• Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning:  Resources for child care professionals to help children develop socially and emotionally.
• Community Playthings:  Connect to this company’s free resources for child care.
• Do2Learn:  This site offers downloadable pictures to use for schedules, rules, and other helpful visuals for children.
• Exchange Every Day:  This site is hosted by Child Care Exchange, a leading support and resource company for child care and education programs.
• Family Resource Guide:  This directory is compiled by the Child and Family Resource Council in Kent County, Michigan, and contains a thorough guide to agencies in the West Michigan area.
• Healthy Child Care:  Find information, tips and resources for a healthier child care and education program.
• Healthy Child Care – American Academy of Pediatrics: Find information and tips for families and child care providers about healthy practices for children.
• Helping Traumatized Children:  This pdf document offers advice for working with children who have been traumatized.
• Michigan Association for the Education of Young Children (MiAEYC):  An early childhood professional membership organization that sponsors professional development opportunities and provides other resources.
• National Association for the Education of Young Children:   This membership professional organization offers resources and professional development for child care professionals.  They also sponsor accreditation for child care centers and preschools.
• National Association for Family Child Care:  This membership professional organization offers resources and professional development for family and group home child care providers.  They also sponsor accreditation for family and group homes.
• National Network for Child Care:  This organization offers resources for child care providers.
• Washington Learning Systems:  This web site has resources in English, Spanish and Somali to help children develop literacy skills.

 Kent Regional 4C assumes no responsibility for the content of these web sites.