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Health/Mental Health

Allies Against Asthma
The primary goals of the program are to: enhance the quality of life of children with asthma, reduce hospital admissions, emergency room visits, and missed school days, develop a strategy for asthma management in the community that is sustainable.

Asthma Research Collaborative
The Asthma Research Collaborative at the University of Michigan is a network of professionals from around the University of Michigan and across partner institutions who share an interest in asthma.

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Diagnostic and Intervention Clinic
The Fetal Alcohol Diagnostic and Intervention Clinic at the University of Michigan specializes in the diagnosis and management of children who have behavioral and cognitive problems related to prenatal alcohol exposure. Their mission is to provide a family-focused, comprehensive center of excellence for the evaluation and treatment of children who have been prenatally exposed to alcohol.

Medstart
Medstart an organization of University students working to educate communities about critical issues that impact today’s children and to encourage a spirit of advocacy for children and families in need. Medstart allows students from the schools of public health, nursing, medicine, dental, law, education, social work, and others to carry the tradtion of advocacy with them into their professional lives, giving children a vlice in the decisions of tomorrow’s leaders.

Michigan Center for the Environment & Children's Health (MCECH)
The Michigan Center for the Environment & Children's Health (MCECH) is one of 12 "Centers of Excellence for Children's Environmental Health" funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for five years, beginning in the fall of 1998. MCECH is a community-based participatory research initiative which is seeking to investigate the environmental, pathophysiological and clinical mechanisms of childhood asthma and to evaluate comprehensive community and household level interventions aimed at reducing asthma-related environmental threats to children, families and neighborhoods.

Michigan Initiative on Inequalities in Health (MIIH)
The mission of the MIIH is to promote inquiry into the causes and consequences of societal inequalities in health and potential remedies, via an interdisciplinary program of discussion, research and teaching. Thier goal is to catalyze intellectual interchange, research, and teaching focused on issues raised by the study of inequalities in health through a program of in-depth discussion, lectures and symposia, an ongoing Forum on Inequalities in Health, small grants and student stipends.

School Based Health Centers: Regional Alliance for Healthy Schools (RAHS)
The University of Michigan Health System, in collaboration with the St. Joseph Mercy Health System, and the University of Michigan School of Nursing, funds and operates six school based health centers located within Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti Public Schools. Known as the Regional Alliance for Healthy Schools (RAHS), this is a partnership rooted in community collaboration. RAHS' mission is to promote health and holistic growth for the students and families we serve by integrating education, health and human services within a school setting.

University of Michigan C. S. Mott Children's Hospital
As one of the nations leading pediatric institutions, Mott Children’s Hospital is known around the world for excellence of our clinical, educational, and research programs. The hospital provides quality specialized services for sick and injured children from Michigan, across the country, and around the globe.

University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry: Child and Adolescent
The mission of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is to conduct programmatic research on psychiatric disorders affecting youth and their families; to provide excellent multidisciplinary training to the next generation of mental health providers and investigators; to deliver a broad range of innovative clinical services to young people and their families; to provide subspecialty consultation to clinicians throughout the state of Michigan; and to represent the mental health needs of children and adolescents at all levels of policy planning.

University of Michigan Department of Psychology
Areas of concentration and research are in the following specialties: Biopsychology, Clinical, Cognition & Perception, Developmental, Organizational, Personality and Social.

University of Michigan Health System Department of Pediatrics
The Department of Pediatrics’ mission is to provide family-centered care and to seek continuous improvement in clinical quality and value by proactively pursuing academic and clinical challenges.

University of Michigan School of Public Health
Links to research centers and other health related initiatives.

University of Michigan School of Social Work
The vision of the School of Social Work is to: reinvent social work, create knowledge, strengthen education, focus on technology, improve society, and to enhance our reputation as a leader.

Your Child: Development & Behavior Resources
The Your Child: Development and Behavior Resources is a web site for parents. It is a clearinghouse for comprehensive information on children's development and behavior, developed by a panel of pediatricians.

Education

K-grams
Short for "Kids Programs," K-grams is a mentoring and learning program that pairs up college and elementary school students through a suite of programs. An entirely student-led organization, K-grams brings people together from all facets of the University of Michigan campus and the local community.

Lives of Urban Children and Youth (LUCY)
This site is dedicated to the issues and needs of all people concerned with the Lives of Urban Children and Youth. In addition to working with students and faculty at the University of Michigan, the Images of the Possible speakers series brings awareness to community members about the issues and trials of urban children and youth.

School of Education and Human Services-Flint Campus
The School of Education and Human Services (SEHS) prepares students for careers in education and the human services by offering degrees that blend a broad liberal education with preparation for professional roles. The School offers a variety of baccalaureate degrees, post baccalaureate degrees and certification programs. Currently, the school is comprised of a Department of Education and a Department of Social Work. The Department of Education provides the basic teacher education preparation and the Department of Social Works provides baccalaureate level preparation for social work practice

School of Education-Ann Arbor Campus
The School of Education has two primary goals -- to advance educational knowledge and to improve educational practice.

School of Education-Dearborn Campus
Based upon the Teaching for Understanding model, courses in the School of Education promote active student learning and the construction and development of knowledge through lectures, readings, small and large group discussions, small group activities, field based learning, and projects that require the application of knowledge.

University of Michigan Children’s Center
The missions of the Children's Centers are to serve as a resource for the University faculty's scholarly agenda; to provide University students interested in the development of young children with a setting for observation, participation and research; to provide young children in Ann Arbor and the surrounding area with an exemplary preschool experience.

Social Policy & Research

Edward Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning
The Edward Ginsberg Center is home to multiple community learning programs, including America Reads Tutoring Corps, Michigan Community Service Corps, Michigan Neighborhood AmeriCorps Program, Project Community, Detroit Initiative, and SERVE. In addition, the Ginsberg Center also has many Faculty and Student Initiatives. The Ginsberg Center also houses the OCSL Press which produces the annual Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning as well as other service learning publications. Through their programs, initiatives and publications, the Ginsberg Center strives to engage students, faculty members, university staff, and community partners in a process which combines community service and academic learning in order to promote civic participation, build community capacity, and enhance the educational process.

Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Coursework at the Ford School is interdisciplinary in nature, with a strong emphasis on analytic skills, and is designed to prepare the student to work effectively in the increasingly complex world of policy analysis and public management. The program also offers considerable flexibility for students to develop areas of specialization. In pursuing their specialties, students are able to draw upon the offerings of many other departments and programs at the University of Michigan.

Michigan Program on Poverty and Social Welfare Policy
The Program will sponsor or encourage the following types of activities: Multidisciplinary research on effects of poverty and welfare on families and communities; Evaluation of welfare reform or other anti-poverty initiatives at the federal, state, or local level; Field studies of welfare and social service agency practices; Provision of legislative testimony on social welfare policy issues; Support faculty development and professional and research training of graduate students through poverty and social welfare seminars; Expand agency internships and practical experiences in poverty- and social welfare programs for students in Law, Public Policy, and Social Work; Develop new models of university participation in public and private anti-poverty programs.

National Web Sites

Health/Mental Health

American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP)
This site is designed to serve both AACAP Members and parents and families. Information is provided as a public service to aid in the understanding and treatment of the developmental, behavioral, and mental disorders which affect an estimated 7 to 12 million children and adolescents at any given time in the United States. You will find information on child and adolescent psychiatry, fact sheets for parents and caregivers, AACAP membership, current research, practice guidelines, managed care information, awards and fellowship descriptions, meeting information, and much more.

American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
An organization of 57,000 pediatricians dedicated to the health, safety and well being of all infants, children, adolescents and young adults.

Bright Futures
A national initiative to promote and improve the health and well-being of infants, children, and adolescents. Bright Futures is dedicated to the principle that every child deserves to be healthy and that optimal health involves a trusting relationship between the health professional, the child, the family, and the community as partners in health practice.

Children with Disabilities
The Children With Disabilities Web site offers families, service providers, and other interested individuals information about advocacy, education, employment, health, housing, recreation, technical assistance, and transportation covering a broad array of developmental, physical, and emotional disabilities.

Children’s Health Fund
The Children's Health Fund is committed to providing health care to the nation's most medically underserved children through the development and support of innovative primary care medical programs and the promotion of guaranteed access to appropriate health care for all children.

Children's Environmental Health Network
The Children's Environmental Health Network is a national multi-disciplinary organization whose mission is to protect the fetus and the child from environmental health hazards and promote a healthy environment. The web wite provides information on the Network, the issue of children's environmental health, and links to sources of information and resources in the field.

Family Voices
Family Voices, a national grassroots network of families and friends, advocates for health care services that are family-centered, community-based, comprehensive, coordinated and culturally competent for all children and youth with special health care needs; promotes the inclusion of all families as decision makers at all levels of health care; and supports essential partnerships between families and professionals.

Maternal and Child Health Bureau
The mission of the MCHB is to provide national leadership and to work in partnership with states, communities, public-private partners and families to strengthen the maternal and child health infrastructure, assure the availability and use of medical homes and build the knowledge and human resources in order to assure continued improvement in the health, safety and well-being of the maternal child health population. The maternal child health population includes all America's women, infants, children, adolescents and their families, including fathers and children with special health care needs.

National Association of Children’s Hospitals & Related Institutions (NACHRI)
NACHRI promotes the health and well being of children and their families through support of children's hospitals and health systems that are committed to excellence in providing health care to children. It does so through education, research, health promotion and advocacy.

National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) seeks to assure that every individual is born healthy and wanted, that women suffer no adverse consequence from the reproductive process, and that all children have the opportunity to fulfill their potential for a healthy and productive life unhampered by disease or disability. In pursuit of this mission, the NICHD conducts and supports laboratory, clinical, and epidemiological research on the reproductive, neurobiologic, developmental, and behavioral processes that determine and maintain the health of children, adults, families, and populations.

National Institute of Mental Health-Child & Adolescent Mental Health
This web site offers information regarding treatment of children with mental disorders, education materials related to specific mental health problems and disorders affecting children and adolescents, NIMH research links and research reports and collaborations.

National Safe Kids Campaign
The National SAFE KIDS Campaign is the first and only national non-profit organization dedicated solely to the prevention of unintentional childhood injury — the number one killer of children ages 14 and under. More than 300 state and local SAFE KIDS coalitions in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico comprise the Campaign. Children’s National Medical Center and Founding Sponsor Johnson & Johnson launched the Campaign in 1987.

Prevent Child Abuse America
Since 1972, Prevent Child Abuse America has led the way in building awareness, providing education and inspiring hope to everyone involved in the effort to prevent the abuse and neglect of our nation’s children. Working with chapters in 39 states and the District of Columbia, they provide leadership to promote and implement prevention efforts at both the national and local levels.

United States Department of Health & Human Services
This site includes topics related to children, adolescents and families. Topics include adoption, babies, children, family issues, low-income families, HHS agencies and immunizations and vaccinations. It also contains links to federal policies and programs ranging from Drug & Food Information to Aging.

Education

Center for the Child Care Workforce
A research, education and advocacy group promoting leadership and career advancement for child care teachers through the Worthy Wage Campaign and Early Childhood Mentoring Project

Child Care Action Campaign
The Child Care Action Campaign is a leading voice and national resource advocating quality, affordable child care for all families.

Council for Early Childhood Professional Recognition
This organization works to improve the professional status of early childhood workers and helps to meet the growing need for qualified staff.

Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
ERIC is a national information system funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences to provide access to education literature and resources.

Froebel Foundation USA
The Froebel Foundation USA was established in January 2001 to promote the educational ideas of Friedrich Froebel to the world at large and preserve the history of the U.S. kindergarten movement.

High Scope Educational Research Foundation
The High Scope Educational Research Foundation is an independent nonprofit research, development, training, and public advocacy organization with headquarters in Ypsilanti, Michigan. High/Scope's mission is to improve the life chances of children and youth by promoting high-quality educational programs.

National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
NAEYC exists for the purpose of leading and consolidating the efforts of individuals and groups working to achieve healthy development and constructive education for all young children. Primary attention is devoted to assuring the provision of high quality early childhood programs for young children. This web site also offers a comprehensive list of national organizations working on early childhood issues through its public policy links.

National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies
This is a membership organization whose aim is to build a diverse, high quality child care system with parental choice and equal access for all families.

National Center for Children and Families (NCCF)
The National Center for Children and Families (NCCF) advances the policy, education, and development of children and their families. Housed at Teachers College, Columbia University, the Center produces and applies interdisciplinary research to improve practice and to raise public awareness of social issues that affect the well-being of America's children and families.

National Center for Early Development & Learning
A national early childhood research project supported by the US Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences operated by The FPG Child Development Center, UNC-Chapel Hill in collaboration with The University of Virginia & UCLA. NCEDL focuses on enhancing the cognitive, social, & emotional development of children from birth through age eight.

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
NCES is a voluntary partnership among governmental and non-governmental providers and users of education data. NCES has a dual mission: (1) to identify and communicate on-going and emerging issues germane to postsecondary education; and (2) to promote the quality, comparability and utility of postsecondary data and information that support policy development, implementation, and evaluation.

National Child Care Information Center (NCCIC)
The National Child Care Information Center (NCCIC), a project of the Child Care Bureau, is a national resource that links information and people to complement, enhance, and promote the child care delivery system, working to ensure that all children and families have access to high-quality comprehensive services. It includes links to numerous web sites about childcare issues.

National Head Start Association
The National Head Start Association (NHSA) is a private not-for profit membership organization representing more than 900,000 children, 190,000 staff and 2,500 Head Start programs in America. It is governed by a 49-member Board of Directors composed of a director, staff, and parent and friend representative from each of the twelve federal regions and the immediate past president. NHSA provides a national forum for the continued enhancement of Head Start services for children prenatal through age five and their families. It is the only national organization dedicated exclusively to the concerns of the Head Start community. This site also offers many links to policy issues regarding early childhood development.

National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER)
The National Institute for Early Education Research supports early childhood education initiatives by providing objective, nonpartisan information based on research. NIEER was established at Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Education with a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts.

Parents as Teachers National Center
An award-winning nonprofit parent education organization providing parents of children prenatal-age 5 with support and information on their developing child through a network of local programs.

Social Policy & Research

Administration for Children Youth and Families (ACYF)
The Administration for Children and Families (ACYF) is a federal agency funding state, local, and tribal organizations to provide family assistance (welfare), child support, childcare, Head Start, child welfare, and other programs relating to children and families.

American Bar Association: Center on Children and the Law
The Center on Children and the Law is improving children’s lives through advances in law, justice, knowledge, practice, and public policy. This site also offers links to the National Child Welfare Center and Child Welfare Court Involvement.

Center for the Study and Advancement of Disability Policy
The Center for the Study and Advancement of Disability Policy (CSADP) provides public education, leadership development and training, technical assistance and information dissemination, and conducts action-research and analysis of public policy issues affecting individuals with disabilities and their families.

Child Advocate Network
Serves the needs of children, families and professionals while addressing mental health, medical, educational, legal and legislative issues. All of the original articles, research, links and resources on the site are peer reviewed by professionals (child psychiatrists, attorneys and special educators). It is a not-for-profit site supported entirely by donations and staffed by volunteers.

Child Trends
Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan children's research organization. They collect and analyze data; conduct, synthesize, and disseminate research; design and evaluate programs; and develop and test promising approaches to research in the field. Founded in 1979, Child Trends is supported by foundations, government agencies, private organizations, and individual donors. Child Trends has achieved a reputation as one of the nation's leading sources of credible data and high-quality research on children. In keeping with its mission to improve the lives of children, Child Trends is committed to sharing the results of its research and analysis with those who set policy, provide services, fund programs, launch studies, and shape opinions related to children and their families.

Child Welfare League of America (CWLA)
The Child Welfare League of America is the nation's oldest and largest membership-based child welfare organization. We are committed to engaging people everywhere in promoting the well-being of children, youth, and their families, and protecting every child from harm. We envision a future in which families, neighborhoods, communities, organizations, and governments ensure that all children and youth are provided with the resources they need to grow into healthy, contributing members of society.

Children’s Defense Fund
This site provides up-to-date information on issues involving children, and provides an extensive list, information and links to child advocacy organizations. The Children’s Defense Fund is a private nonprofit organization supported by foundations, corporation grants and individual donations. It provides a voice for child issues with particular attention to poor and minority children and those with disabilities.

Coalition of Community Foundations for Youth
The Coalition of Community Foundations for Youth (CCFY) is a network of over 200 community foundations in communities across the United States dedicated to securing improved conditions for children, youth and families.

Connect for Kids
Connect for Kids, is an award-winning multimedia project that helps adults make their communities better places for families and children. The Web site offers a place on the Internet for adults—parents, grandparents, educators, policymakers and others—who want to become more active citizens, from volunteering to voting with kids in mind.

Families & Work Institute
FWI is a non-profit center for research that provides data to inform decision-making on the changing workplace, changing family and changing community.

Finance Project
The Finance Project develops and disseminates information, knowledge, tools and technical assistance for improved policies, programs and financing strategies to support decision-making that produces and sustains good results for children, families and communities.

Future of Children
This is a journal sponsored by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation published three times a year. It reviews major issues related to children’s well being, with emphasis on objective analysis and evaluation.

I Am Your Child
The I Am Your Child Foundation is a national, non-profit, non-partisan organization that was founded in 1997 by actor/director Rob Reiner to raise awareness about the importance of early childhood development and school readiness. IAYC develops a wide variety of resources for parents, early childhood professionals, child advocates, health care providers, policymakers and the media. IAYC also promotes public policies that help ensure that children have the physical well being and the social, emotional and cognitive abilities they need to enter school ready to succeed.

Investigating Partnerships in Early Childhood Education (I-PIECE)
An in-depth study of local early childhood partnerships occurring between Head Start, preschool and child care in New York state. Describes collaborations and explores their consequences for classroom conditions, teacher salaries and benefits, children's school readiness, and parents' satisfaction.

Kids Count
KIDS COUNT, a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, is a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the U.S. By providing policymakers and citizens with benchmarks of child well-being, KIDS COUNT seeks to enrich local, state, and national discussions concerning ways to secure better futures for all children.

Mathematica Policy Research
Conducts public policy research, studying health care, education, welfare, employment, nutrition, child development, and other policy issues. Includes publications on early care and education.

National Black Child Development Institute
A nonprofit organization whose mission is to improve and protect the quality of life of African American children and families.

National Center for Children in Poverty
The National Center for Children in Poverty identifies and promotes strategies that prevent child poverty in the United States and that improve the lives of low-income children and their families. Also included within the web site are fact sheets, media resources, demographics, economic and family related resources, newsletters and an archive.

National Pre-Kindergarten Center
NPC provides research, policy analysis, communication and technical assistance for decision-makers that implement pre-kindergarten programs.

Promising Practices Network on Children, Families, and Communities
The Promising Practices Network (PPN) web site highlights programs and practices that credible research indicates are effective in improving outcomes for children, youth, and families. The information offered is organized around three major areas: Proven and Promising Programs, Research in Brief, and Strengthening Service Delivery.

RAND
RAND is a nonprofit organization that helps improve policy and decision-making through research and analysis. This site includes articles on childcare issues.

Society of Research in Child Development (SRCD)
The purposes of the SRCD are to promote multidisciplinary research in the field of human development, to foster the exchange of information among scientists and other professionals of various disciplines, and to encourage applications of research findings. Their goals are pursued through a variety of programs with the cooperation and service of our governing council, standing committees, and members.

Stand for Children
An advocacy organization affiliated with the Children’s Defense Fund. Site provides a slate of the organization’s advocacy issues including child care, health care, education, violence and out of school activities, with extensive information about each issue in and easy access to e-mailing state legislators.

United States Department of Education
Links to policies and news reports about child/youth to adult education.

Urban Institute
This site has information on children regarding childcare and development, child health, child welfare, economic well being, head start and elementary education. There are links for Adolescent and Youth Development regarding delinquency and crime, economic well being, secondary education and sexual attitudes and behaviors.

Voices for America's Children
Voices for America’s Children is a national organization committed to working at the state and local levels to improve the well-being of children. Their mission is to improve the lives of children in the United States by enhancing the capacity of Voices’ member organizations to effectively advocate on behalf of children and their families.

Welfare Information Network
A project of The Finance Project, this is a clearinghouse for for information, policy analysis and technical assistance related to welfare, workforce development, and other human and community services.

Zero to Eight Coalition
The Zero to Eight Coalition is a collaboration of health, social service and government agencies, early childhood care, educational providers, advocates, parents, and families in Boston. The Zero to Eight Coalition strengthens and supports programs and families in order to build a more equitable and just society.

Zero To Three
Zero To Three is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to promote the healthy development of our nation's infants and toddlers by supporting and strengthening families, communities, and those who work on their behalf. They focus on advancing current knowledge; promoting beneficial policies and practices; communicating research and best practices to a wide variety of audiences; and providing training, technical assistance and leadership development.

Michigan Resources

Health/Mental Health

Children's Leukemia Foundation of Michigan
Children's Leukemia Foundation of Michigan (CLF) is a statewide organization which provides information, financial assistance, and emotional support to families of adults and children affected by leukemia, lymphoma, and other related blood disorders.

Children's Research Center of Michigan
The Children’s Research Center of Michigan (CRCM) was reborn at Children's Hospital of Michigan (CHM), the Detroit Medical Center (DMC) and Wayne State University School of Medicine (WSU/SOM) on July 1,1997. The mission of the CRCM is to promote knowledge in the art and science of medicine in order to improve methods to prevent, cure and treat childhood diseases.

Early On Michigan
Early On is a statewide interagency system of early intervention for infant and toddlers with disabilities. In Michigan, Early On is coordinated through the Department of Education. This is an intervention system that provides links to services for families who have children (ages 0 - 3) experiencing developmental delays or who have disabilities or special needs.

Easter Seals of Michigan
Easter Seals provides services to children and adults with disabilities and other special needs, and support to their families.

Michigan Association for Children with Emotional Disorders
For forty-five years MACED, the Michigan Association for Children with Emotional Disorders has helped families statewide dealing with the difficulties they face each day when there is a child in the family with an emotional disorder. The mission of MACED is as critical today as ever: To help families find educational, mental health, and other services for children with emotional disorders as well as to encourage and enhance the public’s understanding and support of these children, their families and the services they desperately need.

Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health (MI-AIMH)
MI-AIMH believes that each infant needs to be nurtured and protected by one or more consistent and stimulating caregivers who enjoy a permanent and special relationship with the infant. This relationship is not just a luxury over and above the basic physical necessities of life, but is the essential and necessary context within which every human infant learns basic emotional, cognitive and social attitudes that will influence development.

Michigan Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics
The mission of the Michigan Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (MIAAP) is to identify, develop and manage opportunities to improve the health and welfare of children and the practice of pediatric medicine. The MI-AAP is affiliated with the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Michigan Council for Maternal & Child Health (MCMCH)
MCMCH provides information on maternal and child health advocacy in Michigan, along with alerts and bulletins on breaking issues, background information, plus links and contact information for legislators, policymakers and other advocacy organizations.

Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH)
Michigan's Department of Community Health (MDCH) strives for a healthier Michigan. To that end, the department will: promote access to the broadest possible range of quality services and supports, take steps to prevent disease, promote wellness and improve quality of life, and strive for the delivery of those services and supports in a fiscally prudent manner. MDCH website offers various links for individuals and families.

Education

Great Start for Kids
Great Start is an initiative that will better coordinate the services the State of Michigan provides for its children. The initiative entails immediate steps to strengthen Michigan’s early childhood efforts and to create the state’s blueprint to build an early learning system for all children.

Michigan Association for the Education of Young Children
The Michigan Association for the Education of Young Children (MiAEYC) is committed to improving the education and welfare of children from birth through age eight. MiAEYC works for young children, their families, and early childhood professionals. MiAEYC supports the professional development of its members through quality training, materials and services. More than 3800 early childhood educators, professionals, and suppliers of children's services belong to MiAEYC in 17 affiliate chapters and 3 local chapters.

Michigan Department of Education
The Michigan Department of Education website offers various links for parents, students, teachers, administrators and the general public about education in the state of Michigan.

Social Policy & Research

Institute for Children, Youth and Families
The ICYF at Michigan State University is a multidisciplinary institute supporting university-community collaboration in research, outreach and policy analysis to improve the lives of children, youth and families from diverse communities. ICYF maintains a portfolio of current and emergent projects of state, national, and international scope that focus on four core areas: the youngest, child & youth policy, family diversity and violence prevention

Mackinac Center for Public Policy
The Mackinac Center for Public Policy is a nonpartisan research and educational organization. The center is committed to promoting sound solutions to state and local policy questions. The Mackinac Center assists policy makers, scholars, business people, the media and the public by providing objective analysis of Michigan issues. The goal of all Center reports, commentaries and educational programs is to equip Michigan citizens and other decision-makers to better evaluate policy options.

Merrill-Palmer Institute for Child and Family Development
The Merrill-Palmer Institute of Child and Family Development is a research institute of Wayne State University that specializes in the area of child development. The institute provides information that could be applied to program development and policy formulation.

Michigan League for Human Services
The Michigan League for Human Services is a statewide citizens' organization dedicated to education, research and advocacy for the benefit of low income and other vulnerable citizens in the State of Michigan.

Michigan Ready to Succeed Partnership
The Michigan Ready to Succeed Partnership is a statewide initiative to ensure that all Michigan children enter kindergarten ready to succeed in school and in life. The Partnership brings together leaders in business, education, faith, government, health, labor, media, and philanthropy to promote the vision of every Michigan child ready to succeed in school and in life.

Michigan’s Children
Michigan's Children is an advocacy organization for children and youth. This is a state-wide, non-partisan, multi-issue child advocacy organization which operates independently of government funding and works both inside the Capitol and in communities around the state to secure policies that invest in the state's future human resource.

Priority Children
Priority Children, formerly Priority 90s, was launched in the late 1980s to organize a community-wide effort to improve the quality of life for children in Genesee County. A diverse coalition of individuals and organizations participate in Priority Children, including volunteers from business, civic affairs, charitable organizations, education, the faith community, government, and health and human services.

International Resources

Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI)
The Association for Childhood Education International is to promote and support in the global community the optimal education and development of children, from birth through early adolescence, and to influence the professional growth of educators and the efforts of others who are committed to the needs of children in a changing society.

Clearinghouse on International Developments in Child, Youth and Family Policies
The Clearinghouse, located at Columbia Univesity, provides cross-national, comparative information about the policies, programs, benefits and services available in the advanced industrialized countries to address child, youth, and family needs.

International Society on Infant Studies (ISIS)
The International Society on Infant Studies is a not-for-profit professional organization devoted to the promotion and dissemination of research on the development of infants through its official journal and biennial conference where researchers and practitioners gather to discuss the latest research and theory in infant development.

Taking IT Global (TIG)
TakingITGlobal (TIG) is an international organization, led by youth, empowered by technology. TIG brings together young people in more than 200 countries within international networks to collaborate on concrete projects addressing global problems and creating positive change. TakingITGlobal serves as international headquarter for numerous international child and youth organization links.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
The main objective of UNESCO is to contribute to peace and security in the world by promoting collaboration among nations through education, science, culture and communication in order to further universal respect for justice, for the rule of law and for the human rights and fundamental freedoms which are affirmed for the peoples of the world, without distinction of race, sex, language or religion, by the Charter of the United Nations.

United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF)
UNICEF is mandated by the United Nations general assembly to advocate for the protection of children’s rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential.

United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
USAID has supported child health programs for the last 25 years, intensifying its efforts in 1985 with the Child Survival Initiative. The initiative, carried out in collaboration with host governments and international organizations, has resulted in a decline in infant mortality of 10 percent in USAID-assisted countries. Today more than 4 million infant and child deaths are prevented annually due to critical life-saving health services provided by USAID and its partners.

World Association for Infant Mental Health (WAIMH)
WAIMH is an interdisciplinary and international association that promotes education, research, and study of the effects of mental, emotional, and social development during infancy onlater normal and psychopathological development.

World Bank Group
The World Bank Group is one of the largest sources of assistance to developing economies with a mission to fight poverty. This web site offers various resources and updates of current events, worldwide.

World Health Organization Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development
The World Health Organization's Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development (CAH) aims to improve health and development from birth through age 19. Departmental priorities are based on the total “burden” of a problem in countries, and whether or not there is an effective and affordable intervention to address it. Areas of concentration are prevention and care, nutrition, development, child and adolescent rights, adolescent sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS.

World Organization for Early Childhood Education (OMEP)
OMEP is an international, non-governmental organization, founded in 1948 to benefit children under the age of 8 years throughout the world. This web site offers various resources regarding education including the International Journal of Early Childhood.