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AVSC is a nonprofit organization that works worldwide to give women and men access to high-quality family planning services. AVSC specializes in working to improve the family planning services provided in clinics and hospitals. They are committed to the principles of free and informed choice and to ensuring that services are safe,voluntary, and responsive to the needs of the women and men they serve.
AERA is the most prestigious and prominent international professional organization with the primary goal of advancing educational research and its practical application. Its more than 23,000 members are educators, administrators, directors of research,testing, or evaluation in federal, state, and local agencies, counselors, evaluators, graduate students and behavioral scientists. The broad range of disciplines represented by the membership includes education, sociology, psychology, statistics, history, economics, philosophy, anthropology, and political science. AERA sponsors an annual meeting, disseminates current research findings, publishes the Educational Researcher 9 times a year.
Many direct benefits including monthly delivery of the APA Monitor, psychology's newspaper containing news of the discipline; and the American Psychologist, the journal covering issues and trends that affect all of psychology; money savings at Annual convention, continuing education programs, reduced rates on APA books and journals, employment resources, and the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students membership which will benefit career development. And much more!
ASA founded in 1905, is a non-profit membership association dedicated to advancing sociology as a scientific discipline and profession serving the public good. ASA seeks to stimulate and improve research, instruction, and discussion, and to encourage cooperative relations among those engaged in the scientific study of society. Any individual interested in these objectives is eligible for membership in ASA. All membership include a subscription to the newsletter, discounts on annual meeting registration, ASA publications, teaching workshops, and other membership services. *As a member of The Society for Research in Child Development, you are invited to become an interdisciplinary member of the ASA. You can receive a discount on your first year's dues.
Note: The American Sociological Association has a Sociology of Childhood Section. For information, contact the Washington, D.C. office.
An organization of those concerned with children from infancy through early adolescence. Celebrating more than 100 years of service, ACEI is the most active and widely respected non-profit professional association dedicated to the advancement of learning and childhood education. If you join as an International Professional Member, you will be automatically enrolled in a Professional Division to focus on the developmental age group you work with. Choose from Division for Infancy, Division for Early Childhood, or Division for Later Childhood/Early Adolescence. Each division includes professional programs and a free subscription to a quarterly four-page newsletter covering your age group. ACEI will help you professionally and personally.
Publishes the Child Welfare Journal, a major peer-reviewed journal dedicated solely to the welfare of children in America. Current issues and information, global programs and events, reviews major new texts, latest job opportunities.
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The National Association of Child Care Professionals has been servicing child care directors, administrators, and owners nationwide, providing support services and professional business management training to its members for over a decade. As NACCP is the premier organization exclusively dedicated to professionalism in child care, it is natural to extend our developmental and networking benefits to college students. NACCP's mission is to strengthen and enhance the professionalism of child care directors, administrators, and owners, nationwide through effective support and services. By reaching the nation's future managers at a grass roots level, we can prepare students for the tough hurdles they may face in their careers. No other market needs to be enlightened to the industry more than aspiring directors.
The National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) is a member-funded, non-partisan organization for multidisciplinary family professionals interested and involved in the development and dissemination of information about families. NCFR publishes two scholarly journals-Family Relations and Journal of Marriage and the Family. NCFR provides a unique forum where researchers, educators, practitioners, and policy makers from all family fields and disciplines share their knowledge and identify future information needs.
A network of knowledgeable technical experts in various aspects of experiential education. The network of NSEE consultants, which includes educators, practitioners, and staff, assists in developing and institutionalizing programs, integrating them into the curricula, and addressing scores of other issues. NSEE also functions as a formal training center, through special grants and projects. In addition to providing person-to-person assistance, NSEE also keeps people in touch with cutting-edge issues through its quarterly journal, special resource papers, and book-length volumes targeted to specific needs.
SDAEYC is a professional organization committed to high quality and developmentally appropriate care and education of young children. It is a state affiliate of the National Association for the Education of Young Children. Why join? Because you are committed to improving the quality and availability of education and services for young children from birth through age eight, because through SDAEYC your voice is stronger when united with over 77,000 members nationwide who advocate on behalf of all young children, because you can network with other early childhood practitioners through national, state and local conferences, events and projects, and because you will have the opportunity to apply for scholarships, book awards, action grants designed to support professional development and opportunities available to young children.
This multidisciplinary organization with almost 100,000 members began in 1926. Its goals are to provide a professional membership organization committed to promoting optimal life experiences for children from birth to 8 years.
The National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI), founded in 1970, is dedicated to improving the quality of life for Black children and families through services and advocacy. As a national membership organization, NBCDI keeps its members informed about critical issues in child care, education, child welfare, and health that face Black children and families. Members receive the Institute's quarterly newsletters, The Black Child Advocate and Child Health Talk, and periodic updates on various issues.
NBCDI's affiliate network is composed of dedicated volunteers who help to educate their communities about national, state and local issues facing Black children and families. They serve as a catalyst for change on the local level and engage in a variety of activities. For example, they have addressed the issue of competency testing, tutored children and youth, and provided leadership training through conferences and workshops.
NBCDI serves as a resource on selected issues pertaining to African American children and youth through its publications and annual conference.
The Neighborhood Child Care Network (NCCN) is a national demonstration funded by the Ford Foundation. NCCN uses a variety of strategies--including training programs, support services and community organizing--to improve the quality and affordability of child care in low-income urban neighborhoods. The project places a special emphasis on supporting family day care providers and involving the religious community in addressing child care needs.
NCCN offers support to family day care providers so they can provide quality, affordable child care and so they can operate a profitable home business. NCCN brings together parents, child care providers, churches, corporate and political leaders to develop creative solutions to meet child care needs.
NCCN has two components of service: support and training to family day care providers and community organizing around child care issues.
Support and Training Services for Family Day Care Providers
Benefits of SRCD membership include
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OMEP is a non-governmental organization which focuses on the world's children, ages 0-8. OMEP represents the initial letters in the French name for the World Organization for Early Childhood Education. It consists of National Committees from more than 50 countries. There is a World Assembly every three years with regional seminars in off years. The United States National Committee is known as OMEP-USNC.
OMEP cooperates with other international organizations with similar aims. It has consultative status with UNESCO, UNICEF, Council of Europe and ECOSEC, and is represented at their meetings.
Membership in the national committees is diverse and includes educators, psychologists, social workers, pediatricians, administrators, architects, lawyers, writers, parents and other persons interested in international programs for young children.
Membership benefits:
Membership dues are effective for one year and available in three categories as stated above.
Publishes EFA 2000, a quarterly news bulletin. The bulletin provides news on the follow-up to the World Conference on Education for All at which 155 countries pledged to provide education for all children and adults and massively reduce illiteracy before the year 2000. The Bulletin is available on the internet: http://www.education.unesco.org/educprog/efa_forum.
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