Oregon Family Support Network offers a variety of free support groups designed to meet the diverse needs of families raising children with behavioral, emotional, or mental health challenges.

Join us for an opportunity to meet local ERDC-approved child care providers!

The goal of this conference is to serve PreK-2 programs in Oregon with presentations on cutting-edge research and best practices from educators throughout the state. Join teachers, coordinators, principals, and other early learning professionals.

If you're experiencing challenges with chronic conditions, this FREE 6-week community workshop can help you figure out how to deal with symptoms, solve issues, and find exercises that work for you.

In this month's Pollywog Parent Newsletter, you can learn all about local home visiting programs. Every family can benefit from home visits! These visits help parents learn how to care for their children, keep them healthy, and prepare them for school.

The Oregon Child Support Program (OCSP) and the Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS) have teamed up to create a new informational flyer about the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program:

• English: https://www.doj.state.or.us/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/TANF-and-the-Oregon-Child-Support-Program-ENGLISH-241029.pdf
• Spanish: https://www.doj.state.or.us/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/tanf-and-the-Oregon-Child-Support-Program-SPANISH-241030.pdf

A Cascade of Impacts: The Many Ways Water Affects Child Development, the ECSCEE’s second paper, explores how water affects early childhood development—including everything from access to clean drinking water to exposure to flooding and drought—along with strategies for taking action.

The same conditions affect children differently—and within this variation lies opportunity. A World of Differences: The Science of Human Variation Can Drive Early Childhood Policies and Programs to Bigger Impacts by the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child discusses how accounting for individual variation can improve outcomes and unlock greater impacts for all children.

The first paper from the Early Childhood Scientific Council on Equity and the Environment (ECSCEE), Extreme Heat Affects Early Childhood Development and Health, offers an opportunity to better understand how extreme heat can affect young children—and provides strategies to cool the places where children live, grow, learn, and play.

Oregon Screening Project gives Oregon parents/caregivers a way to check early development, any time.