Links and Resources
Administration for Children and Families Child Care Bureau
The Child Care Bureau supports low-income working families through child care financial assistance and promotes children's learning by improving the quality of early care and education and after school programs.
Administration for Children and Families Early Head Start Research Report
The Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF) designed Early Head Start as a two-generation program to enhance children's development and health, strengthen family and community partnerships, and support staff delivering services to low-income families. This report details the impact of Early Head Start in achieving its mission.
Annie E. Casey Foundation
KIDS COUNT is a national and state-by-state effort by the Annie E. Casey Foundation to track the status of children in the United States. This website provides some of the best available data and analysis on critical issues affecting struggling families and at-risk kids.
Benedum Foundation
The Benedum Foundation encourages human development in West Virginia and Southwestern Pennsylvania through strategically placed charitable resources.
The Birth to Five Policy Alliance was established in 2005 to help shift the odds for very young children at risk. The Alliance focuses on policies and investments in the first five years before children enter kindergarten.
Center for Budget and Policy Priorities
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is a nonpartisan research organization and policy institute that conducts research and analysis on a range of government policies and programs, with an emphasis on those affecting low- and moderate-income people.
Center for Public Policy Priorities
The Center for Public Policy Priorities is a non-partisan, non-profit policy research organization committed to improving public policies and private practices that influence the economic and social prospects and conditions of individuals, families, and communities.
Child Care and Early Education Research Connections
Child Care and Early Education Research Connections (CCEERC) promotes high-quality research in child care and early education and the use of that research in policymaking.
Child Welfare League of America
The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) is an association of more than 1,100 public and not-for-profit agencies devoted to improving life for more than 3.5 million at-risk children and youths and their families.
Coalition for West Virginia's Children
The Coalition for West Virginia's Children is a group of individuals and organizations dedicated to improving the well-being of our state's children and families.
Connect for KIDS
Connect for Kids, an award-winning multimedia project of the Benton Foundation, helps adults make their communities better places for families and children. This Web site offers a place on the Internet for parents, grandparents, educators, policymakers and others to become more active citizens, from volunteering to voting with kids in mind.
Foundation for Child Development
The Foundation for Child Development (FCD) is a national, private philanthropy dedicated to the principle that all families should have the social and material resources to raise their children to be healthy, educated and productive members of their communities. The Foundation seeks to understand children, particularly the disadvantaged, and to promote their well-being.
Future of Children
The Future of Children seeks to promote effective policies and programs for children by providing policymakers, service providers, and the media with timely, objective information based on the best available research.
Harvard Family Research Project
The Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP) strives to increase the effectiveness of public and private organizations and communities as they promote child development, student achievement, healthy family functioning and community development.
Head Start Bureau
Head Start serves the child development needs of preschool children (birth through age five) and their low-income families.
National Association for the Education of Young Children http://www.naeyc.org/
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is the nation's largest and most influential organization of early childhood educators and others dedicated to improving the quality of programs for children from birth through third grade.
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is dedicated to improving the well-being of all young children, with particular focus on the quality of educational and developmental services for all children from birth through age 8.
National Association of Social Workers (WV Chapter)
NASW is a professional membership association for Social Workers, specializing in continuing social work education, legislative and political action, social policy and professional development, and more.
National Center for Children in Poverty
The mission of the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) is to identify and promote strategies that prevent young child poverty in the United States and that improve the life chances of the millions of children under age six who are growing up poor.
National Education Goals Panel
The National Education Goals Panel (NEGP) is a unique bipartisan and intergovernmental body of federal and state officials created in July 1990 to assess and report state and national progress toward achieving the National Education Goals.
Partnership for Prevention
Members of Partnership for Prevention are committed to working together to increase the nation's emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention.
Reach Out and Read
Reach Out and Read is a national program that promotes early literacy by bringing new books and advice about the importance of reading aloud into the pediatric exam room.
Urban Institute
The Urban Institute is a nonprofit policy research organization dedicated to sharpening thinking about society's problems and efforts to solve them, improving government decisions and their implementation, and increasing awareness about important public choices.
U.S. Census Bureau
The Census Bureau is the preeminent collector and provider of timely, relevant, and quality data about the people and economy of the United States.
Voices For America's Children
Voices for America's Children is the only national organization devoted to building the capacity of state and local child advocacy organizations.
West Virginia Council of Churches
The West Virginia Council of Churches makes more visible the unity of Christ's church, provides a Christian witness on public issues, and engages in cooperative mission and service for all West Virginians.
West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources
The WV Department of Health and Human Resources promotes and provides appropriate health and human services for the people of West Virginia to improve their quality of life.
Early Child Development Resources:
- A Child Advocate's Guide to Federal Early Care and Education Policy
- Child Care Financing Matrix
- Making Investments In Young Children:
What the Research On Early Care and Education Tells Us
- Promising Practices Network on Children, Communities and Families
- The Head Start Program
- The National Child Care Information Center
- Voices for America's Children Early Care and Education Resource Guide