Family Resources
LOCAL RESOURCES
We are continually evolving our site. Please e-mail Barbara Dana if you have suggestions for helpful links.
The Santa Cruz Public Library maintains the most up to date and comprehensive list of community resources. For information on services to support children and their families in Santa Cruz County, go to www.santacruzpl.org/cid/public
Kit for New Parents
Tip Sheets: Free and easy guidance about your child is available.
Child Care Information Switchboard
831-466-5820
Assists callers in locating child care
Family Resource Centers
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Family Resource Centers offer a broad range of services and programs including parent education, counseling, home visits, literacy classes, support groups, health insurance and health care referrals. If the Family Resource Center cannot assist you directly, they will refer you to the appropriate agency.
Davenport Resource Center
http://www.cabinc.org/DRSC/DRSC%20main.htm
Familia Center
http://www2.santacruzpl.org/cid/public/full.php?id=252
La Manzana Community Resources
http://communitybridges.org/manzana.htm
Live Oak Family Resource Center
http://communitybridges.org/liveoak.htm
Mountain Community Resources
http://www.mountaincommunityresources.org/
Santa Cruz Community Counseling Center
Child and Family Development Programs
http://www.scccc.org/child-and-family-development/programs
- Head Start
- Early Head Start
- Families Together
- PAPÁS
- Starlight Infant/Toddler Program
- State Preschool/Literacy
Special Parent's Information Network (SPIN)
831-425-3428
Spin is a parent directed organization for parents of children with special needs. Helps parents become more informed about available resources for services, treatments, interventions, and other supports in the county and beyond.
Women's Crisis Support - Defensa de Mujeres
831-685-3737
Offers support and advocacy in the areas of domestic violence, sexual assault and drug and alcohol use.
Nursing Mother's Counsel Warmline
831-688-3954
Provides breastfeeding information and support.
National and State Resources
First 5 California
http://www.ccfc.ca.gov/
The California Children and Families Act of 1998 is designed to provide, on a community-by-community basis, all children prenatal to five years of age with a comprehensive, integrated system of early childhood development services.
Bright Futures
http://www.brightfutures.org/
Bright Futures is a vision, a philosophy, a set of expert guidelines, and a practical developmental approach to providing health supervision for children and adolescents from birth through age 21. Bright Futures is dedicated to the principle that every child deserves to be healthy and that optimal health involves a trusting relationship between the health professional, the child, the family, and the community as partners in health practice.
Child Abuse Prevention Network
http://child-abuse.com/
The Child Abuse Prevention Network <http://child-abuse.com > is the InternetNerve Center for professionals in the field of child abuse and neglect.
Child Welfare League of America
http://www.cwla.org/
CWLA is an association of more than 1,100 public and private nonprofit agencies that assist over 3.5 million abused and neglected children and their families each year with a wide range of services.
Children's Defense Fund
http://www.childrensdefense.org/
The mission of the Children's Defense Fund is to Leave No Child Behind ® and to ensure every child a Healthy Start , a Head Start , a Fair Start , a Safe Start , and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.
National Fatherhood Initiative
http://www.fatherhood.org/
Tonight, one out of every three children in America will go to sleep in a home in which their father does not live. This fact contributes to nearly every social pathology of our time, from crime and welfare dependency to educational decline and drug use. The National Fatherhood Initiative (NFI) was created to reverse this trend.
Zero to three
http://www.zerotothree.org/
ZERO TO THREE is the nation's leading resource on the first three years of life. We are a national non-profit charitable organization whose aim is to strengthen and support families, practitioners and communities to promote the healthy development of babies and toddlers
