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Of Interest to Child-Related Agencies
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The Soho Center has a long history of
successfully working with child
care-related
organizations and agencies across America. Please take
a
few
minutes to see what
we offer, and let's explore how we might work together.
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Soho
Center's Well-Reviewed "Business
of
Family
Child Care" DVD
Features
Tom Copeland (nationally-recognized tax and business expert for the
family child care field), Jeanna Beker
(Founder and Director
of the Soho Center), and many family child care
providers.
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Nationally
distributed and extensively
field-tested, this highly-produced and well-reviewed DVD is
great for group training and individual family
child care providers. The
DVD covers the basics of running a family child care
business.
It's available directly
from the Soho Center
at a special price - with free
shipping.
 NATIONAL CHILDREN'S LITERACY
WEBSITE tm
Literacy
Tips You Can Reprint for your Providers and Parents
Our
National
Children's Literacy
Website has lots of great literacy tips that work.
Many groups
across the nation have reprinted and distributed these resources
to
their clients - even translated them into other languages. If
you'd like to reprint any of this material,
please e-mail
us to discuss your interest and secure permission.
Soho Center's
Enhanced Media Capacity
 The
Soho Center collaborates with other non-profits to
create effective media - including television and radio
commercials and Public Service Announcements (PSAs), long-form
videos (educational and training programs, fundraising, etc.), and
websites. We work with
multi-award-winning media professionals and can make our media
production/post-production facility available at very affordable rates.
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If
you would like to discuss possible media collaborations or want to
explore using media to enhance your outreach or publicity
efforts, please e-mail
the Soho Center's Media Team
An Example of Soho's Media/Outreach Capabilities 
The
Soho Center created three attractive 0:30
second TV and radio commercials to
publicize the USDA Food Program and help CACFP Sponsors increase CACFP
participation.
NOTE:
If you go to this page, you can watch one of these spots online.
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These highly-produced spots
feature Linda Ronstadt
performing Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You,"
along with lots of great scenes of family child care. They
encourage providers
and parents to call an easy to remember 800-number to get more
information. Soho collected contact information from each caller and sent
it on to participating CACFP sponsors to follow up. These commercials were aired as
Public Service Announcements (PSAs) and/or as paid spots - and they were
successfully used all over the country.
Soho Center's HEALTH INFORMATION
PROJECT
 Visit
the Soho Center's innovative Virginia Health Information
Project. While this site includes many Virginia-specific
resources, there are many valuable
national health, safety, and nutrition resources for anyone (including
child care providers and agencies working with them) looking for
reliable, non-commercial information.
You'll find links to 14,000 health hotlines (English and
Spanish), daily health updates, information on car seats, exercise and
diet tips, a medical dictionary for kids, consumer product safety
alerts, and much more.
The Importance of Good Family Child Care
An
Essay by Jeanna
Beker, Director,
Soho Center.
Worth reading by anyone doing child care in
America today.
If you'd like to reprint this article (even translate it if you
wish) for your clients,
please e-mail
us to discuss your interest and secure permission.
National Child Care Resource Directory - 5th Edition
A
Cost-Effective
Resource to Promote Quality Child Care
Over
the years, CACFP Sponsors, CCR&Rs, and state agencies have
purchased many thousands of copies for distribution to child
care
providers, child care centers, Head Start programs, and other
child-related organizations.
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The
Soho Center's National
Child Care Resource Directory includes information about
hundreds
of free and low-cost child-related resources promoting children's
literacy, nutrition, health, and safety and for selecting
age-appropriate toys, educational materials, and non-sexist/
non-violent media. The 5th Edition was completely updated with mailing addresses, toll-free phone numbers, and
websites
as well
as short informative articles on issues of importance to the child care
field.
"I've
taken the time to look through it page by page, and it has the
best information that a child care provider can have at their
fingertips. I have gone on several of the websites listed and have come
across lots of good information." E.Smith, provider
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