Cooper County

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Local Resources

• Aging
  • Older Adults and the World Wide Web: A Guide for Web Site Creators July 1999
  • SPRY Institute (Setting Priorities for Retirement Years)

  • Successful Aging (Under Construction)

• Disability Resources
  • 800 Numbers for Organizations Serving the Disabled
  • Cooper County Contacts for Children with Autism
  • Information and Services for Disabled
  • Special Education Needs Information for Parents
  • Special Education Needs Information for Teachers
  • Special Education - Home Schoolers
  • Support Groups
  • Terms and Definitions
• Domestic Violence
  • Missouri Adult Abuse Act
  • Missouri Categories of Assaults in Domestic Violence
  • Missouri Domestic Violence Relief Available Through Protection Orders

  • Personalized Safety Plan (What is Needed When Separating from Abuser)

• Financial Issues
  • Missouri Self-Sufficiency Standard: Necessary Wages for Essential Needs
  • Poverty in Missouri (Information for Families)
  • Poverty Guidelines
  • Volunteer Taxpayer Assistance for the Elderly
  • Wages Required in Cooper County to Meet Household/Family Needs
    
• Juvenile Issues
  • Office of Juvenile Justice Department of Justice Publications
  • Cornell University Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors Program Web Sites
• Marital & Family Life
  • Family Works: Strategies for Building Stronger Families (13 strategies with a wealth of supporting information). Strategies cover: Respect; Anger; Stress; Managing Time; Values; Responsibility; Schools; Discipline; The Teen Years; Gangs; Drugs; Cultural Diversity; and Maximizing Learning.
  • Preparing for Marriage
    • Whom Not to Marry !
    • Choosing A Spouse
    • Is Marriage Good for Your Health?
  • Marital and Family Life
    • Doing What Happily Married People Do
    • Balancing Family and Work
    • Family Recreation
    • Women May Be Inhibiting Greater Father Involvement in Family Work
  • Religion, Family and Culture Project  (The Religion, Culture, and Family Project seeks to address the contemporary situation of American families from a range of theological, historical, legal, biblical, and cultural perspectives.)
    
• Pregnancy and New Born
  • Lamaze.com (Pregnancy and New Baby)

• Newsletters
  • Central Missouri Region Thriving Newsletter
    
• Parenting
  • 31 Practical Tips for Parents On Everything from Removing Splinters to Handling Whining Compiled from Assorted Parent Soup Weekly Tips
  • Children and Computer Technology
  • Dads (Me and My Dad) Strengthening relationships between Dads and Kids
  • Fathers
  • Focus on Kids (FOK) (For Divorcing / Separating Parents)
  • Future Of Children Reports from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation
  • I'm Not Going to Get Anything Done Today
  • Licensed Childcare Providers in Cooper, Howard and Saline Counties
  • Links for Parents/Educators
  • Playful Parenting
  • Prisoners As Parents Information
  • Raising Healthy, Happy, Confident and Competent Children
  • Siblings

  • What a Parent Means to A Child

• Youth
  • Cooper County 4-H
  • Guide to the Business of Babysitting (Ages 14 to 19)

  • Links for Kids
    

Links to Other Resources

• Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
  • Missouri Grandparent/Kinship Caregiver Coalition
• Links for Parents/Educators
• Links for Family Life Enrichment
• Mid-Missouri Alzheimer Association Support Group Locations, Times, Contacts
• Multicultural Issues
• Safety Issues

Resources for Central Missouri Families

• Central Missouri Family Life page Learn how University of Missouri Extension can help your family.
• Central Missouri Health and Nutrition page Find information to keep your family healthy.
• Central Missouri Children and Teens page Get help with parenting and child development.
• Thriving Newsletter Subscribe today for information on family life.
• The Senior View Newsletter Get news designed for people age 50 and older
• Central Missouri Alzheimer Support Groups Find support close to home.

Missouri-Wide Family Life Resources

• Center on Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy and Parenting

• Missouri Volunteer Resource Mothers

• University of Missouri Extension Family Life Main Page
• MU Extension Publications Library Search for information on family life

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