Children, Youth and Family
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- World Corporal Punishment Research
- Factual documentation on official corporal punishment in schools, prisons and institutions and as a judicial penalty around the world. Many links and archived reports and even some humor.
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- Casey Family Programs
- Providing direct services for children and youth, with a focus on foster care. Programs, resources, and media center.
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- Alaska Center for Resource Families
- Provides training, support, and information to foster and adoptive parents in Alaska. Newsletter, foster parent services, and adoption services.
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- Council of Family and Child Caring Agencies
- An association that uses advocacy and education to enhance foster care, adoption, family preservation, and special education services in New York State.
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- Foster Care Alumni of America
- Connects the estimated 12 million adults that share the foster care experience to create a powerful, collective voice to improve foster care.
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- Foster Youth: HHS Actions Could Improve Coordination of Services and Monitoring of States' Independent Living Programs
- A GAO report on the Foster Care Independence Act of 1999 (FCIA), which increased the allocation of federal funds for independent living programs from $70 million to $140 million. [PDF]
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- National Foster Care Month
- Presents activities designed to promote National Foster Care Month. Posters and graphics, ribbon campaign, and information for the media.
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- National Resource Center for Foster Care and Permanency Planning
- Provides training, technical assistance, and information to child welfare agencies. News, publications, statistics, and state contacts.
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- Social Justice By and For Foster Youth
- A collection of resources including organizations and publications that focuses on foster youth leading social change. Based in Olympia, Washington.
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- Alabama Family Rights Association
- Advocates equal legal rights and responsibilities for parents who divorce, shared parenting of children. Has contact information and meeting locations of chapters, goals, articles, news of current activities and links to child support, legislation, judiciary, divorce and shared parenting information.
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- Family Rights Group
- Established as a registered charity in 1974 to provide advice and support for families whose children are involved with social services. Works to improve the services received by these families.
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- Fatherhood
- A sponsored e-magazine for fathers with many father-related articles as well as links to forums, chat, e-mail newsletter plus related subjects including parenting, grandparenting, family relationships and issues.
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- MATCH - Mothers Apart from Their Children
- A volunteer support network of mothers who have been separated from their children by a variety of circumstances. Has contact information, aims and links.
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- Mothers Against Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy Allegations
- M.A.M.A. is a response to some false allegations of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSBP). Claims parents are being wrongly deprived of custody of their children due to mis-diagnosis. Has contact details, opinion, links to related articles.
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- Pale Horse Publishing
- Books on divorce and custody issues. Has bibliography, abstracts and tables of contents, on-line purchasing.
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- Lower Eastside Girls Club of New York
- New York City, NY, USA. Dedicated to providing a place where girls 8-18 can grow, learn, have fun, and develop confidence in themselves and their ability to make a difference in the world. Upcoming events, photos, and programs.
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- Center for the Study of Children's Futures
- Dedicated to promoting the health and well-being of Florida's children through data, research, analysis, and community involvement. The Florida KIDS COUNT project is one of the activities in the Center.
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- Kids Count in Delaware
- Collates the best available data to measure the health, economic, educational, and social well-being of children in Delaware.