early childhood resources...
American Academy of Pediatrics is
an organization of 60,000 pediatricians committed to the attainment of optimal
physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children,
adolescents, and young adults.
Better
Baby Care Today, a record number of parents with very young
children are in the workforce. More than half the infants and toddlers
in the United States spend time in child care each week. The Better Baby
Care Campaign is a nationwide effort to improve the quality of care for
children under age three.
Brainwonders shows
how the brain develops within the context of relationships from conception
through three years of age.
Brookes
Publishing publishes a range of Early Childhood Resources,
from scholarly research volumes to practical curricula for early childhood
and early intervention professionals. Browse early childhood titles
by subjects such as: early intervention, inclusive and special education,
developmental disabilities, learning disabilities, communication and
language, behavior, mental health and more. Brookes currently has more
than 250 titles in print and publish 35-40 new books every year.
Center for Child Care Workforce mission
is to improve the quality of early care and education for all children
by promoting policy, research and organizing that ensure the early care
and education workforce is well-educated, receives better compensation
and a voice in their workplace.
Center for Disease Control
and Prevention The
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is one of the 13 major
operating components of the Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS), which is the principal agency in the
United States government for protecting the health and safety of all Americans
and for providing essential human services, especially for those people
who are least able to help themselves.
Child Care Aware is
a non-profit initiative committed to helping parents find
the best information on locating quality child care and child care resources
in their community. We do this by raising visibility for local child care resource
and referral agencies nationwide, and by connecting parents with the local agencies
best equipped to serve their needs.
Children Now is
the independent voice for children, working to translate the nation's commitment
to children and families into action.
Children's
Defense Fund's Child Care Advocacy E-mail Network is
a free weekly newsletter for advocates interested in issues affecting
early childhood and school-aged children. The newsletter provides updates
and information on key federal and state developments, winning advocacy
strategies, new research, and other resources to help you help children.
The network is not a discussion forum, so you will not receive e-mail
from other members, only CDF.
ChildStats.gov offers
easy access to federal and state statistics and reports on children and their
families, including: population and family characteristics, economic security,
health, behavior and social environment, and education.
Civitas presents
results from What Grown-Ups Understand About Child Development: A National
Benchmark Survey which indicates that adults need more accurate information
on raising emotionally, intellectually and socially well-developed children.
This survey was sponsored by Civitas, ZERO TO THREE and BRIO Corporation,
and conducted by DYG, Inc. A summary of the results and the questionnaire
itself are available online.
The Future
of Children is a publication of the Children, Families,
and Communities Program of The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. 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 policies, and promoting constructive institutional
change.
Healthy Helpings is
the collection of Family Nutrition Programs of the South Carolina Department
of Social Services with a wide range of nutrition programs that reach
thousands of families who need some assistance making ends meet by working
through schools, churches, daycare centers, recreation centers, and other
agencies to provide meals and snacks.
The High/Scope
Foundation's mission is to seek, apply, and disseminate knowledge
about education and human development, especially as it relates to the
High/Scope educational approach to literacy. View Position Papers on How
to Teach Young Children to Read as well as sample pre-application for
the Early Reading First initiative that can be copied and used by interested
organizations and individuals.
Kids
Count Census Data Online has compiled indicators of
child well-being from the 2000 US Census and created an interactive online
database that uses a simple, yet powerful, interface to help you quickly
and easily create, view, and print reports.
Kids in Danger is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting children
by improving children's product safety.
National Association for
Family Child Care is an organization dedicated to strengthening
the profession of family child care by promoting high quality, professional early
care and education and strengthening communities where providers live and work.
National Association of
Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (NACCRRA) is the national
network of more than 850 child care resource and referral centers (CCR&Rs)
located in every state and most communities across the US. CCR&R centers
help families, child care providers, and communities find, provide, and plan
for affordable, quality child care.
National Association of the
Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is dedicated to improving
the well-being of all young children, with particular focus on the quality of
educational and developmental services for all children from birth through age
8. NAEYC is committed to becoming an increasingly high performing and inclusive
organization.
The National Child
Care Information Center (NCCIC), a project of the Child
Care Bureau, Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services, is a national resource that links information
and people to complement, enhance, and promote the child care delivery
system, working to ensure that all children and families have access
to high-quality comprehensive services.
The National Center
for Children in Poverty places a special emphasis
on preventing or alleviating poverty among children under age six
because young child poverty poses particularly serious risks to children's
healthy growth and development.
National
Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health Provides
national leadership to the maternal and child health community in three
key areas--program development, policy analysis and education, and state-of-the-art
knowledge--to improve the health and well-being of the nation's children
and families.
National Center for Family Literacy Through
groundbreaking initiatives, NCFL fuels life improvement for the nation’s
most disadvantaged children and parents. More than 1 million families throughout
the country have made positive educational and economic gains as a result
of NCFL’s work, which includes training more than 150,000 teachers and
thousands of volunteers.
National Institute
of Health The
goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect,
diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder
to the common cold. The NIH mission is to uncover new knowledge that will
lead to better health for everyone. NIH works toward that mission by: conducting
research in its own laboratories; supporting the research of non-Federal
scientists in universities, medical schools, hospitals, and research
institutions throughout the country and abroad; helping in the training
of research investigators; and fostering communication of medical and
health sciences information.
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, practitioners, and the general public. We network
with committed individuals around the country to bring you practical information
and resources that will be useful to you in your everyday work with children.
Parents
As Teachers provides a broad inventory of educational and
support programs for parents, training for family service providers,
and publications for
parents and those who work with them. These services and products help
parents set goals and make decisions for their education, work and family
life that increase their self-confidence, self-sufficiency and ability
to successfully manage a family.
The
Southern Institute on Children and Families is an independent,
non-profit organization that improves the well-being of children and
families through knowledge, leadership and action. generating greater
awareness and to equip community and business leaders and policymakers
with knowledge to make informed decisions.
US Consumer Product Safety
Commission The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with
protecting the public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death
from more than 15,000 types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction.
Deaths, injuries and property damage from consumer product incidents cost
the nation more than $700 billion annually. The CPSC is committed to protecting
consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical,
or mechanical hazard or can injure children. The CPSC's work to ensure the
safety of consumer products - such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette
lighters, and household chemicals - contributed significantly to the 30
percent decline in the rate of deaths and injuries associated with consumer
products over the past 30 years.
US Department
of Education – Especially for Parents ED was
created in 1980 by combining offices from several federal agencies. Its
original directive remains its mission today — to ensure equal
access to education and to promote educational excellence throughout
the nation.
Voices for
South Carolina’s Children is an independent, nonprofit
child advocacy organization that works to improve the lives of children
in the Palmetto State by providing information and resources to families,
child advocates, lawmakers and concerned citizens on current children’s
issues.
Zero
To Three Today, a record number of parents with very young
children are in the workforce. More than half the infants and toddlers
in the United States spend time in child care each week. The Better Baby
Care Campaign is a nationwide effort to improve the quality of care for
children under age three.