We hope you will find the following links informative:

• Children's Defense Fund Parent Resource Network (PRN) provides access to a variety of national Web sites offering parents information on caring for their own children and on getting involved in group efforts to help children in their own communities or states.
• Child Trends, Inc. is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that conducts basic research and evaluation studies in several critical areas: teenage pregnancy and childbearing, the effects of welfare and poverty on children, issues related to parenting, family structure, and family processes, including fatherhood and male fertility.
• Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) is the nation's oldest and largest organization devoted entirely to the well-being of America's vulnerable children and their families.
• Family First is a non-profit research and communication organization dedicated to strengthening the family.
• Justice for Kids & Youth from the U.S. Justice Department offers ideas on how youth can become part of the solution to fighting crime by joining community programs.
• Kids Count is a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the United States and enrich local, state, and national discussions on how to secure better futures for all children.
• Mental Health Integration is a website created by the School District of Hillsborough County to increase student access to quality mental health services by developing effective linkages between the school and mental health systems.
• The National Association of Child Advocates (NACA) is a nationwide network of child advocacy organizations working at the increasingly critical level of America's statehouses, county commissions, and city councils.
• National Campaign To Prevent Teen Pregnancy works to prevent teen pregnancy by supporting values and stimulating actions that are consistent with a pregnancy-free adolescence. Its goal is to reduce the teen pregnancy rate by one-third by the year 2005.
• REACHUP, Inc., as a nationally recognized center of excellence, assists in creating a community where there is racial and ethnic equity in healthcare and health outcomes for all families.
  
• Urban Institute, a nonpartisan economic, social, and policy research organization, investigates the social and economic problems confronting the nation and analyzes efforts to solve these problems.