Early Childhood Development Resource Library
Early Childhood Readiness - Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems that Spend Smarter: Maximizing Resources to Save Vulnerable Children. This report by the National Center for Children in Poverty offers key factors of social and emotional health and school readiness of children.
Summary of Significant Changes Across the US - This document covers key indicators which have shown a significant increase or decrease relative to the national well being of children and youth as published by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics.
Early Intervention - This is a one page brief from the Centers for Disease Control stressing the utility f early childhood development programs as a tool against cognitive developmental delay.
Better Outcomes - Findings from a 5 state study revealing the progress of collaboration between Head Start and Public Pre-K.
Baltimore 5yr Action Plan - This file contains the findings from Baltimore's "Five Year Action Plan for Achieving School Readiness" including details on progress to date for children entering school ready to learn. This article is very germane to our community.
Children Left behind Final Report - This publication from the Harvard School o Public Health covers the inequalities facing children in Metropolitan locations in the U.S. Buffalo is featured reflecting the challenges with in our community relating to education, family composition, neighborhood conditions and other indicators.
Helpful Links
www.acf.dhhs.gov
The site for the Administration for Children and Families, which is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provides information on foster care, child abuse and neglect, Head Start programming, child care and other issues relative to Early Childhood.
www.childrensdefense.org
The Children's Defense Fund is dedicated to advocating for all children, with a special focus on poor and minority children. This site offers analysis of federal policies, data and reports on a variety of issues relative to Early Childhood.
www.childtrends.org
Child Trends is an independent research organization. This site offers a wealth of information relative to children's growth and development.
www.cwla.org
The Child Welfare League of America consists of more than 1,000 member organizations. This website reflects their mission of advocacy and policy analysis on issues relating to children.
www.childstats.gov
This site provides easy access to federal and state statistics and reports on key indicators of child well being.
www.nccic.org
The National Child Care Information Center is a one stop site for information relative to child care in the U.S.
www.nncc.org
The National Network for Child Care offers links to individual State University Cooperative Extension programs including research based publications relative to improving child care and increasing quality child care.
www.nich.nih.gov
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development offers access to multiple publications covering research, training, and reports on maternal and child health issues.
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