Resources
Find organizations, training materials, and other resources to help inform your work to support school readiness and resiliency for children and families. We continue to add to this page, so please check back often.
Other Organizations
ACEs Connection is an ever-growing social network connecting those who are implementing trauma-informed and resilience-building practices based on ACEs.
The Alfond Grant is a $500 Grant invested for Maine children for their education after high school. The Grant is a great way to help families begin to prepare, at the very start of a child’s life, for higher education. It is a gift to Maine children from Maine businessman and philanthropist Harold Alfond.
City of Biddeford Lead Hazard Reduction Initiative
The City of Biddeford’s Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Program aims to achieve lead-free homes in Biddeford. For more information on their free professional services available to detect and remediate lead hazards, visit their website.
Coastal Healthy Communities Coalition
Coastal Healthy Communities Coalition (CHCC) at the University of New England is a comprehensive community-based health coalition working to promote nutrition, substance abuse prevention and lead poisoning prevention.
Family Child Care Association of Maine
Maine’s state affiliate for the National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC).
The main focus of this organization has been to offer prevention and education based programs to children in local schools and community partnerships to promote the message that abuse is never the fault of the child and to tell a trusted adult. Over the years, programming has expanded to offer parenting support that includes Nurturing Parenting, Active Parenting and Circle of Security. Our school based programs include Healthy Relationships Project and Empathy/Personal Body Safety. Professional Trainings include Mandated Reporter Training, Safe Sleep and Period of Purple Crying, Protective Factors for Professionals, and The Front Porch Project.
Maine Association for the Education of Young Children
MaineAEYC promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. They advance a diverse, dynamic early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children and families.
Maine Dept. of Health and Human Services
Maine Early Childhood Consultation Partnership (ECCP®)
Maine ECCP® provides infant and early childhood mental health consultation, staff training, and support to child care centers, family child care providers, pre-K programs, public schools, and afterschool programs to improve the capacity of caregivers to effectively meet the needs of young children who may be experiencing challenging behaviors or social-emotional concerns. ECCP® incorporates support and resources to families of children referred for support through the child’s early childhood education or care setting.
Maine Families is a free and voluntary home visiting program offered to any family who is expecting a baby or has a newborn. Visits focus on your child’s developmental milestones, helpful tools for parenting, and knowledge about local resources you can utilize.
Maine Resilience Building Network
The Maine Resilience Building Network’s mission is to promote resilience in all people by increasing the understanding of the impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the importance
of building resilience through protective factors such as positive relationships.
Maine Roads to Quality Professional Development Network (MRTQ PDN)
Maine Roads to Quality Professional Development Network (MRTQ PDN) works to promote and support professionalism in the field of early childhood education and to improve quality through the provision of a statewide system of professional development.
Resources focused on the first three years of life, fostering emotionally nourishing relationships to lay the foundation for lifelong health and well-being.
Other Resources
Biddeford Ready! Kindergarten Readiness Checklist
English | Arabic | French | Portuguese | Spanish
State of Maine Child Care: One Year in a Pandemic, Maine AEYC Survey of Child Care Providers in Maine, Spring 2021
State of Maine Child Care: One Year in a Pandemic, Maine AEYC Survey of Child Care Providers, Spring 2021 –York County Data
Maine Kids Count 2023 Comprehensive report of the physical, social, economic and educational well-being of Maine children.
Everyday life is a learning experience for children. Born Learning is a public engagement campaign that helps parents, grandparents, and caregivers explore ways to turn everyday moments into fun learning opportunities. For more information about a child’s age and stage, download the series that documents birth to age 5.
HOPE-Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences
HOPE is a new way of seeing and talking about experiences that support children’s growth and development into healthy, resilient adults. The HOPE website includes a broad array of resources for parents, caregivers, and professionals.
Tipsheets and Resources for Guiding Early Childhood Practices
Child Development Services (CDS) Referrals
This website is for parents who are concerned about their child’s development/readiness for kindergarten and to make a referral to CDS.