Addresses the challenges of combating childhood obesity, as well as the steps to take to make a difference.
A privately held company that is devoted to providing free homework resources to middle school, high school, and early year college students.
Students can help pay for their education with the $1 billion in free scholarships from Zinch, they can begin their specialized search for money with plenty of different options to choose from.
Chicago Schools Initiative (CSI) is managed by the Chicago Public Schools and is the largest community schools system in the nation with over 175 schools partnered with about 50 non-profit organizations. CSI transforms selected public schools to become community centers that are open with resources during the late afternoons, evenings, weekends and into the summer. The initiative provides job training for parents, access to medical and dental care on site, art lessons, and out of school time
Journey through a spelling adventure with a brain teasing game.
The Child & Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI)’s mission is to promote the early and lifelong health of children, youth, and families. Part of fulfilling this mission is to disseminate data, information, and ideas to understand and address social determinants of health, like adverse childhood experiences and the trauma and chronic and toxic stress that can result and impact lifelong health. A primary focus is on promoting the development of positive health, such as resilience, engagement in life, and the safe, stable, and nurturing relationships most essential to child development and well being.
Child Abuse Prevention Network is the flagship service of LifeNET that provides unique and powerful tools for the identification, investigation, treatment, adjudication and prevention of child abuse and neglect, along with professional online training on abuse.
The child abuse prevention guide seeks to highlight the innovative ways that communities around the country are doing purposeful prevention work to help children and families thrive. The protective factors have always been central to the Resource Guide. A protective factors approach focuses on positive ways to engage families by emphasizing their strengths, in addition to identifying areas where they have room to grow with support. Focusing on protective factors helps children, youth, and families build resilience and contributes to positive outcomes.
Child Advocacy 360 brings the latest information and insights on children’s welfare and rights focusing on ways to conquer abuse and neglect of children by supplying a specialized news medium that helps advocates improve the outcomes of their efforts and enables others to become active participants in children’s rights.
The Child Advocacy Institute founded at the nonprofit University of San Diego School of Law in 1989, is one of the nation's premiere academic, research, and advocacy organization working to improve the lives of children and youth, with special emphasis on improving the child protection and foster care systems and enhancing resources that are available to youth aging out of foster care.
Child Advocacy Services is an umbrella agency that combines with the Court Appointed Advocates program and Children’s Advocacy Center to offer services that give voice, healing and security to children, and provides online information on prevention, the Blue Ribbon campaign, and community events and sponsors.
The Child Advocates, Inc. mobilizes court appointed volunteers to break the vicious cycle of child abuse. They speak up for abused children who are lost in the system and guide them into safe environments where they can thrive.
Information about mental health including causes, signs, and services recommended.
An assessment measuring mindfulness in children, developed by Dr. Ruth Baer.
Offers a comprehensive, up-to date, easy to use collection of more than 15,000 resources from many disciplines related to child care and early education.
The Child Care Bureau, Office of Family Assistance, supports low-income working families with information on financial assistance and promotes children’s learning by improving the quality of education and afterschool programs.
The Child Development Institute was founded to become the go to site for parents with services related to child development, psychology, health, parenting, and other subjects.
This website provides examples of mindfulness creating a positive influence in the classroom and children’s attention capacity, and how educators can use the tips on the website for their own curriculum. There are also a few links located on the article to further educate the reader on Mindfulness.
The NCSL provides information about child support laws, rules, and basics.
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network recently came out with a child trauma toolkit for educators.