Family Education Network
www.familyeducation.com/home
This site serves as a resource advice and information for parents and families. Some of the highlighted topics are education, discipline, health, entertainment, and downloadable activity books.

National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education
www.ncpie.org
This is a database of resources documents about the important role families have in the academic development of children. Many of the posted resources are free. The site also offers contacts for support and information for parents of children with disabilities.

Parents as Teachers
www.patnc.org
Gaining support from national, state, and local funding, this site promotes the Parents as Teachers program, an initiative that began in 1981 to encourage parents to nurture educational development in their children from birth to age five. It site offers many resources that can help parents prepare their children for education and to help them find a program in their area.

Parents for Public Schools
www.parents4publicschools.com
Parents for Public Schools is a national organization of community-based chapters which helps public schools attract all families in a community. The web site provides parents with resources to support equality and diversity, and to help all students succeed.

Project Appleseed
www.projectappleseed.org
Project Appleseed promotes a greater involvement in children?s education by asking parents to take a pledge to agree to read with children at home, assist with homework, and increase the connection between learning at school and learning at home. This site offers multiple site links and resources to aid parents in volunteer efforts, school support, and grading their children's school.

PTO Today
www.ptotoday.com
PTO Today serves as a reference for parents who want to start a parent group or who already have one, and want ideas on how to keep it going, funding, and membership. This site also offers a magazine and parent yellow pages for contact and additional resources.

Partnership for Learning
www.EduGuide.org

Career Portal
www.michigan.gov/careers

Great Start FIA
www.ceoexpress.com/html/member/indhomework.asp

National Center on Secondary Education and Transition
www.ncset.org/default.asp
Lots of great information on this site on issues related to high school school-to-work and to transition to post-secondary schools.

National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities
www.nichcy.org/index.html
A national information and referral center that provides information on disabilities and disability-related issues for families, educators, and other professionals.

ASCD SmartBrief
www.smartbrief.com/ascd/
Designed specifically for professionals in K-12 education, ASCD SmartBrief is a FREE daily e-mail newsletter. It provides the latest education news and information you need to stay on top of issues that are important to you. Sign up today to receive ASCD SmartBrief!

ACRN Parent Involvement Guide
www.acrnetwork.org/parents.aspx

US Department of Education Helping Your Child Series
www.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/hyc.html

Michigan's Children
www.michiganschildren.org
Families and schools need to make efforts to improve communication for the benefit of their children's education. The family advocacy group Michigan's Children helps to see that happen.

GreatSchools.net
www.greatschools.net
GreatSchools.net is a nonprofit organization providing parents with information to choose schools, support their children's education, and advocate for education excellence.

Prevention Network
www.preventionnetwork.org
Prevention Network, a statewide organization of volunteers and professional, supports substance abuse prevention and related efforts in Michigan, provides services which build the capacity of diverse grassroots groups to carry out effective local solutions, and coordinates statewide awareness and advocacy initiatives.

Connect for Kids
www.connectforkids.org
Connect for Kids makes the best use of communications technologies, specifically the Internet, to give adults, parents, grandparents, guardians, educators, advocates, policymakers, elected officials and others the tools and information they need to improve the lives of children, youth and families. The Connect for Kids online publication covers more than 30 topics ranging from arts to youth development, foster care to adoption, and welfare reform to oral health.

Parenting for Tolerance
www.tolerance.org/parents/talktokids.jsp
Tolerance.org is a principal online destination for people interested in dismantling bigotry and creating, in hate's stead, communities that value diversity.

DisabilityInfo.gov
www.disabilityinfo.gov
This user-friendly Web site contains links to information of interest to people with disabilities, their families, employers, service providers and other community members.

Three4Me.com
www.three4me.com/theprogram.htm
The mission of Three for Me is to improve the well-being of children by inspiring and equipping parents/families to be effectively involved in their children's education.

National Center for Family & Community Connections with Schools
http://www.sedl.org/connections/
The National Center for Family & Community Connections with Schools bridges research and practice - linking people with research-based infromation and resources that they can use to effectively connect schools, famillies, and communities.

Family Day
http://www.casafamilyday.org/
A national effort to promote parental engagement as a simple, effective way to reduce youth substance abuse and raise healthier children.

America's Career Resource Network
http://www.acrnetwork.org
ACRN consists of state and federal organizations that provide information, resources and training on career and education exploration. This page on Career Development, for example, contains information about reaching out to hispanic populations.

Family-to-Family Health Information and Education Center http://www.bridges4kids.org/f2f/
The Family-to-Family Health Information and Education Center offers information for individuals and familys on insurance, health care, transition for youth prescription assistance, and more.

State Sets Standard for Family and Community Involvement
http://www.education.ky.gov/NR/rdonlyres/45597738-F31B-4333-9BB9-34255F02BC6D/0/PACtheMissingPiecev2.pdf
The Commissioner's Parents Advisory Council (CPAC), a group that advises the Kentucky education commissioner on policy issues, has issued a ground-breaking report that sets a state standard for family and community involvement focused on improving student achievement. The report, The Missing Piece of the Proficiency Puzzle, contains six standards-based objectives, a sweeping set of recommendations, and a comprehensive rubric.

Career Exploration Workbook
www.getcareerwise.com/career_exploration_workbook.html
Download a free Teaching Guide that shows how valuable and versatile this new 96-page, consumable workbook is for kids from 5th to 12th grade. Filled with career exploration activities, exercises, vocabulary words, a journal and more, the workbook makes career exploration relevant, fun and affordable. Kids can keep the workbook for years to come as a valuable reference. Also available online: National Council of Teachers of English Standards for the English Language Arts; the National Career Development Guidelines Framework, the American School Counselor Association national Standards for Career Development.

Bookshare
www.bookshare.org
Bookshare is the world's largest accessible digital library for persons with print and learning disabilities (such as dyslexia). Students with qualifying disabilities get FREE access to over 43,000 digital books, textbooks and teacher recommended reading, as well as assistive reading technology to help them read and study independently. Membership for students and schools is free thanks to an award from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education (OSEP).