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	Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Part of the DHHS, the Administration for Children and Families web site contains information on the Access's programs, including: Tribal Work, Family and Youth Bureau, Community Service, and Children's Bureau. Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics (AOEC) AOEC is a "a nonprofit organization, is committed to improving the practice of occupational and environmental health through information sharing and collaborative research." Their site contains education resources, epidemiology tools, pediatric environmental health units, and links to their partners. BADvertising Institute The BADvertising Institute's mission is "to immunize kids against tobacco, inspire smokers to quit, and equip advocates and educators with the tools for doing the same." They do this by powerful counter-advertising messages in the form of exhibits, posters and billboards, slide presentations, workshops and their web site. Bright Futures Bright Futures is dedicated to the principle that every child deserves to be healthy and that optimal health involves a trusting relationship between the health professional, the child, the family, and the community as partners in health practice. Special topic areas include: nutrition, oral health, mental health, physical activity and families. They also have resources in Spanish. Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids The campaign fights to "free America's youth from tobacco and to create a healthier environment." The site contains information on research, advertising campaigns, recent Supreme Court Decisions, programs for action and special reports. Child Trends "Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to studying children, youth, and families through research, data collection, and data analyses." Their current projects include: Effects of Welfare Reform on Children;Adolescent sexual Behavior, Pregnancy, and Childbearing; Indicators of Children's Well-being, Data and Measurement, Positive Development; and Early Childhood Studies. Children's Defense Fund (CDF) CDF's mission 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." Their site contains information on their programs (including The Black Community Crusade for Children, Head Start, Healthy Start, etc.), publications and reports, news, issues, and links to other web pages. Children's Environmental Health Web Site This site from the Minnesota Department of health was created to "improve access to information about children's environmental health. The site describes the department's programs and activities, including surveillance, school indoor air quality, chemical exposures, asthma, and health education. The Children's Partnership The Children's Partnership is a national nonprofit, nonpartisan organization whose mission is to inform leaders and the public about the needs of America's 70 million children, and to engage them in ways that benefit children. The Partnership undertakes research and policy analysis, publishes reports and multimedia materials, and forges new alliances among parents, policy makers and the private sector to achieve tangible gains for children. The Partnership focuses particular attention on identifying new trends and emerging issues that will affect large numbers of America's children and on providing early analysis and strategies for action." Current programs include: Children and Technology, Children and Health Care Reform, and Building a Constituency for Children. Children's Safety Network (CSN) The Children's Safety Network National Injury and Violence Prevention Resource Center "provides resources and technical assistance to maternal and child health agencies and other organization seeking to reduce unintentional injuries and violence to children and adolescents." The site contains publications and resources on their mission. College Drinking: Changing the Culture This site, sponsored by the National Institute on Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, highlights the activities of the Task Force on College Drinking. The goals of the Task force are to: Provide research-based information about the nature and extent of dangerous drinking to high school and college administrators, students, parents, community leaders, policymakers, researchers, and members of the retail beverage industry Offer recommendations to college and university presidents on the potential effectiveness of current strategies to reverse the culture of drinking on campus Offer recommendations to the research community, including NIAAA, for future research on preventing hazardous college student drinking The site provides resources for students, parents, educators, the media, campus officials and others. CollegeMeningitis Sponsored by the Meningitis Foundation of America, CollegeMeningitis is dedicated to providing information meningococcal meningitis among college students. In addition to information for parents, health care providers and students, there are links to other organizations working on meningitis. Community Voices Community Voices is an initiative from W.K. Kellogg Foundation that contains information on national health policy and efforts of local communities to improve health care access and quality. There are reports on minority health initiatives, oral health, youth violence, mental health and issues related to health care access. The site features monthly articles by prominent scholars and politicians as well as serves as a gateway to other important health and nonprofit web sites. Covering Kids & Families To address the need to reduce the number of uninsured children and adults who are eligible for public health care coverage programs but not enrolled, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation launched Covering Kids & Families (CKF), a four-year, $55 million dollar initiative to increase the number of children and families who benefit from existing health care coverage programs. Covering Kids & Families operates through statewide projects in 45 states and the District of Columbia and more than 140 local community projects. In addition, 4 states have CKF liaison grants that provide opportunities to participate in the national CKF initiative. The CKF coalitions focus on the following three strategies to reduce the number of uninsured children and adults who are eligible but not enrolled in Medicaid and SCHIP: conduct and coordinate outreach programs; simplify enrollment and renewal processes; and coordinate existing health care coverage programs. Go Ask Alice "The mission of Go Ask Alice! is to provide factual, in-depth, straightforward, and nonjudgmental information to assist readers' decision making about their physical, sexual, emotional, and spiritual health. 'Alice' answers questions about relationships; sexuality; sexual health; emotional health; fitness; nutrition; alcohol, nicotine and other drugs; and general health." While the site is geared towards teenagers, it may provide a useful resource to find out about current practices and concerns of teens and young adults. Health Poll Search Health Poll Search is a searchable archive of public opinion questions on health issues that allows users to know what Americans think about health issues, as well as what Americans have thought about health issues over time. Health Poll Search is the result of a partnership between the Kaiser Family Foundation and The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut. The Roper Center houses an archive of more than 350,000 public opinion questions dating back to 1935. The Health Poll Search archive covers 29 topics and more than 300 subtopics, and holds more than 60,000 questions on health issues from health care surveys that have included questions on health. These questions provide information on public perceptions of HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, health policy and health reform, Medicare and Medicaid, women's health, the uninsured, minority health, and children's health. Response percentages and source information are provided for all questions. Health Policy Coach Health Policy Coach is part of the California Center for Health Improvement (CCHI). The Coach "is a resource for people seeking to improve community health through prevention-focused policy change. The site provides peer-reviewed, searchable health policies and "how-to" information and coaching resources of individuals and groups interested in effecting policy change in their communities." Policies include such topics as child care, tobacco, firearms, environmental toxins, illegal drugs, alcohol, and infectious disease. Health, United States 2000 This CDC report contains an adolescent health chartbook documenting health risks faced by children and adolescent between 10 and 19. The report has sections on population characteristics, health status, reproductive health, risk behaviors, and health care access. You will need Adobe® Acrobat Reader to view the chapters. Healthy Kids, Healthy Schools The Healthy Kids, Healthy Schools Site explores innovative strategies that schools, nonprofit organizations and local health agencies are using to enroll children in subsidized health insurance programs and provides information on policy issues related to children's health insurance. The Honeysuckle Foundation for Children with Cancer The Honeysuckle Foundation for Children with Cancer is an organization dedicated to improving the quality-of-life for children diagnosed with cancer. It is the goal of the Foundation to: assist these children and their families by providing direct financial support for expenses related to cancer treatment; provide resources as incentives for children undergoing chemotherapy and various medical procedures; and fund educational programs for school personnel and students to increase understanding of the disease and encourage social support for the patient both during treatment and post-treatment. I Promise Program The I Promise Program is a safe driving initiative developed for families with new young drivers to lower the risk of teen driver car crashes. The program reinforces parents as role models of responsible driving behavior and consists of a parent-youth mutual safe-driving contract, a rear-window decal, and a 1-year community monitoring service. Immunization Action Coalition The Immunization Action Coalition site contains information about child, adolescent and adult immunizations. "The Coalition promotes physician, community and family awareness of, and responsibility for, appropriate immunization of all children and adults against all vaccine-preventable diseases." The site also offers the publication Vaccines: What Every Parent Should Know (note: requires Adobe® Acrobat Reader). Injury Free Coalition for Kids Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Coalition's site is a resource for concerns regarding injury prevention, including programs on bicycle safety, passenger safety, safety belts and safety street sites. Kids in Danger Kids in Danger is a nonprofit organization dedicated to raise awareness and put the issue of children's product safety on the national agenda. The site contains information about product information, links to other organizations and an e-mail notification list. National Assembly on School-Based Health Care (NASBHC) NASBHC "is dedicated to promoting accessible, quality school-based primary health and mental health care for children and youth through interdisciplinary and collaborative efforts. The National Assembly supports the institutionalization of school-based health care nationwide as an essential strategy for improving the lives of children and optimizing their opportunities for success in school and society. NASBHC supports its individual and organizational members by providing community, state, and national advocacy, information and knowledge exchange, networking opportunities, and technical assistance." National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health (NCEMCH) A research center of Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute, NCEMCH "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." The NCEMCH site offers information on programs & policies, data & research tools and publications. They also have links to the National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center. National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) CASA's mission is to: inform Americans of the economic and social costs of substance abuse and its impact on their lives; to assess what works in prevention, treatment, and law enforcement; to encourage every individual and institution to take responsibility to combat substance abuse and addiction; to provide those on the front lines with the tools they need to succeed; and to remove the stigma of abuse and replace shame and despair with hope." The site contains information and links to publications, news, research and programs, family & youth information, and additional resources and links. National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center "The purpose of the National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center is to respond to the needs of states and communities in addressing current and emerging public oral health issues. The resource center supports and stimulates health professionals, program administrators, educators, policy makers, and others with the goal of improving oral health services for infants, children, adolescents, and their families. The resource center collaborates with federal, state, and local agencies; national and state organizations and associations; and foundations, to gather, develop, and share quality and valued information and materials." Their site contains links to oral health program, state and regional conferences a KidsOralHealth Listserv, web sites, and publications. PREVLINE: Prevention Online, National Clearing House for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI) PREVLINE features information on alcohol and drug with online databases, facts, research, publications, featured items, related resources and a section for kids only. The site is searchable or able to be navigated by topics or pull-down menus. Tobacco Free Sports A collaborative efforts between the DHHS (including the National Cancer Institute and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, and the US Women's National Soccer Team, Smoke-Free Kids and Soccer uses the women's team members to encourage adolescent girls to "participate in soccer to maintain physical fitness and resist the pressures to smoke." The site contains information about the program, including banners, posters and additional links. Teenage Health Interactive Network (THINK) THINK provides information on health and fitness to teenagers through information on nutrition, hygiene, sports, addictions, and the mind. Youth Tobacco Youth Tobacco is "an online source for tobacco intervention and cessation programs for teenagers." There are links to each kind of program, training, research & evaluation and other links to tobacco resources. See also: Child Health, Family Health.
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