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Abiding Love Lutheran Child Development Center
Abiding Love Lutheran Child Care Center is a program provided by Abiding Love Lutheran Church. It was established to care for young children in a way that tells them and their family the story of God's love through Jesus Christ.

All Austin Cooperative Nursery School
A community of parents, teachers, and children, working together to provide high-quality experiential learning for our children in a secular environment.

Any Baby Can
To enhance the lives of children with disabilities or other special health care needs: ABC works to ensure that "Any Baby Can reach maximum potential."

Arc of the Capital Area
Founded by parents concerned about the exclusion of their children with mental retardation from public schools. Also assists individuals with developmental disabilities to realize all rights and opportunities for full participation in the community.

Attachment Parenting International - Austin Chapter
API-Austin, Texas is a nonprofit, nonsectarian, and nonpartisan support group for families interested in attachment parenting (AP). Includes education in prepared childbirth and child development, breastfeeding, and keeping baby physically close.

Austin Area Human Services Association (AAHSA)
The site will contain links to services for local families. Among the members are ATC/MHMR, Lifeworks, Easter Seals,Austin Academy, Child Guidance Center, HIV Wellness Center, Any Baby Can, ARC (Association for Retarded Citizens).

Austin Children's Shelter
A private, non-profit organization providing emergency care to abused, neglected and abandoned children of all ages. Formerly known as the Children's Shelter & Assessment Center of Texas

Austin Día De Los Niños / Día De Los Libros
Austin's only bilingual celebration of books, reading, and family learning

Austin Stay at Home Dads
Austin SAHDs was formed in April, 2003. We are a group of Dads in the Austin area that take care of our kids full-time. We're looking for adult and child interaction. Our kids are from 1 month to 5 years old. We have at least 5 playdates per week.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Texas
The BBBS mission is to help children reach their potential through professionally supported one-to-one, mentoring relationships, contributing to brighter futures, better schools, and strong communities for all.

Child Abuse and Neglect Fact Sheet
Child abuse prevention information, including statistics on child abuse and neglect in Texas.

Circle C Child Development Center
Provides high quality affordable full-day and half-day child care along with after-school care and after-school tutoring programs for the families in the surrounding community. The goal is to create a happy family atmosphere and peace of mind for parents.

Connections Resource Center
To improve the quality of early care and education for our community's children.

Families with Children from China
Supports families who've adopted in China through post-adoption and Chinese culture programs; encourages adoption from China and supports waiting families; advocates for and supports children remaining in orphanages in China.

Family Forward
To prevent child abuse and neglect, prevent juvenile delinquency and school drop-out, and empower families to make healthy choices and build positive relationships.

FamilyConnections
Our mission is to improve the quality of early education and care for our community's children by providing information, education and resources to parents, caregivers, teachers and community leaders.

Great Wall China Adoption
An Austin-based group that promotes adoption of infants from the People's Republic of China.

Mainspring Schools
Mainspring Schools (formerly Austin Community Nursery Schools) provides comprehensive early education and care with a sliding-scale tuition based on a family's income; Mainspring primarily serves low-income working families.

MOMS Club Austin - South
We are a local club supporting stay at home moms.

MOMS Club of Pflugerville - NW
MOMS Club is a non-profit network of support groups for stay-at-home moms. MOMS Club is not only an easy way to meet other moms, it's also a wonderful way for our children to meet other children, learn to play together, and make friends.

MOMS Club of Round Rock
MOMS Club is a non-profit support group for stay-at-home moms. The club offers a variety of playgroups/activities for moms and their children.

Moms of Bryan/College Station Texas
An online group of moms in the Bryan/College Station area that meets for playdates, has get togethers, chat, support other events.

Open Door Schools
The Open Door Preschool is a child care program serving children and their families who represent a variety of cultures, ethnicities and abilities.

Parents Anonymous of Austin
Provides no-cost, multi-disciplined services through which family members may attain the support, encouragement, knowledge and skills needed for positive family functioning.

Pflugerville Childcare Online
Pflugerville Childcare Online is a free online resource for parents seeking quality childcare in and around the Pflugerville area.

Prevention Yellow Pages
A worldwide directory of programs, research, references and resources dedicated to the prevention of youth problems and the promotion of nurturing children.

Resolve of Central Texas
Mission is to provide support and information to people who are experiencing difficulties with fertility and building their families; to increase public awareness of fertility difficulties through education and advocacy.

Round Rock Talented and Gifted Association

Saint James Episcopal School
Pre-school that provides a Montessori-based program for children ages 3 to 6. Your children will learn at their own pace in a safe and nurturing educational environment.

San Gabriel Foster Care Association
We are a non-profit organization created to: encourage public awareness of fostering; provide training opportunities for current foster families; and provide material benefits and enrichment activities for foster children and families.

SeeMommyRun
Baby-friendly running or walking groups for moms in the Austin area.

The Settlement Home for Children
A private, non-profit agency serving children in the Austin area for nearly 100 years. We license singles, couples, and families to provide temporary or permanent homes for children who have been removed from their families for abuse and neglect.

Southwest Mothers Of Preschoolers (MOPS)
Meet other moms for our monthly speaker and brunch, attend weekly neighborhood playgroups, be encouraged as a mom!

Texas Adoption Resource Exchange
Features profiles of Texas children waiting for adoption. Published by the Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services (PRS) and distributed to adoption agencies and organized parent support groups throughout the country.

Texas Alliance of Child and Family Services
A 26-year old nonprofit membership organization that represents private agencies and individuals providing services to children and families in Texas.

Texas Baptist Children's Home
Provides distinctive, quality care and related services to children and families in crisis. Their focus is to meet the physical, emotional, social, educational and spiritual needs of children without regard for race, religion, social or economic status.

Texas Court Appointed Special Advocate
Advocates for abused and neglected children in the court system through the development, growth and support of local CASA programs. Seeks to raise public and governmental awareness about community issues concerning abused and neglected children.

Texas Parent to Parent
Supports and empowers families to be advocates for their children with disabilities, chronic illness and other special needs through parent to parent support, connections with appropriate resources and raising awareness about the needs of our families.

Travis County Children's Advocacy Center
To lessen the emotional trauma of these children during the investigation and prosecution of cases, and to improve the system's response to child abuse by uniting the efforts of public agencies and enlisting community support.

Trinity Child Development Center
A 501(c)(3) non-profit childcare center. For 36 years the center has provided creative, loving enrichment to children and families of all races in Northeast Austin.

Vibha - Austin
Vibha is a non-profit organization that seeks to restore to underprivileged children their basic rights to food, shelter, health and education -- in short, a future.

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