PARENTING & CHILD CARE

Programs

These programs are available for presentation in Clay and Owen Counties.  Contact the County Extension office for details.

Parenting Counts
Provides video vignettes from family life coupled with group sharing and discussion of sound parenting techniques. 

Dialogic Reading
Help your child develop literacy skills while learning to love books with this hands-on relationship enriching program.  Excellent for parents or teachers.

Have A Healthy Baby
Prenatal nutrition and parenting education program consisting of six lessons that emphasize nutrition and lifestyle choices — smoking, drinking, and drugs. The program is research-based and taught by trained, caring professionals.

• Raising Healthy Eaters
  Geared for parents and providers of children ages 2-5, classes include activities, food preparation, and discussion focusing on nutrition, eating behaviors, and parenting.  
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• Tools for Healthy Eaters
• Presentation for 4th and 5th grade classrooms in Clay and Owen Counties that provides elementary students with information they can begin to use immediately for building long, healthy lives and lasting relationships - Jointly presented by the Health & Human Sciences Educator and the Family Nutrition Program Coordinator.

Publications

• Ages and Stages of Child and Youth Development: A Guide for 4-H Leaders
• Children as Victims of Natural Disasters
• Encouraging Positive Self-Concepts in Children
• Forming Good Habits in Children to Avoid Obesity
• Healthy Body Image: Being an Advocate for Your Child or Grandchild
• Helping Children Cope With Stress 
• Helping Children Overcome Fears
• Kids and Food: If You Don't Like It, Neither Do I
• Living With Your Teenager: Understanding Emotional Changes 
• Living with Your Teenager: Understanding Physical Changes
• National Extension Parent Education Model (NEPEM)
• Nutrition Fact Sheet: Make Mealtime Family Time

Programs for Purchase

• Helping Your Children Cope With Divorce
• Once Upon a Mind

Purdue Web Sites

• Center for Families  
• Department of Child Development and Family Studies
• Purple Wagon
• Provides research-based information, recommendations, and activities to help children understand political violence, cope with fears and sadness when groups are in conflict, and learn how to make peace. Includes information and resources for parents, children/teens, educators, media, and researchers.
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  Provider and Parent Relationships
  This site is dedicated to helping providers and parents give better support to children as they grow. It is written for childcare providers—those who take care of infants and toddlers, preschoolers, or school-age children. It explains how providers can work with parents and talk with them about many different issues. To support parents, the site includes materials that providers can print out and share with them.

Other Helpful Web Sites

• Access Indiana
• Brookdale Foundation
• CareFinder Indiana
• CEED: Center for Early Education and Development
• ChildStats.gov: Forum on Child and Family Statistics
• Child Trends Databank
• Child Welfare League of America
• Children’s Defense Fund
• The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (Formerly known as CSREES) 
• CYFERnet (Children, Youth & Families Education & Research Network
• Early Head Start National Resource Center @ Zero to Three
• ERIC/EECE (Clearinghouse on Elementary & Early Childhood Education)
• Financial Security: Children and Money
• Future of Children
• Gateway to 21st Century Skills
• Generations United
• Head Start Administration for Children & Families
• Healthy Generations
• IACCRR (Indiana Association for Child Care Resource & Referral)
• IAEYC (Indiana Association for the Education of Young Children)
• Indiana Department of Education
• Indiana Youth Institute
• Maternal and Child Health Bureau
• Money Talks: Web Site for Teens
• National After School Association
• National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies
• National Association for Family Child Care
• National Association for the Education of Young Children
• National Child Care Association
• National Child Care Information Center
• National Center for Education Statistics
• National Center for Health Statistics
• National Council on Family Relations
• National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
• National Head Start Association
• National Institute of Child Health & Human Development
• National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center
• NEPEM
• NEPEF
• Parents as Teachers National Center
• Prevent Child Abuse America
• Prevent Child Abuse Indiana
• Search Institute
• STATS Indiana
• Urban Institute
• U.S. Department of Education
• U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

• Voices for America’s Children
• Zero to Three