consumer Product Safety Commission