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Family Support Links
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Child Welfare
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Competence
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General Information
Parent Education and Support
Policy and Systems
Research,
Model Programs, and Best Practices
Advocacy
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Children's Defense Fund's
research, public education campaigns, budget and policy advocacy,
and coalition building have contributed to millions of children
gaining immunizations; health care; child care; Head Start; a right
to education; adoptions; a chance to escape poverty; and protections
in our child welfare, mental health, and juvenile justice systems.
More than 400 CDF publications have educated millions about child
conditions and what can be done individually and collectively to
change things. This website offers information on topics
including: meeting children's needs; preventing poverty; advocating
for children; engaging the faith community; as well as state and
national data and facts related to education, jobless rates,
poverty, youth crime & violence, and census
data.
http://www.childrensdefense.org/
Child Welfare
Cultural
Competence
Disabilities
General
Information
Parent Education and Support
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AAPD is the membership
organization representing the specialty of pediatric dentistry.
Our 5,800 members serve as primary care providers for millions
of children from infancy through adolescence.
http://www.aapd.org/publications/brochures/
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Birth To Three has brought
new parents together since 1978 to share their parenting
experiences, increase their knowledge of early childhood
development, learn about community resources, and develop
support networks among themselves.
http://www.birthto3.org
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Brazelton TOUCHPOINTS Center
offers a series of links to noteworthy sites which may provide
helpful, professional assistance on childcare and parenting
questions.
http://www.touchpoints.org
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FamilyEducation.com is
created by parents for parents. Millions of parents rely on the
site's trusted homework help, parenting tips, and expert advice.
Our advertisers and sponsors make it possible for us to offer
this free, high-quality content.
http://www.familyeducation.com/home
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Family Resource Centers are
places where families, schools, and communities can come
together to help children get ready for school. When families,
school, and communities work together, children succeed.
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OERI/ECI/digests/98october.html
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The Family
Resource Centers of Tioga County are community centers for
families with young children through age five. They offer a
free, nurturing play space and meeting area and provide learning
opportunities and resources. Parent-child interaction, family
development, and strong, healthy communities are promoted
through FRC’s collaborative partnerships with families, area
organizations, agencies, businesses and government.
http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/tioga/
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FamilyResource.com -
Relationships parenting, pregnancy/babies, health, finance and
lifestyle: Variety of articles and resources.
http://www.familyresource.com/parenting
Policy and Systems
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Ensuring
Student Success Through Collaboration
Issue Brief: What
Every Educator Should Know About The
Changing Social Policy
Landscape and Efforts to
Ensure Student Success
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The Finance Project offers a
broad range of services that include: research and analysis; policy
tool development; technical assistance; development of web based
clearinghouses; management of major, multi-state initiatives; and
developing peer and organizational networks. Find an array of
published resources: including papers related to financing,
governance and management in education, welfare reform; family and
children's services and community building and development;
published and unpublished reports and studies of federal, state and
local financing, governance and management issues and strategies,
prepared at the request of federal and state government clients,
private foundations and other organizations.
http://www.financeproject.org
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National Governors Association provides
governors and their senior staff members with services that range
from representing states on Capitol Hill and before the
Administration on key federal issues to developing policy reports on
innovative state programs and hosting networking seminars for state
government executive branch officials. The NGA Center for Best
Practices focuses on state innovations and best practices on issues
that range from education and health to technology, welfare reform,
and the environment. The NGA Center provides technical assistance to
Governors' Offices in the following areas: Governors' Children's
Cabinets; Child and family services integration; Child welfare
system reform; Child abuse and neglect prevention; Marriage and
family formation;
Children and welfare reform; Focus of Center
Activities. The Center also provides technical assistance to
states as they design and implement policies and initiatives to
improve outcomes for children and families, as well as track state
policies and initiatives related to child and family well-being,
including child welfare system reform and human services
integration. Find related reports, issue briefs, meeting summaries,
and other online documents.
http://www.nga.org
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The National Center for Children
in Poverty (NCCP) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and policy
organization at Columbia University, whose mission is to identify
and promote strategies that prevent child poverty in the United
States and that improve the lives of low-income children and
families. Concentrating on the links between family economic
security and child development, we research policies that promote
three goals: Economically secure families; Children entering school
ready to succeed; Stable, nurturing families. Find research,
facts and tools around; Economic Security, Early Child Care and
Learning; Family Stability; Demographics.
http://www.nccp.org
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National Conference of State
Legislatures is a bipartisan organization that serves the
legislators and staffs of the nation's 50 states, providing
research, technical assistance and opportunities for policymakers to
exchange ideas on the most pressing state issues. To help
legislators support families in their communities, NCSL tracks state
and federal policies and programs in six areas: human services
reform, early childhood care and education, child support, child
welfare, family law, welfare reform and youth programs.
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/cyf/hswelfare.htm
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The Research Forum, at the
National Center for Children in Poverty, is updated daily and
features a searchable database of summaries of large- and
small-scale research projects, key topics pages, resources pages,
and lists of recent publications related to these issues.
Content available includes current and past Forum newsletters and
a database of more than 300 projects. Policy explanations are also
included, such
as welfare reform reauthorization.
www.researchforum.org/
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Together We Can, a national
leadership development and capacity building initiative to
strengthen children, youth, families and communities, works to
strengthen and sustain the capacity of community collaboratives and
state initiatives. TWC resources include: Community Collaborative
Wellness Tool Kit; Building Community; Capacity Building
Partnerships; The Community Agenda, a newsletter for community
collaboratives; services and seminars as well as resources materials
to develop the capacity of community collaboration; a comprehensive
list of resource organizations supporting community collaboration; a
bibliography of books, monographs, videos and articles; a Technical
Assistance Network; a collaborative database housing community
collaboratives from all over the country; as well as TWC and TWC
Partner Publications.
http://www.twcfoundation.org
Research,
Model Programs, and Best Practices
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The Center for the Study of Social
Policy's
mission is to promote
policies and practices that improve the living conditions and
opportunities of low-income and other disadvantaged persons.
The center's major work is organized into three related areas of
general activity consistent with its mission - 1) Support to
Practitioners: Technical Assistance Resource Center, Peer Technical
Assistance, and International Learning; 2) Community Building:
Community Decision Making, Community Child Protection, and
Strengthening Families Through Early Care and Education; and 3)
Policy and System Reform: Non-Adversarial Child Welfare Reform,
Policy Matters, Human Resource Management Reform, and financing.
http://www.cssp.org
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The Center on Urban Poverty and
Social Change seeks to address the problems of persistent and
concentrated urban poverty and is dedicated to understanding how
social and economic changes affect low-income communities, and how
living in these communities affects the well-being of their
residents. The Center’s research is organized around four
major areas: Welfare, Neighborhood and Community Change, Children
and Families, and Community Safety.
http://povertycenter.cwru.edu
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Child and Family Policy Center (CFPC)
produces a variety of reports, case studies, concept papers, and
technical assistance tools related to Community Based Collaboration,
Service Integration, and Comprehensive Services; Outcomes,
Evaluation and Accountability; Early Childhood Systems and School
Readiness; Frontline Practice; Investment-Based Budgeting and
Return-On-Investment Analysis; Child Welfare, Outcomes, Contracting
and Managed Care; and Welfare Reform and Workforce Development.
http://www.cfpciowa.org
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Children and Family Futures is a
non-profit firm providing technical assistance and training,
strategic planning, evaluation and development of effectiveness
measures.
http://www.cffutures.com
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The Future of Children provides
research and analysis to promote effective policies and programs for
children by providing policymakers, service providers, and the media
with timely, objective information based on the best available
research. The Future of Children Journal offers comprehensive,
cross-disciplinary articles focusing on issues related to children.
Topics include foster care, welfare reform, domestic violence, home
visiting, child care, health care and school-linked services.
http://www.futureofchildren.org
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Harvard Family Research
Project's (HFRP)
research can be placed under two categories of study:
family-school-community partnership and strategy consulting and
evaluation. Specific projects include: Out-of-School Time
Learning, Family Involvement Network of Educators, Home Visit Forum,
and Early Childhood Evaluation Project.
http://www.hfrp.org/
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Evaluation Exchange -
Harvard Family Research Project
Emerging Strategies in
Evaluating Child and Family Services
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Kentucky Office of Family Resource
and Youth Services Centers (FRYSC), provides
administrative support, technical assistance, and training to the
local school-based Family Resource and Youth Services Centers. These
Centers are designed to promote the flow of resources and support to
families in ways that strengthen their functioning and enhance the
growth and development of each member.
http://chfs.ky.gov/
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The National Clearinghouse on Child
Abuse and Neglect Information, which is a service of the
Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services, was established to collect,
organize, and disseminate information on all aspects of child
maltreatment. The mission of the Clearinghouses is to connect
professionals and concerned citizens to timely and well-balanced
information on programs, research, legislation, and statistics
regarding the safety, permanency, and well-being of children and
families. The Clearinghouse creates and updates numerous fact
sheets, bulletins, organization resource lists, State laws
summaries, syntheses of recent research, and other publications, as
well as maintaining a searchable database of information resources
concerning child welfare.
http://www.childwelfare.gov/
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Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), a component of the Office of
Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, produces statistics,
bulletins, fact sheets and other publications on youth and family
issues. Topics include: family strengthening, youth
development, mentoring, school safety, child protection and juvenile
justice.
http://ojjdp.gov
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The Oregon Commission on Children and
Families' (OCCF) Best Practices information is intended to build
on the many years of good work the Oregon Commission System has
devoted to outcome evaluation and accountability. Information
is structured using specific topic areas including: Childhood Care &
Education; Home Visiting; Child/Youth Crime Prevention; Teen
Pregnancy Prevention; Alcohol & Drug Abuse; Parent Education &
Support; Early Literacy; Health/Mental Health; and Positive Youth
Development. These topic areas are divided into several
sections: Essential Components; Demonstrated and Model Programs;
Useful Web Sites; and Research Resources.
http://www.oregon.gov/OCCF/index.shtml
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The Research Forum at the National
Center for Children in Poverty - The Research Forum encourages
collaborative research and informed policy on welfare reform, child
and family well-being, and community/neighborhood issues. This web
site, updated daily, features a searchable database of summaries of
large- and small-scale research projects, key topics pages,
resources pages, and lists of recent publications related to these
issues.
http://www.researchforum.org/
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School of the 21st Century (21C),
based at Yale University, develops, researches, networks, and
supervises a revolutionary educational model that links communities,
families, and schools. There are currently over 1300 schools across
the continental United States that are participating in the 21C
program.
http://ziglercenter.yale.edu/
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