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Stay Connected with the Brightwheel Mobile App
Brightwheel allows users to get real-time updates throughout the day. Receive photos, connect with teachers, see your child's activities, and so much more!
Learn more about Brightwheel HERE
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Local Resources
These linked resources will guide you to external sites.
Best Beginnings Child Care Scholarship Program
The Early Childhood Services Bureau offers Best Beginnings child care scholarships to qualified low-income families whose child receives care from a licensed child care center, licensed group or family child care home, or Family, Friend, and Neighbor (FFN) child care provider.
Montana's Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children is an American federal assistance program of the Food and Nutrition Service of the United States Department of Agriculture for healthcare and nutrition of low-income pregnant women, breastfeeding women, and children under the age of five.
Montana Milestones Part C Early Intervention Program
Montana Milestones/Part C of the IDEA Early Intervention Program is Montana’s comprehensive system of early intervention services and supports for families who have infants or toddlers, from birth through three who have significant developmental delays or disabilities or have been diagnosed with an established condition associated with significant delays in development.
Helpful Links
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Conscious Discipline
Conscious Discipline believes that trauma-responsive social and emotional learning (SEL) is a lens through which transformational change in the areas of racial equality, equity and inclusion is not only possible, but essential.
Child Care Connections
Child Care Connections is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that advocates for the well-being and quality care of children by supporting early childhood professionals, families and the communities we serve.
Car Seat Safety Tips
It’s a familiar routine: strapping your child into the car seat before you get behind the wheel—but, is your child really safe?
Potty Training Resources
Potty Training: Learning to the Use the Toilet
There is not one “right” way or one “right” age to learn how to use the toilet. Here's what to keep in mind to child approach potty training.
Child Development and Parenting
Potty Training Your Child
Learn the signs that tell you your child is ready to toilet train and get tips for successful potty training.
Healthy Children
Potty Training
In order for a toddler to be successfully potty trained, she needs to be able to sense the urge to go, be able to understand what the feeling means, and then be able to verbalize that she needs your help to make it to the toilet and actually go.
