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Administration for
Children and Families
ACF, within the Department of Health and Human Services, is responsible
for federal programs which promote the economic and social well-being of
families, children, individuals, and communities.
American Public Human
Services Association
The mission of APHSA is to develop, promote, and implement public human
service policies that improve the health and well-being of families, children,
and adults.
America
Taking Action
A NATIONAL NETWORK OF SCHOOL WEBSITES
Linking Kids and Communities Across America
The Arc of the United States
The national organization of and for people with mental retardation
and related disabilities and their families.
Association
for Childhood Education International
The Mission of the Association for Childhood Education International
(ACEI) is to promote and support in the global community the optimal education
and development of children, from birth through early adolescence, and to
influence the professional growth of educators and the efforts of others who are
committed to the needs of children in a changing society.
Aware Parenting
Institute
Aware Parenting is a philosophy of child-rearing that has the
potential to change the world. Based on cutting-edge research and insights in
child development, Aware Parenting questions most traditional assumptions about
children, and proposes a new approach that can profoundly shift a parent's
relationship with his or her child.
CAPS -
Childcare and Parent Services
Georgia Department of Human Services
Center for the
Child Care Workforce
A nonprofit, research, education and advocacy organization
committed to improving child care quality by upgrading the compensation, working
conditions and training of child care teachers and family child care providers.
Child and Family Canada
Fifty-two Canadian non-profit organizations have come together under
the banner of Child & Family Canada to provide quality, credible resources
on children and families on an easy-to-navigate website.
Child
Care Action Campaign
CCAC is dedicated to strengthening families, improving education and
advancing the well being of children through affordable good quality child care.
Child
Care Aware
A nonprofit initiative whose mission is to ensure that every parent has access
to good information about finding quality child care and resources in their
community, through national consumer marketing and by raising visibility for
local child care resource and referral agencies.
Child Care
Bureau
The Child Care Bureau is dedicated to enhancing the quality,
affordability, and supply of child care available for all families.
Child Care
Experts National Network
This Home Page has been developed to help parents and employers
access information about child development, child care, early education, family
supports, and dependent care resources from local experts across the country.
Child Welfare
Children are our future. Our interest is to provide you with a
gateway to information related to the welfare of children.
Child Welfare League of
America
CWLA is an association of more than 1,000 public and private
nonprofit agencies that assist over 2.5 million abused and neglected children
and their families each year with a wide range of services.
Child.net
You can make a real difference helping kids now!
Child/2000
The CHILD/2000 Project is a part of the Soho
Center's national efforts on behalf of children. We're doing and planning
a lot of exciting projects for millions of America's kids, their parents, and
their care-givers.
Children First
The National PTA is the oldest and largest volunteer association in
the United States working exclusively on behalf of children and youth.
Children Now
Children Now uses research and mass
communications to make the well being of children a top priority across the
nation.
Children's
Defense Fund
The mission of the Children's Defense Fund is to Leave No Child Behind®
and to ensure every child a Healthy
Start, a Head
Start, a Fair
Start, a Safe
Start, and a Moral
Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of
caring families and communities.
The
Children's Foundation
A private national educational non-profit organization strives to
improve the lives of children and those who care for them.
Choices for Children
Professionals offering solutions for families, communities and
employers.
CIERA - Center for the Improvement
of Early Reading Achievement
On this site you will find Free
Information about early literacy acquisition and effective strategies for
teaching reading.
Coalition for America's
Children
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.
Connect
for Kids
Guidance for Grown-Ups. Building communities for kids and
families.
Department of Health and Human
Services
The United States government's principal agency for protecting the
health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for
those who are least able to help themselves.
Early Childhood Care
and Development
International Resources in Support of Young Children (ages 0-8)
and their Families.
Educational Resources
Information Center
ERIC is a national information system designed to provide users with ready
access to an extensive body of education-related literature.
Families and
Work Institute
A non-profit organization that addresses the changing nature of work and family
life. We are committed to finding research-based strategies that foster mutually
supportive connections among workplaces, families, and communities.
The Future of
Children
The primary purpose of The Future of Children is to disseminate
timely information on major issues related to children's well-being, with
special emphasis on providing objective analysis and evaluation, translating
existing knowledge into effective programs and polices, and promoting
constructive institutional change.
Hands Net
HandsNet empowers organizations to integrate effective online
communications strategies to strengthen their programs and policies for
children, families and people in need.
Head
Start
A child development program that has served low-income children and their
families since 1965.
I
Am Your Child
A national public awareness and engagement campaign to make early
childhood development a top priority for our nation.
Montessori
Online
National Academy for
Child Development
An international organization of parents and professionals dedicated
to helping children and adults reach their full potential.
National Association for
Non-Traditional Childcare
The goal of NANTC is to offer support services and resources for by
companies and originations who have employees working non-traditional hours.
The National
Association for Regulatory Administration
NARA's purpose is to promote excellence in human care and service
regulation through leadership, education, collaboration, and service.
The National Association
of Child Care Professionals
The organization's goal is to improve, enhance and strengthen the
credibility of the people who lead the child care industry by providing
membership services and benefits.
National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies
A non-profit organization dedicated to providing the most
up-to-date and useful information to parents seeking child care, child care
professionals, NACCRRA members, and child care advocates.
National Black Child Development
Institute
To improve and protect the quality of life of African American
children and families.
National Center for Early
Development and Learning
Research at the National Center for Early
Development & Learning (NCEDL), focuses on enhancing the cognitive, social
and emotional development of children from birth through age eight.
National Center for Family Literacy
A non-profit organization supporting family
literacy services for families across the United States through programming,
training, research, advocacy and dissemination
National Center for
Missing and Exploited Children
NCMEC was created in 1984 as a public-private partnership and serves
as the national clearinghouse for information on missing children and the
prevention of child victimization.
National Child Care
Information Center
NCCIC has been established to complement, enhance and promote child
care linkages and to serve as a mechanism for supporting quality, comprehensive
services for children and families.
National
Childcare Information Strategy
Planning to Succeed in Child Care
The National Clearinghouse
for Bilingual Education
The National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education (NCBE) is
funded by the U.S. Department of Education's
Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs (OBEMLA)
to collect, analyze, and disseminate information relating to the effective
education of linguistically and culturally diverse learners in the U.S. NCBE
provides information through its World
Wide Web site and produces a bi-weekly news bulletin, Newsline,
and manages a topical electronic discussion group, NCBE
Roundtable.
National
Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information
The Clearinghouse is a national resource for
professionals seeking information on the prevention, identification, and
treatment of child abuse and neglect and related child welfare issues.
National Early
Childhood Technical Assistance Program
NECTAS is a national technical assistance consortium working to
support states, jurisdictions, and others to improve services and results for
young children with disabilities and their families.
The National Education Association
Nearly 2.5 million men and women dedicated to helping children
achieve
The National Foundation for Gifted and
Creative Children
Many gifted children are being falsely labeled with ADD as well as
ADHD. And many parents are unaware their child/children could be potentially
gifted.
National Head
Start Association
NHSA is a private not-for profit membership organization representing the
835,000 children, upwards of 170,000 staff and 2,051 Head Start programs in
America.
The National Institute on
Early Childhood Development and Education
The Early Childhood Institute (ECI) sponsors comprehensive and
challenging research in order to help ensure that America's young children are
successful in school and beyond -- and to enhance their quality of life and that
of their families.
The National
Institute on Out-of-School Time
A national force dedicated to improving the quality of life of school-age
children, their parents, and their care givers.
National Library of
Education
The US Network for Education Information provides information to
Americans and persons abroad about US and foreign education systems.
National
Network for Child Care
NNCC unites the expertise of many of the nation's leading
universities through the outreach system of Cooperative Extension. Our goal is
to share knowledge about children and child care from the vast resources of the
landgrant universities with parents, professionals, practioners, and the general
public.
The National Parent Information Network
The mission of NPIN is to provide access to research-based
information about the process of parenting, and about family involvement in
education.
National
Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care
The National Resource Center is located at the University of Colorado
Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado, and is funded by the Maternal and
Child Health Bureau, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, HRSA. NRC's
primary mission is to promote health and safety in out-of-home child care
settings throughout the nation.
National School-Age Care
Alliance
The National School Age Care Alliance (NSACA) is a national
membership organization whose mission is to support quality programs for
school-age children and youth in their out-of-school hours. Established in 1987,
NSACA provides an umbrella organization to link people who work with school-age
children and youth in a wide variety of agencies and settings.
The Natural Child
Project
Our vision is a world in which all children are treated with dignity,
respect, understanding, and compassion. In such a world, every child can grow
into adulthood with a generous capacity for love and trust. Our society has no
more urgent task.
Parents as Teachers National
Center
It is our vision that all parents will be their child's best first
teachers.
Provider Appreciation Day
This day of recognition to be celebrated annually on the Friday
before Mother's Day was spearheaded by a group of volunteers in New Jersey in
1996.
Texas Education Agency
Texas PTA Online
Texas PTA is a noncommercial, nonsectarian, nonpartisan organization
that promotes the welfare of children and youth.
Together We Can
Leaders across America are endeavoring to work together toward a
shared vision for their communities and improved results for their children and
families. The mission of Together We Can is to strengthen and sustain the
capacity of community collaboratives and state initiatives to move toward that
shared vision.
UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund
US
Census Bureau - Child Care
The Survey of Income and Program Participation is currently the only
source the Census Bureau uses to collect child care information from families.
US Department of Education
The Administration's priorities
include national efforts to improve reading and math, reduce class
size, strengthen school
construction, and promote major
new 1999 initiatives and the Partnership for
Family Involvement in Education.
Zero to Three
ZERO TO THREE is the nation's leading
resource on the first three years of life. We are a national non-profit
charitable organization whose mission is to strengthen and support families,
practitioners and communities to promote the healthy development of babies and
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