ADVOCACY FOR CHILDREN

Child Advocacy Sites:
Center for the Child Care Workforce
Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice (CECP) Early Intervention Links
Child Care Aware
The Child Welfare League of America
Children Now
Children's Defense Fund
Community Mobilization Forums -providing information to enhance community mobilization efforts to "improve the quality of life for children and families in your state or community."
Early Childhood Care and Development
Family Village, A Global Community of Disablity-Related Resources
Federal Resource Center for Special Education
Harvard Family Research Project - HFRP's mission has been to examine and encourage policies and programs that empower families and communities to help children reach their potential.
"I Am Your Child" Campaign-a public awareness and engagement campaign to focus on new and compelling evidence about the importance of the first three years of life
KidsCampaigns - The Early Years
National Center for Children in Poverty - interested in identifying and promoting strategies that reduce the number of young children living in poverty in the United States, and that improve the life chances of the millions of children under six who are growing up poor.
The National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities
National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect
Parents Engaged in Educational Reform (PEER) Project: Goals 2000
and Children with Disabilities
Stand for Children - National organization to help you improve the lives of children in your community.
Starting Points - Meeting the Needs of Our Youngest Children, a report by The Carnegie Foundation
USA Childcare
 

Missing Children Hotlines:
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (USA)
 
 

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