BCPL Can Help

Housing

BCPL Your Community - Real Estate
Find links on all sorts of topics relating to housing, including apartment living, finding housing and rental subsidies, senior housing, and foreclosure resources.

Connections: Housing
Local sources for housing counseling, eviction prevention, and information and referral services for low-income persons in Baltimore County.

Baltimore County's A Helping Hand in Hard Times - Housing
Information on homeownership education and funding for first time homebuyers, housing for people with disabilities, shelters, those facing eviction, housing assistance and subsidies, and senior housing options.

Try these titles:

• The New Complete Book of Home Buying
• The Home Buying Process
• Kiplinger’s Buying and Selling a Home

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Identity Theft

BCPL Consumer InfoCenter
Contains sites that help you avoid identity theft. Also provides resources to help if your identity or credit cards are stolen. The Maryland Attorney General's Office as well as national organizations are ready to help.

Some titles you may want to check:

• Stealing Your Life - the Ultimate Identity Theft Protection Plan
• Who Else Knows You Best?
• Better Business Bureau: Identity Theft DVD

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Parenting

BCPL Parenting InfoCenter
Geared to parents but with resources for child care providers as well. Promotes reading and early childhood literacy and child health and safety. Addresses choosing and maintaining quality child care, involvement in a child’s education, getting children ready for school, helping with homework, and working with teachers.

BCPL Birth to Five Pages
It's never too early to start smart! As a child's first teachers, you as parents and/or caregivers are instrumental in promoting reading readiness in children ages birth to five.  Baltimore County Public Library's programs and services for babies, toddlers and preschoolers can help you fulfill this important role.

BCPL's Storyville 
Storyville is a learning area for children birth to five that is designed to foster early literacy and school readiness skills through interactive discovery and play. It is located at our Rosedale Library and open during regular branch hours.

BCPL Kid's Pages
Created for the Kindergarten to elementary school age child. There are web sites to explore, suggested reading lists, stories to read or listen to as well as information about all sorts of homework-related topics like math, science, social studies, and more.

BCPL Education and Homework InfoCenter
Useful links for several homework subjects particularly for middle school and high school students. Focuses on local public and private schools and colleges, service learning, financial aid/scholarships, planning for college, GED classes and tests, SAT test preparation, home schooling, learning disabilities, after school programs, summer camps, tutors, and tips on choosing a preschool or elementary school.

BCPL About Us - Library Services - Programs and Story Times
Baltimore County Public Library does not require tickets or registration for most programs. The seating is first-come, first served up to legal capacity of the room. For some programs where a small group is desirable, such as Baby Boosters Story Time for children ages 0 to 23 months, registration is necessary. These programs are noted in dateLines, the quarterly Calendar of Events, listing as "registration required". To register visit or phone the library branch having the program during the week preceding the program. Programs are free.

Try these titles:

• A Place of Our Own. Early Childhood Solutions: Behavior and Emotions

• A Place of Our Own. Early Childhood Solutions: Early Academics

• A Place of Our Own. Early Childhood Solutions: Health and Nutrition

• A Place of Our Own. Early Childhood Solutions: Special Needs

• Screamfree Parenting : The Revolutionary Approach to Raising Your Kids without Losing Your Cool
• Single Parenting for Dummies

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Personal Finance

BCPL Business and Investing InfoCenter - Personal Finance
Local and extensive resources for financial help, assistance in money management, ways to handle debt and credit repair.

Connections: Family Financial Assistance
Local resources for getting financial help, assistance in money management, budgeting for the household, debt repayment, and more.

Consumer Credit Counseling Center of Maryland and Delaware, Inc.
This agency provides tools that assist in setting up a budget as well as gaining financial security through saving and other money-making suggestions.

Online Database: Standard and Poor's NetAdvantage
A one-stop shop for information on the economy, wise investing in hard times and general financial data that is updated daily.

Titles you may want to check out:

• Everything Budgeting Book
• Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Personal Finance
• Don't Sweat Guide to Your Finances: Planning, Saving and Spending Stress-Free
• Learn Personal Finance DVD

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