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  • First 5 California
    California Children & Families Commission
  • Riverside County, California
    Home page and portal to online services for the County of Riverside.
  • First 5 Riverside ABCD Constructing Connections
    and the ABCD Facilities Blueprint Task Force. Tools are available here to assist providers in development and expansion of childcare centers.
  • Low Income Investment Fund ABCD Constructing Connections
    Launched in 2004 with the support of First 5 California, Constructing Connections, a part of the ABCD Initiative, is an innovative program that actively encourages the child care and community development sectors to work together to support and streamline the process of financing, constructing and managing child care facilities in California.
  • Riverside County Child Care Consortium
    A public/private partnership of businesses, schools, community agencies and city/county governments. Appointed as the Local Planning Council for federal block grant child development.
  • Funding, Grants, contracts, and apportionments
    from the California Department of Education
  • Tobacco Control Section Website
    from the California Department of Health Services. The Mission of California's Tobacco Control Section (TCS) is to improve the health of all Californians by reducing illness and premature death attributable to the use of tobacco products.
  • California Smokers' Helpline
    The California Smokers' Helpline is a telephone program that can help you quit smoking.
    Helpline services are free, funded by the California Department of Health.
  • First 5 California Special Needs Project
    California is home to over 2.6 million children birth through five; over 67,000 of those children are currently receiving services for special needs, including over 27,000 children in the birth to 3 year range. Many more children and families would benefit from early screening and detection with access to appropriate services, including mental health services.

    • Nutrition

  • Riverside County Community Health Agency Nutrition Services Branch
    The Loving Support Breastfeeding program supports the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation that mothers exclusively breastfeed their babies without supplements for the first six months and to continue breastfeeding for a minimum of one year.
  • Nutrition.gov
    Provides easy access to the best food and nutrition information from across the federal government. It serves as a gateway to reliable information on nutrition, healthy eating, physical activity, and food safety for consumers, educators and health professionals.
  • 5 A Day for better health
    fruits and vegetables are critical to promoting good health
  • The U.S. Department of Agriculture new food pyramid
  • The U.S. Department of Agriculture links to information on diet and related topics
  • CDE Nutrition Services Division
    Administers the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Services (FNS) Child Nutrition Programs and the Food Distribution Program in California
  • Child & Adult Care Food Program
    Information about meal programs offered at public and private child care centers, day care homes, adult day care centers, and homeless shelters under CACFP

    • Health and Health Care

  • Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP)
    IEHP is a not-for-profit public entity serving members in Medicaid (called Medi-Cal in California), State Children's Health Insurance Program (called the Healthy Families Program in California), the Healthy Kids Program, Medicare (a Medicare Advantage Special Needs Program) and the commercial market.
  • First Smiles
    The California Dental Association Foundation and the Dental Health Foundation, in a joint venture, were awarded a 4-year, $7 million grant to deliver the California Children and Families Commission's Oral Health Education and Training Project. The project's goal is to educate 30,000 dental professionals, 10,000 medical professionals and deliver intensive training to 14,000 dental professionals and over 3,500 medical professionals statewide.
  • California Healthy Families
    Healthy Families is low cost insurance for children and teens. It provides health, dental and vision coverage to children who do not have insurance and do not qualify for free Medi-Cal.
  • Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board
    The Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board provides and promotes access to affordable coverage for comprehensive, high quality, cost effective health care services to improve the health of Californians.
  • U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
    The U.S. Department of Health and Human Service is the United States government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves
  • National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices
    NREPP is a searchable database of interventions for the prevention and treatment of mental and substance use disorders. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has developed this resource to help people, agencies, and organizations implement programs and practices in their communities.
  • MedlinePlus
    The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services MedlinePlus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 700 diseases and conditions.
  • Children's Oral Health
    information from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research at the National Institutes of Health.
  • California's Kindergarten Oral Health Check-up Law requires that children have a dental check-up by May 31 of their first year in public school. Information from the California Dental Association.
  • National Institutes of Health
    Founded in 1887, the National Institutes of Health today is one of the world's foremost medical research centers, and the Federal focal point for medical research in the United States. The NIH, comprising 27 separate Institutes and Centers, is one of eight health agencies of the Public Health Service which, in turn, is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
  • Helping Your Overweight Child
    information from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
  • U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    The CDC is recognized around the world as a leading force in public health expertise.
  • Overweight and Obesity: Childhood Overweight
    from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
    The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from more than 15,000 types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction.
  • Smoking & Tobacco Use
    Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body, causing many diseases and affecting the health of smokers in general. Learn more about the harmful effects of smoking, smokeless tobacco, and secondhand smoke from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  • You Can Quit Smoking Now!
    help from the Tobacco Control Research Branch of the National Cancer Institute

    • Child Care and Child Care Services

  • Child Care Resource and Referral
    Riverside County Superintendent of Schools Children's Services Unit offers federal, state and locally funded programs that help parents locate quality, accessible child care in Riverside County; provides support for child development centers; helps low income families obtain child care; provides child care while families are attending court functions; and, provides child care for children in the mental health system.
    The state and federally funded Child Care Resource and Referral program assists parents in Riverside County to find quality child care near their home, work, or child's school. The computerized, geographically based program lists over 1,500 licensed centers and family child care homes.
  • California Department of Social Services Community Care Licensing Division Information for Parents
    Frequently Asked Questions page
  • Child Care Facility Development
    Information and tools to assist Riverside County residents in developing child care facilities.
  • Responding to Child Care Facilities: A Practical Guide for City & County Planners
    The child care industry employs about 123,000 people in California and generates approximately $5.4 billion in revenue statewide, and those funds remain in the communities in which they are generated. However, in many communities barriers exist that prevent the child care sector from meeting the demand for expanded services, including navigating challenging land use approval processes. This document demonstrates to city and county planners how child care planning applications can be processed in an objective, impartial and efficient way.
  • Search for a Licensed Facility
    via the California Department of Social Services Community Care Licensing Division online web form.
  • California Department of Social Services Community Care Licensing Division Child Care Updates
    Regular reports on Child Care issues of interest to the Child Care industry in California
  • Child Care Law Center
    The Child Care Law Center is a national nonprofit legal services organization that uses legal tools to make high quality, affordable child care available to every child, every family, and every community. CCLC is a legal resource for the local, state, and national child care communities, and serves as a legal resource for local legal services programs on child care issues in California.
  • The Inland Empire Small Business Development Center
    The Inland Empire Small Business Development Center (SBDC) provides business consulting and training services for existing and aspiring business owners in the Inland Empire. The SBDC delivers quality consulting, instructive and relevant training and complete resources to more than 5,000 business prospects every year. The SBDC mission is to help you build a better business.
  • Issues and Options: Developing Safety and Quality Ratings for Child Care
    Although the state of California licenses about 58,000 child care facilities serving up to 1.2 million children, there is little information readily available to parents about the safety and quality of this care. This report by the California Legislative Analyst's Office describes options to improve the availability of such information.
  • Linking Economic Development and Child Care Research Project at Cornell University
    The Linking Economic Development and Child Care Research Project aims to better identify the economic linkages of child care from a regional economy perspective. The project supports states and localities interested in using an economic development framework to build coalitions with the economic development community, business interests and policy makers to help craft new approaches to child care finance.
  • Be Prepared California
    The California Department of Health Services is the state health department for California, operating a range of programs to help ensure the health of all of our citizens. This includes preparing the state for public health emergencies such as natural disasters or other crises which are man-made, such as bioterrorism.
  • Adventures in Parenting
    Based on decades of NICHD research on parenting, this 62-page booklet gives parents the tools they need to make their own decisions about successful parenting. (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development 2001)

    • Literacy, Reading, and Education

  • Getting a Good Start in School
    In 1990, the National Education Goals were established by the President and the 50 state governors. Goal 1 states that by the year 2000, all children in America will start school ready to learn. This booklet is a condensed version of an earlier document intended to further amplify the dimensions of early learning and development used by the National Educational Goals Panel to measure progress toward Goal 1 and is available from ERIC - the Education Resources Information Center.
  • The National Institute for Literacy - Publications for Parents
  • Reading is Fundamental
    prepares and motivates children to read by delivering free books and literacy resources to those children and families who need them most.
  • Early Head Start National Resource Center
    funded by the Administration for Children and Families, U. S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • Office of Head Start
    Head Start and Early Head Start are comprehensive child development programs that serve children from birth to age 5, pregnant women, and their families. They are child-focused programs and have the overall goal of increasing the school readiness of young children in low-income families.
  • Pre-K education
    Research shows that attending a high-quality preschool can have a substantial impact on a child’s success both in school and in life. Well-prepared children from disadvantaged backgrounds have a better chance of graduating from high school, owning a home and contributing more to the nation’s workforce. Read more from The Pew Charitable Trusts.
  • National Even Start Association
    Even Start Family Literacy Programs are school-community partnerships that help break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy by integrating early childhood education, adult literacy or adult basic education, and parenting education into a unified family literacy program.
  • Commission on No Child Left Behind
    The Commission presented 75 recommendations to the President, Congress and the public. Established by the Aspen Institute, the Commission is funded by some of the top education foundations in the nation.

Links to 0 - 5 Research

  • California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
    The California Health Interview Survey CHIS is the largest state health survey and one of the largest health surveys in the United States. CHIS gives health planners, policy makers, county governments, advocacy groups, and communities a detailed picture of the health and health care needs facing California's diverse population.
  • Child Care & Parent Productivity: Making the Business Case
    Linking Economic Development and Child Care Project, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2004
    Child care breakdowns leading to employee absences cost businesses $3 billion annually in the United States. Fifty-four percent of employers report that child care services had a positive impact on employee absenteeism, reducing missed workdays by as much as 20% to 30%. Furthermore, a child care program can reduce turnover by 37% to 60%. Employee retention is a key driver of customer retention, which in turn is a key driver of company growth and profits.
  • NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development
    The NICHD started the Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD), formerly the NICHD Study of Early Child Care (SECC), in 1991 to collect information about different non-maternal child care arrangements and to determine how variations in child care are related to children's development. The result, the SECCYD, is the most comprehensive study conducted to date of children and the many environments in which they develop.
  • Harvard Family Research Project
    Research on educational practices, programs, and policies for disadvantaged children and youth
  • Proven Benefits of Early Childhood Interventions
    As part of a recent study, RAND Corporation researchers synthesized what is known from the scientifically sound research literature about the short- and long-term benefits from early intervention programs, the features that are associated with more-effective programs, and the economic gains that accrue from investing additional resources in early childhood.
  • Assessing Costs and Benefits of Early Childhood Intervention Programs
    Overview and Applications to the Starting Early, Starting Smart Program Does money invested early in a child’s life pay dividends in the form of government savings or other societal benefits as he or she grows into adulthood? Is there a best method for determining what, if any, dividends have accrued?
  • Children at Risk - Consequences for School Readiness and Beyond
    Parents, policymakers, business leaders, and the general public increasingly recognize the importance of the first few years in the life of a child for promoting healthy physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development. Yet many children face deficiencies in the years leading up to school entry in terms of emotional support, intellectual stimulation, or access to resources — due to low income or other factors — that can impede their ability to develop to their fullest potential.
  • The Effects of a Universal Preschool Program in California - Estimates for the Inland Empire Region
    Policymakers and the public are interested in the potential costs and benefits of making high-quality preschool available to all children at some point before kindergarten entry. This research brief focuses on the results for the Inland Empire region, comprised of two counties: Riverside and San Bernardino.
  • National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care
    A comprehensive longitudinal study initiated by The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) in 1989 to answer the many questions about the relationship between child care experiences and characteristics and children's developmental outcomes.
  • Starting Points: Meeting the Needs of Our Youngest Children
    released by Carnegie Corporation in April 1994. The report provides research evidence on the "quiet crisis" that young children face, and it offers a comprehensive set of recommendations to meet their needs. These include preparation for responsible parenthood, improved preventive health and child care, and stronger community supports for families.
  • National Center for Children in Poverty Infant & Toddler Project
    The explosion of knowledge about how infants and toddlers develop has led to a whole new appreciation of ways in which a baby's earliest experiences set the stage for later emotional competence and achievement. Interested in examining the ways in which states and communities are taking more strategic approaches to enhancing outcomes for the youngest members of society, the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) sponsored a national call for nominations of comprehensive initiatives to support infants, toddlers, and their families. Information presented throughout this website draws on the experiences of 25 selected initiatives across the country to provide a menu of concrete, innovative strategies other states and communities can use to promote more targeted and effective policy and practice attention to infants and toddlers.

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