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Early Childhood Colorado Framework

The Early Childhood Colorado Framework is a shared vision that Colorado is a place where all children are valued, healthy and thriving. Since 2008, the Colorado early childhood community has embraced the Framework. The Framework includes guiding principles, a visual definition of a strong early childhood system including program domains and infrastructural elements, desired outcomes, and a shared vision.
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Child Development, Assessment, and Screening | Data / Research / Policy | Health and Safety | Mental Health / Social Emotional Wellness | Parents, Families, and Community | Providers and Educators

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advocacy | child development | Colorado | early learning | equity | family | health | social emotional | strengthening families

Infectious Diseases in Child Care Settings

These guidelines were developed for child care providers and health consultants, school nurses, and other personnel in child care and school settings, and compiled by the Communicable Disease branch at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
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Health and Safety

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Colorado | health | safety

Woven Care

Woven Care is a private outpatient therapy clinic serving patients in Aurora, Monument, Colorado Springs, and Pueblo, Colorado. As a private therapy practice, the Shandy Clinic provides personalized, individual therapy in a friendly, family environment. They evaluate and treat the following areas: Adaptive Development Articulation / Language Autism Spectrum Balance Feeding Fine & Gross Motor Skills General Developmental Delays Handwriting Learning Disabilities Motor Planning Sensory Processing Stuttering
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Child Development, Assessment, and Screening | Health and Safety | Mental Health / Social Emotional Wellness

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autism | child assessment | child development | developmental delays | developmental disabilities | early intervention | health | screening | special education | special needs | speech therapy | therapy

Denver Water Lead Reduction Program

NO amount of lead exposure is safe for young children. Children may be exposed to lead from a variety of sources, including lead-containing water pipes. Though the water that Denver Water provides is safe, clean and lead-free, lead can get into the water as it moves through customer-owned plumbing, so they’re replacing customer service lines, one impacted property at a time. To find out if you live in one of them, visit their website.    
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Health and Safety | Parents, Families, and Community

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Denver | health

ABCD

ABCD stands for Assuring Better Health & Child Development. ABCD educates, equips and partners with primary care, early childhood and community agencies who serve children to make it easier for Colorado families to access developmental screenings, referrals and support.  
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Child Development, Assessment, and Screening | Health and Safety

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0-3 | autism | challenging behavior | child assessment | child development | Colorado | developmental delays | developmental disabilities | early intervention | health | infant | mental health | screening | special education | special needs | toddlers | vaccines

HealthyChildren.org

HealthyChildren.org is a parenting website backed by 66,000 pediatricians committed to the attainment of optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents and young adults. Information on this website comes from the nation's leading child health experts, with scientific research to support recommendations.  
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Health and Safety | Mental Health / Social Emotional Wellness | Parents, Families, and Community

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0-3 | child development | health | immunizations | infant | mental health | safe sleep | safety | screening | toddlers | vaccines

Office of Children’s Affairs

The Denver Mayor’s Office of Children's Affairs regularly compiles briefs, reports and presentations on child health, child population, child poverty, disconnected youth, early childhood and public school data, as well as the comprehensive Status of Denver Children report, a data-based publication containing a wealth of information specifically about Denver’s kids.  
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Data / Research / Policy | Equity | Finding Child Care and Preschool | Health and Safety | Parents, Families, and Community | Providers and Educators

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0-3 | birth to eight | child care | Denver | health

Colorado Crisis Services

Mental health is one of the most common reasons why a child or youth involved with the child welfare system is in congregate care. A child or youth's mental health issues may be addressed at a lower level by better connecting families with the services available through Colorado Crisis Services. Help get kids the right care, at the right time, in the right place.      
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Mental Health / Social Emotional Wellness | Parents, Families, and Community

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challenging behavior | counseling | health | mental health | social emotional | special needs