Parents
Fairfax Community Library is proud to offer a variety of resources for patrons who are parents, guardians, grandparents, and other caretakers of youth.
Topics include from fertility to birth through adolescence, physical and mental health, grief, interpersonal relationships, consent, engaging with nature, and more.
Topics include from fertility to birth through adolescence, physical and mental health, grief, interpersonal relationships, consent, engaging with nature, and more.
parenting collection
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The Library's Parenting Shelf is being updated!
Visiting the Library? The Parenting Section is adjacent to the picture book area. Look for books with a circular yellow "PS" stickers on the spine. The books featured in the slideshow (right) are a sample of our collection. Be sure to check out related offerings through the Library's Digital Library. For instance, Libby and the Palace Project have dozens of audio and ebooks on parenting. |
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Resources
childcare
Child Care Financial Assistance
"The Child Care Financial Assistance Program, also known as subsidy, can help your family pay for child care."
Childcare Resource (CCR)
"CCR provides access to and resources for early care and education. We help make child care connections, strengthen early learning opportunities, and create child care solutions for families. CCR works to ensure that children birth through age twelve are developing to their full potential and are well prepared for school and life."
Let's Grow Kids
Vermont nonprofit "Ensuring affordable access to equitable, quality child care."
"The Child Care Financial Assistance Program, also known as subsidy, can help your family pay for child care."
Childcare Resource (CCR)
"CCR provides access to and resources for early care and education. We help make child care connections, strengthen early learning opportunities, and create child care solutions for families. CCR works to ensure that children birth through age twelve are developing to their full potential and are well prepared for school and life."
Let's Grow Kids
Vermont nonprofit "Ensuring affordable access to equitable, quality child care."
child development
Building Bright Futures (BBF)
"Building Bright Futures (BBF) works to improve the well-being of young children and families in Vermont."
Find & Go Seek
"FindandGoSeek was started in 2008 and has been a staple for parents and caregivers in northern Vermont since its inception. Collecting family-friendly destination information, along with events and resources, it is a fun and convenient way to explore what to do with the kids!"
Help Me Grow, Vermont
"The goal of Help Me Grow Vermont is to create strong families, which helps promote healthy child development, and ensure that all children reach their greatest potential."
Kids VT
"Kids VT is Vermont's only parenting magazine, a reliable resource for family-friendly events, activities, camps and schools since 1994. Find tips on education, health, fitness, food, shopping, books, crafts and more. Our free, quarterly magazine is available inside Seven Days and is distributed throughout northern and central Vermont."
Vermont Afterschool
"A statewide nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that the children and youth in every Vermont community are able to benefit from the power of afterschool, summer learning, and third space programs during the out-of-school time hours."
Vermont Family Network
"The mission of Vermont Family Network is to empower and support all Vermont children, youth, and families, especially those with disabilities or special health needs."
"Building Bright Futures (BBF) works to improve the well-being of young children and families in Vermont."
Find & Go Seek
"FindandGoSeek was started in 2008 and has been a staple for parents and caregivers in northern Vermont since its inception. Collecting family-friendly destination information, along with events and resources, it is a fun and convenient way to explore what to do with the kids!"
Help Me Grow, Vermont
"The goal of Help Me Grow Vermont is to create strong families, which helps promote healthy child development, and ensure that all children reach their greatest potential."
Kids VT
"Kids VT is Vermont's only parenting magazine, a reliable resource for family-friendly events, activities, camps and schools since 1994. Find tips on education, health, fitness, food, shopping, books, crafts and more. Our free, quarterly magazine is available inside Seven Days and is distributed throughout northern and central Vermont."
Vermont Afterschool
"A statewide nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that the children and youth in every Vermont community are able to benefit from the power of afterschool, summer learning, and third space programs during the out-of-school time hours."
Vermont Family Network
"The mission of Vermont Family Network is to empower and support all Vermont children, youth, and families, especially those with disabilities or special health needs."
health
Northwestern Counseling & Support Services (NCSS) Parent Child Center
The Parent Child Center "provides prevention and supports to families by focusing on 2 key areas of development and transition: early childhood through the entry to school, and adolescence through the transition to adulthood.
"The Family Center is dedicated to supporting, educating, and encouraging the healthy development of children prenatal through age 6 and their families through high quality programs and initiatives that are accessible to all. Our goal is to help families provide their children with a healthy beginning and ensure their children’s success upon entry to school.
"Our services and supports for adolescents up to the age of 22 focus on providing information on independence, healthy relationships, housing, employment, and becoming more involved in the community. We also offer substance treatment and related supports for adolescents in our community."
Odd Moms on Call Blog & Podcast*
"We're a panel of moms from diverse backgrounds coming together to have real, unfiltered conversations about parenting in today's challenging political climate."
* The Library knows there are many blogs and podcasts by and about parenting. Why include or specify this one? One of the contributors is a Vermonter.
Quiet Connection: Post-Partum Mental Health Podcast*
"Join parents and caregivers as they bravely share their journeys through PMADS, Traumatic Birth, Infertility, Pregnancy/Infant/Child Loss, and more.
"No judgment, just solidarity and community.
"Let's normalize the conversation and end the stigma together."
Vermont Child Health Improvement Program (VCHIP)
"Our mission is to improve health outcomes for all Vermont’s children and their families by using collaborative measurement-based efforts to advance health care delivery and public health systems."
The Parent Child Center "provides prevention and supports to families by focusing on 2 key areas of development and transition: early childhood through the entry to school, and adolescence through the transition to adulthood.
"The Family Center is dedicated to supporting, educating, and encouraging the healthy development of children prenatal through age 6 and their families through high quality programs and initiatives that are accessible to all. Our goal is to help families provide their children with a healthy beginning and ensure their children’s success upon entry to school.
"Our services and supports for adolescents up to the age of 22 focus on providing information on independence, healthy relationships, housing, employment, and becoming more involved in the community. We also offer substance treatment and related supports for adolescents in our community."
Odd Moms on Call Blog & Podcast*
"We're a panel of moms from diverse backgrounds coming together to have real, unfiltered conversations about parenting in today's challenging political climate."
* The Library knows there are many blogs and podcasts by and about parenting. Why include or specify this one? One of the contributors is a Vermonter.
Quiet Connection: Post-Partum Mental Health Podcast*
"Join parents and caregivers as they bravely share their journeys through PMADS, Traumatic Birth, Infertility, Pregnancy/Infant/Child Loss, and more.
"No judgment, just solidarity and community.
"Let's normalize the conversation and end the stigma together."
Vermont Child Health Improvement Program (VCHIP)
"Our mission is to improve health outcomes for all Vermont’s children and their families by using collaborative measurement-based efforts to advance health care delivery and public health systems."
homeschooling
State
Vermont Department for Children & Families (DCF)
Mission "is to foster the healthy development, safety, well-being, and self-sufficiency of Vermonters. We provide benefits, services, and supports to some 200,000 Vermonters every year, including children, youth, families, older Vermonters, and people with disabilities."
Also see the Resource list at the bottom of DCF's home page, which offers information for adoptive parents, foster parents, kinship caregivers, parents and guardians, and youth.
Mission "is to foster the healthy development, safety, well-being, and self-sufficiency of Vermonters. We provide benefits, services, and supports to some 200,000 Vermonters every year, including children, youth, families, older Vermonters, and people with disabilities."
Also see the Resource list at the bottom of DCF's home page, which offers information for adoptive parents, foster parents, kinship caregivers, parents and guardians, and youth.
Talking to kids about acceptance & allyship
Repair the World
"Repair the World mobilizes Jews and their communities to take action to pursue a just world, igniting a lifelong commitment to service.
"Grounded in Jewish concepts, our values guide our work with the frame of repairing the world, tikkun olam leading to the pursuit of justice, tzedek."
Handouts from Repair the World's website
Sunny Side Up Nutrition
"We’re Anna and Elizabeth, two moms who are also Registered Dietitians and child-feeding experts with over 20 years of experience each supporting families and raising our kids. We are passionate about keeping diet culture out of parenting and supporting parents to make food simple and stress-free."
Check out Sunny Side Up Nutrition's free resources in support of raising confident eaters.
We Need Diverse Books (WNDB)
"At WNDB, we're on a mission to create lifelong readers and a more empathic world through the power of inclusive literature."
Check out how WNDB defines diversity for an expansive definition.
"Repair the World mobilizes Jews and their communities to take action to pursue a just world, igniting a lifelong commitment to service.
"Grounded in Jewish concepts, our values guide our work with the frame of repairing the world, tikkun olam leading to the pursuit of justice, tzedek."
Handouts from Repair the World's website
Sunny Side Up Nutrition
"We’re Anna and Elizabeth, two moms who are also Registered Dietitians and child-feeding experts with over 20 years of experience each supporting families and raising our kids. We are passionate about keeping diet culture out of parenting and supporting parents to make food simple and stress-free."
Check out Sunny Side Up Nutrition's free resources in support of raising confident eaters.
We Need Diverse Books (WNDB)
"At WNDB, we're on a mission to create lifelong readers and a more empathic world through the power of inclusive literature."
Check out how WNDB defines diversity for an expansive definition.