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• - Annual child and family conferences moderated by former Vice President Al Gore and Tipper Gore. Reports, speeches, and resources.
  
• - A registered UK charity committed to keeping children safe from harm or abuse.
  
• - Resources for parents who care for children with special needs, including links to a nationwide directory of Parent Centers on Disability.
  
• - A national non-profit organization dedicated to helping children in child protective services, criminal and family courts, and foster care systems across the United States.
  
• - Uses advocacy to improve the lives of children in Nebraska. Children's agenda, publications, calendar, and resources.
  
• - Helps Amerasian children and families in the Philippines, Vietnam, and other parts of the world. News, events, and Amerasian Registry.
  
• - Provides support and information for parenting in a complex world through the Parent Resource Center.
  
• - Affiliated with the University of Washington, the Center uses policy and data analysis to improve the well being of children, families and communities. Projects, conferences, and press releases.
  
• - Non-profit, public interest law office that investigates abuse in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems.
  
• - An international membership association representing more than 350 private, nonprofit child- and family-serving organizations.
  
• - Strives to improve the lives of children in Westchester County, New York by focusing on improved health care, less gun violence, and better foster care services.
  
• - A non-profit charitable organization dedicated to preventing the abuse of infants and children through parent education and family services, and emphasizes discipline without hitting or harming.
  
• - A student club dedicated to educating the public about local and world issues related to child protection and child advocacy.
  
• - The Advocate serves the needs of children, families and professionals while addressing mental health issues.
  
• - Advocates on behalf of runaway, homeless and street youth in the state of New York.
  
• - Seeks to make government work better for children in Louisiana. Child care resources, health insurance initiatives, violence prevention programs, and media notes.
  
• - Seeks greater funding and support for health insurance, education, transportation, and public benefits for children and families in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area. Health care resources, events, and press releases.
  
• - Resources for parents, mentors, and organizations interested in mentoring programs in the Lancaster, Pennsylvania area.
  
• - Promotes the well-being of children and families in Wisconsin by advocating for effective and efficient health, education, and human service delivery systems.
  
• - Joint effort of Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati, the University of Cincinnati and concerned citizens, dedicated to stopping the pain of child abuse through education, evaluation, and treatment for victimized children and their families.
  
• - Advocacy for American children, particularly poor and minority children and those with disabilities. Issues and programs include: Head Start, Healthy Start, Stand for Children, child care, health insurance, child safety, moral education.
  
• - This site supports efforts in educational equity and social justice and provides resources for students and educators and valuable links to other sites.
  
• - Dedicated to improving foster care, adoption, special education, juvenile justice, and youth homes in Illinois.
  
• - A consortium of agencies, donors, NGOs and foundations involved in programming, research, policy advocacy, monitoring and evaluation for young children (0-8) at risk in the developing world.
  
• - A free and comprehensive multidisciplinary forum for those that work with youth to exchange viewpoints, research, and experiences with others who strive toward a common goal: promoting the well-being of youth.
  
• - Children's policy and advocacy organization that provides legislative information, publications, resources, and news.
  
• - Promotes the well being of Wyoming's children through advocacy, education, and leadership. Offers programs designed to improve the quality of child care.
  
• - Non-profit organization that promotes a strategy of intervening before problems limit a child's potential. Programs, news, publications, and legislative issues.
  
• - Provides tools and information to youth organizations in Indiana. Data, publications, grant tips, and consulting services.
  
• - NIC is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to advancing children's issues in Nevada and the United States.
  
• - A coalition of progressive and conservative groups opposing Channel One's presence in the schools, with extensive links to testimony, data, and activism.
  
• - Child advocacy and professional membership association representing children that are involved in the court system as victims of abuse and neglect or subjects of custody, visitation and adoption cases. Information about training and technical assistance,
  
• - Provides news, reports, and resources on issues affecting the well-being of North Carolina's children. Special emphasis on child abuse, health care, education, and juvenile justice.
  
• - Organization which seeks to eliminate child abuse and strengthen families in Massachusetts through programs, publications, and other resources.
  
• - Seeks to protect abused and neglected children, expand health care and other public benefits for youth, and improve child support collection. News, publications, and contact information.
  
• - Children First, through its journal and its web site, monitors and advocates for children's rights in South Africa and Africa.
  
• - A non-profit group dedicated to improving the lives of children and youth in the greater Kansas City area.
  
• - Devoted to stopping child abuse and finding missing children. Provides free air transportation to sick, poor, and abused children.
  
• - The Center, which is affiliated with Columbia University, produces reports, fact sheets, and press material that highlight strategies to end child poverty in the United States.
  
• - Works to make the system better serve America's most vulnerable children by trying to change policies concerning child abuse, foster care and family preservation.
  
• - Based at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the Center provides publications, data, and research on children and families in Hawaii.
  
• - Provides funding support for community programs run by the Toronto Police Service Community Policing Unit on behalf of kids at risk.
  
• - The Center, which is affiliated with the University of Connecticut Law School, uses representation, training, legislative advocacy, and consultation to protect the rights of children.
  
• - Database containing up-to-date information on issues about children and armed conflict, including press releases and links to other relevant sites.
  
• - Dedicated to publicizing an Illinois law designed to assist women who might otherwise abandon their babies in unsafe places. Offers adoption information, outreach materials, and a hotline.
  
• - Representing more than 1,000 community based and faith based organizations, this national initiative seeks to promote public policy solutions to the issues confronting young people between the ages of 16 and 24.
  
• - Develops and strengthens the movement for equity in education and child care. Funds initiatives aimed at improving public policy and educational and advocacy organizations.
  
• - Publications and information on the work of the United Nations Children's Fund and its advocacy for children's rights, survival, development and protection through adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
  
• - Devoted to improving the lives of children in Texas. Legislative policy, events, campaigns, and advocacy resources.
  
• - The Center, which is affiliated with the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, advocates for changes in society that improve the lives of women and children. Contact information, goals, and legislative priorities.
  
• - Representatives throughout the country help abused foster children and victims of child abuse laws.
  
• - Information on the status of children in India and the organization's efforts to provide them food, clothing, shelter, and education.
  
• - Independent agency created by the state legislature to advocate for children and support community efforts to improve the lives of children. Newsletter, data, and legislation.
  
• - Building strong partnerships and coalitions to address emerging children's health issues throughout Wisconsin.
  
• - Children's advocacy group with an array of programs that provide services in education, health, housing, mental health and employment.
  
• - Supports research, policy analysis, and advocacy designed to improve the lives of children in the state of Georgia. Contact information, survey of state advocacy organizations, and strategic initiatives.
  
• - Serves the Edmonton community in Alberta, Canada, regardless of their religious denomination, while specializing in Muslim needs. Youth development programs, domestic violence counseling, and food and clothing assistance.
  
• - Dedicated to fighting child abuse through advocacy, outreach, and education. Publications and resources for parents, kids and teens.
  
• - Helps communities build and organize safety networks for children. News, volunteer opportunities, and information on street safety.
  
• - Publisher of the Children's Advocate news magazine covering trends and policy issues affecting children and their families.
  
• - Seeks to educate Florida's legislature on important issues facing children and families. Events, position papers, and advocacy toolkit.
  
• - New York City's oldest city-based, multi-issue child advocacy organization. This site offers alerts and facts about kids in NY.
  
• - The Coalition aims to ensure a collective voice for Canadian organizations and youth advocates of children's rights as described in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the World Summit for Children Declaration.
  
• - Focuses on the health, early education, and well being of children in Pennsylvania. Legislative updates, publications, calendar, and news.
  
• - Provides advocacy, community leadership, and services for women and their families in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and surrounding areas. Child care, domestic violence prevention, and shelter programs.
  
• - The Institute, which is affiliated with the University of San Diego School of Law, represents the interest of children in legislative, judicial, and administrative matters.
  
• - Promotes the well being of children, youth, and families. Legislative alerts, anti-poverty campaigns, and media resources.
  
• - Seeks to improve health care, child care, and transportation services for children and families in the South.
  
• - Uses research, education, and analysis to inform the media, communities, and policy makers about Oregon's children. News, programs, and resources.
  
• - Watchdog group dedicated to reforming government child welfare services across the US. Statistics, reports on pending legislation, policy and research position papers, cases, and news.
  
• - Children's advocacy organization active in lobbying and humanitarian projects in the US. History and current programs described; links to publications, childrearing resources, and sponsors.
  
• - An organization across NY State advocating parent rights to obtain the authority to raise their teenage children by reforming legislation amending the persons in need of supervision law, raising the age up to 18.
  
• - Members of this Washington state network are automatically alerted whenever legislative decisions that affect children are being made.
  
• - A interfaith initiative focused on improving the lives of children in Minnesota. Advocacy opportunities, legislative agenda, events, and resources.
  
• - Seeks to benefit children and their families by encouraging philanthropy and public service. Offers several specific activities individuals can do to improve the lives of children.
  
• - Offers practical guidelines to organizations focused on improving their communities. Topics include leadership, strategic planning, grant writing, and community assessment.
  
• - Conducts polls, publishes reports, works with reporters and state children's groups, runs advertising, and conducts campaigns on behalf of children. Initiatives on child abuse prevention, health insurance, after school programs, and early childhood educat
  
• - Offers trends and facts on child abuse and neglect, foster care, adoption, family violence, and child protective services.
  
• - An association of Colorado nonprofit child welfare agencies advocating on behalf of at-risk children and families.
  
• - A coalition of 40 Provincial Organizations and hundreds of community groups who promote legislation, policy and practice that will enable children and youth to achieve their full potential and to participate in making a better world.
  
• - The Center, which is affiliated with Vanderbilt University, uses advocacy, research, and education to strengthen children and families.
  
• - Non-profit institute dedicated to research and policy analysis that focuses public attention on the problems facing poor, minority, and disabled children. Projects and publications.
  
• - Provides a forum and a unified voice on protecting working minors and ending child labor exploitation. Develops informational and educational outreach to the public and private sectors.
  
• - Uses communication, network building, and policy initiatives to improve the lives of Florida's children. News, legislative agenda, and calendar.
  
• - An alliance of public, private, and nonprofit groups committed to raising awareness and expanding resources for afterschool programs.
  
• - A group concerned with the plight of abandoned and homeless children in Siberia.
  
• - A cross-Canada public education movement to build public awareness and support for the 1989 all-party House of Commons resolution to end child poverty in Canada by the year 2000.
  
• - Dedicated to providing long-term care to needy children worldwide by offering information on child sponsorship and poverty reduction, action alerts, and online donation options.
  
• - A legal office that advocates for children in state care or Family Court proceedings. News, litigation, legislative advocacy, and handbook on child welfare system.
  
• - Nonpartisan professional development organization providing learning opportunities for policymakers working on youth issues at the local, state and national levels.
  
• - A planned community for approximately 500 orphaned, neglected and abused children from Georgia, the United States and the world.
  
• - Sponsored by the Germany office of the child advocacy organization. Site constitutes an interactive and educational platform to defend and protect children's rights as defined by the UNCRC, with case studies, news and opinion articles, activity centre, an
  
• - Serves the needs of children, families and professionals while addressing medical, educational, psychiatric, legal and legislative issues.
  
• - Designed to serve children who are orphans, handicapped, sexually abused, physically abused and pregnant teenagers in developing countries and economies of our world.
  
• - Information on, and lessons learned by, campaigns to help cities make the health, safety, and investment decisions necessary to improve the well being of children.
  
• - A resource center for anyone working to populate inner city neighborhoods with comprehensive, long-term, mentoring-to-career programs.
  
• - An association of private child and family welfare agencies in Texas. Advocacy, training, and publications.
  
• - Identifies systemic problems that prevent government or community agencies from achieving positive outcomes for children. Projects, newsletter, hotline, and information on child abuse.
  
• - The Otsego County, New York affiliate of America's Promise. Provides information about local advocacy efforts to support youth and families.
  
• - Advocates for Head Start programs by highlighting success stories from Head Start "graduates" and parents. Stories, news, and events.
  
• - Focuses on improving the lives of children in New Jersey. News, community outreach, legal resources, and legislative initiatives.
  
• - Raises awareness and resources to combat child sex trafficking.
  
• - Promotes the well being of children in South Dakota through legislative advocacy, publications, and discussion forums.
  
• - Resources to assist child welfare agency professionals in preserving families at risk of having children removed, reuniting removed children whenever possible, and encouraging fathers' involvement in their children's lives.
  
• - National research, policy analysis, and advocacy organization focused on children and technology, children's health care, and building a broad constituency to support children's issues.
  
• - Uses research to improve state and federal policy regarding children and families. News, publications, Iowa projects, and national projects.
  
• - An association of parents, concerned citizens, and professionals that seek reforms to Child Protective Services.
  
• - Seeks to improve the health, economic well being, and educational outcomes of Georgia's children. Community assistance, state initiatives, and best practices.
  
• - A nonprofit organization working to build the first and only residential-care home for troubled adolescents in Paraguay.
  
• - Focuses on the prevention of child abuse. Offers education and treatment programs, as well as a child abuse hotline.
  
• - Focuses on advocacy and research to improve the health and well-being of children in Ontario, Canada. Events, task forces, and publications.
  
• - Collects and publicizes information about the health, safety, and economic well being of children in Alaska. Data, publications, and regional information.
  
• - Focused on early childhood development in Ventura county, California. Research, training, publications, and resources.
  
• - An organization that promotes, advocates and is a resource for mentors and mentoring initiatives nationwide.
  
• - A nonprofit educational information and referral resource on all issues of child welfare, child health and child safety.
  
• - A leading, international, Christian aid organisation that is working worldwide to bring hope and change to communities in need through our relief and development projects aimed at helping children in developing countries.
  
• - Committed to increasing the supply of quality, affordable child care in Massachusetts.
  
• - Uses education, research, and demonstration to strengthen children and families. Child care, health care, and parent education initiatives.
  
• - Helps national and community organizations build youth development programs. Publications, research, links to grant opportunities, and contact information.
  
• - National non-profit organization that works to assure children meaningful and continuing contact with both their parents and extended family regardless of the parents' marital status.
  
• - Develops a policy agenda for Vermont's children and youth. Data, projects, advocacy tools, and news.
  
• - Organization against advertising and marketing to children. Events, links, how to join, newsletter, and press releases.
  
• - Provides information on California and federal legislation affecting young children with a focus on child care and development programs.
  
• - Private charitable organization dedicated to helping build better futures for disadvantaged children in the U.S. Initiatives are related to reducing teen pregnancy, improving foster care, education reform, alternatives to juvenile detention, neighborhood
  
• - Seeks to enhance the capacity of state and tribal child welfare agencies to plan, implement, and evaluate family-centered services for children and families.
  
• - Seeks to improve the lives of children in the greater Houston, Texas area through advocacy, policy analysis, and research. Issues, data, and publications.
  
• - Encourages girls to be strong, smart, and bold. News, research, advocacy, and local chapters.
  
• - Works to encourage the fullest possible implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and supports collective lobbying for children's rights.
  
• - Provides care, counseling, treatment, education and rehabilitative services for at risk children in Massachusetts.
  
• - An electronic magazine for children's advocacy professionals, with news and articles on legal issues, medical and mental health topics related to the care of abused and neglected children.
  
• - A nationally acclaimed all volunteer nonprofit organization committed to the rescue of homeless and street kids. Working with high risk youth, runaways, children of the night, and throwaways. Twenty outreach program in nine states.
  
• - Promotes the well being of Arizona's children through advocacy, education, and research. Press releases, fact sheets, legislative agenda, and publications.
  
• - Seeks legislative action, changes in public attitudes, and broad constituencies to improve the well being of children in Oklahoma. Legislative agenda, statistics, initiatives, and advocacy tools.
  
• - An international organization based in Canada that seeks to protect, defend and promote the rights and the welfare of all children. Supports the principles set forth in the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
  
• - Works to end child abuse through parent education, home visitor, sexual abuse prevention, young parents programs, and crisis child care.
  
• - Photographs and stories by young Palestinian refugees that offers visitors to come and share their stories and see where they live.
  
• - Information, projects, links related to improving the status and lives of all children in England through the full implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
  
• - Presents a fact-based, objective picture of the health, educational and emotional status of boys today in Santa Fe, New Mexico and in the United States.
  
• - Dedicated to ensuring that young people can be safe and lead healthy and productive lives.
  
• - Seeks to improve the health, safety, education, and economic security of children in Colorado. Newsletter, early childhood initiatives, information for the media, and legislative updates.
  
• - A non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of African American children in the nation’s child welfare system. Conferences, news, statistics, and training.
  
• - Advocacy organization based in India that focuses on ending child labor, promoting women's rights, and AIDS awareness.
  
• - Focuses on policy decisions that help North Dakota communities better support families and children. Data, publications, and presentations.
  
• - Seeks improvements in public policy and public systems that address the needs and rights of children in Kansas. Media center, advocacy tools, and legislative updates.
  
• - An advocacy organization dedicated to improving the health, safety, and economic well being of children in Washington state. Offers publications, training opportunities, and resources for advocacy and outreach.
  
• - Focuses on child nutrition, child care, health care, welfare-to-work programs, and child support. Research, publications, and information on the National Child Care Advocacy and National Child Support programs.
  
• - A quarterly newsletter published by Angels of Mercy. Angels of Mercy provide school supplies, clothing, and holiday gifts to children of Louisiana Death Row inmates.
  
• - Aims to elevate children's issues to the top of the public agenda in Massachusetts. News, hotlines, and projects on preventing child abuse and shaken baby syndrome.
  
• - An independent non-governmental organization working to promote and protect the rights of the child.
  
• - Since 1997, Sunday Friends has met each week empowering hundreds of homeless and very low income families as they have worked with thousands of volunteers to give back to the San Jose community. By engaging in every day activities, children and their par