Child Advocacy Organizations & Agencies
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Child and Adolescent Research Consortium - research on mental health and mental illness to benefit youngsters with emotional, developmental, and brain disorders.
Child Care Action Campaign
Child Care Bureau
Child Care Law Center
Child Trends, Inc. - research organization dedicated to studying children, youth, and families
Child Welfare
Child Welfare League of America
Children First - the website of the National PTA
Children Now
Children's Defense Fund
The Children's Foundation
The Clearinghouse on International Developments in Child, Youth and Family Policies - cross-national, comparative information
Connect for Kids: Citizens Working Together to Improve Community Support for Children and Families
Early Childhood Care and Development - site developed by the Consultative Group on Early Child Care and Development, an international, inter-agency group
Early Childhood Connection - range of resources for parents, providers and policy makers grounded in early childhood research and practice; project of Wellesley College's Center for Research on Women
Families and Work Institute
Family Research Laboratory - researches all aspects of family violence
Family Resource Coalition of America
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center - at Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; research, teaching and public service centered on children and families
Future of Children The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
The Herr Research Center - applied child development research from the Erikson Institute
Idea Central - welfare & families, health policy, education, civic participation
Institute for Child Health Policy - cooperative effort of Florida's university system
Institute for Children and Poverty - sponsored by Homes for the Homeless
Institute for Educational Leadership: Policy Exchange
Institute for Research on Poverty
Jordan Institute for Families - sponsored by the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Keys to Inclusion - website for agency administrators and policy makers form the National Early Childhood Technical Assistance System (NECTAS).
Literacy Online - website of the International Literacy Institute and the National Center on Adult Literacy
National Association of Child Advocates
National Center for Children in Poverty
National Center for Early Development and Learning - from the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center
National Center for Homeless Education
National Center on Fathers and Families - research-based information on fathers' involvement in families; University of Pennsylvania
National Child Care Information Center
National Coalition for the Homeless
National Institute on Early Childhood Development and Education - Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education
National Institute on Media and the Family - a number of unique resources including: movie, television and video game content ratings; media awareness programs; and helpful hints for parents and families to evaluate their media use.
National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice - a resource of the University of Iowa School of Social Work
Search Institute - Practical Research Benefiting Children & Youth
Stand for Children Action Center
U.S. Department of Education
U.S. Health & Human Services Admin. for Children and Families
The World Bank - Early Child Development