Weekly Digest: August 21, 2008

Community Spotlight: Groton Family Resource Guide

Groton has recently published, The Family Connection: A Resource Guide for Groton Families With Children Ages Birth to 8.  This guide provides Groton families with listings of agencies that offer emergency services, early care services, family support services, health and medical services as well as municipal government contacts, family fun and recreation information and school district contacts.  It also includes helpful tips on safety, exercise, healthy eating, literacy, and choosing an early childhood education program.

This guide can be found on the Groton page of the Discovery website at http://www.discovery.wcgmf.org/community.php?community_id=1012

There is also a section on the Discovery website of Directories and Guides produced by other communities at http://www.discovery.wcgmf.org/category_215.html  If your community has produced a directory or guide for families but you do not see it on the Discovery website, please forward it to Donna Studdiford at studdiford@onpointconsulting.org

Discovery Community Websites

Would you like to check out the websites your Discovery colleagues have been working on? The following Discovery community grantees have a website:

Ansonia/Derby/Shelton http://www.preschooltools.org/ 

Brooklyn http://www.thebc.zoomshare.com/

Danbury http://www.danburychildrenfirst.org/

Granby http://www.granbyecc.org/

Groton http://www.childrenfirstgroton.org/

Hamden http://www.hamdenkids.org/

Mansfield http://www.mansfieldct.org/town/departments/social_services/mece/mac/

Meriden http://www.meridenchildrenfirst.org/                                    

Middletown http://www.middletownschools.org/page.cfm?p=766

Naugatuck http://www.naugatuckdiscovery.org/

New Britain http://www.nbdiscovery.org/

New London http://www.childrenfirstnewlondon.com/

Norwalk http://www.norwalkct.org/AgendaAction/EarlyChildhood/EarlyChildhoodCouncilActions.htm                                        

Norwich http://www.norwichcfi.org/

Southington http://www.southingtonearlychildhood.org/

Stratford http://stratfordct.qscend.com/content/1302/402/601/698.aspx

Vernon http://vernonschoolreadiness.org/

West Hartford http://www.whps.org/whecp/

Wethersfield http://www.wethersfieldearlyreadinesscouncil.org/index.htm

Windham http://windhamparentnetwork.org/

Windsor http://www.windsorecc.org/Content/About_Us.asp

Did we miss any?  Please let Donna Studdiford know of any websites that are not on this list by e-mailing her at studdiford@onpointconsulting.org

Connecticut Post Article: Early Reading Funds Might Make Comeback

In a year when the economy will make it hard to ask for anything, state Education Commissioner Mark McQuillan promised the state's school superintendents Tuesday he will fight to win back Early Reading Success funds....

Read this article by Linda Conner Lambeck on the Connecticut Post website at http://www.connpost.com/ci_10249781