| State Resources on the Internet |
| Claremont 21st Century Community |
| 21C keeps schools open after hours to provide a safe place for homework help, enrichment activities, before- and after-school child care, family activities, mentoring and child care resource and referral for all children, youth, and families in the community. |
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| Early Learning New Hampshire |
| Early Learning New Hapmshire is a recently merged group of organizations and will work to support child care centers, management, workers and their mission. |
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| Easter Seals Children and Youth Services |
| Easter Seals creates solutions that change lives of children and adults with disabilities or other special needs and their families. Easter Seals Child Care Resource and Referral in Manchester and Concord, NH offers free and confidential referrals to any family searching for child care. |
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| Every Child Matters |
| The Every Child Matters Education Fund Chooses Colorado, Maine, New Hampshire, Ohio, Washington State, and West Virginia for Groundbreaking National Voter Engagement Campaign on Behalf of Kids |
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| Plus Time |
| Passionate about helping programs, communities and individuals create and sustain high quality programs for school-age youth during non-school hours. |
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| Preschool Technical Assistance Network (PTAN) |
| PTAN is a statewide technical assistance and support network that promotes quality, developmentally appropriate and culturally competent early care and education programs for New Hampshires young children with special needs and their families. It is a project of the Southeastern Regional Education Service Center (SERESC), a non-profit education collaborative in Bedford, NH. SERESC is located at 29 Commerce Drive, Bedford, NH 03110. [Directions]
PTAN offers child care providers individualized consultation and support to help them maintain children with challenging behaviors and/or special needs. Consultation provided by caring professionals within the provider's region with expertise specific to the providers needs. |
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| Rockingham Community Action |
| The mission of Rockingham Community Action, a private, non-profit organization, is to prevent, reduce, and work towards the elimination of poverty. We do this by: offering a variety of services to meet people's immediate needs; providing them with the resources to help them achieve self-reliance; and working in partnership with them to address the root causes of poverty. |
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| Strafford County Community Action Committee |
| Strafford County Community Action Committee, Inc. (SCCAC) is committed to ensuring that the basic needs of low-income and disadvantaged individuals and families are met, while promoting personal responsibility and self-sufficiency.
We believe that everyone has the right to basic necessities of life such as food, housing, utilities, health care, quality child care, and an adequate income.SCCAC also believes that all people regardless of income deserve to live with dignity and self-respect. |
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| White Mountains Community College Child Care Resource, Referral, Recruitment, and Training |
| Child Care Resource, Referral, Recruitment, and Training is located at White Mountains Community College, 2020 Riverside Drive, Berlin, New Hampshire, but its concentration is throughout Coos and northern Grafton Counties. We offer free and confidential referrals to any family searching for child care; in addition we provide information about the different types of child care available, quality indicators, and the guidelines for public subsidies. Another service we provide is free trainings for both parent and child care providers. Our goals are to improve the quality of early childhood care and education, while also recruiting new child care providers to fill the unmet needs of parents in northern New Hampshire. We also work collaboratively with other community agencies in hopes of providing a continuum of care for families with young children in northern New Hampshire. |
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| National Resources on the Internet |
| NAEYC |
| The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is dedicated to improving the well-being of all young children, with particular focus on the quality of educational and developmental services for all children from birth through age 8. NAEYC is committed to becoming an increasingly high performing and inclusive organization. |
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| The Child Care and Early Education Research Connections |
| The Child Care and Early Education Research Connections creates an infrastructure that allows for collaborative research, analysis, and information-sharing among researchers, policymakers, and other key stakeholders; serves as a repository of child care research and data through a Web-based archive; and develops and disseminates materials that are designed to improve child care policy research, as well as synthesize findings for policymakers. |
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| The Right Choice for Kids |
| This website introduces families to NAEYC Accreditation. It briefly outlines the steps programs take to become accredited and what families can expect to find at an accredited program. Provides links to relevant pages of NAEYC's primary website. |
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