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Child Care Related Websites

General Child Care Information

Child Care Advocate Program, California State Department of Social Services, Community Care Licensing Division, Child Care Program:
Child Care Advocate Program

California Child Care Resource & Referral Network:
www.rrnetwork.org/

Regulation Search
www.cdss.ca.gov/ord/PG240.htm

Law Search
www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/calawquery?codesection=hsc&codebody=&hits=20

Licensing Forms
Licensing Forms Page

Forms and Publications Translations:
www.dss.cahwnet.gov/cdssweb/FormsandPu_274.htm

Evaluator Manual
ccl.dss.cahwnet.gov/PG395.htm

Search for a Facility
www.ccld.ca.gov/docs/ccld_search/ccld_search.aspx

Child Action, Inc.:
www.childaction.org/

Child Development Policy Institute:
www.cdpi.net/cs/cdpi/print/htdocs/home.htm

Child Care Aware:
www.childcareaware.org/en/

National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC):
www.nafcc.org

National Child Care Information Center:
www.nccic.org/

Find Care Now:
www.findcarenow.com/

Health and Safety and Injury Prevention

Safe Kids USA
www.usa.safekids.org/

Kids Plates
www.kidsplates.org/

National Program for Playground Safety
www.playgroundsafety.org/about/index.htm

Shaken Baby Syndrome
http://ccl.dss.cahwnet.gov/PG550.htm

Megan's Law- Search for Local Sex Offenders
http://MegansLaw.ca.gov

California Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Program:
www.californiasids.com/Universal/MainPage.cfm?p=10

Children and Family Services Division:
www.childsworld.ca.gov/

California Child Care Health Program (CCHP):
www.ucsfchildcarehealth.org/

Center for Injury Prevention Policy & Practice (CIPPP):
www.cippp.org/

Safe Playgrounds Project:
www.safe2play.org

School Integrated Pest Management Program:
www.schoolipm.info/

Department of Pesticide Regulation:
www.cdpr.ca.gov/docs/westnile/

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute:
www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/lung/asthma/chc_chk.htm

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
www.cdc.gov/flu/

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission:
www.cpsc.gov/

Injury Prevention Literature Update (Safetylit):
www.safetylit.org/

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Lead Program:
www.epa.gov/lead/

National Resource Center for Health & Safety in Child Care:
nrc.uchsc.edu

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
www.cdc.gov/

National Resource Center for Health and Safety In Child Care:
nrc.uchsc.edu/CFOC/updates.htm

Environmental health Issues Impacting Children Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA)
www.oehha.ca.gov/public_info/public/kids/index.html

Fitness and Nutrition Links

Project SPARK (Sports, Play and Active Recreation for Kids)
www.sparkpe.org/index.jsp

Dairy Council of California-Nutrition Education for Healthy diets:
www.dairycouncilofca.org/

Mayo Clinic, Childhood Obesity: Parenting Advice; etc:
www.mayoclinic.com/

California Project Lean:
www.californiaprojectlean.org/

Government Nutrition Sites:
www.nutrition.gov

In addition, the American Dietetic Association recommends the following web sites:

American Dietetic Association:
www.eatright.org/

American Academy of Pediatrics:
www.aap.org/

American Academy of Family Physicians:
www.aafp.org/

American Medical Association:
www.ama-assn.org/

Centers for Disease Control:
www.cdc.gov/

Department of Agriculture, Team Nutrition:
www.fns.usda.gov/tn


Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Information Center:
www.nal.usda.gov/fnic

Weight Control Information Network:
www.niddk.nih.gov/health/nutrit/nutrit.htm

ACTIVATE:
www.kidnetic.com/

Education/Training

National Child Care Association
www.nccanet.org/

California Association for the Education of Young Children:
www.caeyc.org/

"Family Child Care at its Best" Training (The Center for Human Services):
Family Child Care at Its Best Page 

Family Child Care At It's Best--UC Davis Extension:
http://humanservices.ucdavis.edu/childdev/

Emergency Medical Services Authority:
www.emsa.ca.gov/personnel/child_care/default.asp

Funding, Grants, Public Assistance

California Department of Education:
www.cde.ca.gov/

Child Care Food Program Roundtable:
ccfproundtable.org/

CalWORKS Welfare to Work Program:
www.dss.cahwnet.gov/cdssweb/PG141.htm

Employment Development Department:
www.edd.cahwnet.gov/employer.htm

National Head Start Association:
www.nhsa.org/

Flex Your Power, California's statewide energy efficiency marketing and outreach campaign:
www.fypower.com/

California State Department of Community Services and Development:
www.csd.ca.gov/

California Women, Infants and Children Supplemental Nutrition Program (WIC):
www.wicworks.ca.gov/

Building Child Care in California: www.buildingchildcare.org/

Legal Assistance and Information

Child Care Law Center:
www.childcarelaw.org

Public Counsel Law Center:
www.publiccounsel.org