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What is the Arkansas Better Chance Program?

This brochure contains information on what the program entails and who to contact.

Car Seat Safety

This brochure gives age and height requirements for children and the proper way to install and use car seats safely.

Child Care Orientation Training (CCOT)

This brochure gives a brief overview of the training, who should attend, when it is offered, the benefits, topics covered, and the cost.

Family Support Unit - Child Care Assistance

This brochure gives a brief overview of the program, who they serve, information on low-income and TEA/ESS, eligibility, and the application process.

Good Beginnings: How Is Your Child Growing?

A checklist brochure for growth of children 2 months to 36 months.

Index
(Investigating, Discovering, and Exploring: Math and Science for Young Children)

This brochure gives information on the training and the topics covered.

Join Me as I Play

This brochure gives ideas for play and the benefits of play.

Make the Connection

This brochure gives an overview on the Arkansas Early Childhood Education Framework, Picture This: A Framework for Quality Care and Education for Children from Three to Five, and The Family Connection.

Pre-K Ella
(Pre-K Early Literacy Learning in Arkansas)

This brochure describes what the training is designed to do and what it offers teachers.

Quality Accreditation Program

This brochure gives information on the accreditation program, assistance, assessment process, and the benefits.

Books to Grow On: African American Literature for
Young Children
(Available in English and Spanish)

Introducing young children to books they find appealing is crucial in developing their literacy skills and love of reading. Organized by reading level, the annotated book list gathers outstanding children's literature that interests African American children and other young readers as well.

Building Circles, Breaking Cycles - Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect: The
Early Childhood Educator's Role
(Available in English and Spanish)

This brochure helps early childhood educators realize they have a role in preventing-not just reporting-child abuse and neglect. Empowers educators to use their knowledge and skills to support families in a variety of ways to help prevent harm to children.

Books to Grow On: Latino Literature for Young Children
(Available in English and Spanish)

This brochure features appealing books for young children-in English and in Spanish-with a joyous view of Latino people and culture. Many are exquisitely written books that resonate with the symmetry and rhythm of the Spanish language. Also available in Spanish (#581S).

Careers for Men in Early Childhood Education

Children benefit from having men as well as women in early childhood programs. This informative brochure is specially developed by men for men to let them know about the many possible early childhood jobs.

A Caring Place for Your Infant
(Available in English and Spanish)

This brochure describes key areas of infants' development, suggests the basic educational approach that helps children learn and thrive, and details what parents should look for in an early childhood program. Also available in Spanish (#548S).

Careers in Early Childhood Education

This brochure describes what it takes to work with young children, as well as options for training and job opportunities.

A Caring Place for Your Toddler

This brochure describes key areas of toddlers' development, suggests the basic educational approach that helps children learn and thrive, and details what parents should look for in an early childhood program.

Helping Children Learn Self-Control: A Guide to Discipline

Basic techniques to help children develop self-discipline. This brochure shows parents and teachers why discipline works better than punishment and gives pointers on preventing problems.

Child Care Dollars:
Where Do They Go?

Quality child care can be expensive. The largest portion of child care dollars is allotted to compensating child care staff. This brochure explains the importance of this compensation in reducing turnover rates among early child care professionals and how this impacts children’s well being. It also has helpful tips and steps parents can take to make child care more affordable while supporting high quality programs for their children.

Including All Children: Children with Disabilities in Early Childhood Programs

A brochure that provides information on the Americans with Disabilities Education Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act as they relate to early childhood programs, plus a list of resources for technical information.

A Good Preschool for
Your Child

When you need a simple tool to communicate your preschool program's developmentally appropriate approach, this appealing brochure comes in handy. It describes key areas of children's development, suggests the basic educational approach that helps children learn and thrive, and details what parents should look for in a preschool program.

Keeping Healthy: Parents, Teachers, and Children

Tips for program staff and parents on ways to keep children in early childhood programs healthy. Includes practical ways to encourage proper hygiene and handle illnesses.

A Good Kindergarten for Your Child

This brochure describes key areas of children's development, suggests the basic educational approach that helps children learn and thrive, and details what parents should look for in a kindergarten.

Love and Learn: Positive Guidance for Young Children
(Available in English and Spanish)

This brochure discusses positive ways in which parents and caregivers can reduce typical difficulties by employing positive solutions to guide children’s behavior. As children grow older, maintaining reasonable expectations and respecting children’s feelings are important for nurturing their self-control and emotional health.

A Good Primary School
for Your Child

This brochure describes key areas of children's development, suggests the basic educational approach that helps children learn and thrive, and details what parents should look for in a primary school.

NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct, 2005 Revision
(Available in English and Spanish)

A code of ethics for early childhood educators that offers guidelines for responsible behavior and sets forth a common basis for resolving ethical dilemmas encountered in early education.

Play is FUNdamental
(Available in English and Spanish)

In early child development, play time is a time to learn and develop skills for children’s future. Play is FUNdamental is a descriptive guide of how parents and teachers can make children’s play an enriching experience. This brochure details several approaches to encouraging positive social and creative thinking skills in young children.

Playgrounds:
Safe & Sound

This brochure provides injury prevention information related to supervision of children, equipment safety, surfacing materials, and awareness of developmentally appropriate playground environments.

Raising a Reader, Raising a Writer: How Parents Can Help(Available in English and Spanish)

We know how much difference parents make in children's reading and writing. Now, here's a simple, engaging set of suggestions for parents, including what families should look for in the child's preschool and school setting.

Ready to Go: What Parents Should Know about School Readiness

This reassuring brochure calms parents' readiness anxiety, enables them to recognize "ready schools," helps them to give children a solid foundation for school success, and offers suggestions for easing starting-school jitters.

So Many Goodbyes: Ways to Ease the Transition Between Home and Groups for Young Children

How families and teachers can work together to help children feel secure in their adjustment to a new child care or school arrangement.

Respuesta a la diversidad lingüística y cultural: Recomendaciones para una educación infantil eficaz

NAEYC's position paper "Responding to Linguistic and Cultural Diversity," adopted October 1995, acknowledges and responds to the importance of a child's home language and culture in the early childhood setting.

Teaching Young Children to Resist Bias:
What Parents Can Do
(Available in English and Spanish)

Tips for parents to help children appreciate diversity and deal with others' biases.

Toys: Tools for Learning
(Available in English and Spanish)

This brochure contains useful tips for choosing the best types of toys for children’s enjoyment, learning, and growth. It folds out into an easy-to-read, colorful chart of toys and play activities appropriate for children of different ages from birth to 8 years old.

When Disaster Strikes: Helping Young Children Cope

An important guide to helping children cope with natural disasters or violent experiences. Thoroughly updated to reflect a post 9/11 society, this useful brochure offers caregivers, teachers, and families essential information on how to reaffirm children’s feelings of safety and security when they are confronted with unsettling events within their communities or through the media. Also includes guidelines for adults dealing with stressful events so that they can better aid children.