FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES
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Family
Life Sites, General
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Cooperative Extension, USDA Sponsored Web Sites:
National Network for Family Resiliency
Family Resiliency is defined as a family's ability to cultivate strengths to positively meet the challenges of life. This web site includes information on adolescent sexuality, family economics, family policy, general family resiliency, intergenerational issues (grandparenting), parenting education, and violence prevention, and provides evaluation, program and curriculum, and research materials.
National Network for Child Care
The National Network for Child Care envisions a nation where all children and youth have access to safe, caring and enriching environments when they are away from their parents. A sample of topics covered on this page include: child development, quality child care, community involvement, public policy, child abuse, health and safety, guidance and discipline, diversity. Links are provided to activities, research, program evaluation, children's books, and many other areas.
Children, Youth, and Families Electronic Resource Network
CYFERNet provides hundreds of complete on-line publications featuring practical, research based, Children, Youth, and Family information. Links are provided to five national networks: child care, collabortions, family resiliency, health, science and technology.
Other Web Sites:
KIDS COUNT, a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, is a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the United States. By providing policymakers and citizens with benchmarks of child well-being, KIDS COUNT seeks to enrich local, state, and national discussions concerning ways to secure better futures for all children.
Federal Government Issues Key Report on Well-Being of Nation's Children (July 2, 1997)
This American Library Association page that offers "amazing, spectacular, mysterious, wonderful web sites for kids and the adults who care about them."
Parent's Guide to the Internet
The US Department of Education has recently released this 24 page pamphlet - a simple and concise guide to the Internet for parents. Its thirteen sections include a brief discussion of what the Internet is, how to get started using the Internet even if you don't have a computer, basic computer terminology, pointers to give young children when dealing with communicating on the Internet, and a brief but excellent list of annotated family sites and meta-sites.
This site is dedicated to providing resources for parents who want to protect their kids from inappropriate material online, as well as links to valuable information designed to help you become a better Internet Parent.
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