Child Care
Activities
- Play Kits
Utilizing everyday household materials, these play kits provide hands-on activities for parents or child care providers to use with children.
Programs
-
Child Care Culinary Workshop
Program provides training to child care foodservice staff on planning and preparing meals and snacks that comply with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and MyPyramid. -
Raising Healthy Eaters
Geared for parents and providers of children ages 2-5, classes include activities, food preparation, and discussion focusing on nutrition, eating behaviors, and parenting.
Publications
- Ages and Stages of Child and Youth Development: A Guide for 4-H Leaders
- Connections Newsletters
- Encouraging Positive Self-Concepts in Children
- Forming Good Habits in Children to Avoid Obesity
- Helping Children Cope with Stress
- Helping Children Overcome Fears
- Kids and Food: If You Don't Like It, Neither Do I
Purdue Web Sites
- Center for Families
- Department of Child Development and Family Studies
- Provider-Parent Partnerships
This site is dedicated to helping providers and parents give better support to children as they grow. It is written for childcare providers—those who take care of infants and toddlers, preschoolers, or school-age children.
- Purple Wagon
Provides research-based information, recommendations, and activities to help children understand political violence, cope with fears and sadness when groups are in conflict, and learn how to make peace. Includes information and resources for parents, children/teens, educators, media, and researchers.
Other Helpful Web Sites
- Access Indiana
- CareFinder Indiana
- CEED: Center for Early Education and Development
- Center for the Child Care Workforce
- ChildStats.gov: Forum on Child and Family Statistics
- Child Trends Databank
- Child Welfare League of America
- Children’s Defense Fund
- CSREES: Child Care and After-School Programs
- CREES: Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service
- CYFERnet (Children, Youth, and Families Education and Research Network
- Early Head Start National Resource Center @ Zero to Three
- ERIC/EECE (Clearinghouse on Elementary & Early Childhood Education)
- IAEYC (Indiana Association for the Education of young Children)
- Indiana Institute on Disability and Community
- Indiana Youth Institute
- Maternal and Child Health Bureau
- National After School Association
- National Association of Child Care Professionals
- National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies
- National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators
- National Association for Family Child Care
- National Association for the Education of Young Children
- National Child Care Association
- National Child Care Information Center
- National Center for Education Statistics
- National Center for Health Statistics
- National Council on Family Relations
- National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
- National Head Start Association
- National Institute of Child Health & Human Development
- National Network for Child Care
- Parents as Teachers National Center
- Prevent Child Abuse America
- Prevent Child Abuse Indiana
- STATS Indiana
- Urban Institute
- U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
- Voices for America’s Children
- Zero to Three