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Babyzone.com is the Charleston area's local source for conception, pregnancy, and parenting 
resources.
Breastfeeding.com is the premier online resource for mothers who breast feed or who are considering breast feeding.  Why does breast feeding get your baby off to the best start?  The answers are here.   This site is highly recommended by Success By 6 staff.
Dear Parents believes that you are your child's first teacher and an important influence throughout his or her school years. As a parent, you want to help your child succeed and you may have questions about how you can most effectively do that.  The Dear Parents site is an opportunity for a community of caring parents to share what others have learned over the last 27 years.
Child Care Aware is a non-profit initiative committed to helping parents find the best information on locating quality child care and child care resources in their community. We do this by raising visibility for local child care resource and referral agencies nationwide, and by connecting parents with the local agencies best equipped to serve their needs.
Families and Work Institute is a non-profit organization that addresses the changing nature of work and family life, committed to finding research-based strategies that foster mutually supportive connections among workplaces, families, and communities.
I Am Your Child is a national public awareness and engagement campaign to make early childhood development a top priority for our nation.  Since its spring launch in 1997, I Am Your Child has educated millions of parents and professionals about breakthrough new discoveries in the process of brain development. These findings reveal that the first three years of a child's life are more important for emotional and intellectual growth than previously thought.
LowCountry Parent.  The Charleston area's parenting magazine.  Parenting articles, calendar of events, information on private schools, and local resources and links.  Pre-school edition in February.
National Association for the Education of Young Children.  Learn more about federal and state policy and legislation, resources for effective advocacy, and important new  research reports. A list of NAEYC accredited programs and a resources catalog.
National
Center for 
Fathering
The National Center for Fathering is dedicated to helping men be better fathers by conducting research and developing practical resources especially for Dads.
The mission of the National Fatherhood Initiative (NFI) is to improve the well-being of children by increasing the number of children growing up with loving, committed and responsible fathers.   A non-profit, non-sectarian, non-partisan organization, NFI conducts public awareness campaigns promoting responsible fatherhood, organizes conferences and community fatherhood forums, provides resource material to organizations seeking to establish support programs for fathers, publishes a quarterly newsletter, and disseminates informational material to men seeking to become more effective fathers.
National Network for Child Care offers INFORMATION - an internet source of over 1000 publications and resources related to child care;  KIDCARE - an e-mail listserve that provides a way to communicate with others who care about children and child care. PERSON-TO-PERSON support and assistance from experts;  and  CONNECTIONS NEWSLETTERS.
Parent Soup contains a compendium of links to experts on everything from breast feeding to child psychology.  Join communities of parents sharing advice from pre-pregnancy to raising teens.  Features pediatrician Dr. Alan Greene answering your questions live every weekday.
Parenting.comis the online resource from the Parenting Group -- publishers of Healthy pregnancy, baby Talk, Parenting and Family Life magazines.  Offers on-line chat with other parents and with pediatric experts.
Berkeley County School District
Charleston County School District
Dorchester School District 2
The purpose of the South Carolina Association for the Education of Young Children shall be to serve and act on behalf of the needs, rights, and well-being of all young children, to encourage the study, interpretation, and improvement of their education and general well-being, to cooperate with other groups having compatible purposes, and to support and promote local SCAEYC chapters.
South Carolina DSS listing of daycare providers that are licensed by the South Carolina Division of Child Day Care Licensing and Regulatory Services.
Zero to Three is one of the nation's leading resources 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  -- The Youngest Explorers
211Help.org  is a comprehensive listing of resources available in the Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester Counties area. 

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