Prospective Parent Resources

• California Women, Infants & Children Program

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  California WIC is a federally funded health and nutrition program for women, infants, and children. WIC helps families by providing checks for buying healthy supplemental foods from WIC-authorized vendors, nutrition education, and help finding healthcare and other community services. Participants must meet income guidelines, and the program will only help pregnant women, new mothers, and children under age five. In California, 84 WIC agencies provide services locally to over 1.45 million participants each month at over 650 sites throughout the State.

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• Healthy & Active Preschoolers

  Healthy and Active Preschoolers is a nutrition learning center for child care professionals. It offers a variety of online courses and resources to improve the nutrition and physical activity environment in child care programs.

• Let's Read

  "Let’s Read," a company based in Australia, offers some great reading tips, tools, coloring sheets, book lists and more, all sorted by age group. Their free “reading packs” are available to download in a nine different languages, which is a bonus!

• My Health Resource

  MyHealthResource is California's largest directory of low cost or free health clinics & other resources. You can search for resources based on your address, medical specialty, and how far you’re willing to travel.

• MyPlate Kids’ Place (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture)

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  The USDA’s “MyPlate Kids Place” helps families put the latest dietary guidelines into practice, with a special emphasis on giving children tools to choose their own proper foods. The “Choose My Plate” logo features shows the five basic food groups and the relative proportions of each group that make up a healthy meal.

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• National Association for the Education of Young Children

  The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is our national accreditation association and they have an excellent family resource area on their website. naeyc

• R'Kids

  R'Kids is a club that aims to strengthen the parent-child bond within the UCR community. Its goal is to provide a support-network for parents and their children. R'Kids is open to all UCR community members with children. For more information, visit rkids.ucr.edu or email rkidsofucr@gmail.com. 

• Riverside County Office of Education

  RCOE has a variety of resources for families residing in Riverside County. Early Learning Services features links to the county Resource and Referral services, Head Start and Early Head Start, and Alternative Payment programs.

• Zealous Mom Blog

  Susanna Barbee writes the Zealous Mom blog, in which she talks about being a part-time stay-at-home mom to two preschoolers. In addition, she wrote an excellent article about building early literacy skills for her local North Carolina newspaper.