Helpful Links

Helpful Links and Information

The Lake County Health Department closed the Hammond Satellite office on 12/30/09,
Every parent should know that Birth certificates and death certificates and all other services can be obtained at the Lake County offices, information can be found here .
Contact the Lake County Health Dept. in Crown Point. They can be reached at (219) 755-3655

Below are some links we've come across that are useful to parents, teachers and students. If you have a link suggestion, please contact us.

	SchoolSoup.com - World's Largest Scholarship Database SchoolSoup has the largest scholarship database in the world. Our search engine will find scholarships that match your interests and profile by searching through $32 Billion worth of scholarships. Scholarships with the best matches are listed first. Many scholarships can be used at any school you wish to attend.
	Association for Career and Technical Education Awards The awards program seeks to promote excellence in career and technical education by recognizing individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to the field, programs that exemplify the highest standards and organizations that have conducted activities to promote and expand career and technical education programs.
	Department of Education Forecast of Funding Lists virtually all programs and competitions for which the Dept. of Education has invited or expects to invite applications for new awards in 2007 and includes announced pgorgrams as well as those it plans to announce in the future.
	eSchool News School Funding Center Information on up-to-the-minute grant programs, funding sources, and technology funding.
	National Meningitis Association's mission is to ecucate families, medical professionals, and others about bacterial meningitis and prevention approches to the disease.
	Family Education Network Parents find valuable, timely child-development and educational information here.
	FastWEB Free online scholarship search with 600,000 scholarships. Provides students with accurate, regularly updated information on scholarships, grants, and fellowships suited to their goals and qualifications. However, FastWEB sells the student's information that is collected through its website.
	Federal Resources for Education Excellence FREE is a working group of 30 Federal agencies which was formed to make hundreds of federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find.
	FunBrain The #1 education site for teachers and kids.
Fundsnet Online	Fundsnet Online Services Provides nonprofit organizations, colleges, and universities with information on financial resources available on the Internet.
	Hammond, Indiana The city of Hammond's home page
	InfoPlease One of the largest and most authoritative reference sites on the Web.
	Indiana's college and career connection and the new Web site of Learn More Indiana. They have updated information and added new features to better serve you as Indiana's college and career connection.
	Indiana Department of Education has many links to important material parents and students can use for developing a educational plan. Links here to Indiana No Child Left Behind, Education Matters, and the Acedemics Standards.
	Inspire Virtual Library Contains 2000 business, consumer health, general science, and multi-cultural magazines; 142,000 biographies; 25,000 encyclopedia records; 143 U.S. and international newspapers; 50 children's magazines; 1065 health-oriented pamphlets; 40 Spanish-language titles; thousands of ERIC digest records; 40000 documents on social, political, and economic issues, scientific discoveries, and other popular topics; patient oriented drug information in lay language; 7000 portraits; reports and almanacs; historical documents; information on animals, historic people, health, science and the humanities. And it's FREE!
	Institute of Education Sciences The IES is a major player in the Bush administration's push for "scientifically based research." The 7 areas to be studied are: preschool curriculum evlation; interagency education; cognition and student learning; reading comprehension; teacher quality; effective mathematics education; and social and character development.
	Philanthropy News Digest-K-12 Funding Opportunities K-12 funding opportunities with links to grant seeking for teachers and learning technology.
	National Association to Protect Children Protect was organized to be a political lobbying group to protect the rights of children. Protect is pro-children, anti-crime, and its website includes mission statement, email list, articles, agenda, and how to contribute to this worthwhile cause.
	RefDesk The webmaster's favorite resource site. Tons of reference tools and information available
	School City of Hammond
	School Funding Services Grant of the Week Each week School Funding Services, a division of New American Schools, features a new grant on their website.
	School Grants A collection of resources and tips to help K-12 educators apply for and obtain special grans for a variety of projects.
	School Notes Some teachers at Gavit use this website to allow parents and others access to class notes. Click on the link to see if your child's teachers use this site.
	Teacher Vision Created for teachers, by teachers. Connect to lesson plans, enrichment activities, curriculum materials and more.
	University of Southern Indiana Provides information on education benefits of Hope and Lifetime Learning Credits, Coverdale Education Savings, and the Indiana College Choice 529 Plan.
	Indiana PTA also has a resource section that is in construction at this time. Check periodically for information on health, safety and educational links that may be helpful to you.