Organizations, Networks, Publications
Action Alliance for
Children is a
California-based, nonprofit agency that provides information about trends
and policy issues affecting children and their families.
African American
Information lists an eclectic array of Internet links and other
information related to African American heritage.
American Academy of Pediatrics is a
membership organization committed to the attainment of optimal physical,
mental, and social health for all infants, children, adolescents, and
young adults.
American Bar
Association's Juvenile Justice Center works in partnership with other
ABA entities, bar associations, and local and state advocacy groups to
monitor and influence juvenile justice policy and practice.
America Links Up is
a broad-based national public awareness campaign designed to ensure that
children have safe, educational, and rewarding experiences online.
Black Adoption and Placement
Research Center (BAPRC) is a private, nonprofit licensed adoption and
foster family agency dedicated to recruiting permanent loving families for
children in Northern California.
Black Parenting Today is a
community-focused, parent education magazine whose goal is to unite a
"community of parents" nationally.
Bread for the World is a nationwide
Christian citizens' movement that seeks justice for the world's hungry
people by lobbying the nation's decision makers.
Caring for the Next
Generation is a valuable medical resource for all parents. Alan
Greene, M.D., provides thorough answers to a variety of pediatric
questions dealing with topics that include ear infections, nutrition,
sleeping, potty training, etc.
Catholic Charities, the
nation's largest private network of independent social service agencies,
works to reduce poverty, support families, and empower
communities.
Center
for Mental Health Services is highlighting Children's Awareness Month
to help users recognize early warning signs of emotional and behavioral
problems in children.
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is
a nonpartisan research organization and policy institute that conducts
research and analysis on a range of government policies and programs, with
an emphasis on those affecting low- and moderate-income people.
Charles Stuart Mott
Foundation, headquartered in Flint, Mich., funds efforts that promote
a just, equitable, and sustainable society.
Child Advocate, serves the needs
of children, families, and professionals while addressing educational,
medical, legal, and legislative issues.
Children
Now is a nonpartisan, independent voice for children, working to
translate the nation's commitment to children and families into action.
Founded in 1988, Children Now is a national organization with a special
presence in California.
Children's Defense Fund - Greater
Cincinnati Project educates individuals in Southwest Ohio about the
needs of children and encourages preventative investment in them before
they get sick, drop out of school, suffer from the breakdown of their
family, or get into trouble with the law.
Children's Defense Fund - Minnesota
works to improve the lives of Minnesota's children through education,
research and advocacy.
Children's Defense Fund - New York
advocates for children's issues through education and grassroots
efforts.
Children's Defense Fund - Ohio, the
oldest CDF state office, provides grassroots support for CDF's work. Children's Defense Fund -
Cincinnati.
Children's Defense Fund - Texas
educates the public about the unmet needs of Texas children and promotes
public policies that improve their wellbeing.
Children's Defense
Fund - Parent Resource Network (PRN) provides access to a variety of
national Web sites offering parents information on caring for their own
children and on getting involved in group efforts to help children in
their own communities or states.
Children's Institute
International, a private, nonprofit organization, is dedicated to
protecting, preserving, and strengthening the family through the provision
of child abuse prevention and treatment services for high-need,
low-resource families, as well as through professional training, research,
and advocacy.
Children's Medical Center of Dallas
is the only Dallas-area health care facility that deals exclusively with a
variety of diseases and disorders among children from birth to age
18.
Children, Youth and Family Consortium
Electronic Clearinghouse was designed by the University of Minnesota
to serve as an electronic bridge to information and resources on children,
youths, and families.
Child Trends, Inc., is a nonprofit,
nonpartisan research organization that conducts basic research and
evaluation studies in several critical areas: teenage pregnancy and
childbearing, the effects of welfare and poverty on children, issues
related to parenting, family structure, and family processes, including
fatherhood and male fertility.
Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) is
the nation's oldest and largest organization devoted entirely to the
well-being of America's vulnerable children and their families.
Coalition for America's
Children is an alliance of national, state, and local nonprofit
organizations working to call attention to the serious obstacles impeding
children's well-being and to boost children's concerns to the top of the
public policy agenda.
Coalition on Human Needs is an alliance of
national organizations working together to promote public policies which
address the needs of low-income and other vulnerable populations.
Coalition for Asian-American
Children and Families advocates for social policies and programs that
support Asian American children and families.
Committee for Hispanic Children and
Families is an advocacy organization working to improve the quality of
life for Latino families through community education, youth services, and
public advocacy.
Common Cause is a nonprofit,
nonpartisan citizens' lobbying organization that works to promote open,
honest and accountable government and represents a unified voice of the
people against corruption in government and "big money" special
interests.
Congregations Concerned for
Children strives to tap and channel the resources of the religious
community to work on behalf of children, especially children experiencing
violence or poverty in their lives.
Covering Kids helps states and
local communities increase the number of eligible children who benefit
from health insurance coverage programs.
CTKidsLink:
Connecticut Citizens for Children and Youth is a statewide
organization that helps citizens become better advocates for the
well-being of children and youths in all of Connecticut's
communities.
CTW Online: Sesame Street Parents,
run by the nonprofit Children's Television Workshop, is a fun and
informative Web site for parents and children. It provides information on
children's activities, behavior and discipline, child development,
education, health and safety, and more.How You Can Help:
Early
Education Clearinghouse works to put research-based knowledge and
tools into the hands of those who influence or make policy in an effort to
encourage higher quality programs and to build more public support for
early care and education.
Families USA is a national
nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to the achievement of
high-quality, affordable health and long-term care for all
Americans.
Family and Advocates Partnership for
Education (FAPE) works to inform and educate families and advocates
about the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1997 and offers
promising practices and resources.
Family Voices is a
national, grassroots clearinghouse for information and education
concerning the health care of children with special health needs.
Food Research and Action
Center (FRAC) is a national nonprofit organization working to improve
public policies to eradicate hunger and undernutrition in the United
States.
Greater Minneapolis Council
of Churches is a nonprofit organization that mobilizes 700
congregations, 30,000 volunteers, and diverse community constituencies to
serve human needs and seek social justice.
HandsNet
promotes information sharing, cross-sector collaboration and advocacy
among individuals and organizations working on a broad range of public
interest issues.
Human Rights USA strives to educate
people in the United States about their human rights and encourages
community-based action.
Human Services
Policy Center, Univ. of Washington Graduate School of Public Affairs
is a collaborative effort among six professional schools to improve the
well-being of children and families by promoting collaborative and
preventive approaches to service across the bounds of professions,
disciplines and service organizations.
Idea Central:
Welfare and Families Electronic Policy Network provides a list of
current news articles related to recent programs geared toward improving
children's rights.
Idealist, a project of Action Without
Borders, is an interactive system that enables nonprofit or community
organizations to enter and update detailed information about its services,
volunteer opportunities, internships, job openings, upcoming events, and
publications.
@InsideHealthCare is an online
information service offering news, directories, search engines, business
research tools, funding sources, organizations, and publications relating
to health care.
Institute for the
Study of Civic Values is a nonprofit organization established to
promote the fulfillment of America's historic civic ideals.
Interfaith Alliance is
a nonpartisan organization that offers Americans a mainstream, faith-based
agenda committed to the positive role of religion as a healing and
constructive force in public life.
Join Together: Gun
Violence, a project of the Boston University School of Public Health,
is a national resource center for communities working to reduce substance
abuse and gun violence.
Justice for Kids & Youth
from the U.S. Justice Department offers ideas on how youth can become part
of the solution to fighting crime by joining community programs.
Just Think Foundation is
a nonprofit organization that works with students, teachers, parents, and
the entertainment industry to promote literacy for the 21st
century.
Juvenile
Justice Clearinghouse at Florida State University is a one-stop Web
site for information about the juvenile justice system, programs for
at-risk youth, and related employment opportunities.
KidsCampaigns is
an information and action center for adults who want to act on behalf of
children.
Kids Count is a national and
state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the United States
and enrich local, state, and national discussions on how to secure better
futures for all children.
Kinderstart is the largest indexed
directory and search engine on the Web addressing a variety of issues for
parents and caregivers.
Mediascope is a national,
nonprofit public policy organization founded in 1992 to promote
constructive depictions of health and social issues in the media,
particularly as they relate to children and adolescents.
Minnesota Center Against Violence
and Abuse provides an electronic information clearinghouse with access
to extensive resources on the topics of violence and abuse.
The National
Association of Child Advocates (NACA) is a nationwide network of child
advocacy organizations working at the increasingly critical level of
America's statehouses, county commissions, and city councils.
National Association of
Developmental Disabilities Council promotes national policies that
enable individuals with developmental disabilities the opportunity to make
choices regarding the quality of their lives and to be included in the
community.
National Association for the Education of
Young Children (NAEYC) leads and consolidates the efforts of
individuals and groups working to achieve healthy development and
constructive education for all young children. Primary attention is
devoted to assuring the provision of high-quality early childhood programs
for young children.
National Campaign To Prevent Teen
Pregnancy works to prevent teen pregnancy by supporting values and
stimulating actions that are consistent with a pregnancy-free adolescence.
Its goal is to reduce the teen pregnancy rate by one-third by the year
2005.
National Center for Children
in Poverty identifies and promote strategies that reduce the number of
young children living in poverty in the United States and that improve the
life chances of the millions of children under age 6 who are growing up
poor.
National Child Care Information Center,
established by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, seeks to
complement, enhance, and promote child care linkages and to serve as a
mechanism for supporting quality, comprehensive services for children and
families.
National Coalition for Campus
Children's Centers is a nonprofit educational membership organization
supporting research and activities affecting college and university early
childhood education, as well as family and work issues.
National Coalition for the Homeless is a
national advocacy network of homeless persons, activists, service
providers, and others committed to ending homelessness through public
education, policy advocacy, grassroots organizing, and technical
assistance.
National Dropout Prevention
Network provides linkages to and among educators, communities,
researchers, parents, and the private sector to find solutions to the
common goal of preventing and recovering dropouts.
National Educational Service works with
educators and youth professionals to help foster environments in which all
children can succeed.
National Health Law Program, Inc., is
a national public interest law firm seeking to improve health care for
America's working and unemployed poor, minorities, the elderly, and people
with disabilities.
National Network for Immunization
Information provides news and information about immunizations and
related issues.
National Partnership for Women
& Families promotes fairness and policies that help women and men
meet the dual demands of work and family.
National School Age Care Alliance (NSACA)
is a national membership organization that supports quality programs for
school-age children and youth during out-of-school hours and connects
people who work with school-age children and youth in a wide variety of
agencies and settings.
The New York Office of the Children's Defense
Fund.
The Nutrition Consortium of New York
State is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to addressing
problems of hunger, whose mission is to alleviate hunger for poor
residents of New York State.
100% Campaign is an
effort coordinated by CDF, Children Now, and the Children's Partnerships
to ensure that all of California's children obtain the health coverage
they need to grow up healthy and strong.
Parent's Television
Council, a project of the Media Research Center, works to bring
America's demand for positive, family-oriented television programming to
the entertainment industry.
National Parent Teacher Association (PTA) is the
largest volunteer child advocacy organization in the United States. A
not-for-profit association, the PTA provides the resources parents,
teachers, and students need to be involved in our children's educations
and to create schools of excellence.
Radio
Bilingue, the Latino Community Radio Network, is the only national
distributor of Spanish language programming.
Research and Training Center
in Rehabiliation and Childhood Trauma, located at the New England
Medical Center, conducts research to increase knowledge about the causes,
treatment, and outcomes of injuries to children, improve the delivery of
health services, and disseminate information to families, their children,
and multi-disciplinary professionals.
School-Age
NOTES is a national resource organization that develops and provides
information, technical assistance, and resources concerning children and
youth in out-of-school settings both before and after school and during
vacations.
Stand For Children, an affiliate of CDF,
encourages individuals to improve children's lives. Its mission is to
identify, train, and connect local children's activists engaging in
advocacy, awareness-raising, and service initiatives on an ongoing basis
as part of Stand For Children chapters.
State of the World Forum is an
international nonprofit organization that transforms conversations that
matter into actions that make a difference. The Forum is designed to
inspire your life and allow interactions with innovative leaders from
around the world in a multiplicity of disciplines.
Trial Lawyers for Public
Justice is a national public interest law firm that marshals the
skills and resources of trial lawyers to create a more just
society.
TV-Free America is a national nonprofit,
nonpartisan organization that encourages Americans to reduce the amount of
television they watch in order to promote richer, healthier, and more
connected lives, families and communities.
20/20 Vision is a nonprofit
organization seeking to revitalize democracy by engaging citizens in
persistent, strategic, and effective communication with policy makers to
protect the environment and promote peace.
Universal Black Pages is
an information service that resides at but is not affiliated with the
Georgia Institute of Technology. It contains a comprehensive listing of
African diaspora-related Web pages.
Urban Institute, a nonpartisan economic,
social, and policy research organization, investigates the social and
economic problems confronting the nation and analyzes efforts to solve
these problems.
WGBH's
"Between the Lions" is a new television program, geared toward
children ages 4 to 7, that uses music, stories, animation, and live action
to promote and teach reading. The series airs on PBS stations across the
country.
Welfare Law Center is a nonprofit
corporation that works with and on the behalf of poor people to ensure
that adequate income support — public funding provided on the basis of
need -- is available whenever and to the extent necessary to meet basic
needs and foster healthy human and family development.
World Hunger Year Resource Guide
promotes self-reliance, food security, and economic justice through
research and education for policy makers, the media, and the public and
through collaboration with and support for grassroots
organizations.
Youthlink is a project of the
nonprofit Foundation of America, which provides ongoing and effective
forums to create support and recognition for the voice, ideas, and
solutions of youth.
Zero to Three is a
national nonprofit founded by leading pediatricians, child development
specialists and researchers in 1977 to promote the healthy social,
emotional and intellectual development of babies and toddlers.
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