ZERO TO THREE is a national nonprofit that informs, trains and supports professionals, policymakers, and parents in their efforts to improve the lives of infants and toddlers. This organization helps babies and toddlers get a strong start in life by supporting parents with practical resources that help them connect more positively, deeply and continuously with their children.

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Get FREE messages each week on your cell phone to help you through your pregnancy and your baby’s first year. Messages relate to health and safety, playing with your baby and encouraging his/her development. To sign up, text “baby” to 51141 or Envia BEBE al 511411 para Español. Text4baby is an educational program of the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition.

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An initiative of the Bezos Family Foundation (BFF), Vroom delivers free, easy-to-use learning tips for children 5 and under to your phone. Available in English and Spanish, Vroom has 1000+ tips to turn everyday moments with your child into brain-building moments.

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Bloom Bright is a free, family-focused texting program that delivers fun and engaging ideas for learning with your child– age birth to five! Participating families receive regular text messages with simple ways to support early learning at home and foster positive relationships with early childhood educators. Bloom Bright is a service of Early Learning Indiana’s Partnerships for Early Learners and is presented by PNC Bank.

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Brighter Futures Indiana is a new website and resource for Indiana families to support a child’s learning at home and in child care. Families can find learning ideas (ages birth to five), information on developmental milestones, and useful blog posts (book ideas, potty-training, crawling, and more). Families can also search for child care, learn about financial assistance, Paths to QUALITY, and what makes a high-quality child care site.

Brighter Futures Indiana is brought to Hoosiers through a partnership with the Indiana FSSA Office of Early Childhood and Out-of-School Learning and Early Learning Indiana, with additional support from the Lilly Endowment, Inc.

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Conscious Discipline creates a compassionate culture and facilitates an intentional shift in adult understanding of behavior via the Conscious Discipline Brain State Model. It then provides specific brain-friendly, research-backed strategies for responding to each child's individual needs with wisdom. This highly effective approach is proven to increase self-regulation, sense of safety, connection, empathy and intrinsic motivation in both children and adults. 

ReadyRosie is an early education tool that helps families, schools, and communities across the nation deepen and scale their family engagement efforts. Our tools leverage the power of video modeling, family workshops, professional development opportunities, and mobile technology to build powerful partnerships between families and educators, resulting in Ready Families, Ready Educators, Ready Children.

CASY provides “cradle to college” services to ensure that every child has the chance to grow up in safe, nurturing environments in our community.