Comprehensive Resource List for Early Childhood Education Course

This assignment presents a detailed resource list compiled for an early childhood education course. The student identifies and describes various agencies and organizations that provide support to young children and their families, focusing on health, safety, and nutrition. The list includes organizations such as the National Federation of the Blind, American Autism Association, Cerebral Palsy Guidance, American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, Chadwick Center for Children and Families, Alliance for a Healthier Generation, Child Care Aware of America, and the National Institute of Mental Health. Each entry provides the agency's contact information, a rationale for its selection, and a description of the services offered, adhering to the assignment's requirement of a minimum sentence count and avoiding direct website content duplication. The student also includes proper citations for all resources used.

Running head: EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
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Name of the Student
Name of the university
Author’s note

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Resource 1
1. Vision impairment
National federation of the blind
Address: National Federation of the Blind
200 East Wells Street at Jernigan Place
Baltimore, MD 21230
Website: https://www.nfb.org/about-us
Email: [e-mail]
Description
Reason for choosing the agency: this organization will be able to provide support to the bling
people. They empower them for their professional development and provides them with various
advocacy services. The organization also helps to mentor for blind people for the career.
Service provided: Provides scholarships and awards. They give a wide range of training and
education to children with visual impairment. They also provide services like blind parent
mentoring, summer programs and various early childhood mentoring (National federation of the
blind, 2018).
2. American Autism Association
Address: PO Box 170, New York, NY10156, United States
Website: https://www.autismspeaks.org/provider/american-autism-association

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Email: [e-mail]
Description
Reason for choosing the agency: American Autism Associations is a non-profit organization. It
helps the families and individuals affected by autism. They also increase awareness regarding the
various difficulties in individuals with autism.
Service provided: The organization offer educational resources, personal support to the families.
They conduct unique athletic program for providing support in community based sports,
recreation and physical activity (American Autism Association, 2017).
3.
Address:210 W. Division St. Syracuse, NY 13204
Website: https://www.cerebralpalsyguidance.com/about-us/
Phone: [phone]
Description
Reason for choosing the agency: The reason for choosing this is to provide answer and
assistance to the children with cerebral palsy. The aim is to reach all the members of the cerebral
palsy community as much as possible. They aim to provide a network of support for the children
as well as their families (Cerebral palsy guidance, 2019).
Service provided: The website gives several information about cerebral palsy cause , prognosis
and development.

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Resource 2
A. American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children
Address:1706 E. Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio 43203
Website: http://www.apsac.org
Email: [e-mail]
Description
Reason for choosing the agency: It addresses all the aspects of the professional response of any
kind of child abuse. The organization helps in prevention, intervention and treatment.
Service provided: The aim of the organization is to prevent and eliminate occurrence of any child
maltreatment. It promotes research and guidelines for informing the professional practice
(American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, 2018).
B. Chadwick Center For Children and Families
Address:Children's Hospital and Health Center, 3020 Children's Way, MC 5016, San Diego,
California 92123
Website: http://www.chadwickcenter.com/
Email: [e-mail]
Description

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Reason for choosing the agency: The main mission of the organization is to protect children and
to strengthen the families through treatment, prevention, public policy research and advocacy in
areas of child maltreatment and family violence.
Service provided: treatment, education, prosecution of the child abuse and family violence. The
center uses a multidisciplinary and family centered approach. Some of the major educational
activities involve awareness programs for the families of the victims, clinical training program
for the visiting professionals.
Resources 3
A. Alliance for a healthier generation
Address:2525 SW 1st Ave, Suite 120, Portland, OR 97201
Website: https://www.healthiergeneration.org/about-us/contact-us
Description
Reason for choosing the agency: The organization works with the schools, youth-serving
organization and business. They aim to build a healthier community and empower the kids for
the development of healthy lifestyle.
Service provided: The organization works with schools for promoting and creating healthy
habits. They influence the school policies where children live, learn, play support and helps in
promoting good health.
B. Child care aware of America
Website: ://www.childcareaware.org/about/contact/

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Email: [e-mail]
Phone: [phone], Mon-Friday 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. EST
Description
Reason for choosing the agency: The main reason for choosing this agency is that they
promote healthy lifestyle to children. They provide guidelines to the parents about nutrition
for children, physical activities and other actions from parents end to make them
psychologically strong human beings. The website of this organization provides
recommendations on everything starting from sleep practices to healthy screen time.
Service provided: The organization provides recommendations regarding nutrition, the health
activities that would promote good health to a child. They aim to build an inclusive State
child care system. They conduct healthy and active living practice recognition programs.
Resource 4
a) Child care aware of America
Website: https://www.childcareaware.org/about/contact/
Email: [e-mail]
Phone: [phone], Mon-Friday 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. EST
Description
Reason for choosing the agency: The website of this organization provides a State by State
resources that is available in various states of America. It can be used to find local resources
on pediatric health and social services, advocacy for financial assistance. They also provides
support for children with special care needs.

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Service provided: They assist in the opening and running of a child care center. They run a
family child care. They also help parents in person, or via phone. They also provide
workshops on parenting, newsletters and hotline numbers for immediate help.
b) Child Care Resource center
Address: 20001 Prairie Street, Chatsworth, CA 91311, 818.717.1000
Website: http://www.naccrra.org
Phone: [phone]
Description
Reason for choosing the agency: This organization serves as the ultimate directory for family
resources. They advocate health policies for pediatric care that positively affects the lives of
families and children.
Service provided: NACCRRA, the National Association of Child Care Resource & Referral
Agencies, is an organization that works with almost 700 States and Local Child Care resources
along with referral services all over the nation. They make sure that most of the populated States
in the United States get access to high quality of child care (Child Care Resource center, 2018).
The organization carries out researches, projects for increasing the capability of the child
educators.
Resource 5
Address: National Institute of Mental Health
Office of Science Policy, Planning, and Communications

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6001 Executive Boulevard, Room 6200, MSC 9663
Bethesda, MD 20892-9663
Website: https://www.nimh.nih.gov
Email: [e-mail]
Phone: [phone]
Description
Reason for choosing the agency: This website provides referrals and contacts for mental health
care. They provide with a National helpline number for suicide prevention. There are centers that
provided counseling and mental health facility referrals.
Service provided: The resources provide information about the direct social media outlets
regarding the social media updates of children. They provided information about some federal
agencies that provides mental health services for substance abuse (National Institute of Mental
Health, 2018). They provide referrals for economic support for economically backward parents
of children with mental illness.

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References
American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, (2018). Access date:
26.12.2019.Retrieved from http://www.apsac.org
Chadwick Center For Children and Families, (2018).Access date: 26.12.2019.Retrieved from
http://www.chadwickcenter.com/
Alliance for a healthier generation, (2017). Access date: 26.12.2019.Retrieved from
https://www.healthiergeneration.org/about-us/contact-us
National Institute of Mental Health, (2018)
.Access date: 26.12.2019.Retrieved from: https://www.nimh.nih.gov
National federation of the blind, (2018) Access date: 26.12.2019.Retrieved from:
https://www.nfb.org/about-us
American Autism Association, (2017). Access date: 26.12.2019.Retrieved from:
https://www.autismspeaks.org/provider/american-autism-association
Cerebral palsy guidance, (2019). Access date: 26.12.2019.Retrieved from
https://www.cerebralpalsyguidance.com/about-us/
Child care aware of America, (2019). Access date: 26.12.2019.Retrieved from
https:://www.childcareaware.org/about/contact/
Child Care Resource center, (2018).Access date: 26.12.2019.Retrieved from
http://www.naccrra.org

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