The KELC grant is completed as of 12/31/12. Thanks!

Resources:
--KELC County Risk Factor Data
--The New Civic Infrastructure: The "How To" of Collective Impact and Getting a Better Return on Social Investment
--Family Satisfaction Survey Information
--Advocacy Resources
--Save the Children Website
--Strengthening Families Resources
--Protective Factors Surveys

Read the National
Center for Children
in Poverty Kansas Profile

Read National Defense Fund's: State of American Children and Kansas Profile

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Early Learning Resources:

Professionals:

-Advocacy
-Strengthening Families-Protective Factors Presentation
-Strengthening Families-Protective Factors website
-Protective Factors Surveys

Articles:

• "Learning Begins at Birth" by Ounce of Prevention
• "Building Early Childhood Systems in a Multi-ethnic Society" by the Build Initiative
• 2010 Kids Count State Summary
• Pyramid Model Hand Out
• ICW: Why Businesses Should Support Early Childhood Education
• ICW: Starting Smart & Finishing Strong: Fixing the Cracks in America's Workforce Pipeline Through Investments in Early Childhood Development
• Reduce the Deficit, Strengthen the Economy, and Reform Education by Supporting Early Development by Ron Lally

Blogs

• Birth to Thrive Online
• Motherlode-NY Times Parenting Blog

Videos

• Change the First Five Years and You Change Everything, by The Ounce of Prevention
• The Sentinal Outcomes Simplified
• The Science of Early Childhood Education, by Harvard Education

Web Sites

• ACF - U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services-Administration for Children and Famlies
• AAP - American Academy of Pediatrics
• Child Trends
• Harvard Center on the Developing Child
• HRSA - Maternal & Child Health Bureau
• KAC - Kansas Action for Children
• KS Coalition for School Readiness
• KECCS - Kanas Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Plan
• KITS - Kansas Inservice Training System
• NAEYC - National Association for the Education of Young Children
• NCFY - National Clearinghouse on Families and Youth
• Prevent Child Abuse America
• Raising the Village
• SRS Kansas
• Strengthening Families National Website
•  USDA - Child & Adult Food Program
• Zero to Three - National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families

Parents:

• ACF - U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services-Administration for Children and Famlies
• AAP - American Academy of Pediatrics
• Baby Center
• CDC Parent Information-infants and toddlers
• Circle of Parents
• KPIRC - Kansas Parent Information Resource Center
• SRS Kansas
• USDA - Child & Adult Food Program
• Zero to Three - National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families
• Wonderopolis