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"Parenting" Resources and Child Development
- Ages & Stages: Healthy Childhood devlopment and Positive Parenting Strategies by Age Group
- Positive Parenting Tips
- Parent Resource Centers: Provides prevention-focused parenting and family education opportunities for parents, families, professionals and the community.
- ParentsLEAD: Provides support, resources, tools, and tips to parents and caregivers, in all shapes and forms.
- Empowered to Connect Youtube channel: Several videos on various topics to support, resource, and educate caregivers with helping children
- Food battles
- Using Time In Instead of Time out
- The IDEAL Response for Parents: A video showing techinque for responding to children with behaviors
- Childproofing by Age - Childproofing experts
- Children, families, And Finances from NDSU Extension
- Family to Family Network: Helps individuals with disabilities and their family members define and achieve success for themselves and their loved ones.
- Grandfamilies.org: A national legal resource in support of grandfamilies within and outside the child welfare system.
- Raising Grandchildren: Family Issues - with AARP
- Raising the Children of the Opioid Epidemic: Solutions and Support for Grandfamilies
- Kinship Care and resources from Child Welfare Information Gateway
- Hand In Hand Parenting: Unique caregiving tools and community support made easily accessible
- Zero to Three: Empowering Early Childhood Development
- How Using Social Media Affects Teenagers
- Teaching Kids to Be Smart About Social Media
- CommonSense Media: Learn about the latest apps and websites, and get tips on talking to your kids about sharing, posting, and avoiding digital drama
- A Positive Approach to Discipline: Pre-Teens and Tennages (9-18 years)
- Positive Discipline articles
- Positive Discipline
Help with Behaviors and Trauma
- Help with Behaviors and trauma by Jessica Sinarski
- Supporting Children Exposed to Violence & Trauma
- For Caregivers Info on Behavioral Changes & video
- Trauma informed Parenting
- Parenting After Trauma - Healthychildren.org
- Child Trauma Academy
- Federation of Families: For Children's Mental Health is a parent-run organization focused on the needs of children and youth with emotional, behavioral or mental disorders and their families.
- About Child Trauma and Other Resources
Financial Assistance and State Health and Human Services Programs
- Human Service zone office locations by county
- Application for Assistance (TANF, SNAP, CCAP, Medicare, CHIPs & LIHEAP)
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): Helps supplement grocery budget with financial assistance for food
- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): Monthly financial support
- ND Economic Assistance Brochure (TANF Kinship) : Monthly financial assistance for relatives caring for children in foster care (requires child suuport from parent)
- Child Care Assistance Program: Helps pay for child care
- ND Medicaid: Helps pay for medical services
- Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP): Helps pay for medical services
- Family Caregiver Support Program: Help with paying for respite assistance
- Headstart: School readiness for infants, toddlers and preschoolers from low-income families
- Title IV-E Prevention Services: Helps pay for approved evidence-based prevention services proven to strengthen and stabilize children and families so children can stay in their family home safely
Books for Adults and Children on Various Subjects
- Raising Our Children's Children by Deborah Doucette-Dusman
- Raising Your Children's Children: Help For Grandparents Raising Grandkids by Martha Evans Sparks
- Grandparents as Parents: A Survival Guide for Raising a Second Family by Sylvie De Toledo & Deborah Elder Brown
- Advocating for Children in Foster and Kinship Care by Mitchell Rosenwald and Beth Riley
- Riley The Brave Series (Children's book)
- A Grandfamily for Sullivan (Children's book)
- The 5 love languages of Children: The Secret to Loving Children Effectively by Gary Chapman and D. Ross Campbell
- Behavior with a Purpose
- The Whole Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson
- Connected Child by Karyn B. Purvis
- The Kinship Parenting Toolbox