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	[1] CTParenting.com The Connecticut Department of Children and Families has set up this website to provide information for families with children of all ages and developmental stages, including information on health, safety, child development, education, family fun, and meeting families' basic needs. The site also offers special sections tailored to fathers, single and divorced parents, prospective parents, grandparents caring for grandchildren, teenagers and younger children.

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	[2] CTParenting.com The Connecticut Department of Children and Families has set up this website to provide information for families with children of all ages and developmental stages, including information on health, safety, child development, education, family fun, and meeting families' basic needs. The site also offers special sections tailored to fathers, single and divorced parents, prospective parents, grandparents caring for grandchildren, teenagers and younger children.
	[3] All Our Kin All Our Kin is a New Haven-based nonprofit dedicated to giving families choices, educating and empowering parents and teachers, and expanding access to high quality early care and education for underserved children. The All Our Kin Child Care Network is designed to provide supports, services and ongoing professional development opportunities to family child care providers in New Haven.
	[4] Born Learning Born Learning is a public engagement campaign created by United Way of America and United Way Success By 6, the Ad Council, Civitas and Families and Work Institute to help parents, caregivers and communities create quality early learning opportunities for young children. The campaign is focused on fostering awareness about how young children learn, educating caregivers and providing a platform for public policy action.
	[5] Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut, Inc. The Early Childhood DataCONNections project at CHDI collects state and local data on key factors of child well-being including health, safety and welfare, family economic stability and early care and education. On the CHDI site, users can access individual profiles for each of Connecticut's 169 cities and towns on these data measures.
	[6] Connecticut Voices for Children Connecticut Voices for Children has released fact sheets, reports and primers on a variety of topics related to early care and education.
	[7] Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis: Papers on Early Childhood Development Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis economists Art Rolnick and Rob Grunewald have developed a series of papers that make an economic case for public investment in early learning opportunities.
	[8] Harvard Education Letter: Focus on Early Childhood Education "Focus on Early Childhood Education" offers the full text of a series published by the Harvard Education Letter on preK-3 education, along with links to the latest research and other resources on early childhood education.
	[9] National Center for Children in Poverty The National Center for Children in Poverty is a public policy center dedicated to promoting the economic security, health, and well-being of America’s low-income families and children. NCCP provides data and research on child care and early education trends by state, as well as reports and fact sheets on a variety of early learning topics.
	[10] National Network for Childcare Provides practical, reasearch-based information and resources related to child care.
	[11] New England Workforce Partners NEW Partners’ mission is to increase the recruitment, retention and quality of New England’s child care workforce by enhancing the availability of information that will assist states in the identification, development and support of policies and programs that encourage a stable and highly qualified Early Child care workforce. NEW Partners seeks to accomplish this mission through active collaboration among New England-wide public, private and educational child-care professionals.
	[12] Pre-K Now Pre-K Now is a public education and advocacy organization that advances high-quality, voluntary pre-kindergarten for all three and four year olds. Pre-K Now provides policy information and research specifically targeted for Pre-K advocates, policymakers, the media, business and community leaders, educators and families.
	[13] Ready, Set, Grow ... CT Kids! (Connecticut Voices for Children) Ready, Set, Grow ... CT Kids! is a statewide, multi-year communications and mobilizing campaign with the goal of ensuring that all children born in Connecticut beginning in 2004 will enter kindergarten healthy, eager to learn, and ready for school success. (See other resources by [14] Connecticut Voices for Children)
	[15] The Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning The Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning is a five-year project designed to strengthen the capacity of Head Start and child care programs to improve the social and emotional outcomes of young children. The Center develops training and technical assistance materials that reflect evidence-based practices for promoting children's social and emotional development and preventing challenging behaviors.
	[16] The Early Care and Education Collaborative The Early Care and Education Collaborative is a multi-year project of eight state-based child advocacy organizations working on child-care issues. The project's purpose is to design and implement strategic public education strategies aimed at creating the public will in each of the target states to expand both the supply and the quality of early care and education resources. Further, the Collaborative wants to share "lessons learned" on this unique partnership with the broader child-care community. Presently, the state partners are; Association for Children of New Jersey, Center for Florida's Children, Citizens for Missouri's Children, Colorado's Children's Campaign, CT Voices for Children, Kansas Action for Children, Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children and Voices for Illinois Children.
	[17] The National Institute for Early Education Research The National Institute for Early Education Research supports early childhood education initiatives by providing objective, nonpartisan information based on research.

[1]: http://www.ctparenting.com/#app=c2&6253-selectedIndex=5
[2]: http://www.ctparenting.com/#app=c2&6253-selectedIndex=5
[3]: http://www.allourkin.org
[4]: http://www.bornlearning.org/default.aspx?id=33
[5]: http://www.chdi.org/resources_profile.asp
[6]: http://www.ctkidslink.org/
[7]: http://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/studies/earlychild/
[8]: http://www.hel-earlyed.org/
[9]: http://www.nccp.org/
[10]: http://www.nncc.org/
[11]: http://muskie.usm.maine.edu/m_view_project.jsp?id=602
[12]: http://www.preknow.org/index.cfm
[13]: http://www.readysetgrowctkids.org/
[14]: http://discovery.wcgmf.org/partner_1.html
[15]: http://csefel.uiuc.edu/index.html
[16]: http://www.earlycare.org/aboutece2.htm
[17]: http://nieer.org/