Recommended Web Sites

All In the Family: Making Child Care Provided By Relatives Work For Your Family - Excellent review of topics to discuss if asking a family member to take care of your child.

Day Care, Choosing a Good Center - The American Academy of Family Physicians offers this advice.

Basic Child Care/Babysitting from NOAH - New York Online Access to Health (NOAH) offers links to high quality full-text health consumer health information which has been selected and organized by librarians and health professionals in New York and beyond.

Child Care Aware - Child Care Aware is a non-profit initiative committed to helping parents find the best information on locating quality child care and child care resources in their community. Tips for choosing a facility and access to the organization’s newsletter will be found here.

Child Care Bureau - The Child Care Bureau is dedicated to enhancing the quality, affordability, and availability of child care for all families. Make sure to check out the links for Frequently Asked Questions and the Parents’ Place.

Child Care Checklist - This checklist comes from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Childproofing Your Home - KidsHealth has prepared this information for parents of small children.

Healthy Child Care America - This site is a collaborative effort of health professionals, child care providers, and families seeking to improve the health and well-being of children in child care. Here one will find links to information for parents and child care providers as well as access to an online newsletter.

Healthy Kids, Healthy Care - Great information for parents who need to select high quality child care.

Healthy Meals Resource System (HMRS) - Here you can find recipes and guidelines for feeding lunches and snacks to children in child care settings.

Is This The Right Place For My Child? - Excellent brochure with a checklist of 38 points to use when judging a child care option.

KidsHealth for Parents: Choosing Child Care - This site was created by the Nemours Foundation's Center for Children's Health Media and aims to provide the best children's health information on the Internet. The information found here is written specifically for parents.

Medem Medical Library: Child Care - Click here to access a number of informative articles from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

MEDLINEplus: Child Day Care - Developed by the National Library of Medicine, this consumer health site directs the user to selected online resources on many common diseases and conditions.

National Association of Child Care Resources and Referral Centers - NACCRRA is the national network of more than 850 child care resource and referral centers (CCR&Rs) located in every state and most communities across the US. CCR&R centers help families, child care providers, and communities find, provide, and plan for affordable, quality child care.

National Child Care Information Center - The National Child Care Information Center (NCCIC), a project of the Child Care Bureau, is a national resource that links information and people to complement, enhance, and promote the child care delivery system, working to ensure that all children and families have access to high-quality comprehensive services.

National Network for Child Care - This site is an Internet source of over 1000 publications and resources related to child care. Publications are research-based and reviewed.

National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care - The NRC's primary mission is to promote health and safety in out-of-home child care settings throughout the nation. One will find health and safety tips and a parent’s guide on choosing child care.

Sick Child? Plan Ahead To Reduce Sick Day Stress - The Mayo Clinic offers these alternative ideas for caring for sick children.

What Kinds of Care Are Available? - See this description of the four major types of child care that are available.