Resources

MSUE Resources

The Family and Consumer Sciences Quarterly Media Packets provide information to help families manage the details of daily life. The content is provided for Michigan State University Extension educators to share with families using local news outlets and their county newsletters. This information is based on the research and knowledge base of Michigan State University and distributed to families in communities within Michigan’s 83 counties.

To find your county MSU Extension office, visit The MSUE Office website

Child Development

• Boosting Your Baby’s Brain
• Boosting Your Older Toddler’s Brain
• Boosting Your Preschooler’s Brain
• The Importance of Movement in Kid’s Development
• Young Children and Kindergarten
• Raising a Reader
• Helping Preschooler’s Develop Early Literacy Skills
• Family Meals Get an A+
• Who’s Coming to Dinner: The Importance of Family Meals
• Making Quick and Healthy Kid-Approved Meals
• Working with Picky Eaters: The Toddler Years
• Nourishing the Brain You Send to School Every Day
• Think Different: Using Candy to Reward Children
• Healthy Habits Build Healthy Kids
• Outdoor Fitness Fun
• Get Your Family Moving for Better Health
• Tips for Managing Family Stress
• Helping Your Child Learn about Money Management
• What Do Kids Want?
• Making the Child Care Choice
• Exploring Your Child Care Options
• Use Play in Child Care to Enrich Learning
• What Kind of Nose is a Zoonose?
• Home Safety Search
• Healthy Homes, Healthy Families
• Mold 101
• Radon In Your Home

Child Development

• Zero to three's mission is to promote the healthy development of our nation's infants and toddlers by supporting and strengthening families, communities, and those who work on their behalf.
• Early On Michigan is a system designed to coordinate early intervention and other services for families who have children (age 0 - 36 months) experiencing developmental delays or who have disabilities or special needs.
• Bridges 4 Kids offers links to a variety of topics and services all over Michigan, the United States and Canada.
• Michigan Department of Community Healthis one of the largest departments in the state government and is responsible for health policy and management of the state's publicly-funded health service systems.

Child Care

• The Better Kid Care project is run by Michigan State University Extension. It is a statewide program that works to educate and train current and potential childcare providers.
• Michigan 4C's offers referrals for childcare as well as training information.

For Professionals

• Prevention Network is a statewide organization of volunteers and professionals, 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.
• The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is dedicated to improving the well-being of all young children, with particular focus on the quality of educational and developmental services for all children from birth through age 8.
• High/Scope Educational Research Foundation is an independent nonprofit research, development, training, and public advocacy organization with headquarters in Ypsilanti, Michigan. High/Scope's mission is to lift lives through education. We envision a world in which all educational settings use active participatory learning so everyone has a chance to succeed in life and contribute to society.
• The Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health is an organization of individuals who are devoted to strengthening relationships between infants, parents and other caregivers.
• CYFERnet's web site brings together the best children, youth and family resources of all the public land-grant universities in the country. Materials are carefully reviewed by college and university faculty. Through CYFERnet you can also interact with your colleagues and share your work nationally.
• Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to improving the lives of children by conducting research and providing science-based information to improve the decisions, programs, and policies that affect children and their families. In advancing its mission, Child Trends collects and analyzes data; conducts, synthesizes, and disseminates research; designs and evaluates programs; and develops and tests promising approaches to research in the field.