Finding Help Paying for Child Care. This brochure addresses the difficulties many families face in meeting the cost of child care. It describes how families might be able to reduce child care costs by taking advantage of child care subsidies, tax credits, and exploring alternatives to full-time care. Available at: www.childcareaware.org.

A Guide for Dads: Give Your Child an Early Lead in Life...Quality Child Care. This brochure is written specifically for fathers, to help them get and stay involved with their child's early care and education. It describes key indicators of child care quality and tips for choosing child care. Available at: www.childcareaware.org.

Learning to Read & Write Begins at Birth. Available in English and Spanish, this brochure explains how parents and caregivers can build children's early reading and writing skills. Published by Child Care Aware for the Child Care Bureau, the brochure provides an Early Literacy Child Care Checklist to help parents evaluate the early literacy materials offered by caregivers. Available at: http://childcareaware.org/en/tools/pubs/. 

Supporting an Early Learning Framework CD-ROM This interactive tool includes research, practice, and resources focused on the President's Good Start, Grow Smart early literacy initiative. It includes video clips of plenary sessions and selected workshops, PowerPoint presentations, handouts, electronic links, and additional resources available for download. Available at: http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/sam2004.

Good Start, Grow Smart Training Tools. To help States implement Good Start, Grow Smart, the National Child Care Information Center produced several training tools addressing the three major areas of the early learning initiative:

• Early Learning Guidelines

• Professional Development

• Linking Early Learning Guidelines and Professional Development

Available at: http://nccic.org/pubs/goodstart/index.html.