• The Administration for Children and Families (ACF). U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/
  ACF brings together in one organization the broad range of Federal programs that address the needs of children and families.
• Alan Guttmacher Institute. http://www.agi-usa.org/
  "The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) is a non-profit organization focused on reproductive health research, policy analysis and public education" (from their About page). Their web site includes statistics, policy papers, special publications, and occasional reports on teen pregnancy and childbirth.

Centers for Disease Control main website. http://www.cdc.gov. Also published by the CDC:

• Health Topic: Infants and Children: http://www.cdc.gov/health/nfantsmenu.htm
  Topics range from disability to disease to injury.
• Health Topic: Adolescent and Teen: http://www.cdc.gov/health/adolescent.htm
• National Center for Injury Prevention and Control Bibliography 1997 lists articles, books, conference proceedings, and Internet sites on injury prevention. Found at http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/pub-res/bibl1997.htm
• Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS): http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dash/yrbs/index.htm

Child & Family WebGuide. Tufts University. http://www.cfw.tufts.edu/
This site "describes and evaluates web sites that contain research-based information about child development" (from About This Site page).

Child Trends. http://www.childtrends.org/
"Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to studying children, youth, and families through research, data collection, and data analyses" (from Background page). Site includes Research Briefs, Fact Sheets, links to sites on such topics as welfare and poverty and teen pregnancy, and so on.

The Children, Youth and Family Consortium. The University of Minnesota. http://www.cyfc.umn.edu/
Providing a pathway to information related to the health, education and welfare of children, youth and families. Contains information on topics of interest to parents, educators, human service providers, researchers, and policy makers.

Zero to Three. http://www.zerotothree.org
The mission of Zero to Three is to bring parents, caregivers and professionals direct access to the latest findings in early child development.

Children's Rights

• ADOL - Adolescence Directory On-Line
  A guide to information on adolescent issues. It is a service of the Center for Adolescent Studies at Indiana University. Educators, counselors, parents, researchers, health practitioners, and teens can use ADOL to find Web resources for many topics, including conflict & violence, and mental health, and counselor resources.
• Child Abuse and Neglect Statistics - National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse (NCCAN)
  Info on child abuse and neglect in the USA.
• Child Labor in America 1908-1912
  A sobering portfolio of mill-workers, newspaper vendors, coal miners, seamstresses, and fruit-pickers, all of whom are far too young. This fascinating online exhibit features original photo captions by Lewis W. Hine.
• Children of the Night
  Helping children who have been forced into prostitution or pornography.
• Child Research Net (CRN)
  A non-profit interactive research center on the internet to study, analyze and discuss the problems that children face in today's complex world. Its aim is to gather and exchange information regarding children and youth internationally, with a special focus on Japan and Asia.
• Child Rights
  Information on the progress towards universal acceptance of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the violations of this convention: child labor and the ultimate abuse: child prostitution. This report is part of the The Progress of Nations, published annually by the United Nations Children's Fund.