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American
Academy of Pediatrics
Committed
to the attainment of optimal physical, mental and social health for all
infants, children, adolescents and young adults
Healthy
Child Care America
A national campaign to ensure that children are in healthy
and safe child care environments
ZERO TO THREE
ZERO TO THREE's mission is to promote the healthy development of our nation's infants and toddlers by supporting and strengthening families, communities, and those who work on their behalf.
Kids
Health
Created by the medical experts at
The Nemours Foundation, KidsHealth.org has trainloads of information on
infections, behavior & emotions, food & fitness, and growing up
healthy, as well as cool games and animations!
Nutrition
Navigator
The Tufts University Nutrition Navigator is designed
to help you sort through the large volume of nutrition information on
the Internet and find accurate, useful nutrition information you can trust.
National
Resource Center for Health & Safety in Child Care
The
primary mission is to promote health and safety in out-of-home child care
settings throughout the nation.
Arizona Child Care Resource and Referral Program
The National Program For Playground Safety
National Association
for the Education of Young Children
NAEYC
exists for the purpose of leading and consolidating 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.
Annie
E. Casey Foundation
A private
charitable organization dedicated to helping build better futures for
disadvantage children in the U.S.
Reaching
Out
A directory of national organizations related to maternal & child health.
National
Childcare Information Center
The 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
Association for Family Child Care
The purpose of the Panel is to share information, network with the family
child care community and to define the scope of needs for the profession
of family child care.5
Council
for Early Childhood Professional Recognition
The Council’s
mission is to increase the status and recognition of early care and education
professionals who care for children from birth through 5 years of age
in child care centers, family child care homes, and as home visitors.
High / Scope Foundation
An independent nonprofit research,
development, training, and public advocacy organization located in Ypsilanti,
Michigan, was founded in 1970. The Foundation's principal goals are to
promote the learning and development of children worldwide from infancy
through adolescence and to support and train educators and parents as
they help children learn. In a High/Scope program, students learn through
active involvement with people, materials, events, and ideas.
Parent Partners - A comprehensive resource on child development from prenatal to five years.
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.
National
Child Care Association
NCCANet
has been developed to provide private, licensed child care center/preschool
owners, administrators and directors with up-to-date information and resources
to help stay on top of the industry and prepare for future growth and
success. Additionally, NCCANet serves parents looking for quality child
care by providing information about NCCA member centers across the country. So look around. There is sure to
be something of value to you.
National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agency - NACCRRA is 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.
NACCRRA is the national network of community-based child care resource and referral agencies. Our organization is a common-ground where families, child care providers, and communities can share information about quality child care.
Dept of Health & Human Services
Federal Register by the U.S. Department of Education
Foundation
Center
The mission of the Foundation Center is to foster public understanding
of the foundation field by collecting, organizing, analyzing, and disseminating
information on foundations, corporate giving, and related subjects.
Houghton
Mifflin
Education Place provides free K-8 resources for teachers,
students, and parents. Check out our Reading, Math, Science, and Social
Studies Centers, searchable activity database, educational games, collaborative
projects, textbook support, online store, and more!
The Wright Group
The Wright Group is a community of people who care deeply about the
future of education in America. By captivating children with carefully
crafted literature, we help foster fluent readers and writers. By reaching
out to classroom teachers with innovative teaching strategies and proven
ideas for daily use, we help to shape the next generation and encourage
a lifelong love of learning.
Steck-Vaughn
Steck-Vaughn Company is an educational
publisher celebrating "62 Years of Excellence in Education"
this year. Today, we are the world's second-largest publisher of
supplementary educational materials serving the elementary through high
school, adult education, public and school library, bookstore and home
education markets.
Brooks
Publishing Store
Brookes Publishing has built an extensive
list of highly regarded books, videotapes, curricula, assessment tools,
and other resources. Our titles are widely used by students, researchers,
educators, and practitioners working in the human services. Families concerned
with disabilities also turn to our resources for information and answers.
Each year, we publish 35 to 40 titles by leading authorities in the fields
of inclusive education, developmental disabilities, early intervention,
child development, learning disabilities, communication and language disorders,
mental health, physical disabilities, and more.
Child Care Bureau
The Federal Child Care Bureau is dedicated to enhancing
the quality, affordability, and supply of child care available for all
families.
Department of Health and Human
Services
This is 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.
US
Department of Education
This a
collection of web sites for the Department of Education.
Head Start
A state by state resource list of Head Start Programs in
the United States.
The American Speech-Language & Hearing Association
UNM Center for Development and Disability
New Mexico ACTS - Alliance for Children with Traumatic Stress
Beach Center on Families & Disability
Grassroots: Multicultural Resource
MUMS National Parent-to-Parent Network
The National Center on Parents
National Early Childhood Technical Assistance System
National Childcare Training Calendar (currently under construction)
Resource Guide: Selected early childhood/early intervention training materials
American Association for Higher Education
National Teaching and Learning Forum
The Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences
Kids
Count
An easy to use, powerful
online database that allows you to generate custom graphs, maps, ranked
lists, and state by state profiles.
E.R.I.C.
The 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. Established
in 1966, ERIC is funded by the U.S. Department
of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), and
is administered by the National Library of
Education.
PubMed
NLM's search service to access the 9 million citations in MEDLINE and
Pre-MEDLINE (with links to participating on-line journals), and other
related databases.
American Psychological Association
The American Psychological Association (APA), in Washington, DC, is the
largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology
in the United States and is the world's largest association of psychologists.