Idaho CareLine: In Idaho, Dial 2-1-1 or 800-926-2588
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Food and Nutrition Resource List for Child Care and Preschool Staff — Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) of USDA’s National Agricultural Library (NAL). Along with many new materials, you also will find ordering information and a suggested target audience. Topics included: Curriculums and Learning Activities for Teaching Children, Food Sets, Models and Posters, Resources for Staff Training, (such as), Nutrition, Learning, and Health, Child and Adult Care Food Program, Teaching Nutrition and Physical Activity to Young Children, Education for Parents, Food Safety, Food Service, Quality Child Care Environments CACFP Training Resource Checklist, and Cultural Considerations. American Dietetics Association — Daily nutrition tips.
Baby Center — Resource for pregnancy and baby. Contains current articles, connections with other parents online, and more.
Breastfeeding.Com — Benefits, working and breastfeeding. Includes directory of state-by-state lactation resources.
Home Food Safety — Preventing food poisoning at home.
National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health — National resource center on maternal and child health, offering searchable databases, lists of projects and organizations, publications, bibliographies, links with other organizations.
Nutrition Explorations — All about children, families, healthy eating. Visit the Family Food Zone and Chef Combo sections, designed especially for busy families. Sponsored by the National Dairy Council.
The Fatherhood Project Home Page — Books, films, consultation, seminars, training, presenting practical strategies to support fathers and mothers in their parenting roles.
Tufts University — Rates nutrition web sites for content, usability, reliable nutrition information. Excellent way to find nutrition information for a variety of groups (parents, kids, adults).
UW-Cooperative Extension — Parenting — University of Wisconsin's newsletters are age-paced, research-based. They have performed evaluations on the first series and found that parents really do better when they read it.