Helpful Links
Helpful Websites
Parents as Teachers
Link to the Parents as Teachers National Center website
1000 BOOKS Before Kindergarten | Read it and Reap! | An MCPL GROW A READER Early Literacy Initiative
1000 BOOKS Before Kindergarten If you read just 1 book a night for 2 years and 9 months, you'll reach your goal! Click on the link to learn more!
BitterSweet Place | A center for grieving children, teens, & their families
The mission of Bittersweet Place is to provide programs and resources for the children of Warrensburg and surrounding communities in a safe and supportive environment as they move through the grieving process following death of a parent, sibling, relative, or friend. Our Goals To provide volunteers trained in grief counseling and support processed to assist children and families explore their perceptions and perspectives about death To help them understand the many psychological, physical, spiritual responses typically experiences in the grief process; make necessary adaptations and develop coping, communicating, and healing strategies for the individual and the family To provide a safe and understanding environment where grieving children and their families can obtain support from trained volunteer facilitators and other families in similar situations
Info & Help for Post-Partum Depression
Learn more and Get help You are not alone You are not to blame With help, you will be well
1-800-944-4773
Prevent Shaken Baby Syndrome
Free Baby Information to Your Cell Phone
Free Weekly Newsletter with Parenting Tips & Inspiration
Love and Logic Parenting resources: books, cds, and dvds can often be checked out on loan through the public libraries. The Love and Logic website also offers advice through their website and Facebook page.
Mrs. Amy's Favorite Preschool Website
Starfall offers online activities for preschoolers to help with letter recognition, reading and more! This system works best with a caregiver nearby to interact with the child online and not for much longer than 20 minutes a day. Face to face and side by side interaction, through hands-on play, reading, singing, writing, alphabet books, identifying letters in picture books, crafts, and magnets are how children learn letters best!!
Help for Victims of Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault
FREE Gun locks
Available to families no questions asked through Children's Mercy hospitals. Click on link to view article and learn more.
Counseling and Substance Abuse Treatment Services for Children and Parents
Follow the links below to learn more about our programs and services.
InfantSEE: A FREE Public Health Program for Infants
Even if no eye or vision problems are apparent, the American Optometric Association recommends scheduling a vision assessment at 6 months. Under the InfantSEE program, a participating optometrist can do a FREE comprehensive vision assessment between a child's age of 6-12 months.
What's Happening in Holden?
Xplor magazine FREE for Missouri kids!
Subscribe online here with your friends from the Missouri Department of Conservation! Even babies will enjoy looking at the pictures and kids love getting their own mail!!
Missouri Preschool Standards "Parent Guides"
Parents often wonder: "What should my child know before starting kindergarten?" Here is a great place to find out! Check out the "Parent Guides." Maybe try one new activity a day with your child. Don't be overwhelmed by the quantity of standards. Remember learning should be fun at this age! Play is how kids 0-6 learn best!
Missouri Division of Social Services
Trails Library Holden Branch
Summer Reading Program, Preschool Storytime, Movies and Special Events are only a few of the things happening in our local library! Check it out!