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Parents on the go demand quick and easy access to the resources and services they need! IdleChild's Resource section is every family's essential guide to schools, entertainers, childcare, education - even great ideas for weekend fun or a getaway. And much more!


North Sound


Whatcom Center for Early Learning
2001 H Street
Bellingham, WA 98225-3226
Phone: (360) 671-3660
Fax: (360) 650-9411
Email: info@wcel.net
Hours: Monday - Thursday, 830AM - 500PM
Website
Whatcom Center for Early Learning provides comprehensive, family-centered early intervention services to children ages birth to three with special needs. At Whatcom Center for Early Learning (WCEL), parents choose the services that fit their child and family. Some families come to our Big Blue House every week to explore and learn in our therapeutic parent-child playgroups. In nice weather, playgroups are held outside in WCEL’s nationally-recognized outdoor play area. Because children learn best in a familiar environment, therapy sessions for speech and/or physical development often take place at home visits. Staff also provide treatment at childcare centers or other places in the community. Children of all abilities learn together in our Sensational Toddlers and Ferndale Toddler Time classes.


Urban Streams Education Program for Youth
Website
The City of Bellingham offers a series of education programs and stewardship lessons for Bellingham elementary school classes. Programs begin with second-grade students learning about Fishy Connections and continue through the fourth grade with Sharing Our Watersheds, Salmon, Streams, Stormwater and You.


Central Sound


Center on Human Development and Disability
University of Washington
Box 357920
Seattle, WA 98195
Phone: (206) 543-7701
Website
The Center on Human Development and Disability (CHDD) at the University of Washington makes important contributions to the lives of people with developmental disabilities and their families, through a comprehensive array of research, clinical services, training, community outreach, and dissemination activities.


Seattle Children's
4800 Sand Point Way N.E.
Seattle, WA 98105
Phone: (206) 987-2000
Website
Seattle Children's is ranked as one of the best children's hospitals in the country by U.S. News & World Report and Child magazines. Seattle Children's serves as the pediatric referral center for Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho.

Founded in 1907, Seattle Children's provides excellent patient care with compassion and respect, and conducts cutting-edge pediatric research. We also serve as a respected educational resource for parents and healthcare professionals alike.


Eastside


Childrens Institute for Learning Differences (CHILD)
4030 86th Ave. S.E.
Mercer Island, WA 98040
Phone: (206) 232-8680
Website


DreamBox Learning
10900 NE 8th Street (Plaza Center)
Suite 600
Bellevue, Washington 98004
P: (425) 637-8900
F: (425) 451-4906
www.dreambox.com

A great online educational experience is now possible for every child. Every day, great teachers are making a difference, but not everyone has access to a great education. With the global reach of the web and the power of software, DreamBox Learning delivers the effectiveness of great teachers to benefit any student, anytime, anywhere. We are successful educators, entrepreneurs, technologists, and creative designers. We're also parents with a passion for helping our children - and all children - succeed through effective web-based learning.

Our expert educators have created a deep, standards-based math curriculum with hundreds of interactive lessons. Our designers have wrapped those lessons in fun game-based adventures. And, most importantly, we don't just check the number of right answers at the end of a lesson to determine whether to promote a child to the next lesson as other "learning games" do. Instead, our powerful GuideRightTM technology constantly adapts and fine-tunes each lesson to best meet a child's unique needs and learning style, significantly increasing each child's success rate!


Family Services/Listening Mothers
11911 N.E. 1st Street, Suite 300 - Bellevue, WA 98005
Phone: (425) 450-0332
Website
Small groups for new mothers and their babies designed to help mothers adjust to parenthood and establish a strong lasting bond with their children.


Family Services/Beyond the Baby Blues
11911 N.E. 1st Street, suite 300
Bellevue, WA 98005
Phone: (425) 450-0332
Website
Treatment for pregnancy and postpartum emotional difficulties. Individual, couple and mother-infant psychotherapy, free drop-in support group.


Family Services/Bringing Baby Home
11911 N.E. 1st Street, Suite 300
Bellevue, WA 98005
Phone: (425) 450-0332
Website
Workshop for expecting and new parents. Learn how to keep a happy relationship after you bring your baby home.


Family Services/Parent-Infant Mental Health
11911 N.E. 1st Street, Suite 300
Bellevue, WA 98005
Phone: (425) 450-0332
Website
Therapy to help parents address the more complex issues that arise when raising a baby and help parents develop a healthy attachment with their baby.


Family Services/Reflective Parenting
11911 N.E. 1st Street, Suite 300
Bellevue, WA 98005
Phone: (425) 450-0332
Website
Parenting group to explore your child's thoughts, feelings and motivations, and your own. Understand and respond to your child's behaviors in appropriate and sensitive ways.


International Middle School
3795 E. Mercer Way
Mercer Island, WA
Phone: (206) 275-3533
Website
A unique, integrated program that builds in Middle School students the knowledge and skills needed to become informed, active citizens of the world. Students from the community have the opportunity to join the international program at the French American School of Puget Sound and participate in a rigorous curriculum open to the world. International Middle School. Opening 6th grade in 2008.


Kindering Center
16120 N.E. 8th St.
Bellevue, WA 98008
Phone: 425-747-4004 TTY 1-800-833-6388
Website
For more than 40 years, the non-profit Kindering Center has helped children who are disabled, medically fragile or vulnerable because of abuse or neglect. The center's comprehensive services include developmental assessments; physical and occupational therapy; speech and language therapy; family counseling; nutrition and feeding; foster care; a fathers support group; a mothers support group; child care and sibling support. The center also has an extensive special education focus. Choices include parent and infant classes; a family co-op playgroup; home and in-center visits; and a toddler preschool.


Lindamood Bell Learning
3055 112th Ave. N.E., Suite 108
Bellevue, WA
Phone: (425) 827-6288
Website
Internationally renowed leader in educational research and remediation has pioneered learning programs helping children learn to their full potential


South Sound


South Sound Association for the Education of Young Children
Website
Are you interested in joining a professional association geared specifically to build better futures for all children? Our affiliate shares NAEYC's goal of providing quality programs for young children while offering a professional development resource for adults.


Olympic Peninsula


Sunfield Farm and School
10903 Rhody Drive
Port Hadlock, WA 98339
Phone: (360) 385-3658
Website
Sunfield Farm and School provides learning opportunities for all ages interested in creating balance between nature, agriculture, and our human needs. Programs are developing for youth from public and independent schools.


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