| KidsNCare Provider News |
| Latest Issue - March 2008 | Our newsletters require Adobe Acrobat Reader. It can be downloaded free from Adobe's website. |
| KidsNCare Additional Information |
| An Overview | The Mission of KidsNCare is to enhance the care and development of children in early childhood education by providing and supporting quality services to all children and clients. |
| Calendar of Events | View our monthly calendars for trainings, workshops, conferences, and other community events for parents, child care providers, educators, and interested others. |
| Child Care Food Program | The Child Care Food Program (CCFP) is a federally funded program of the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The California Department of Education is the administrative agency for the CCFP in California. |
| Resource and Referral Program | The Resource and Referral Program (R&R) assists parents in locating licensed child care and offers information on community resources for families, children, and child care providers. |
| Staff Directory | View the KNC staff's work addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail addresses. |
| Subsidized Payment Program | The Subsidized Payment Program offers child care to certified income-eligible families needing child care in San Bernardino County. |
| Community Resources |
| San Bernardino County 211: Get Connected. Get Answers. | Every hour of every day, someone in San Bernardino County searches for services, from substance abuse treatment to care for a child or aging parent. Nearly 1,000 community agencies provide more than 2,000 health and human service programs. Finding your way through this maze can seem insurmountable. Where do you start?
2-1-1's powerful search engine is available online for people who want to search its service database themselves. Users will also be able to look up services in 2-1-1's published directory, Community Connection, or in our specialized publications. For those who dial 2-1-1 by phone, calls are answered by phone specialists who are bilingual in Spanish and have access to other languages through a professional tele-interpreters service.
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| Educational |
| American Library Association | More than books, this site provides a list of over 700 great sites for families and teachers. Find information about authors, good books to read, and educational games. |
| California Teacher/Child Development Credentials | The mission of the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing is to assure the fully prepared and effective educators all students deserve and our communities require. |
| Council of Chief State School Officers | The Council of Chief State School Officers is a nationwide, non-profit organization composed of public officials who lead the departments responsible for elementary and secondary education in the states. |
| Department of Education | Obtain information about the President's education initiatives, college, financial aid, and parenting publications. |
| Exploratorium | Children of all ages can learn why the sky is blue, take memory tests, and conduct experiments, online and off. |
| Library of Congress | This is a perfect site for school age children to learn about American History and do research on multiple topics for school projects. |
| Merriam-Webster's Dictionary | Words for the wise and more. |
| My Virtual Reference Desk | This site trys to index quality Internet sites and assist visitors in navigating the sites. |
| NASA | Children can learn about the air, land, water, and natural hazards such as hurricanes. Families can find adventures in space, including views from the Hubble Space Telescope. |
| National Parent Information Network | On this site you will find great resources on elementary and early childhood education including a magazine, discussion list, and much more. |
| National PTA | Learn about PTA educational programs. |
| National Urban League | This site provides useful information and resources on African-American issues. It is a rich reference area for students, parents, teachers, and history buffs. |
| Public Broadcasting System | Children and adults alike can climb Mt. Everest, explore inside the Pyramids, and go on other electronic field trips. |
| Roget's Thesaurus | An artillery of words. |
| The World Factbook | The World Factbook is prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency for the use of US Government officials, and the style, format, coverage, and content are designed to meet their specific requirements. |
| Employment |
| CALJOBS | California's Internet system for linking employer job listings and job seekers resumes. |
| Center for the Child Care Workforce | The CCW has a 22 year consistent track record of research, documentation, advocacy, training, and organizing around issues of better compensation and working conditions in the field of early child care and education. |
| Health / Safety |
| American Academy of Pediatrics | This organization is committed to the attainment of optimal physical, mental and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. |
| American Public Health Association | APHA is a quality resource for public health professionals. With more than a century of achievements, APHA is on the forefront of disease prevention and health promotion. |
| Beansprout Networks | This network is committed to serving parents, doctors, child care professionals, and others who serve families. The Beansprout site allows parents easy access to over 100 health and safety topics for children. |
| Behavioral Health Services, Inc-Disability Program | Behavioral Health Services, Inc. offers a comprehensive, life-affirming system of healthcare programs and community education. |
| California Child Care Health Line | This site is dedicated to improving the quality of child care by promoting and facilitating the linkages between the health, safety and child care communities and the families they serve. |
| California Department of Food & Agriculture | This site promotes California agriculture and fostering public confidence in the market place through the development, implementation, and communication of sound public policies. |
| California Department of Rehabilitation Administration-State Headquarters | The mission of the Department of Rehabilitation is to assist Californians with disabilities in obtaining and retaining employment and maximizing their ability to live independently in their communities. |
| California Poison Control | The CPCS is a statewide network of trained experts who provide toll-free hotline information and advice about treating poisonings. |
| Department of Health Services - Injury Control Branch | The EPIC Branch is the focal point for the Department of Health Services' injury prevention efforts, both epidemiological investigations and implementation of prevention programs to reduce intentional and unintentional injuries. |
| Emergency Medical Services | The mission of the EMSA is to ensure quality patient care by administering an effective, statewide system of coordinated emergency medical care, injury prevention, and disaster medical response. |
| Environmental Protection Agency | Children can use detective skills to protect the earth and learn how to keep the air and the water pollution-free. |
| Kids Health | For parents, kids, and teens from the medical experts of the Nemours Foundation. |
| March of Dimes | Four major problems threaten the health of America's babies: birth defects, infant mortality, low birthweight, and lack of prenatal care. The March of Dimes has adopted goals for the year 2000 to bring us closer to the day when all babies will be born healthy. |
| McGruff.org | McGruff.org is just for kids. Got a question about staying safe? Ask McGruff for advice. Learn basic safety rules with McGruff through games, puzzles, and comics. Find out how you can help Take A Bite Out Of Crime! |
| National Crime Prevention Council | Material on raising safe and healthy children. Information on how to teach young children & adults how to deal with scary situations and issues such as run-ins with bullies, guns, drugs, and strangers. |
| National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care | The NRC's primary mission is to promote health and safety in out-of-home child care settings throughout the nation. |
| Occupational Safety and Health Admin | The mission of OSHA is to save lives, prevent injuries and protect the health of America's workers. |
| Southern California Earthquake Center | The SCEC coordinates research on earthquake hazards and communicates earthquake information to the public. |
| The Administration for Children and Families - Department of Health and Human Services | The ACF is responsible for federal programs that promote the economic and social well-being of families, children, individuals, and communities. |
| The National Pediculosis Association | The National Pediculosis Association offers current lice and scabies news, prevention, and treatment information, helpful handouts, and a catalog of resources. |
| U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission | The CPSC, an independent Federal regulatory agency, helps keep American families safe by reducing the risk of injury or death from consumer products. |
| Children, Parents, & Providers |
| Ask Dr. Math | To ask Dr. Math about math problems. Divided into elementary school, middle school, high school, college, and beyond. Also has a frequently asked questions, and a Teacher 2 Teacher service. |
| Aunt Annie's Craft Page | Use shareware to try out a variety of craft projects including puppets and games. Download a free demonstration book. |
| Building Child Care | This is the web site for the Building Child Care (BBC) Collaborative, a project funded by the California Department of Education. In addition to other services available through this site, child care providers can use it to identify useful community resources, financial resources, and publications that can help them in their efforts to build or renovate child care centers and family child care homes in California. |
| California Child Care Resource & Referral Network | The California Child Care Resource and Referral Network (Network), founded in 1980, coordinates services that assist local child care resource and referral (R&R) agencies in providing child care information and services to parents, child care providers, policy makers, and business and community leaders in every county in the State. |
| California Department of Social Services | CDSS strives to carry out its mission of providing aid, services and protection to needy children and adults. |
| California Integrated Waste Management Board - Playground Safety and Recycling | The Integrated Waste Management Board is responsible for protecting the public's health and safety and the environment through management of the estimated 60 million tons of solid waste generated in California. The Board is administers three grant programs designed to help upgrade the State's public playgrounds. |
| California Public Utilities Commission | California Public Utilities Commission regulates privately owned telecommunications, electric, natural gas, water, railroad, rail transit, and passenger transportation companies. |
| Care About Quality-The Child Care Connection | Use this Web site to learn about quality child care, locate child care in your community, discover additional child care Web links, or to access "Care About Quality" campaign materials and information on child care and workplace issues. |
| Child Care Law Center | The Child Care Law Center (CCLC) is a national nonprofit legal services organization that uses legal tools to make high quality, affordable child care available to every child, every family, and every community. It is the only organization in the country devoted exclusively to the complex legal issues that affect child care. Their diverse substantive work encompasses public benefits, civil rights, housing, economic development, family violence, regulation and licensing, and land use.
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| Child Care Resource | This is a website designed with the child care provider in mind. It has links to resources for almost anything you could want in the child care field. It is also a great resource for parents and anyone interested in children. |
| Child Welfare League of America | CWLA is an association of more than 1,100 public and private nonprofit agencies that assist over 3.5 million abused and neglected children and their families each year with a wide range of services. |
| Childhelp USA | Dedicated to meeting the physical, emotional, educational, and spiritual needs of abused and neglected children. It does this by focusing its efforts and resources upon treatment, prevention, and research. |
| Children Now | Resources on children's issues |
| Children's Defense Fund | The mission of the Children's Defense Fund is to Leave No Child Behind and to ensure every child a Health Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. |
| Children's Music Web | Here families can find great resources to explore children's music on this site. |
| Children's Network of San Bernardino County | The Children's Network of San Bernardino County concerns itself with "Children at Risk" who are defined as minors who, because of behavior, abuse, neglect, medical needs, educational assessment, and or detrimental daily living situations are eligible for services from one or more of the constituent agencies of the Children's Network. |
| Children's Partnership | Information on protecting you and your family on the Internet. |
| Civitas | Civitas Initiative is a national, non-profit communication group. Our mission is to provide educational tools to all adults who live and work with children so that better decisions are made on their behalf. |
| Crayola Web Site for Kids | Bringing fun and creativity to life. |
| Daycare/Preschool with Joni Levine | Your guide to over 700 sites. |
| GetNet Wise | This great site focuses on keeping children and families safe in the Internet. You can find out about tools to restrict the time spent on the Internet and other filters. |
| I Am Your Child | Child development resources and advocacy. |
| KidSource Online | Article about why kids should play. |
| Make A Wish Foundation | The Make-A-Wish Foundation® grants the wishes of children with life-threatening illnesses to enrich the human experience with hope, strength, and joy. |
| National Association for Family Child Care | The focus of NAFCC is to provide technical assistance to family child care associations. This assistance is provided through developing leadership and professionalism, addressing issues of diversity, and by promoting quality and professionalism through NAFCC's Family Child Care Accreditation. |
| National Association for the Education of Young Children | The NAEYC exists for the purpose of leading and consolidating the efforts of individuals and groups working to achieve healthy development and constructive education for all young children. |
| National Association of Child Care and Resource and Referral Agencies | NACCRRA provides national leadership to building quality child care systems, community by community and neighborhood by neighborhood. |
| National Black Child Development Institute | NBCDI exists to improve and protect the quality of life of African American children and their families. |
| National Center for Missing and Exploited Children | This site is designed to help parents find missing children. It also provides information on keeping children safe. |
| National Child Care Association | The mission of the NCCA is to promote the growth and safeguard the interest of quality childhood care and education focusing on licensed, private providers of these services. |
| National Child Care Information Center | The NCCIC 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 Head Start Association | The National Head Start Association (NHSA) is a private not-for profit membership organization representing the 865,000 children, upwards of 180,000 staff and nearly 2,100 Head Start programs in America. |
| National Institute on Out-of-School Time | Our mission is to ensure that all children, youth, and families have access to high quality programs, activities, and opportunities during non-school hours. |
| National Network on Child Care | The goal of NNCC is to share knowledge about children and child care from the vast resources of the land grant universities with parents, professionals, practitioners, and the general public. |
| National Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness | The Resource Center's is the only national center specifically focused on the effective organization and delivery of services for people who are homeless and have serious mental illnesses. |
| National School-Age Care Alliance | NSACA is the only national membership organization representing the entire array of public, private, and community-based providers of after school programs. |
| NetParents | Information on protecting you and your family on the Internet |
| ParentsPlace | This site encourages a community where parents can connect, communicate, and celebrate the adventures of parenting. |
| Play Music | Visitors can explore various instruments in an orchestra by listening to selections of music by composers, and by playing games to test knowledge. |
| Redleaf National Institute | For family child care providers with lots of questions about their business and free time. |
| The Family Education Network | The Family Education Network is a resource for parents interested in becoming involved in their children's studies. Segments are arranged by age of the child beginning at preschool and younger and going up to high school and beyond. |
| The Franklin Institute Science Museum | The Franklin Institute Science Museum maintains this website to provide easily-accessible, up-to-date information for anyone interested in science education. |
| The Genealogy Home Page | An online resource for researching your family's ancestors and history. |
| The Human-Languages Page | The Human-Languages Page is a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources. The more than 2000 links in the HLP database have been hand-reviewed to bring you the best language links the Web has to offer. |
| The Parent Project | A parent's guide to Changing destructive adolescent behavior. |
| Trustline | The California registry of in-home child care providers who have passed a background screening. All caregivers listed with Trustline have been cleared through a fingerprint check of records at the California Department of Justice. This means they have n |
| USA Child Care | USA Child Care is an organization for child care providers who believe that all children deserve quality care. |
| We Tip Crime Hotline | We Tip is a non-profit organization that has been in continual operation since 1972. If you have information on a crime, call the We Tip hotlines or submit a tip through the We Tip online form. You will remain completely anonymous. |
| Yahoo! | The Yahoo! Child care resource links on: Society and Culture / Families / Parenting |
| Zero to Three | The nation's leading resource on the first years of life. A national non-profit charitable organization whose aim is to strengthen and support families, practitioners, and communities to promote the healthy development of babies and toddlers. |
| Special Needs |
| American Foundation for the Blind | Every seven minutes, someone in America will become blind or visually impaired. Since 1921, the American Foundation for the Blind—to which Helen Keller devoted more than 40 years of her life —has been eliminating barriers that prevent people who are blind or visually impaired from reaching their potential. The American Foundation for the Blind is dedicated to addressing the critical issues of literacy, independent living, employment, and access through technology for the ten million Americans who are blind or visually impaired. |
| American Society for Deaf Children | (November 2000) ASDC is a national organization of families and professionals committed to education, empowering, and supporting parents and families to create opportunities for their children who are deaf and hard of hearing in gaining meaningful and full communication access, particularly through the competent use of sign language, in their homes, schools, and communities.
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| American Speech-Language Hearing Association | ASHA's mission is to ensure that all people with speech, language, and hearing disorders have access to quality services to help them communicate more effectively. |
| Center for Children with Special Needs | Information and resources for parents and professional who advocate and care for children with special needs. |
| Developmental Delay Resources (DDR) | A nonprofit organization dedicated to meeting the needs of those working with children who have developmental delays in sensory motor, language, social, and emotional areas. DDR publicizes research into determining identifiable factors that would put a child at risk and maintains a registry, tracking possible trends. DDR also provides a network for parents and professionals and current information after the diagnosis to support children with special needs. |
| Early Start Family Resource Network | The Early Start Family Resource Network (ESFRN) provides parent-to-parent support, resources and referrals to parents who have children ages birth to three years with special needs. The ESFRN is staffed by parents of children with developmental or physical disabilities. Parent Representatives are available in person or by phone share resources or simply offer support. Feel free to call
(800) 974-5553 or email to esfrn@yahoo.com. |
| Family Village | A global community that integrates information, resources, and communication opportunities on the Internet for persons with cognitive and other disabilities, for their families, and for those that provide them services and support. The community includes informational resources on specific diagnoses, communication connections, adaptive products and technology, adaptive recreational activities, education, worship, health issues, disability-related media and literature, and much, much more!
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| HandSpeak | Exploration of imagery language and visual communication, culture and arts. Manual alphabet and numbers, signing to babies, animals and international sign language. |
| Inland Regional Center | Evaluation and diagnosis, case management, info & referral for those suspected of being developmentally disabled; (mental retardation, autism, epilepsy, cerebral palsy & disabilities found to be related to mental retardation). Conditions must originate before age 18 and continue or expect to continue indefinitely and constitute a substantial disability. Services include: advocacy, day program placement, early intervention, parent training, etc. |
| Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental & Learning Disorders | The Interdisciplinary Council includes outstanding professionals from the different disciplines working with children and families where there are developmental and/or learning problems. Its aim is to improve the identification, prevention and treatment of developmental and learning disorders. |
| Internet Resource for Special Children (IRSC) | IRSC is dedicated to children with disabilities and other health related disorders worldwide. Their mission is to improve the lives of these children. |
| National Down Syndrome Society | Through education, research and advocacy, the National Down Syndrome Society works to ensure that all people with Down syndrome have the opportunity to achieve their fullest potential. |
| National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities | NICHCY is the national information and referral center that provides information on disabilities and disability-related issues for families, educators, and other professionals. Our special focus is children and youth (birth to age 22). |
| Parents Helping Parents | Helping children with special needs receive the resources, love, hope, respect, health care, education and other services they need to achieve their full potential by providing them with strong families and dedicated professionals to serve them. |
| Pathways Awareness Foundation - Cerebral Palsy | Pathways Awareness Foundation is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to education for and about children with movement and physical challenges, and their families. |
| Prevent Blindness America | Founded in 1908, Prevent Blindness America® is the nation's leading volunteer eye health and safety organization dedicated to fighting blindness and saving sight. Prevent Blindness America serves millions of people each year through public and professional education, community and patient services programs and research. Together with a network of affiliates, divisions and chapters, it's committed to eliminating preventable blindness in America.
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| The Arc of the United States - Down Syndrome | The Arc of the United States works through education, research and advocacy to improve the quality of life for children and adults with mental retardation and related developmental disabilities and their families and works to prevent both the causes and the effects of mental retardation. |
| The Autism Society of America | The mission of the Autism Society of America is to promote lifelong access and opportunities for persons within the autism spectrum and their families, to be fully included, participating members of their communities through advocacy, public awareness, education, and research related to autism. |
| United Cerebral Palsy | UCP is committed to change and progress for persons with disabilities. The national organization and its nationwide network of 114 affiliates in 41 states strive to ensure the inclusion of persons with disabilities in every facet of society. |
| Legislative / Government |
| California | Welcome to California. |
| Child Development Policy Advisory Committee Home Page | CDPAC provides public policy recommendations to the Governor, the Legislature, and relevant state departments concerning child care and development. |
| Community Care Licensing | Community Care Licensing promotes the health, safety, and quality of life of each person in community care through the administration of an effective collaborative regulatory enforcement system. |
| County of San Bernardino | Welcome to the County of San Bernardino |
| Department of Justice | The mission of the Department of Justice is to enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law, to provide Federal leadership in preventing and controlling crime, to seek just punishment for those guilty of unlawful behavior, to administer and enforce the Nation's immigration laws fairly and effectively, and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans. |
| Franchise Tax Board | The purpose of the Franchise Tax Board is to collect the proper amount of tax revenue, and operate other programs entrusted to us, at the least cost; serve the public by continually improving the quality of our products and services; and perform in a manner warranting the highest degree of public confidence in our integrity, efficiency and fairness. |
| Internal Revenue Service | The IRS's mission is to provide America's taxpayers top quality service by helping them understand and meet their tax responsibilities and by applying the tax law with integrity and fairness to all. |
| Official California Legislative Information | This is the official site for California legislative information. Information regarding matters pending before the Legislature has been available to the citizens of California in printed form since 1849. This same information is now available on the Internet pursuant to California law. |
| Small Business Administration | Offering a wide range of products and services for small businesses needing help to start and grow. |
| U.S. Attorney's Office | The U.S. Attorney's Office prosecutes federal offenses and defends U.S. Government interests in civil actions. The Central District of California includes the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura. |
| White House | America's 43rd President, George W. Bush, and First Lady Laura Bush welcome you to the White House. |
| General |
| American Public Human Services | The mission of APHSA is to develop, promote, and implement public human service policies that improve the health and well-being of families, children, and adults. Founded in 1930. |
| California Energy Commission | The state's primary energy policy and planning agency. Created by the Legislature in 1974. |
| MapQuest | Driving Directions |
