Connect for Kids / Child Advocacy 360 / Youth Policy Action Center - Taking Action, Toolkits

A Toolkit for Funding

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:30:06 -0500

Whether you're just getting started in your hometown or are part of a group already at work on behalf of kids and families, you can make a difference—but not without adequate funding. Here are some ideas Connect for Kids has compiled, with help from our online community, to get you started.

Toolkits for Community Change

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:58:28 -0500

The Innovation Center offers excellent, free guides to mapping community strengths and needs, engaging youth and adults together, planning civic and local action—and creating lasting change in communities and for participants.

School Safety and Security Toolkit: A Guide for Parents, Schools, and Communities

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 13:29:29 -0500

This National Crime Prevention Council toolkit acts as a step-by-step guide for forming an action team, assessing school safety and security, holding a forum with stakeholders to brainstorm solutions, developing and promoting an action plan, and evaluating the results.

Toolkit for Action

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:52:48 -0500

If you have ever worked with a teacher to improve your child's education or you have been an advocate—someone who looks out for the interests of another, someone who speaks up on behalf of another. Advocates identify a problem, an unrecognized need, a service gap in a caring community, an injustice, possibly a mistake or unintended consequence in a policy or procedure that hurts those who cannot speak up for themselves. And then they go to work to find solutions.

Career Planning for Youth with Challenges: A Guide

Thu, 04 Aug 2005 14:27:02 -0500

This guide is designed to help adults working with adolescents and youth find appropriate assessments and support young people's career development. It also provides a learning needs screening tool for youth with suspected learning disabilities.

Finding Financing

Mon, 19 Jun 2006 08:12:07 -0500

This Northwest Finance Circle Toolkit gives child care centers an accounting outline to calculate the true cost of quality budgets. Even if the budget is beyond the reach of what parents can pay, it c

Helping Eligible Employees and Clients Access EITC: A Toolkit

Mon, 01 Aug 2005 14:00:56 -0500

If your nonprofit organization works with low-wage families, you can help make sure they don't miss out on important federal tax benefits that can add up to as much as $4,200. This toolkit from the National Assembly's Family Strengthening Policy Center explains the Earned Income Tax Credit and offers ways to inform your clients and employees. For multiple hard copies, contact or call 202-347-2080, Ext.

Better Child Care, Preschool and Afterschool Toolkit

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 13:37:17 -0500

Family Initiative's Action Kit has a step-by-step guide and tools to take action and create better quality, more affordable child care choices for families.

Making the Best of Tax Time

Mon, 01 Aug 2005 14:02:33 -0500

With April 15th fast approaching, families are wrestling with their tax forms and hoping for refunds. A key tool for easing the tax burden on low-income working families is the Earned Income Tax Credit. Fortunately, there's lots of help available online to assist taxpayers in taking advantage of the EITC.

YouthARTS Toolkit for At-Risk Youth

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 13:38:24 -0500

The YouthARTS Web site is designed to give arts agencies, juvenile justice agencies, social service organizations, and other community-based organizations detailed information about how to plan, run, provide training, and evaluate arts programs for at-risk youth.

School Psychologists Cultural Competence Toolkit

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:27:58 -0500

Children are growing up in a culturally diverse world. The National Association of School Psychologists has a toolkit on cultural and ethnic diversity, with a self-assessment checklist for school pers

Thinking About Starting a Non-Profit?

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:57:03 -0500

How do you turn those brilliant ideas into an organization to help your community? Cecilia Garcia offers a summary of resources to help you start a non-profit organization.

Community Toolkit for Preventing Lead Poisoning

Mon, 09 May 2005 13:59:05 -0500

The Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning's Community Tool Kit is intended to help communities fight childhood lead poisoning by focusing lead screening where it can do the most good, increasing screening for children in target communities.

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Advocacy Toolkit

Mon, 09 May 2005 14:03:13 -0500

This toolkit helps educators make the case for stronger public education with policymakers and the public.

Stress Reduction for Busy Parents

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 13:40:11 -0500

A warm bath or a phone call to a friend can help parents from losing their patience with children. Find more tips from the YWCA in conjunction with its annual Week Without Violence.