Resources

For Parents, Family Members, and Friends of Children ages 0-8:

• Love. Talk. Play. For Parents
• Child Care Action Council
• Family Support Center of South Sound
• ESD 113 Sound to Harbor Head Start/ECEAP
• Family Education and Support Services
• Hands On Children’s Museum
• Timberland Regional Library – Kids Corner
• BlockFest
• South Sound Reading Foundation
• South Sound Parent to Parent
• South Sound Born Learning Community
• Visions for Early Learning
• Asset Building Coalition of Thurston County
• Community Action Council
• WA State DSHS – Children’s Administration
• Department of Early Learning – Parents and Family

For Child Care Providers and Early Learning Educators:

• Child Care Action Council
• Casey Family Programs: Applying Science of Brain Development
• Early Learning Action Alliance
• South Sound Association for the Education of Young Children
• University of WA Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I-LABS)
• Washington State Early Learning Plan
• Washington State Early Learning and Development Guidelines 
• Washington State Early Learning and Development Benchmarks

Research

• Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child.
• Early Childhood Research Quarterly
• Journal of Early Childhood Research
• Center for Early Childhood Research – University of Chicago
• Tribal Early Childhood Research Center