Related Web Links

IMPORTANT WEB SITES

There are many professional organizations, websites, journals and research/scholarly homepages in the field of child and family development and related or allied fields on the web. Here is a list of a few resources we have compiled. They are in invaluable research tool for the child development major. Print this list out and start checking them out. Each of them will lead you to others. Happy hunting!

Check out:

AARP WebPlace
Basic information not only on services offered by the American Association of Retired Persons, but on a host of other topics. http://www.aarp.org
ADA and Disability Information: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~sbilling/ada.html
The Administration on Aging. This provides useful links to an infinite number of resources. http://www.aoa.dhhs.gov
The American Psychiatric Association maintains a home page on the web that contains information about public-policy issues and about the organization's membership, schedule of events, and descriptions of its library services and holdings. http://www.psych.org/
ARC (A national organization of mental retardation) http://thearc.org/welcome.html
Bureau of Labor Statistics http://www.bls.gov
Carnegie Corporation, Council on Adolescent Development http://www.carnegie.org/operprog.html
Carnegie Corporation, Education and Healthy Development of Children and Youth http://www.carnegie.org/program.htm#edu
Carnegie Corporation of New York Releases Major Report on Children Ages 3-10 http://www.america-tomorrow.com/naeyc/news/carnegie.html
Carnegie Corporation, Starting Points, State and Community Partnerships for Young Children http://www.carnegie.org/startingpoints
Carnegie Organization Publications, Primary Grades: http://www.carnegie.org/recpubs.htm#primarygrades
or http://www.carnegie.org
The Center for Career Development in Early Care and Education.: www:http://ericps.ed.uiuc.edu.ccdece.html; Center for the Future of Children; http://www.futureofchildren.org

Child Care Aware; http://www.dhc.comTargetWWW/html/child01.htm
Child Care Bureau:
Information on the Child Care and Development Block Grant, links to other Administration on Children and Families sites and other information within the Department of Health and Human Services, with links to other related child care sites.: http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/ACFPrograms/CCDBG/index.html
Child Development Permit Information from the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing:: http://www.ctc.ca.gov
Child Welfare League of America: http://www.handsnet.org/cwla
Children Now: http://www.dnai.com/~children/
Children, Youth and Family Consortium:
This resource site of the University of Minnesota contains links to other useful web sites organized by categories, chat groups, focused information on topics such as father involvement and work and family issues and general information on children and families.: http://www.fsci.umn.edu/cyfc
Children's Defense Fund: http://www.tmn.com/cdf/index.html
The Chronicle of Higher Education has more internet resources for higher education available on Academe Today, the Chronicle's Internet information service.: http://chronicle.com
Consumer Product Safety Commission: http://www.cpsc.gov
CyberKids: http://www.cyberkids.com/

Department of Education: http://www.ed.gov
Department of Education, California: http://goldmine.cde.ca.gov
Department of Health and Human Services: http://www.os.dhhs.gov
Department of Labor: http://www.dol.gov
Directory of Web and Gopher Aging Sites:
This site lists addresses of just about all the key organizations that can help seniors, whether they are government agencies, colleges or organizations devoted to specific issues. Informatin about elder abuse, Alzheimer's disease and exercise are just a small sampling.: http://www.aoa.dhhs.gov/aoa/webres/craig.htm
Education Code, Information on Family Code: California Law: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/calaw.html
Education Week on the Web (Latest news and info updated each week): http://www.edweek.org/
Elderhostel:
A nationwide nonprofit educational program for older adults run at hundreds of U.S. colleges and overseas. Students live on college campuses during the one-week courses.: http://www.elder-hostel.org
Electronic Policy Network:
A resource site, including information and links to national organizations working in child and family policy, welfare reform, health policy and economic research.: http://epn.org
Empowerment Zone/Enterprise Communities: http://www.ezec.gov
ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education:
Provides access to an extensive body of education-related literature with a focus on child development, caring for young children, and parenting.: http://ericps.ed.uiuc.edu/ericeece.html

Fatherwork: Stories and ideas to encourage generative fathering: http://fatherwork.byu.edu
FedWorld Information Network:
This site lists recent government reports and lets the user search government information by keywords.: http://www.fedworld.gov
The Future of Children Homepage. View the electronic version of the journal or download either an entire issue or selected articles.: http://www.futureofchildren.org
Health Care Financing Administration:
Supervising agency for the two major government-run medical programs, Medicare and Medicaid. Provides one of the most accessible and readable explanations of how the programs work and has an easy-to-understand table of contents.: http://www.hcfa.gov
Indian Health Services: http://www.ihs.gov
K-12 Teachers Resource Center (lots of stuff): http://web66.coled.umn.edu/
Kid Safety: http://ww.uoknor.edu/oupd/kidsafe/start.htm
Labor Project for Working Families: http://violet.berkeley.edu/~netsy; Legal Research. Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research Georgia State University College of Law maintains a home page on the web that provides students with access to the "Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research," a service that links users to legal resources on the Internet. The site contains sections on federal regulation, judicial opinions, legislation, people in law, and other legal sources.; http://gsulaw.gsu.edu/metaindex/
Thomas Legislative Search:
Full-text of all federal legislation proposed in the House or Senate is included on this site and can be searched by keyword, short or long title or legislative topic. The site also has links to Congressional web sites and to other sites in the Federal government that have legislative information.: http://thomas.loc.gov
Library of Congress' State and Local Government Resource Page:
Lists indexes of state and local sources of information on the World Wide Web and provides maps of every state. Also links to other Library of Congress Information resources and to other government sites.: http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/state/stategov.html
National Agricultural Library: http://www.nal.usda.gov
National Association for the Education of Young Children: http://www.naeyc.org/naeyc
National Association of State Information Resource Executives: http://www.state.ky.us:80/nasire/NASIREhome.html
National Center for Children in Poverty: http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept./nccp/
National Center for Health Statistics: http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww.nchshome.htm
National Child Care Information Center:
Sponsored by the Child Care Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services, this site provides a central access point for child care related information. It also includes links to other organizations and provides full-text documents.: http://ericps.ed.uiuc.edu/nccic/nccichome.html
National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect: http://www.calib.com/nccanch
National Coalition for Campus Child Care: http://ericps.ed.uiuc.edu/n4c/n4chome.html
National Conference of State Legislatures: http://www.ncsl.org
National Council on Family Relations: http://www.iog.wayne.edu/FR/homepage.html
National Council on Family Relations Staff E-mail: http://www.ncfr.com/staff.html
The National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health:
One of the world's most extensive collections of medical information. The average person can have access to much of that material by simply signing up and getting a code word. There is no charge for signing up but there is a nominal fee for using the service. Abstracts of articles covering just about any disease or physical condition imaginable can be printed out.: http://www.igm.nih.gov
National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care: http://nrc.uchsc.edu
Native Web:
A site that provides information about the lives and cultures of Native Americans, Alaskan Natives, and other indigenous peoples. The topics include languages, education, organizations, newsletters, and other sites which focus on Native issues.: http://web.maxwell.syr.edu/nativeweb
School-Age Child Care Project: http://www.wellesley.edu/Cheever/saccp.html
SeniorNet:
A pioneer in providing information to seniors via computer. News articles from Maturity News Service and past stories.: http://www.seniornet.com
Social Security:
Basic benefits and eligibility in easy-to-understand prose free of bureaucratic jargon.: http://www.ssa/gov
The Urban Institute: http://www.urban.org
U.S. Bureau of the Census: http://www.census.gov/
WidowNet:
An easy-to-read service for the newly widowed, providing information about how to deal with bereavement. Where to find support groups, how to deal with Social Security, and other helpful links.: http://www.fort-net.org/~goshorn/index.html
Yale Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy: http://pantheon.cis.yale.edu/~chunga/bushcent.html

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