National Websites

AGS Publishing
AGS Publishing produces assessments, textbooks, and instructional materials for people with a wide range of needs. Since 1957, we have been committed to supporting our customers and those they serve through our high-quality, reliable products.
Our company is a recognized leader in publishing individually administered tests to measure cognitive ability, achievement, behavior, speech and language skills, and personal and social adjustment. Our group-administered tests for reading and math provide detailed information about individual ability in an efficient, easy-to-use format.

Baby TALK
Our mission is to encourage parents in the nurture of their very young children (ages 0-3 years). Using a method of anticipatory guidance, Baby TALK provides information and services to parents to equip them for challenges and to help them enjoy their children's development.

Bright Futures
Bright Futures is a national health promotion initiative dedicated to the principle that every child deserves to be healthy and that optimal health involves a trusting relationship between the health professional, the child, the family, and the community as partners in health practice.

Foundation for Early Learning
Supporting the profound learning children experience from birth through age five.

Healthy Beginnings
Healthy Beginnings is an interactive teaching tool for people working with families, teachers, and early childhood caregivers. Healthy Beginnings translates brain research and theory into practical applications for the social, emotional, physical and cognitive development of young children (prenatal to age 5).

I Am Your Child
A national non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness about the importance of early childhood development and school readyness.

MOPS
MOPS stands for Mothers of Preschoolers. MOPS International exists to meet the needs of every mom - urban, suburban, and rural moms, stay-at-home and working moms, teen, single, and married moms - moms with different lifestyles who all share a similar desire to be the very best moms they can be! Many local MOPS groups in Skagit County.

Talaris Research Institute
Talaris Research Institute is dedicated to discovering how children think, feel and learn. From birth to age five, a child observes, experiments, and begins to understand the world — a learning experience unmatched by any other.

Touchpoints
Brazelton Touchpoints Center offers training based on the work of  Dr. T. Berry  Brazelton  which combines relationship building and child development into a framework that professionals can use to enhance their work with families.  We train professionals from a variety of disciplines and settings who incorporate the model into their individual practice or more broadly into the community.

United General Hospital, Sedro Woolley, Washington

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United Way of Skagit County
Through a vast network of volunteers and community service agencies, United Ways throughout America help meet the health and human-care needs of millions of people every day.

Washington Assoc. for the Education of Young Children
Washington AEYC is the professional organization for those working with children ages birth through eight years old in Washington. 
We have 17 Local Affiliate Chapters and almost 2,000 members throughout the state.

Welcome Baby
Welcome Baby, Durham County, North Carolina.
A great resource and has a wonderful series of developmental newsletters on-line in both English and Spanish.

Zero to Three
The nations leading resource on the first years of life, for parents and professionals.

Local Pregnancy Resources in Skagit County

Skagit County Public Health Dept.
(Pregnacy Tests, WIC, First Steps)

Skagit County Community Action Agency
(WIC, First Steps)

Island Prenatal Care Center (First Steps)

Swinomish Health Clinic (WIC, First Steps)

Upper Skagit Tribal Health (WIC)

Mother-Baby Services, United General (WIC)

Sea-Mar Community Health Center (First Steps)

Baby Line at Skagit Valley Hospital Family
Birth Center - for help with breastfeeding issues

Welcome Baby! Warm Line

First Steps Medical Coverage (DSHS Call Center,
Pregnancy Tests)

Kiwanis Maternity Lending Center

Childbirth Education

Local Early Childhood Resources in Skagit County

Skagit County Public Health Dept.

Child Care Resource & Referral

Children's Museum of Skagit County

Head Start, Skagit & Island Counties

Anacortes School District

Burlington-Edison School District

Concrete School District

Conway School District

La Conner School District

Mount Vernon School District

Sedro Woolley School District (Good Beginnnings)

SPARC

Skagit County At-Risk Intervention
Specialist Program

Data Sources

Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction

State of Washington's Children

US Census Bureau