For Policy Leaders: Links and Resources
Children's Futures wants to serve as a resource to help you in your public policy work. Our public/private partnership's unique attributes make Children's Futures a valuable resource for learning about new ideas and what works when one community focuses on improving the lives of children and families.
In addition to contacting us directly, Children's Futures also offers the following links and resources to help inform your work.
Links/Resources:
Zero to
Three
Zero to three is a national nonprofit multidisciplinary organization
that advances the healthy development and well-being of infants,
toddlers and their families.
National Association for the
Education of Young Children
The National Association for the Education of Young Children promotes excellence
in early childhood education families.
Pre-K Now
This national organization advances high-quality, voluntary pre-kindergarten
for all three and four year olds.
Association
for Children of New Jersey
Association
for Children of New Jersey (ACNJ) is a statewide non-profit
child advocacy organization. ACNJ works on behalf of children
and families.
BUILD New Jersey
Build
New Jersey is an early childhood collaborative supporting State
efforts to prepare our youngest children for a successful future.
Census Bureau
The
United States Census Bureau site provides income and poverty
reports, publications, and census data related to people, income,
and poverty.
Children's Defense Fund
The
Children's Defense Fund is a nonprofit organization whose mission
is to ensure every child a healthy start, a head start, a fair start, a
safe start, and a moral start in life and successful passage to adulthood
with the help of caring families and communities.
Child Trends
Child
Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan children's research organization that collects
and analyzes data; conducts, synthesizes, and disseminates research; designs
and evaluates programs; and develops and tests promising approaches to research
in the field.
Child Welfare League of America
Child
Welfare League of America (CWLA) is a nonprofit organization whose mission
is to develop and promote policies and programs to protect America's children
and strengthen America's families.
Connect for Kids
Connect
for Kids, an award-winning multimedia project, 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.
The Future of Children
The
Future of Children promotes effective policies and programs for children by providing
policymakers, service providers, and the media with timely, objective information
based on the best available research.
Joint Center for Poverty Research
The Joint Center for Poverty Research's mission is to advance
the understanding of the causes and consequences of poverty and
the effect of policies designed to reduce poverty.
The Henry J. Kaiser
Family Foundation
Through its Health Policy program, The Kaiser Family Foundation
provides facts, analysis, and explanation on health policy issues to policymakers,
the media and the public.
Join Together
Join
together is a nonprofit organization advancing effective alcohol and
drug policy, prevention and treatment.
MDRC
MDRC
is a nonprofit, nonpartisan education and social policy research organization
dedicated to learning about what works to improve programs and policies
that affect the poor.
National Center for Children in Poverty
Part
of the Mailman School at Columbia University, 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.
National Research
Center For Women & Families
The
National Center for Policy Research for Women & families is a nonprofit,
nonpartisan organization dedicated to providing unbiased, research-based
information that can be used to improve the lives of women and families.
National Institute of
Child Health and Human Development Official Home Page
The
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), created
by Congress in 1962, supports and conducts research on topics related
to the health of children, adults, families, and populations.
Prevent Child Abuse
Prevent
Child Abuse New Jersey leads statewide efforts to eliminate physical,
sexual and emotional child abuse and neglect.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focuses on the pressing health and health
care issues facing our country. The Foundation works with a diverse group
of organizations and individuals to identify solutions and achieve comprehensive,
meaningful and timely change.
The Urban Institute | Research of Record
The
Urban Institute is a nonprofit nonpartisan policy research and educational
organization established to examine the social, economic, and governance
problems facing the nation.