Links

U.S. Government:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention www.cdc.gov/nchs/
Congressional Budget Office (CBO) www.cbo.gov/
General Accounting Office (GAO) www.gao.gov
House Ways and Means Committee waysandmeans.house.gov/
Library of Congress Thomas databases thomas.loc.gov/
President's Early Childhood Initiative www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/earlychildhood
U.S. Census Bureau quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html

(U.S.) Department of Education:
Early Reading First www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/earlyreading
Federal Interagency Coordinating Council (FICC) www.fed-icc.org
National Institute on Early Childhood Development and Education www.ed.gov/offices/OERI/ECI
No Child Left Behind www.nclb.gov
Office of Special Education Programs www.ed.gov/offices/OSERS/OSEP

(U.S.)Department of Health and Human Services:
Administration for Children and Families www.acf.dhhs.gov/index.html
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services cmms.hhs.gov
Home and Community Based Services www.hcbs.org
Maternal and Child Health Bureau www.mchb.hrsa.gov/
Medicare medicare.commission.gov/medicare/index.html
Medicare Payment Assessment Commission (MEDPAC) www.medpac.gov/
National Institutes of Healthwww.nih.gov/
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) www.nichd.nih.gov/
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)www.samhsa.gov

California State Government:
California Legislative Analyst's Officewww.lao.ca.gov
California Children and Families Commission (Proposition 10) www.ccfc.ca.gov
Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs www.adp.ca.gov
Department of Developmental Services - Early Startwww.dds.ca.gov/earlystart
Department of Education - Child Development Divisionwww.cde.ca.gov
Department of Education - Special Education Division www.cde.ca.gov
Department of Mental Health www.dmh.ca.gov
Department of Health Serviceswww.dhs.ca.gov
Department of Health Services www.dhs.cahwnet.gov/
Department of Insurance www.insurance.ca.gov
Department of Social Services www.dss.ca.gov
Healthy Families Program www.healthyfamilies.ca.gov/
Medi-Cal website www.medi-cal.ca.gov/

Statewide Resources:
California Center for Public Health Advocacy www.publichealthadvocacy.org/
California Child Care Healthline - Child Care Health Program www.ucsfchildcarehealth.org
California Child Care Resource and Referral Network www.rrnetwork.org
California Endowment www.calendow.org/
California HealthCare Foundation www.chcf.org
California Policy Research Center www.ucop.edu/cprc/
California Statewide Immunization Information Organization www.ca-siis.org/index.html
CIHS Sonoma State University www.sonoma.edu/cihs
California Healthline www.news.chck.org/member
Health Insurance for Every California Child www.100percentcampaign.org/
Institute for Community Collaborative Studies (CSU at Monterey Bay)iccs.csumb.edu/html/community/relres.html
Medi-Cal Policy Institute www.medi-cal.org/
Project Support www.calstatela.edu/Project_Support
Supporting Early Education Delivery Systems (SEEDS) www.scoe.net/seeds
WestEd Center for Prevention and Early Intervention www.wested.org/cpei

Los Angeles Area Resources:
Breastfeeding Task Force of Greater Los Angeles www.breastfeedingtaskforla.org/
First 5 LA (Los Angeles County Prop 10 Commission) www.first5.org/
Los Angeles Best Babies Collaborative www.cedars-sinai.edu/labbc/
Los Angeles Children's Planning Council www.childpc.org/
Los Angeles County Children's Planning Council www.childrensplanningcouncil.org/
Los Angeles County Dept. of Health Services www.ladhs.org/
Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA www.pediatrics.medsch.ucla.edu/
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research www.healthpolicy.ucla.edu/

National Resources and Indices:
Child Trends www.childtrends.org/
National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health www.ncemch.org
National Child Care Information Center www.nccic.org
National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center www.nectac.org/default.asp
National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities www.nichcy.org
CEC IDEA Partnerships www.ideapractices.org
IDEA Annual Data www.ideadata.org
Parenting Resources for the 21st Century www.parentingresources.ncjrs.org/

National and International Organizations:
All Kids Count (Task Force for Child Survival and Development [Atlanta, Georgia USA]) www.allkidscount.org/Default.htm
Aspen Institute Roundtable on Comprehensive Community Initiatives www.aspenroundtable.org/
Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs www.amchp1.org/aboutamchp/
Best Start, A link from Victoria, Australia on community based child Development www.beststart.vic.gov.au/
Casey Family Programs (Seattle WA USA) www.casey.org
Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture (CESLAC) www.cesla.med.ucla.edu/
Centre for Community Child Health [Australia] www.rch.org.au/ccch/
Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development (CEECD) [Canada]  www.excellence-earlychildhood.ca/home.asp
Child Welfare League of America www.cwla.org/
Child Welfare Research Institute www.childwelfare.com
Children's Defense Fund www.childrensdefense.org/
Community Building Resource Exchange www.commbuild.org/
Division for Early Childhood of Council for Exceptional Children www.dec-sped.org
Early Childhood Development (New Zealand) www.ecd.govt.nz/about.html
Fiscal Policy Studies Institute resultsaccountability.com/
Guide to Careers in Child and Family Policy www.igpa.uillinois.edu/cfp/
I Am Your Child Foundation www.igpa.uillinois.edu/cfp/www.igpa.uillinois.edu/cfp/
Institute for Leaders in State Title V CSHCN programs cshcnleaders.ichp.edu/default.htm
National Association for the Education of Young Children www.naeyc.org
National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies www.naccrra.org
National Conference of State Legislatures www.ncsl.org/
National Center for Children in Poverty www.nccp.org/
National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health www.ncemch.org
National Governors' Association www.nga.org/
National Head Start Association www.nhsa.org
National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality www.nichq.org/
National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care nrc.uchsc.edu/index.html#TOP
New Schools / Better Neighborhoods (NSBN) www.nsbn.org/about.html
North Carolina Smart Start Initiative www.ncsmartstart.org
Project HOPE www.projecthope.org/index.htm
RAND School Policy Project www.rand.org/child
School Readiness Indicator Initiative www.gettingready.org/gettingready/
Sierra Health Foundation (California USA) sierrahealth.org/
Sure Start www.surestart.gov.uk/home.cfm
Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families zerotothree.org/
 

Health Policy Related Organizations:
AcademyHealth www.academyhealth.org/
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) www.aap.org
American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) www.aarp.org/
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research www.aei.org/
Association of Maternal and Child Health Program www.amchp1.org/aboutamchp/
Brookings Institute www.brookings.org
Cato Institute www.cato.org/healthcare/index.html
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities www.cbpp.org/index.html/
Child Welfare League of America www.cwla.org/
Children's Defense Fund www.childrensdefense.org/
The Commonwealth Fund www.cmwf.org/
FACCT Foundation for Accountability www.facct.org/facct/site/facct/facct/home
Families USA www.familiesusa.org/index.htm
Health Affairs www.healthaffairs.org/
Health Insurance Policy Program (HIPP) chpps.berkeley.edu/hipp/index.html
Heritage Foundation www.heritage.org/research/features/familydatabase/
Institute for Child Health Policy www.ichp.edu/
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law www.jhppl.org
The Kaiser Family Foundation www.kff.org/
Kaisernetwork.org www.kaisernetwork.org/index.cfm
Maternal & Child Health Policy Research Center www.mchpolicy.org/ncic.html
Mathematica Policy Research www.mathematica-mpr.com/index.htm
Medi-Cal Policy Institute www.medi-cal.org
National Association of Social Workers www.naswdc.org/
National Institute for Early Education Research www.nieer.org/
Pathways Mapping Institute www.aecf.org/pathways/
Policy Action Network www.movingideas.org/
Prevention Institute www.preventioninstitute.org
Promising Practices Network for Children, Families and Communities www.promisingpractices.net/
Public Agenda Onlinewww.publicagenda.org/
Public Citizen Public Citizen www.cdc.gov/nchs/
Robert Wood Johnson Foundationwww.rwjf.org
Urban Institute www.urban.org