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Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
Description: CLASP is a nonprofit public policy and advocacy organization. CLASP conducts research, policy analysis, technical assistance, and advocacy on issues related to economic security and family stability for low-income parents, children, and youth. CLASP analyzes proposed federal and state legislation, laws, and regulations, and offers a variety of services and products to federal, state, and local government agencies and lawmakers; advocates; researchers; legal aid providers; and the media.
Description: This is the home page for the Children's Defense Fund. Contains links to resources, policy information and grantmaking. Includes information on issues such as Child Care, Child Health, Child Welfare and Mental Health, Violence Prevention and Youth Development, and Family Income.
Family Strengthening Policy Center
Description: The Policy Center aims to make family strengthening a priority by mainstreaming neighborhood-based, family-centered practices, programs and policy. By leveraging the National Human Services Assembly's network of nearly 70 human and health service member organizations, the center's objective is to promote family policy that contributes to family economic and social empowerment.Â
The Policy Institute for Family Impact Seminars
Description: The Policy Institute for Family Impact Seminars aims to strengthen family policy by connecting state policymakers with research knowledge and researchers with policy knowledge
They provide technical assistance to and facilitiate dialogue among professionals conducting Family Impact Seminars in 23 states across the country.
USDA Rural Economic and Community Development
Description: This is the USDA's home page for information on water and sewer systems, housing, health clinics, emergency service facilities and electric and telephone service. The site offers technical assistance and information to help agricultural and other cooperatives get started and improve the effectiveness of their member services.
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Harvard Family Research Project 
Description: The Harvard Family Research Project helps philanthropies, policy-makers, and practitioners develop strategies to promote the educational and social success and well-being of children, families, and their communities. HFRP collects, analyzes, and synthesizes research and information to foster continuous improvement and learning.
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Description: Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: U.S. City Average, All Items and All Items Less Food and Energy 12-month changes, 1991 to present in Chart form.
Harvard Family Research Project
Description: The Harvard Family Research Project helps philanthropies, policy-makers, and practitioners develop strategies to promote the educational and social success and well-being of children, families, and their communities. HFRP collects, analyzes, and synthesizes research and information to foster continuous improvement and learning.
The Bureau Of Labor Statistics
Description: "The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics."
U.S. Education Secretary Highlights Best Practices of Bullying Policies
Description: This article discusses the U.S. education secretary highlights on the best practices of bullying policy.
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National Center for Children in Poverty
Description: The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) is the nation’s leading public policy center dedicated to promoting the economic security, health, and well-being of America’s low-income families and children. NCCP uses research to inform policy and practice with the goal of ensuring positive outcomes for the next generation.
National Effective Parenting Initiative
Description: The National Effective Parenting Initiative (NEPI) is about working together to make it the birthright of every child in the United States to be raised effectively and humanely by loving and skillful parents who receive the best possible parenting education and support.
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America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2011
Description: Published by the Forum on Child and Family Statistics, this report, America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, provides annual updates on the well-being of children and families in the United States across a range of domains. The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, or the Forum, is a working group of Federal agencies that collect, analyze, and report data on issues related to children and families. The Forum has partners from 22 Federal agencies as well as partners in private research organizations.
Bringing it All Together: Family and Community Engagement Policies in Action
Description: This webinar examines the different roles of federal, state, and local entities in promoting family, school, and community engagement (FSCE) policy; highlight innovative examples of systemic, integrated, and sustained FSCE in action at every level; and identify opportunities for practitioners, program staff, advocates, and education officials to weave FSCE policies into their own work.
Building Strategic Partnerships to Foster Community Engagement in Education
Description: This webinar examines practical examples of how to build successful strategic partnerships that foster community engagement, including how to select the organizations, people, and services to be included; how to structure communications to ensure ongoing collaboration; and how to build connections with families and schools.
Center for the Improvement of Child Caring
Author: Kerby, Alvy
Description: The Center for the Improvement of Child Caring provides information on parenting skill-building programs, training resources for parent educators, and links to other professional websites and resources.
Couples and Marriage Policy Resource Center, Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
Description: CLASP is a national non-profit organization with expertise in both law and policy affecting the poor. Through education, policy research and advocacy, CLASP seeks to improve the economic security of low-income families with children and secure access for low-income persons to our civil justice system.
Ensuring School Readiness Through Successful Transitions
Description: This webinar highlights innovative practices, explore the range of supports and services offered to young children and their families, and emphasize how to help families understand how to remain involved in their child’s education as the child moves into the early school grades.
Evaluating Family Engagement Strategies: Addressing Measurement Challenges
Description: This webinar highlights promising approaches for evaluating family engagement strategies, address challenges in defining and measuring outcomes, and provide guidance for building evaluation into a family engagement plan from the beginning.
Family Strengthening Policy Center
Description: The Family Strengthening Policy Center (FSPC) website is a clearinghouse of information and tools dedicated to family strengthening practices, programs and policy.
Futuring for Families Think Tank
Description: In July 2007, CSREES NPLs in Family Economics, Family Science, and Housing and Indoor Environments hosted a Futuring for Families Think Tank in Atlanta, Georgia to understand the benefits of addressing family issues from an interdisciplinary perspective; gain exposure to integrated Extension programs with potential for national reach; and frame priorities for national program leadership and state and local application. Graphic recordings and a brief article reflecting on the event are available through this website.
National Council on Family Relations
Description: The National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) provides a forum for family researchers, educators, and practitioners to share in the development and dissemination of knowledge about families and family relationships, establishes professional standards, and works to promote family well-being.
Q&A: The American Family in the Next Decade
Description: University of Maryland professor Bonnie Braun is the newly elected president of the American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences (AAFCS), a national, 8000-member professional organization that works to improve the quality of individual and family life. Braun, a faculty member of Maryland 's family science department, is a nationally recognized researcher on low-income and rural families, family policy, and welfare reform. In this August 2007 interview, Braun discusses family issues she thinks will be important in the coming decade and thoughts about policies that will be needed to help families.
Description: This webinar highlights innovative practices that facilitate the transition to high school, information about how schools can help families stay engaged in their children’s education during the high school years, and services that offer essential information and assistance for students and their families throughout the college application process.
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A New Day: Family, School, and Community Engagement in Education Reform
Description: Many promising practices in family engagement develop from the work of dedicated school staff and parent groups in Title I schools. This webinar examines what these innovative and successful family engagement programs look like on the ground, especially within Title I schools.
Bringing it All Together: Family and Community Engagement Policies in Action
Description: This webinar examines the different roles of federal, state, and local entities in promoting family, school, and community engagement (FSCE) policy; highlight innovative examples of systemic, integrated, and sustained FSCE in action at every level; and identify opportunities for practitioners, program staff, advocates, and education officials to weave FSCE policies into their own work.
Building Strategic Partnerships to Foster Community Engagement in Education
Description: This webinar examines practical examples of how to build successful strategic partnerships that foster community engagement, including how to select the organizations, people, and services to be included; how to structure communications to ensure ongoing collaboration; and how to build connections with families and schools.
Center for the Improvement of Child Caring
Author: Kerby, Alvy
Description: The Center for the Improvement of Child Caring provides information on parenting skill-building programs, training resources for parent educators, and links to other professional websites and resources.
Child Victims of Sexual Abuse and the Law
Description: This article provides an overview of the significant legal issues presented in the investigation and prosecution of child sexual abuse allegations.
Description: Diversitydata.org allows visitors to explore how metropolitan areas throughout the U.S. perform on a diverse range of social measures that comprise a well-rounded life experience. These data call attention to the equality of opportunity and diversity of experiences for different racial and ethnic groups in America.
Ensuring School Readiness Through Successful Transitions
Description: This webinar highlights innovative practices, explore the range of supports and services offered to young children and their families, and emphasize how to help families understand how to remain involved in their child’s education as the child moves into the early school grades.
Evaluating Family Engagement Strategies: Addressing Measurement Challenges
Description: This webinar highlights promising approaches for evaluating family engagement strategies, address challenges in defining and measuring outcomes, and provide guidance for building evaluation into a family engagement plan from the beginning.
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Legal Issues in Caring for Your Grandchildren
Author: Bales, Diane (20 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides a brief overview of the legal system as it affects grandparents who are raising their grandchildren. Provides definitions of legal custody and guardianship.
Information Packet: Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare
Description: This resource provides information on juvenile justice and child welfare.
National Association of Counsel for Children (NACC)
Description: The National Association of Counsel for Children (NACC) is a non-profit child advocacy and professional membership association dedicated to representation and protection of children in the legal system.
National Council on Family Relations
Description: The National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) provides a forum for family researchers, educators, and practitioners to share in the development and dissemination of knowledge about families and family relationships, establishes professional standards, and works to promote family well-being.
National Institute on Media and the Family
Description: The National Institute on Media and the Family is a nonprofit organization providing research, information, and education about the impact of media on children, families, and communities. The site offers a number of free resources including: KidScore - a content-based, resource-based, rating system that evaluates media products likely to impact children including video and computer games, movies, TV programs, and rental videos; the 1999 Annual Video and Computer Game Report Card; detailed fact sheets on a variety of topics related to children and media use; as well as interactive activities and quizzes.
RURAL AMERICA AT A GLANCE, 2008 EDITION
Description: Rural America At A Glance, 2008 Edition highlights the most recent indicators of social and economic conditions in rural areas for use in developing policies and programs to assist rural areas. The 2008 edition focuses on employment, poverty, population change, and demographic characteristics of nonmetro areas.
Description: This webinar highlights innovative practices that facilitate the transition to high school, information about how schools can help families stay engaged in their children’s education during the high school years, and services that offer essential information and assistance for students and their families throughout the college application process.
Description: This webinars examine practical examples of how states can embed family engagement into their professional development systems and how teacher education programs can systematically include family engagement in teaching and learning. The webinar will also discuss promising practices in higher education, including partnerships with Parental Information and Resource Centers (PIRCs) to build the capacity of family coordinators.
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America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2011
Description: Published by the Forum on Child and Family Statistics, this report, America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, provides annual updates on the well-being of children and families in the United States across a range of domains. The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, or the Forum, is a working group of Federal agencies that collect, analyze, and report data on issues related to children and families. The Forum has partners from 22 Federal agencies as well as partners in private research organizations.
American Psychological Association
Description: Based in Washington, DC, the American Psychological Association (APA) is a scientific and professional organization that represents psychology in the United States.
Building and Using Coordinated State Early Care and Education Data Systems: A Framework for States
Description: Building and Using Coordinated State Early Care and Education Data Systems: A Framework for States makes the case for why states should build longitudinal data systems for early care and education, describes the ten fundamentals of a coordinated system, and provides guidance on how to ensure appropriate access to data.
Author: Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne (1 more by this author); Elisabeth Hirschhorn Donahue
Description: America's young people spend more time using media than they do on any single activity other than sleeping. The pervasiveness of electronic media in the lives of children makes it important for policymakers, educators, parents, and advocates to know what research shows and what questions remain unanswered about how America's youth use electronic media and how it affects them.
Description: Diversitydata.org allows visitors to explore how metropolitan areas throughout the U.S. perform on a diverse range of social measures that comprise a well-rounded life experience. These data call attention to the equality of opportunity and diversity of experiences for different racial and ethnic groups in America.
Evidence-Based Programs in Action: Policy and Practice Insights from a Success Story
Description: This article shares lessons learned in successfully implementing a broad continuum of evidence-based early intervention programs to improve academic outcomes and reduce or prevent substance abuse, juvenile detention, and foster care placements.
Getting On, Staying On, and Getting Off Welfare: The Complexity of State-by-State Policy Choices
Author: Rowe, Gretchen; Linda Giannarelli
Description: This research brief reviews the multiple ways a family can get on welfare, stay on, and leave (or lose) assistance. It uses the Urban Institute's Welfare Rules Database to examine the variation in key policies. Details are offered on how each state defines its program as of 2003 and includes a discussion of how states' TANF programs differ from the program TANF replaced in 1996, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), and highlights changes that have occurred over the past 10 years.
Getting Started: 10 Fundamentals of Coordinated State Early Care and Education Data Systems
Description: Getting Started: 10 Fundamentals of Coordinated State Early Care and Education Data Systems highlights the importance of coordinated longitudinal data systems and how states can build them to inform continuous improvement in early care and education.
How trauma ‘gets under the skin’
Author: Michaels, Cari (2 more by this author)
Description: Children are particularly sensitive to the effects of stress, and thus environmental factors that stress children including neglect and abuse can negatively affect a child's biological and cognitive development, as well as their behavior and social relationships. This Children’s Mental Health eReview summarizes the research, possible interventions, follwed by practitioners discussing the implications for practice and policy.
Author: Summer, Laura; Cindy Mann
Description: This report examines the extent, causes, and consequences of instability in public coverage programs for children and families. It focuses particularly on the phenomenon of "churning," which occurs when individuals lose and regain coverage in a short period of time. It also looks at strategies to make public program coverage more stable for children and families. Findings are drawn from national and state-based studies, roundtable discussions and interviews with stakeholders and experts, and an examination of the affect of state and local policies on instability and churning in four states: Louisiana, Rhode Island, Virginia, and Washington.
Place Matters: Challenges and Opportunities in Four Rural Americas
Description: This report from the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire is based on a comprehensive survey of nearly 8,000 Americans from 19 rural counties. It identifies four distinct, often disparate rural Americas. The research presents a complex picture of the economics, demographics, politics, and values of people in rural America today with implications for policy.
Public Benefits:Easing Poverty And Ensuring Medical Coverage
Description: This research brief summarizes key findings on “safety net” issues and public assistance programs for people coping with hardships.
Risk and Resilience in Homeless Children
Author: Michaels, Cari (2 more by this author)
Description: This Children’s Mental Health eReview summarizes the concepts of risk and resilience as they relate to homeless youth and their parents to provide a clearer understanding of the impact of homelessness on child development and well-being. Following a discussion of the research, including MN data on homeless families, practitioners discuss the implications for practice and policy.
RURAL AMERICA AT A GLANCE, 2008 EDITION
Description: Rural America At A Glance, 2008 Edition highlights the most recent indicators of social and economic conditions in rural areas for use in developing policies and programs to assist rural areas. The 2008 edition focuses on employment, poverty, population change, and demographic characteristics of nonmetro areas.
Description: This article discusses current research on the educational outcomes of children in stable blended families and children of traditional nuclear families.
State Policies That Affect Working Families
Author: Phillips, Katherin
Description: States make many decisions that have an impact on the lives of working parents. This report looks at state involvement in four areas: job-protected family care policies, child care subsidies, early childhood education and elementary school schedules, and tax policy. Each section of the report discusses how employers and employees can benefit from the relevant type of family policy, summarizes the federal role in the policy area, and highlights state policy-making. Detailed tables outline specific state policy provisions.
Description: This power point provides research and strategies to promote and fund placement of children with relatives.
The Chicago Family Case Management Demonstration
Description: This report discusses developing a new model for serving “hard to house” public housing families.
Author: Aufseeser, Dena (1 more by this author); Brett Brown; Susan Jekielek
Description: This research brief reports on data about teens experiences in their families with a particular focus on differences across social groups. The purpose of the brief is to identify where disparities exist and where needs for intervention are greatest. The brief concludes with a discussion on implications for parenting and for policy.
The National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health
Description: This is the Web site of the National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health (NCEMCH). NCEMCH is focused on providing education, program development and research knowledge to improve the health and well-being of the nation's children and families.
The Neglected Link Between Food Marketing and Childhood Obesity in Poor Neighborhoods
Author: Lee, Marlene
Description: This research article argues how improving access to healthier foods is critical to decreasing childhood obesity in the United States. It suggests that tailoring public education messages and other efforts to promote healthy eating to reach low-income communities as well as racial and ethnic minorities would more effectively address the threat of increasing childhood obesity.
The Policy Institute for Family Impact Seminars
Description: This site deals with connecting research and state policy-making and promoting a family perspective in research, policy, and practice.
What is Trauma and Why is it Important?
Description: This issue of Children's Mental Health eReview focuses on trauma and child welfare systems. The issue defines trauma and describes its significance. Implications for practice and policy are included.