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Office Hours
The Building Direction for Families office hours are:
8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Monday through Thursday or by appointment.
If hours change due to meetings and obligations away from
the office, we try to put an announcement under "What's New?" or on the answering
machine.
2008-09 Statewide Voluntary Preschool Program funds awarded!
FY09 Preschool Scholarship Information
Click on a link below for more information, please note that these documents may change after legislative language from the 2008 session has been made available. If that happens, these documents will be update.
Useful Links!
This early care, health, and education professional development website is devoted exclusively to early childhood professional development. The site was developed to meet the needs of providers in the early care, health, and education fields. The site includes information on research and the importance of professional development as well as links to related information.
Early Childhood Iowa is an alliance of stakeholders charged to be a catalyst in Iowa's early care, health, and education systems.
Iowa's Early Childhood Parent Website was created to provide free objective, medically accurate early care, health, and education information for families in Iowa.
News and research on childhood obesity
As reported on National Public Radio, Morning Edition, on April 4, 2007: In the last 40 years, obesity rates in school-age children have more than quadrupled costing an estimated $14 billion per year in health-related care.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced on April 4, 2007 they are committing $500 million dollars over the next five years to help reverse the childhood obesity trend in America.
Click here to read more about the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announcement.
The National Institute for Early Education Research website has posted a recent report from the Society for Research in Child Development that presents a comprehensive review of the childhood obesity epidemic.
To access the PDF of the report, either go to the NIEER website and look under 'Latest Research' or click here for the direct link.
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