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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. American Heart Association The American Heart Association is a national voluntary health agency whose mission is to reduce disability and death from cardiovascular diseases and stroke. The American Heart Association is divided physically into the National Center (located in Dallas, Texas) and 12 affiliate offices that cover the United States and Puerto Rico. 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. 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. 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. Council on Family Health (CFH) The CFH is a nonprofit organization "dedicated to educating consumers about the proper use of nonprescription and prescription medicines, home safety and personal health. Information available at their site includes: educational resources, press releases and public service announcements, and links other health organizations. 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. Families USA Families USA is a nonprofit organization dedicated "to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health and long-term care for all Americans." Web site contains information on Medicare, Medicaid, children's health, uninsured populations, legislative action, web health links and state-by-state resources. It is an outstanding source of resources on health issues. Family Health International (FHI) FHI "works to improve reproductive and family health around the world through biomedical and social science research, innovative health service delivery interventions, training and information programs." Some of their program areas include: family planning, HIV/AIDS and STDs, Women's Health and infectious disease. Their page is accessible in French, Spanish, Russian and Arabic. 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. 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). 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.
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