Toolkits
Posted on February 3, 2005
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.
Want to stop bullying? We've gathered some resources to get you started.
Posted on August 25, 2004
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 can be used to demonstrate the gap between the true cost of high quality programs and the actual price parents are charged for services.
Posted on August 24, 2004
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. 25.
Encouraging your child to apply to and attend college, and supporting that effort in as many ways as you can, is one of the most important efforts you can make as a parent or guardian. To help, Connect for Kids has put together this tool kit to help parents and their children understand the college process. It includes everything from scholarship searches to courses your child should be taking at what year to search engines helping you decide on the right college.
Posted on July 28, 2004
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.
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.
Posted on November 17, 2003
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.
Posted on October 30, 2003
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 personnel.
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.
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