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EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
California State Department of Education
www.cde.ca.gov
Disney College Program - Magic.Experience.Paid.Internship.
www.wdwcollegeprogram.com/sap/its/mimes/zh_wdwcp/index.html
Homework Resources
bigchalk.com
LAUSD resources
www.lausd.k12.ca.us/homepage/news/update/homework.html
www.lausd.k12.ca.us/homepage/news/update/teach-parent.html
Learning Differences and Disabilities
www.schwablearning.org
Online Book Rental Library Service - www.bookswim.com
Online book rental library services lending paperbacks, hardcover and even college textbooks Netflix-style directly to your house, without the need to purchase! No late fees! Free shipping both ways.
Online Study Hall for Teens -
Online_Study_Hall
- A group of links to help teens with everything from how to write a proper citation to researching a particular Greek God and everything in between!
Music and Arts Opportunities - SAPPA.net
The SAPPA website provides information to help students and families connect with music programs in their community. Visit the site for music and arts scholarships and competitions, music and audition workshops, academic scholarship information and instrument loan programs.
"My Future, My Decision"
An innovative new campaign to reach at-risk students and dropouts, and make them aware of available Los Angeles School District resources to help them earn a high school diploma.
www.myfuturemydecision.org
National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) helps young people from low-income communities build skills and unlock their entrepreneurial creativity through entrepreneurship education - www.nfte.com
Greater Los Angeles office - losangeles.nfte.com
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FAMILY ACTIVITIES
Educational Games Website (K-12th graders)
www.lausd.k12.ca.us/kids
Fun Learning Activities
www.verybestkids.com
My First Garden
urbanext.illinois.edu/firstgarden/
Vacation Planning
travelsavvymom.com
Where to find volunteer opportunities
www.volunteermatch.com
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HEALTH & SAFETY
How long will your favorite food or beverage stay safe and tasty? And how best to store it? Not sure when to keep or when to toss? Get your answers at stilltasty.com
Recalls - Get details from U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission at cpsc.gov
Safe toys and recalls information
Healthytoys.org
SafeStartforkids.org
Toys recalls
Water or Coke?
www.naturodoc.com
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MONEY SAVING TIPS
Air-conditioning usage - check out these cool-off tips to help reduce the amount of energy you pay for to run your air conditioner. Visit this page to read the detail of these tips.
Ants Control, without pesticides - www.wanderings.net
Baking Soda - 40 fantastic uses
Wondering how baking soda, aka sodium bicarbonate, works its magic? Check it out by clicking on this link
Baby Formula, Ready-to-drink vs Powder mix - Is it that hard to mix powder with water to feed your child? Take Enfamil's Premium Lipil, a popular formula brand. A 32-ounce can that you can crack open and serve might last a day or two. On Diapers.com a 6-pack of 32-ounce cans (192 fluid ounces of formula) costs $45, while a container of Enfamil's water-mix powder that makes 168 ounces goes for $25. That's 23.4 cents an ounce for liquid vs. 14.9 cents an ounce for powdered--a 57% markup. Buy a $30 Brita pitcher (to purify the water), add powder, shake and save money!
Cucumber and its Many Uses
The-amazing-cucumber
Disposables items - throwing money away?
A family of 4 can save $3,163 a year by cutting back or eliminating certain use of disposable items. Here's how.
Government Assisted Wireless Service
- No money upfront activation, free phone and a fixed amount of free minutes.
reachoutmobile.com
Halloween Costumes Savings
- Create your own by using clothes, accessories, and materials that you already own. Visit Disney's Family Fun for ideas.
- Not crafty or don't have time to make your own? Locate a Costumes/Clothes Swap event near you and trade in your old for a "new" one.
Low-cost Groceries
- The "Treasure Box" provides families and individuals with a substantial box of grocery store quality food retailing between $65-100 for just $30 each. Each Treasure Box contains between 21-25 pounds of high quality, frozen foods, including chicken, pork, beef, or seafood, as well as vegetables, fruit, a side dish and a dessert. One Treasure Box is enough food to nutritiously feed a family of four lunch and dinner for almost a week or a senior citizen for nearly a month. For more information, visit The Treasure Box website.
Money Facts for New Graduates. The transition from college to real life can be a culture shock, especially on finances. Here's some post-grad money tips for you to ponder over.
 Money Leaks
Click here to find out the little ways you're wasting big money—and how you can stop .
Printing Tip - Change the document font before you print and SAVE money! To read more, go to Money Saving Fonts.
Restaurant Coupons
Eat more for less - pre-purchase a meal at selected restaurants at a discount by visiting this website
www.restaurant.com
Salt - How many ways can you use salt?
Find out by clicking here.
Savings on Textbooks. College textbooks cost the average American student about $900 per year. New editions often come out every three years and tend to run 45% more than used copies
of previous editions. Between 1995 and 2004 textbook prices rose at more than four times the rate of inflation.
- For older edition of textbooks: half.com
- For rental textbooks: chegg.com
- For used books: bigwords.com
- For better deals than campus bookstores: ecampus.com and alibris.com.
The Golden Rules of Saving on Everything - use them and you'll painlessly find ways to meet your savings goals. Here are 10 ways to save.
Vinegar and its Many Uses
www.versatilevinegar.org
Weed Removal - A simple, inexpensive, and organic way of controlling weeds using newspaper - www.stretcher.com
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PARENTING GUIDES
Dictionary for Dads
- Father's Family Parenting Guide
www.dictionaryfordads.com
Kids and the Law an A-Z guide for parents provided by California Bar Foundation -
www.calbarfoundation.org
Email:
info@calbarfoundation.org
Address: 180 Howard St., San Francisco, CA 94105-1639
Kids and Money -
www.marketwatch.com
pbskids.org
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OTHER HELPFUL GUIDES
All About Benefits
- All things about Disability Benefits in California, db101.org
- Medi-Cal Working Disabled Program, chiip.org
- Medicare Issues in Los Angeles County, cahealthadvocates.org
- Medi-Cal Issues in all of California, disabilityrightsca.org
- Legal assistance for low income and disabled persons in LA County, bettzedek.org
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