Click on the resources below for more information.
Finding A Child Care Provider
- How child care/early learning programs are regulated in Pennsylvania
- 5 Steps to Choosing Care
- Choosing Quality Child Care for your Infant or Toddler
- Evaluating Providers
- Early Learning Program and Provider Search
- Assistance for military families for child care issues
Other Resources
- Child Care Works: Provides financial assistance to eligible families for child care
- Food programs for families
- Food assistance from local food banks
- Children’s Health Insurance Program-CHIP
- General information on children’s health topics
- Heating Assistance
- Assistance for weatherizing your home to reduce energy costs
- Pennsylvania County-by-County Resource Guide
Activities:
- Family Activities with Nature
- Science for Kids Energy and Fusion
- School Age Math Games with a Deck of Cards
- Math Games to Play with Your Young Child
- Activities for Promoting Literacy for ages 3-5
- Literacy Kit of Family Outdoor Activities
- Kids Get Cookin’ Fun and Fast Healthy Recipes
- Activities to help your child grow and be ready for school
- For a current listing of early learning activities and events in your local area visit the PA’s Promise website
Infant & Toddler Development:
- Creating Healthy Connections: Nurturing Brain Development From Birth to Three
- Our Families, Ourselves: How Our History Influences How We Raise Our Children
- Night-Night…or Not: Talking About Babies, Toddlers, and Sleep
- Early Experiences Count: How Emotional Development Unfolds Starting at Birth
- Beyond “Use Your Words!”: How Babies Begin to Develop Self-Control in the First Three Years
- Feeding the Body and the Mind: Nurturing Healthy Eating Habits from the Start
- Shh, Shh, It’s Okay: Coping With Crying in Babies and Toddlers
Revised Edition (book):
- Potty Train Your Child in Just One Day: Proven Secrets of the Potty Pro by Teri Crane (book)
- The No-Cry Potty Training Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Child Say Good-Bye to Diapers by Elizabeth Pantley (book)
- 125 Brain Games for Babies by Jackie Silberg (book)
- Brain Games for Babies, Toddlers & Twos: 140 Fun Ways to Boost Development by Jackie Silberg (book)
- Ina May’s Guide to Breastfeeding by Ina May Gaskin (book)
- The Breastfeeding Book: Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child from Birth Through Weaning by William Sears (book)
General Child Development:
- Get help to your questions about your child’s development with the Early Learning GPS available on the PA’s Promise website
- Sharing the Care: How Partnering with Your Child’s Caregiver Supports Healthy Development
- How Home Computer Use Affects Development
- Turning On or Tuning Out: The Influence of Media on Young Children’s Development
- Why It’s Important to Involve Parents in Their Children’s Literacy Development
- Social Emotional Development in Young Children
- Literature to Help Children Cope with Family Stressors
- What Would You Do? A Kid’s Guide to Tricky and Sticky Situations by Linda Schwartz (Social Emotional Development) (book)
- What Do You Think? A Kid’s Guide to Dealing with Daily Dilemmas by Linda Schwartz (book)
- What’s Eating Your Child?: The Hidden Connections Between Food and Childhood Ailments by Kelly Dorfman (book)
- Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders by Kenneth Bock (book)
- The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids Meals by Missy Chase Lapine (book)
- Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children by Ann Cooper and Lisa Holmes (book)
- 1-2-3 Magic: Managing Difficult Behavior in Children 2-12 (DVD)
- Support for military families and their children