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Senator John Snow
Representing Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon, and Swain counties
517 Legislative Office Building
Raleigh, NC 27603-5925
919.733.5875

Representative Roger West
Representing Cherokee, Clay, Graham, and Macon counties
1004 Legislative Office Building
Raleigh, NC 27603-5925
919.733.5859

Senator Joe Sam Queen
Representing Haywood County
2111 Legislative Office Building
Raleigh, NC 27603-5925
919.733.3460

Representative Phillip Haire
Representing Haywood, Jackson, Macon, and Swain counties
419 B Legislative Office Building
Raleigh, NC 27603-5925
919.715.3005

Representative Raymond Rapp
Representing Haywood County
2213 Legislative Office Building
Raleigh, NC 27603-5925
919.733.5732

Mountain Projects
Mountain Projects is a community based non-profit organization, founded in 1965 as a community action agency, that provides vital services to the elderly, disadvantaged, and general public in western North Carolina.

Southwestern North Carolina Planning & Economic Development Commission
The impetus for and guiding principle of regional councils is that many public services are more efficiently organized and economically provided on an intergovernmental, multi-unit basis. Visit their Human Services Directory.

Community Health Link - a nonprofit organization in Jackson County working through collaboration to improve the health status of the community. We perform community assessments every 4 years and develop priorities from them. Current priorities include: free health care for adults – Community Health Access Network (CHAN); an action team working on childhood obesity; substance abuse and violence; and we will soon be working on asthma/air quality partnering with the Canary Coalition.

Economic Impact Study
On June 16, 2004 the National Economic Development and Law Center released the first ever Economic Impact Study on the North Carolina child care industry. What that study found was that the child care industry in our state is a significant industry while at the same time is a crucial part of the state's economic development infrastructure.

North Carolina Division of Child Development
Building a stronger social and economic future for North Carolina by promoting high quality early childhood experiences.

North Carolina Child Advocacy Institute
Working to make North Carolina a better place to be a child and to raise a child.

Parent Stages
A parent resource with parenting advice, early childhood articles, and baby and child care information.

Regional Child Development Center
The mission of the Regional Child Development Center at Haywood Community College shall be to provide a safe, nurturing, and challenging educational environment that will instill and foster a continuing desire for learning among children, families, and students.

Child Care in Region A
All licensed centers in Region A listed by county.

Health Department
Immunizations, vision, hearing, developmental screenings, dental care, and Smart Start Nurses are available at your local health department.

Family Information
Their goal is to bring relevant information and useful links of current interest to families around the world.

Health
Vaccines are listed under routinely recommended ages.

Child Care Options
Offering information about alternative work arrangements, child care for mildly sick children, checklists and quality issues for parents, employer options, and much more.

Subsidy
This site will answer some questions about qualifying for subsidized child care and the application process.

National Association for the Education of Young Children
NAEYC exists for the purpose of leading and consolidating the efforts of individuals and groups working to achieve healthy development and constructive education for all young children.

Success by 6
United Way Success By 6 is a national community-based movement of public and private partners that work together to deliver proven solutions that ensure all children ages zero to six are healthy, nurtured and ready to succeed. In more than 350 cities throughout the United States and Canada, United Way Success By 6 is creating effective community-based solutions that contribute to the positive quality of life for young children.

School Readiness Indicators Initiative
The School Readiness Indicators Initiative works with 17 states to develop a comprehensive set of school readiness indicators to inform public policy for young children and their families.

Connect for Kids
Families are responsible for raising their kids, but legislators make choices that can make the job of parenting easier or harder. Policymakers determine everything from whether or not kids get health insurance or after-school programs to what’s required on their school lunch trays. Find out more in Kids & Politics so you can hold your elected representatives accountable for their choices.

Children's Defense
The mission of the Children's Defense Fund is to leave no child behind and to ensure every child a healthy start, a head start, a fair start, a safe start, and a moral start in life and successful passage into adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.

Be a Healthy Person
This site offers information about how to make better choices for yourself and your family when choosing doctors, health insurance, online health information, and a healthy lifestyle.

Free and Low Cost Health Insurance
Since 1994, the Start Healthy, Stay Healthy campaign has been enlisting a wide array of community-based organizations, health and human services providers, advocacy groups, program administrators and others to identify children from low-income working families who may be eligible for free or low-cost health insurance programs. The campaign also promotes coordination between newly enacted state child health insurance programs and Medicaid to ensure that children are not in danger of being left without coverage.

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

Center for the Child Care Workforce
Strategies for improving compensation in child care jobs.