Beyond Teasing
Finance 101 for Families
Who's Minding the Child?
The Power of Pets
Positive Partnerships
Back To School
Twelve Going On Twenty-Six
Letting Go Gracefully
And Baby Makes Three
Foster Parenting 101
The Dating Game
Raising a Child with Disabilities

Beyond Teasing

Bullying prevention training
General resource with information on bullying prevention
  www.Parenthood.com   
American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Bullying Information Sheet
  www.aacap.org/publications/factsfam/80.htm   
Information and resources on anti-gay harassment
  www.pflag.org   
Impact Training, Inc.
The Safe Child website  
  http://safechild.org
Disney's Family website
  http://www.family.com

Committee For Children    1-800-634-4449
Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse    1-800-638-8736
National School Safety Center    1-805-373-9977

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Bullying
School safety

Finance 101 for Families

Family First of NY Federal Credit Union
www.familyfirstny.com
Clover Capital Management
www.clovercap.com
Kids and Money section
www.kiplinger.com

Suggested keywords for additional searches:

Children + money
Teaching children about money

Who's Minding the Child?

Child Care Council, Inc.
  www.childcarecouncil.com          
The Children’s Center of Brighton
  www.childrenscenter.net           
National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (NACCRRA)
  www.naccrra.org/         

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Child care
Day care + children

The Power of Pets

Lollypop Farm – The Humane Society of Rochester
  www.lollypop.org          
The Human Society of the United States
  www.hsus.org          
Pet Place
  www.petplace.com          
The Pet Love Shack
  www.petloveshack.com             
The Costs of Pet Ownership
  http://www.familyresource.com/parenting/38/307/

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Kids + pets
Children + pets
Pet ownership + children

Positive Partnerships

National PTA website
  www.pta.org
A Coach's Letter to Parents about making sports a positive experience
  www.eteamz.com/tcyba/files/a_coachs_letter_to_parents.htm
Better Homes and Gardens website. Search for "Be a Good
Sports Parent" article
  www.bhg.com

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Back To School

Rochester Museum and Science Center
  www.rmsc.org   
University of Rochester -Rochester Scholars Program
Huntington Learning Center
  www.huntingtonlearning.com 

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For more information on summer activities in your area, contact your local
library, museums and recreation centers.

Twelve Going On Twenty-Six

What Works: Parent Forum on Kids Growing Up Too Fast
  www.parentstv.org
Alliance for a Media Literate America
Center for Media Literacy

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Kids growing up too fast
Media literacy

Letting Go Gracefully

Article on preparing your children for life transitions
  http://nlcs.k12.in.us/jtsrvc/newsletter.htm      
 Article on encouraging resiliency in your child
  http://parentteacher.aadac.com/parent_articles/resiliency.asp
Article on family crisis and change
  http://childparenting.about.com/library/weekly/aa041300a.htm
Three articles on adult children returning home to live
  http://www.mrdad.com/pages/dadsforlife07.html
  http://dvlp.family.org/focusoverfifty/justforyou/a0019356.html
  http://members.aol.com/elrophe/adultchildren.html

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Helping kids handle change
Children + resiliency

And Baby Makes Three

Checklists to determine if you're ready to have a baby
  http://laborsofluv.com/ready.htm
Babycenter.com
Midwife.org
Every Baby Magazine
  http://www.acnm.org/prof/everybaby.cfm
NY State's new Family Planning Benefit Program
  http://www.pprsr.org/mfps/fpbp.cfm
Planned Parenthood of the Rochester/Syracuse Region

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Am I ready to have a baby?
Preparing for pregnancy
Starting a family

Foster Parenting 101

NY State Foster Care Website
National Resource Center for Foster Care and Permanency Planning
  http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/socwork/nrcfcpp/
NYS Citizens Coalition for Children
  http://www.nysccc.org/

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Foster parenting
Foster children

The Dating Game

Great website for parents and kids about dating issues
  http://www.datingdetectives.co.uk/
Teen Dating: Is My Teenager Older Enough?
  www.byparents-forparents.com/article8.html
Teen dating from the father’s perspective
  www.allprodad.com/7datingdilemma.asp
Teens, Pre-teens, and Sexual Behavior: What Does it Mean?
  www.aboutourkids.org/articles/teen_sex.html
24-hour Dating Violence Crisis Line 1-800-770-3030
 Information on dating violence
  http://meb.marshall.edu/trust/whatis.htm
National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center
  www.safeyouth.org

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Kids + dating

Raising a Child with Disabilities

The Advocacy Center
  www.advocacycenter.com
Tourette Syndrome Association
  www.tsa-usa.org/
Autism Society of America
  www.autism-society.org
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
  www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/ddlist.htm
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
  http://www.nichcy.org/
NY State Department of Education – Resources for Individuals with Disabilities
  http://www.usny.nysed.gov/disa/
National Down Syndrome Society
  www.ndss.org/
 
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Children with disabilities
Or search on a specific disability for more information on treatment options and support services

 

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