Quality Care for Children strives to serve as a comprehensive resource for information on young children and child care. If you cannot not find the information you need below, please call to speak directly with a child care expert at 1-877-ALL-GA-KIDS (1-877-255-4254).

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Child Products and Toys Recall

Consumer Product Safety Commission helps protect the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death from thousands of types of consumer products including cribs, car seats and toys. Check this site regularly for items you already possess.
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prerel.html

American Academy of Pediatrics

Information on health and well-being of infants, children, adolescents and young adults:
• Main: www.aap.org
• Car safety seats and transportation: http://www.aap.org/healthtopics/carseatsafety.cfm
• Breastfeeding: http://www.aap.org/healthtopics/breastfeeding.cfm
• Immunizations: http://www.aap.org/healthtopics/immunizations.cfm
• Autism: http://www.aap.org/healthtopics/autism.cfm
• SIDS – Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: http://www.aap.org/healthtopics/Sleep.cfm

Child Care Licensing and Monitoring

Bright from the Start: Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning (Bright from the Start) is responsible for meeting the child care and early education needs of Georgia's children and their families. Bright from the Start oversees a wide range of programs focused primarily on children ages birth to school age and their families.
• Licensing and monitoring all center-based and home-based child care facilities (approximately 10,000)
• Overseeing the federal Child and Adult Care Food Program
• http://www.decal.ga.gov/

Health, Nutrition and Childhood Obesity3>

Let’s Move! is a comprehensive initiative, launched by the First Lady, dedicated to solving the challenge of childhood obesity within a generation, so that children born today will grow up healthier and able to pursue their dreams. Combining comprehensive strategies with common sense, Let's Move! is about putting children on the path to a healthy future during their earliest months and years.
www.letsmove.gov

Turn Fun Everyday Moments into Learning Opportunities

Everyday life is a learning experience for children. The Born Learning website
helps parents, grandparents and caregivers explore ways to turn everyday moments into fun learning opportunities.
http://www.bornlearning.org/default.aspx?id=33

Food, Shelter, Counseling and Other Emergency Resources

United Way 2-1-1 is for individuals across Georgia to call when they want to find or give help. Equipped with the most extensive database of its kind, United Way 2-1-1 employs trained referral specialists to assist callers with almost every conceivable human services need. Bilingual, Spanish-speaking referral specialists are available.
• Call 211 anywhere in Georgia.
• Search online for the 211 closest to you: http://www.211.org/

For Parents of Children with Special Needs

Parent to Parent of Georgia provides support and information services and training and leadership opportunities for families who have children and youth with disabilities. No matter the disability or health concern, Parent to Parent of Georgia can help by connecting you with other parents with similar experiences.
• Call 800-229-2038.
• p2pga.org (http://p2pga.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=1)

Legal Issues in Child Care

Child Care Law Center is devoted exclusively to the complex legal issues that affect child care. Its diverse substantive work encompasses federal and state subsidies, regulation and licensing, civil rights and disability, housing rights, and economic development and planning.
• Call 415-558-8005.