Resources for Students with Children
Child Care Resources
Kids@College summer programming, Jun 19 - Aug 3. Click here to learn more.
You May Qualify for Free or Subsidized Child Care
- Illinois Action For Children
- Preschool For All
- ExceleRate Illinois
- Tips for choosing quality care
- The newly-Revised Illinois Dept. of Children and Family Services Sunshine Page
Head Start & Early Head Start
- Illinois Action For Children Head Start and Early Head Start
- Easterseals Head Start and Early Head Start South Suburban Locations
- Aunt Martha's Head Start - Park Forest
- Head Start Association Directory - Indiana
- CDC – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention- Child Development
- Early Childhood Learning & Knowledge Center (ECLKC)
- Child Care Aware of America
- National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
- For Families
- The Parent Toolkit
- Parenting Without a Partner: Raising Happy and Healthy Children by Yourself
- The 10 Most Powerful Things You Can Say to Your Kids
- DCFS Healthy Kids page
- STAR NET Region VI
- Center For Parent Information and resources
- Family Matters Parent Training and Information Center
- Good Shepard Center for Exceptional Children
- Understood.org
For screening, evaluation and services in South Suburban Cook County Contact:
Early Intervention (birth – 3 yrs.)
Easter Seals Society of Metropolitan Chicago
17300 S. Ozark Ave. – North Building
Tinley Park, IL 60477
708-429-8231 or 1-800-597-7798
Or search for your local provider under Child and Family Connections at the Child Find Project website.
For children ages 3-5, contact the special education coordinator in your local school district.