{"id":12175,"date":"2012-03-28T19:02:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T23:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cap4kids.org\/columbus\/2012\/03\/28\/424479262\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T13:25:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T17:25:35","slug":"actionforchildren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/actionforchildren\/","title":{"rendered":"Action for Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Provides free information on childcare and early development for parents and caregivers; foster parent training, and professional support for childcare providers. Parent &amp; Youth ambassadors offer free 1:1 care navigation services to help families with service referrals, benefit navigation, and more. They offer year-round parenting classes for parents with kids of all ages throughout Central Ohio, information about choosing quality childcare, and resources for co-parenting. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/help-me-grow\/\">Help Me Grow<\/a> and SPARK Kindergarten Readiness programs offer free home-visiting services are available for parents who are pregnant or have a child up to 4 years old. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fatherupohio.org\/\">FatherUp<\/a> offers free support for dads navigating the child support system, co-parenting, employment, or other challenges.<br \/>\n78 Jefferson Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43215<br \/>\n(614) 224-0222<br \/>\nChecklist for Choosing Childcare: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/files\/2018\/09\/5C-checklist.pdf\">cap4kids.org\/columbus\/files\/2018\/09\/5C-checklist.pdf<\/a><br \/>\nChildcare Finder: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionforchildren.org\/parents-guardians\/choosing-child-care\/\">actionforchildren.org\/parents-guardians\/choosing-child-care<\/a><br \/>\nParent Learning Website: <a href=\"https:\/\/afclearning.org\/\">afclearning.org<\/a><br \/>\nMain Website: <a title=\"www.actionforchildren.org\" href=\"https:\/\/www.actionforchildren.org\/\">actionforchildren.org<\/a><a title=\"www.actionforchildren.org\" href=\"https:\/\/www.actionforchildren.org\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Provides free information on childcare and early development for parents and caregivers; foster parent training, and professional support for childcare providers. Parent &amp; Youth ambassadors offer free 1:1 care navigation services to help families with service referrals, benefit navigation, and more. They offer year-round parenting classes for parents with kids of all ages throughout Central [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436,304,488,352,445,602,364,362,368,434,369,433,505,349,443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy-and-parenting-information","category-after-school-camps","category-autism","category-child-care-licensing-health-and-safety","category-child-custody-and-divorce","category-hmg","category-information-about-developmental-evaluations","category-early-intervention-development","category-education","category-general-parenting-classes","category-getting-ready-for-kindergarten","category-parenting-foster-care-adoption","category-find-a-camp-program","category-searching-for-child-care","category-support-groups-for-parents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12175"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44840,"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12175\/revisions\/44840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}