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'The Nurturing Center's goal is to ensure that children are treated with respect and live in safety with secure, healthy relationships.'

 

Family Services

Child Care Assistance - Scholarship program that helps pay child care costs for income eligible families

Child Care Referrals - Find quality child care that best suits your family’s needs

Legally Unregistered Providers - Family/friend care for

scholarship program

Raising Healthy Children - Articles, tips and videos on how

to parent children into healthy, happy adults

 

Parent Education Classes and Support Groups

Parenting is the hardest job you’ll ever have. Let us be your safety net.

Divorce Education Classes

Father's Resource Web Links

Grandparents Raising Grandchildren - Grandparent Support group

Parenting Classes

ParentShare - Support group for parents with infants & toddlers,meets weekly

Resource Library – Books, Videos and Audio Tapes with Information on Child Development and Family Issues, such as divorce, special needs and single parenting.

 

Child Care Provider Services

Child care provider training and technical support

“Mini grant applications are now available from the Nurturing Center. For more information or to download an application click here, call or stop by! Mini Grant proposals for the 3rd quarter are due into the Nurturing Center by 5:00 pm Thursday, April 1, 2010.

Activity/Theme Boxes - Available to Early Care Educators to borrow to stimulate young minds.

Recruitment and Training – Assistance and support in establishing a career in the Early Care and Education field.

Child and Adult Care Food Program

Nutrition education and reimbursement program that supports registered Early Care Educators serve nutritionally appropriate meals and snacks to the children in their care.

 

Mentoring

Gemini - Mentoring program for ninth grade girls matching adult women with 9th grade girls to foster resiliency.

 

Supervised Visitation

Safe Havens - Supervised visitation program - Court ordered

visitation center

Fundraising

Dreambuilders - Annual fund raiser

 

 

"Artwork and thoughts to live by"- 9 year old Colten Bonny "

 

Employment opportunities within the organization

 

Need Help in Montana?

Michelle Obama visits The Nurturing Center June 2, 2008

Michelle Obama receives artwork from Anna Stone

as Susan Christofferson looks on

Welcome to the
Healthy Montana Kids Plan
Free or low-cost health coverage for children and teenagers up to age 19

 

The Nurturing Center is Proud to Participate in Membership of the Following Organizations:

The National Association of Resource and Referral Agencies (NACCRRA) “Our Nations Leading Voice for Child Care”:  www.naccrra.net

The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) “Promoting Excellence in Early Childhood Education”:  www.naeyc.org

Flathead Chapter of the Montana Association for the Education of Young Children: www.mtaeyc.org

The Montana Nonprofit Association (MNA) “Strengthening Montana’s Nonprofits”: www.mtnonprofit.org

The Montana Child Care Resource and Referral Network (MCCR&R Network) which provides statewide leadership in shaping collaborations and strengthening local resource and referral agencies for the purpose of collectively building a diverse, high quality early care and education system accessible to all Montana families:  www.montanachildcare.com

The Child and Adult Care Food Program Sponsor's Association (TSA – The Sponsors Association) provides valuable tools to help early care educators with menu planning, technical assistance and training:   www.cacfp.org

The Kalispell Chamber of Commerce: www.kalispellchamber.com

The Whitefish Chamber of Commerce:  www.whitefishchamber.com

United Way of Flathead County:  “Live United”  www.liveunited.org

 

 
 
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146 Third Avenue West
Kalispell, Montana 59901
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756-1410 (Fax)
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