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Baby-place.com
Babycenter.com - Guidance and Gear for New and Expectant Parents
Center for Effective Discipline
Connect for Kids/Guidance for Grown-ups
Family.com
familyeducation.com/home
Kidsource
Kinderstart
National Parent Information Network
Parenting Pipeline
Parent Soup - Discussion groups, chat, and advice on health, education, and child care review
Parents.com - A super site with news about pregnancy, nutrition, exercise, travel, and health review
Parentclicks.com - Offers news, articles and a parent's guide to trustworthy resources on the web. 
Parentsplace.com  Articles, chat, bulletin boards, and announcements created by and for parents review
ParentTime Child-rearing resources from Parenting and Baby Talk magazines. review
Parenthoodweb Packed with polls, news, features and bulletin boards for new parents and parents-to-be.
Partnership for Family Involvement in Education
Positive Parenting - Feature articles, classes and training, and related links.
Practical Parenting Partnerships Center
Search Institute
Washington State University Cooperative Extension Parenting

Fathers

Fatherhood Project
At-Home Dads - An organization devoted to full-time fathering. This site offers subscription information for their newsletter, as well as information about their nationwide At-Home Dads playgroups.
Father's world - A community of men who value fathering. This site provides support articles, a shopping guide, and other interesting topics for fathers.
National Center for Fathering - This organization provides guidance, research, and resources for men who want to become better fathers. This site provides practical tips, humor and books available on fathering.
National Online Fathers of Twins Club - This site is quickly taking off! It offers chats, a bookshelf, and personal stories. NOFOTC is also in the process of organizing local clubs.

Twins

Facts About Multiples - Facts on who the multiples are that have made history in the world.
The Twins Foundation - A membership organization that serves twins, their families, the media, medical and social scientists and the general public through its publications, its National Twin Registry and its multi-media resource center. The Twins Foundation, PO Box 6043, Providence, RI 02940-6043; Voice: 401-729-1000; Fax (business hours only) 401-751-4642., twins@twinsfoundation.com
Twins Magazine has many helpful resources on twins including local support groups, helpful books, statistics, humorous topics.
Twins World - Resources for twins and multiples--especially lots of photos. Here, you will also find information about Twins Restaurant which is owned by Lisa and Debra with actor Tom Berenger. Twins Restaurant is an eclectic downtown restaurant on the upper east side of Manhattan. The restaurant is staffed by 37 sets of identical twins who work the same shift, in the same station, in the same uniform. They get 10-20 sets of twin customers each evening for dinner (ranging from newborns to 95 years old.) 
Twinspace - A Website About Identical Twins. Formerly known as The TWINSource. Gilia Angell is a twin. She provides a library of twin information at her site.
Twinstuff - This site is loaded with twin news, events, facts, chats around the web and movie and TV twin appearances.
Webster's Twin Things - Kathi Webster is a twin who maintains an interesting index of twin-related Web sites, from organizations and registries, to twins in arts and literature.

Organizations

Children's Alliance - The Children's Alliance is a statewide movement working to change public policies so they better support children and families in Washington.
Center for Improvement of Child Care (CICC)
Drew Bledsoe Foundation - Parenting with Dignity
Families and Work Institute
Northwest Parent Connection

Pregnancy, Infants & Toddlers

I Am Your Child
Pregnancy Today (Embrazo Hoy)
Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families

Child Care

National Association for the Education of Young Children
National Association for Family Child Care
National Network for Child Care
US Department of Health & Human Services - Child Care Bureau
Washington State Child Care Resources & Referral Network

Head Start

Child Care Bureau
Early Head Start National Resource Center
Head Start Bureau
National Head Start Association (NHSA)

Clearing Houses/Information

ERIC Clearninghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education
Maternal and Child Health Clearninghouse
National Child Care Information Center
National Clearninghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect
National Resource Center for Health & Safety in Child Care

Health Issues

American Academy of Pediatrics 
American Board of Pediatrics 
Children's Hospital
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies
Immunization Information
Kids Health
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Pediatric Points of Interest

***If you know of other sites for parents, please e-mail us so we can add it.

Washington State Links

AWRD - Information on services available in the state of Washington
Children's Hospital
Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI)
Washington Early Learning Foundation
Washington State's Infant Toddler Early Intervention Program
Washington State Child Care Coordinating Committee
Washington Kids Count

Clallam County Links

KONP Radio
Peninsula Daily News
Sequim Gazette

Clallam County Family YMCA
Clallam County Health & Human Services
Clallam County Juvenile Services
Family Planning of Clallam County
First Step Family Support Center 
     325 E 6th St, Port Angeles, WA 98362, 360 457-8355, E-mail fstep@olypen.com
Forks Community Hospital
Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe
Lower Elwha Tribe
Makah Nation
North Olympic Library System
Olympic Medical Center
Prevention Works - Information about prevention efforts in Clallam County, WA
United Way of Clallam County
Cape Flattery School District
Crescent School District
Olympic Christian School

Queen of Angels School

Quillayute Valley School District
Peninsula College
Port Angeles School District
Sequim School District

 


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