Text 4 baby - Get FREE messages each week on your cell phone to help you through your pregnancy and your baby's first year. Text4baby is an educational program of the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition.

Working Family Resource Center - provides parents with education and support to help them manage the competing demands of work and family, resulting in healthy families and communities where children can learn and thrive.

MN Parents Know - is a resource filled with convenient and trusted child development, health and parenting information. The Minnesota Parents Know Website is founded on the belief that parents are the first and most important teacher in a child's life. Parents are likely to benefit, however, from the aid and support of experts' information on child health, development, nutrition and safety in raising strong and healthy children.
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Bridge to Benefits - a multi-state project by Children’s Defense Fund Minnesota to improve the well-being of families and individuals by linking them to public work support programs and tax credits.

Follow Along Program - Let the Follow Along Program help you know if your child is playing, talking, growing, moving, and acting like other children the same age. Babies and young children grow and learn at their own rate. Some children, though, need special help to grow up healthy and learn skills such as sitting, walking, or talking. The Follow Along Program can help you know if this is true for your child.

Zero to Three - is a national, nonprofit organization that informs, trains, and supports professionals, policy makers, and parents in their efforts to improve the lives of infants and toddlers.Our mission is to promote the health and development of infants and toddlers. This parent e-newsletter offers science-based information on how children learn and grow each month from birth to age 3.

Imagination Library - Launched by country music star Dolly Parton and The Dollywood Foundation, the Imagination Library fosters a love of reading among preschool children by providing them with a free hardcover book every month from birth to the age of five.

West Central MN Communities Action, Inc - is a resource agency dedicated to reducing the effects of poverty, helping people to achieve self-sufficiency, and improving the quality of rural life. Some of the programs offered include: *Jump Start Car Program *Energy Assistance * Family Loan *Head Start *Lead Testing *Retired & Senior Volunteers *Affordable Housing *Foreclosure Prevention & Assistance

United Way of Douglas & Pope Counties- Mobilizing resources to create sustained changes in community conditions to improve lives in Douglas & Pope Counties