MPL offers much more than just books. Checkout their programs & events for kids, teens, and adults.
Wesley's mission is to empower children, adults, and families by providing transformational care.
Created to enrich communities and empower moms, this site has helpful articles and lists local kid and family events.
If you want to find out if you qualify for Pennsylvania health and human services, apply for new benefits, finish your app or check your status, you're in the right place.
This handbook is for PA public school students.
KidSmartz is a child safety program that educates
families about preventing abduction and empowers kids in grades K-5 to practice safer behaviors. Click the gray button to get various back to school
ideas and tips for a great year! A child may get discouraged and put her/himself down. Discover what is meant and how to respond.
"Building Stronger Schools with Parent Power"
Click here for more info. The Community Justice Project is a non-profit, legal aid law firm.
Here are resources for parents, educators, and professionals serving children and families.
This trusted, non-profit sites provides trustworthy information, education, and an independent voice dedicated to improving the lives of kids and families. Common Sense is the leading source of entertainment & technology recommendations for families & schools.
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Pittsburgh's online guide to everything for kids, teens, & families!
Mission: Healing trauma, supporting victims and creating social change for a more peaceful community.
We Need Diverse Books™, an organization of children’s book lovers, advocates essential changes in the publishing industry to produce and promote books that reflect and honor the lives of all young people.
"This resource guide was created in direct response to the multiple requests made by educators, parents and students. Like Marley Dias, so many of you have asked for books with black girls as the main characters. "
Scroll down on the first page to see Marley's list of books to read! Type in a Lexile measure and find the books you'd like to read!
Click here to read more on lexiles and grade equivalencies.
(You can click on the pic to enlarge the chart.) Eye See Me is an African American children's book store!
Read to/with your kids- not just books. Click here!
Presented here is a myriad of African American authors and illustrators for all young readers!
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Forget what's what?!
Click here for grammar refreshers! Lots of resources on books, life,
learning, school success... There are activities too! The Pittsburgh Assoc. for the Education of Young Children offers advocacy, community resources, & more.
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The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people’s history in middle and high school classrooms across the country.
"A child’s early language exposure is pivotal in language development and in educational and intellectual achievement."
Here you'll find great K -12 resources
"committed to diversity, equity and justice." Contact RAMP for tutoring info. "The vision of RAMP, Inc. is for our communities to have an environment of academic excellence."
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PitCare helps locals! Click here for info on the many resources like the food pantry, library, dinners, basketball games...
They're there to help you! Click here for free resources to learn ADHD-tested discipline tips, positive parenting techniques, how to manage treatment, school and learning resources...
Click the gray button for "the best selection of multicultural and social justice books for children, young adults and educators"!
The On Our Sleeves movement, launched on World Mental Health Day 2018, is on a mission to break the silence surrounding children’s mental health. With free on-line content and resources, On Our Sleeves is offering hope to families navigating mental health issues.
Family Behavioral Resources offers behavior consultation & intervention services, trauma informed care, and family friendly & solution focused care. FBR works in schools, homes, and communities servicing children with diagnosed behavioral and mental health disorders. They also provide outpatient mental health therapy.
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Soul Pitt ® is a NMSDC Certified MBE, multi-channel local media company serving the African-American population in Western PA with its award-winning platforms
TheSoulPitt.com and Soul Pitt Quarterly print magazine. Click above for ideas on how to be involved!
Test your knowledge with the quiz;
review the resources to learn & relearn some hard history. The It Gets Better Project is a nonprofit organization
with a mission to uplift, empower, and connect LGBTQ youth around the globe. Here's a pamphlet from the PA Bar Association.
Click here for math & reading guides created for parents of kids in grades K-8 and high school!
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