Family Information & Early Learning Resources
Enhance Learning
At STAR NET, we believe that access to high-quality resources empowers educators, caregivers, and families to support young children in reaching their fullest potential. Search our Recommended Resources for more.
Reach Out and Read Illinois
A program of the Illinois Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (ICAAP), Reach Out & Read Illinois prepares low-income children for kindergarten by incorporating books into pediatric visits from six months to five years, connecting families to neighborhood resources and encouraging families to read together by building on the relationship between parents and healthcare providers. ROR believes that children’s books build better brains, better family relationships, and happier, healthier children and societies. Their website provides a wealth of resources to to promote family reading time, including screen-free activities, children’s book lists- including special needs and diversity topics, Spanish early literacy resources, and much more.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets is a national multimedia literacy initiative offering information and resources on how young children learn to read and why so many struggle, and providing research-based strategies to teachers and parents to support the children’s literacy development.
SesameStreet.org
Provides games, activities, and videos from Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization working to help meet the development needs of children everywhere with critical early education, social impact programs, and fun.
Stop Bullying.gov
Managed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, StopBullying.gov provides information and resources for families and professionals about what bullying and cyberbullying are, who is at risk, and how to prevent and respond to bullying.
YWCA Metropoloitan Chicago Strong Families
Strong Families is a YWCA Metropolitan Chicago service for families of children prenatal to 17 years of age. Strong Families empowers parents in their natural and learned abilities to be loving and protective parents while promoting healthy child development, supporting and enhancing their journey to self-sufficiency, self-realization and self-fulfillment through home visiting and peer group learning services, as well as developmental opportunities for parents.
Zero to Three
Provides resources, information, education and support for adults to build healthy relationships with infants and toddlers, grow skills as a professional and become an advocate for change.