Ready, Set, Grow: Early Learning Resources
For Parents:
Atlantic Street Center
Atlantic Street Center focuses on helping children of all ages to flourish. In support of the child, they serve the family by providing parent education and life skills classes, support groups, family therapy, and referrals to outside agencies and services.
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Birth to Three Developmental Center
Birth to Three Developmental Center is a private non-profit child development program. We work with children from birth to age three and their families.
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Children’s Home Society
Providing resources to support parents in Washington state.
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CHILD Profile
Washington State's Health Promotion and Immunization Registry system designed to help ensure our children receive the preventive care they need.
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Circle of Success
Circle of Success provides an early education program for parents in Yakima Valley and Kittitas Valley and Ephrata to prepare their children to enter school ready to learn.
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Neighborhood House
Neighborhood House offers a full range of early-childhood education programs for low-income families with young children (from birth to 5 years old). The Early Childhood Education program provides diverse, culturally-appropriate services to all enrolled families, many of whom are recent refugees and immigrants.
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Parent Map Magazine
Parent Map helps to connect parents and caregivers with information and resources on caring for and entertaining all children, for those from Edmonds to Seattle, to the Eastside, Tacoma, Bremerton and Olympia.
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Parent Trust for Washington Children
Parent Trust for Washington Children offers unique solutions for the entire family through effective, free or low cost classes, workshops and coaching.
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PBS Parents
PBS Parents is the trusted online resource filled with information about your child’s development from birth through the early school years. Created with input from experts in child psychology, early childhood education, media and other fields, PBS Parents provides the answers you need to be your child’s first, best teacher.
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Program for Early Parent Support (PEPS)
PEPS provides community-based programs that enable parents of infants and young children to meet the challenges of parenting through mutual support and shared information through regular gatherings.
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Talaris Institute
Talaris Institute works to improve the social, emotional and cognitive development of children from the prenatal period through age five by providing parents with tools to raise their children effectively.
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Thrive by Five
Thrive by Five links parents, teachers, community and business leader to critical early education resources.
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Washington State Department of Early Learning
Parents are their children's first and most important teacher. At the Department of Early Learning works to provide parents with the information and resources they need to make the best early learning choices for their family.
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School Readiness
Getting School Ready with Foundation for Early Learning
Getting School Ready is a project of the Foundation for Early Learning; a statewide foundation that gives children in Washington a strong start in life and learning. This Web site is a resource to help new parents and caregivers as they explore the development of their children.
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Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction
Washington’s state agency that supports the K-12 system. This Web site includes information on research, assessment, school districts and an online report card for schools.
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Washington State Department of Early Learning
Parents are their children's first and most important teacher. At the Department of Early Learning works to provide parents with the information and resources they need to make the best early learning choices for their family.
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Select Child Care
Child Care Resources
A resource for families seeking child care.
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Family, Friend and Neighbor Care (DEL)
Family, friend and neighbor providers (FFN) include grandparents, aunts and uncles, elders, older siblings, friends, neighbors, and others who help families take care of their kids on an informal basis.
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Washington State Department of Early Learning
Family, friend and neighbor providers (FFN) include grandparents, aunts and uncles, elders, older siblings, friends, neighbors, and others who help families take care of their kids on an informal basis.
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Washington State Child Care Resource & Referral Network
Helps parents by supplying valuable information on licensed child care in your area and tips for selecting a child care provider.
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Eastern Washington Family Child Care
Eastern Washington Family Child Care Association's (EWFCCA) mission is to promote quality child care throughout Eastern Washington. EWFCCA sponsors several events throughout the year to bring providers together, to network and break the isolation that often occurs from the long hours spent in homes.
Council for Children and Families
CCF promotes the optimal development of children and families by leading Washington state in its efforts to prevent child abuse and neglect.
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PBS Teachers
For preK through 12 grade teachers, this Web site provides resources and connections to professional development to support learning at home and at school.
Thrive by Five
Thrive by Five links parents, teachers, community and business leader to critical early education resources.
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Washington Association for the Education for Young Children
WAEYC serves, educates and advocates for early learning professionals and the early learning profession, such as teachers and educational leaders.
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Washington State Child Care Resource & Referral Network
Helps child care providers by offering professional training, educational scholarships and an abundance of resources.
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Additional Early Learning Resources
Child Care & Early Education Research Connections Child Care & Early Education Research Connections promotes high quality research in child care and early education and the use of that research in policy making. This Web site provides research and data resources for researchers, policy makers, practitioners and others.
Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences
The Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences is an interdisciplinary center dedicated to discovering the fundamental principles of human learning that will enable all children to achieve their full potential.
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Ready by Five
Ready by Five is a transformational investment project in the future academic success of some of Yakima's youngest. Formed as a partnership of community members and public and private funds, Ready by Five is designed to develop new opportunities and strengthen existing learning efforts for children from birth to age 5.
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United Way of King County
United Way of King County mobilizes our community in ways that no single agency, individual, or government can to enhance the ability of people to care for one another.
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