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Welcome
to Valley Oak Children's Services |
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Valley Oak Children’s
Services, Inc. is a private non-profit agency serving Butte County.
Our primary function is to make child care more accessible to parents
while encouraging quality care situations for families in our area.
You can find out more about us here, and
get information about the programs we offer here.
If you have any questions concerning the information presented here,
there are several ways to contact us. |
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What's
New
- Our
Oroville office is moving! Effective July 1, 2009 Valley Oak's
Oroville Office will be located within the Greater Oroville
Family Resource Center. This is a wonderful opportunity for
Valley Oak Children's Services to be part of a collaborative
center that offers multiple service opportunities to the families
we serve. The new address is 1720 Daryl Porter Way (off of
Baldwin), Oroville, CA 95966. Other agencies currently located
at this location are: Youth 4 Change, North Valley Catholic
Social Services, and Catalyst. We
look forward to seeing you at our new Oroville office.
- PG&E offers
two programs to help you with your PG&E bills. The California
Alternate Rates for Energy (CARE) Program provides a monthly
discount on energy bills for income qualified households, and
the Family Electric Rate Assistance (FERA) Program provides a
monthly discount on electric bills for income qualified households
of three or more persons. Details and application forms for these
programs are available here.
- Our
Food Program puts out a delicious newsletter each month. Get
a taste of this
month's issue (pdf
file).
- Now you
can help Valley Oak Children's Services and support our programs
just by searching the Internet. GoodSearch.com is a new Yahoo-powered
search engine that donates half its advertising revenue, about
a penny per search, to the organizations its users designate.
Use it just as you would any search engine, get quality search
results from Yahoo, and watch the donations add up!
GoodShop.com
is a new online shopping mall which donates up to 37 percent of
each purchase to your favorite cause! Hundreds of great stores
including Target, Gap, Best Buy, ebay, Macy's and Barnes &
Noble have teamed up with GoodShop and every time you place an
order, you’ll be supporting Valley Oak Children's Services.
Just go to www.goodsearch.com
and be sure to enter Valley Oak Children's Services as the charity
you want to support. And, be sure to spread the word!
- Make
your car a
and give a 
to help make the world a safer place for the children you  .
California Kid's Plates help keep California kids safe. Proceeds
from these plates fund programs that benefit California's child
injury prevention efforts, such as bicycle safety, drowning prevention,
fall prevention, fire and burn prevention, motor vehicle occupant
protection, pedestrian safety, poisoning prevention, firearm safety,
sudden infant death syndrome, child abuse prevention and child
care health and safety training. Visit the
Kid's Plate web site to find out more.
- Our CARES
program, in collaboration with the Butte College and Chico State
Child Development Departments, will be offering on-campus, drop-in
early care and education career advising services. These services
are for anyone related to the early care and education field.
Click here
for details.
- Parent
Central California, is a new source for resources and information
about issues affecting children and families. Valley Oak Children's
Services invites parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, educators
and anyone interested in improving the lives of children to join
this online community. Members can receive e-mails or visit the
site to learn about opportunities to get involved by voicing your
comments and concerns to decision makers.
Parent
Central will give families the information they want to receive
at any given time. Each person who signs up can choose the area
or areas that most meet their needs. We will have information
on child development, tips related to raising children or using
child care and more!
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