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  • Offering the chance for climbers with disabilities to learn techniques that adapt to their personal abilities, strengthen resolve, keep fit, have fun. Assistance is provided by volunteers who have a love for climbing and adaptive sports, including physical and occupational therapists, students and professionals.

  • Whether you’re wondering how to handle a specific challenge, just figuring out your child-raising approach, or ready to tear your hair out, you’ve come to the right place.

  • The process of searching for child care is undeniably one of the most difficult processes for families with young children to navigate. This suite of on-the-go child care information brochures can help you talk with Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR&R) agencies and child care providers when choosing safe and quality care.

  • Immunization Schedule for 0-18: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended immunization schedules available on its website, which includes downloadable PDFs.

  • Early childhood is a time of both great promise and considerable risk. Assuring the availability of responsive relationships, growth promoting experiences, and healthy environments for all young children helps build sturdy brain architecture and the foundations of resilience. Learn more on the Center on the Developing Child's website.

  • The New York State Office of Children and Family Services maintains a Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment for reports made pursuant to the Social Services Law. The Central Register, also known as the "Hotline", receives telephone calls alleging child abuse or maltreatment within New York State. The Central Register relays information from the calls to the local Child Protective Service for investigation, monitors their prompt response, and identifies if there are prior child abuse or maltreatment reports.

  • Child Care Aware® of America (CCAoA) works with a national network of more than 500 child care resource and referral (CCR&Rs) agencies and other partners to ensure that all families have access to quality, affordable child care. CCAoA leads projects that increase the quality and availability of child care, conducts research, and advocates for child care policies that positively impact the lives of children and families. CCAoA also provides child care assistance for military families through Fee Assistance and Respite Child Care Programs that have served more than 150,000 families and worked with more than 60,000 child care providers over nearly two decades.

  • Positioned as a neutral body, the Council provides coordination between New York's health, education, and human services systems and facilitates the development of state and local service systems that are coordinated, strength-based, prevention-oriented, and responsive to the needs of children and families.

  • The Early Care and Learning Council (ECLC) has been working to make quality, affordable child care available to New York’s families since 1975. The Early Care & Learning Council is the coordinating agency for the New York State Child Care Resource & Referral (CCR&R) network. We elevate the voices of the CCR&Rs, and advocate for a quality, affordable, equitable early care and education system. ECLC offers training and professional development to CCR&Rs and delivers innovative curricula that supports the building of sustainable child care systems throughout the state.

  • A national organization that offers encouragement, information and affirmation to at-home mothers and fathers through articles from their online publication Welcome Home. In addition, other resources and sources of support, as well as public policy information are offered.

  • Prepare for the upcoming flu season! American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have collaborated to produce a new influenza prevention and control handout (click the "Influenza Prevention and Control" heading). This handout includes information on the symptoms of influenza, how influenza is spread, the benefits of the influenza vaccine, and much more.

  • Mocha Moms is a support group for stay at home mothers of color who have chosen not to work full-time outside of the home in order to devote more time to their families.

  • A non-profit support organization for mothers.

  • MOPS stands for Mothers of Preschoolers. MOPS International exists to meet the needs of every mom - urban, suburban, and rural moms, stay-at-home and working moms, teen, single, and married moms - moms with different lifestyles who all share a similar desire to be the very best moms they can be! MOPS recognizes that the years from infancy through kindergarten are foundational in a mother-child relationship and are filled with unique needs.

  • The National AfterSchool Association is the voice of the afterschool profession. We are the national membership organization for professionals who work with and on behalf of children and youth during out-of-school time. NAA’s mission is to promote development, provide education and encourage advocacy for the out-of-school-time community to further the afterschool profession. We exist to inspire, connect and equip afterschool professionals.

  • The National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC) is a nationwide non-profit organization dedicated to promoting high quality child care by strengthening the profession of family child care for nearly one million paid home-based early learning programs serving almost 40% of the 6.7 million children who receive care from a nonrelative on a regular basis.

  • The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is a professional membership organization that works to promote high-quality early learning for all young children, birth through age 8, by connecting early childhood practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse, dynamic early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children. The association comprises nearly 60,000 individual members of the early childhood community and 52 Affiliates, all committed to delivering on the promise of high-quality early learning. Together, we work to achieve a collective vision: that all young children thrive and learn in a society dedicated to ensuring they reach their full potential.

  • "The National At-Home Dad Network is an inclusive community committed to equality, education, esteem, and empowerment. We know that a great community includes a diversity of individuals, ideas, inputs, ideologies, and inspirations. It is not surprising then that we are strongly committed to inclusion. We value respectful discourse and a free flow of ideas. We welcome, facilitate, and respect a diversity of ideas, experiences, cultures, beliefs, and backgrounds. In fact, we demand it. We will defend all members against hatred and bigotry. As a result, The National At-Home Dad Network is made up of individuals of all abilities, backgrounds, religions, races, cultures, ethnicities, sexual orientations, genders, ages, and expressions. This commitment to diversity and inclusion not only makes us who we are, but it also makes us better, more creative, more innovative, more understanding and more outstanding. Above all and including all, we will continue to work to create a safe space for everyone to contribute, to grow, to learn and to redefine fatherhood.*"

    * Respectfully adapted from Mom 2.0’s Inclusion Statement

  • The Office of Children and Family Services serves New York's public by promoting the safety, permanency and well-being of our children, families and communities. They achieve results by setting and enforcing policies, building partnerships, and funding and providing quality services.

  • Parenting Advice, Baby Names, Product Recalls, Health Guides, Videos, Shopping

  • Helping moms and dads raise happy, healthy kids and have some of fun along the way.

  • Peaceful Parent Institute: Heart based parenting. The Peaceful Parent Institute offer seminars for parents and educators, professional development for teachers and individual coaching for parents, families and early childhood centers - teaching cutting edge relationship skills, conflict resolution skills, a new and healthy model that has the potential to radically change our culture for the better!

  • Information, games, activities and parenting advice offered on the website for the Public Broadcasting Service.

  • TOR - Transportation of Rockland. Information and schedules for transportation within Rockland County and for commuters.

  • The mission of the Rockland County Department of Social Services is to accurately and efficiently provide benefits and services to the people of Rockland County in a manner that promotes self-sufficiency, protects the venerable, and is recognized as being fair and responsive.

  • The official website of Rockland County, New York.

  • The US Department of Education has compiled a great list of early learning resources.

  • Like most parents, you probably have questions about your child's development-that's normal. Or you may just want to know what you can do to ensure your child's happy and healthy development. At ZERO TO THREE, we're here to help you navigate this critical period. Since 1977, we've brought together the fields of medicine, child development, research science and human behavior, to focus exclusively on the first three years of life.

  • Learn about vaccines needed for your child's age; how to make vaccine visits less stressful; immunization records and requirements; and the 16 diseases that vaccines prevent in children and teenagers. Download easy-to-read immunization schedules in both English and Spanish, use an interactive immunization scheduler, and view CDC educational resources. The new website also contains specialized immunization related to adoption, travel, and pregnancy.