Page Contents: Parenting Shelf Collection | Resources – Childcare | – Child Development | – Health & Safety | – State

Parenting Shelf Collection

Located on the tall shelves in the Picture Book Area, these books have a circular yellow “PS” sticker on the spine.

Below is a sample of our Parenting Shelf collection.

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.”

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.”

Health & Safety

​Common Sense Media
“Common Sense is dedicated to improving the lives of kids and families by providing the trustworthy information, education, and independent voice they need to thrive.”

La Leche League of St. Albans
“La Leche League MA/RI/VT is part of La Leche League International (LLLI), a worldwide educational, non–sectarian, not-for-profit, volunteer-based organization that provides breastfeeding information and support to those who want to breastfeed their infants. LLL Leaders are volunteers who have breastfed their own children and been accredited by LLLI.” Offers free virtual and in-person meetups and 1:1 support.

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.
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“Let’s normalize the conversation and end the stigma together.”

UNICEF Parenting
“We launched UNICEF Parenting for one very simple reason: to help parents and caregivers give their children the best start in life.

“We’re bringing together some of the world’s leading experts to help you with everything from practical tips to debunking harmful myths and misinformation. Science-backed information you can trust.” Provides information about child development, child care, health and well-being, and food and nutrition.”

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.”

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.