Can your foster child tell you the price of a favorite snack? Speak up when he or she is confused? The online Ansell-Casey Life Skills Assessment tool helps kids and their caregivers answer age-appropriate questions to score their life skills and identify areas for improvement.

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.

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

Medicaid is important for vulnerable families, but also for the rest of us; it helps bring revenue to states in the form of federal matching funds. This Families USA toolkit has the facts and talking points you need to make your case for preserving the Medicaid budget in your state.

Reading books together and making regular trips to the library are just some of the ways to help busy teens discover the world of literature. The American Library Association offers these tips.

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.