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General Parenting Links:
- Parent Help Center
Dedicated to helping families and parents with troubled teens. They are available to help you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Call 1-800-688-8706.
- Parenthood.com
This site provides numerous links on parenting and family issues.
- Parenting from About.com
For links to parenting sites and information. For links to children with special needs, click here!
- Parenting Adolescents
Where parents can get free, extended responses to questions about parenting teens and preteens. Teens and preteens can also get information to help them understand parents!
- Parenting At-Risk Kids
Ideas on after school activities, before school, chores, grades, rules, safety, etc.
- Parenting.com
Parenting.com is the online home of Parenting magazine. They offer useful tools, in-depth information, reality-tested advice, and quick tips for parents.
- Parenting.org
This site is brought to you by the Girls and Boys Town National Resource and Training Center. This organization specializes in training, consulting, and researching parenting practices that will help you and others like you deal with the day-to-day care taking, guidance, and development of your child.
- Parenting Resources for the 21st Century
This site links parents and other adults responsible for the care of a child with information on issues covering the full spectrum of parenting. This site, federally sponsored through the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, strives to help families meet the formidable challenges of raising a child today by addressing topics that include school violence, child development, home schooling, organized sports, child abuse, and the juvenile justice system.
- Positive Parenting
This site is dedicated to providing resources and information to help make parenting more rewarding, effective and fun!
- Teen Help Adolescent Resources
Provides a national toll free hotline to assist parents, child care professionals, and others in locating appropriate resources for the treatment of adolescents struggling with making the best choices in their lives.
- The National Parenting Center
Dedicated to providing parents with comprehensive and responsible guidance from the world's most renowned child-rearing authorities.
- Websites for Parents
From the American Library Association, includes an introduction, what parents should know, safety tips for Internet use, a help section for parents, Q & A for kids, and 50+ great web sites listed.
Parenting Support Groups:
- Google Directory Parents Support Groups
Support group links from Google.
- Link-up Parents
A general parenting site, with support group links for parents with troubled kids, mental disorders, bully problems, family relationship issues, etc.
- Open Directory Parents Support Groups
Links to parenting support groups: health, single parenting, special needs children, premature babies, and more.
- Single Parent Central
An online resource for single parent families.
Domestic Violence:
- Bay Area Legal Aid
Scroll down to see their multiple links to domestic violence assistance in the bay area.
- Domestic Violence Help in the Bay Area
General domestic violence contacts for the Bay Area provided by Stanford University.
- National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
This site is dedicated to the empowerment of battered women and their children and therefore is committed to the elimination of personal and societal violence in the lives of battered women and their children. For a direct link to their "getting help" section, click here!
- National Domestic Violence Hotline
For general information on domestic violence and links to help. If you need help right now, call 1-800-799-7233.
Other Parenting Links:
- Facts for Families
The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry developed Facts for Families to provide concise and up-to-date information on issues that affect children, teenagers, and their families.
- How to Explain Jails and Prisons - A Caregiver's Guide
From the Oregon Department of Corrections - The information provided is very general and applies to all kids. Helps the caregiver answer and discuss some basic issues like: "Why did my mom or dad go to jail?," "What will happen to me?," "Will I go to jail or prison too?," etc.
The website has this booklet is available in MS WORD or PDF format. To see the booklet in PDF file, click here!
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