Early Head Start National Resource Center
The Early Head Start National Resource Center (EHS NRC) was created in 1995 by the Head Start Bureau (HSB), Administration for Children and Families (ACYF) and is currently operated by ZERO TO THREE, Washington, DC, in collaboration with WestEd of Sausilito, CA. The EHS NRC works to ensure that Early Head Start programs have information and training on "best practices" on a range of topics
http://www.ehsnrc.org
ERIC Pages
The Education Resource Information Center is a key Internet resources for student, teachers, parents, and researchers with a network of links and a searchable data claiming to be the world's largest source of education information.
http://www.eric.ed.gov
National Center for Education on Maternal and Child Health
The National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health provides national leadership to the maternal and child health community in three key areas--program development, education, and state-of-the-art knowledge--to improve the health and well-being of the nation's children and families.
http://www.ncemch.org
National Child Care Information Center
Sponsored by the Child Care Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services. This site provides a central access point for child care-related information. It includes links to other organizations and provides full-text documents.
http://nccic.org
National Association for the Education of Young Children
The NAEYC is the nation's largest organization of early childhood professionals (100,000) dedicated to improving the quality of early childhood education programs from birth through age 8.
http://www.naeyc.org
National Child Care Association
NCCA is a professional trade association focused exclusively on the needs of licensed, private childhood care and education programs. As an alliance of care and education professionals and owners, NCCA takes a singular position in the United States as the ONLY organization representing the specific interests of the licensed, private community.
http://www.nccanet.org
National Economic Development and Law Center
To contribute to the abilities of low-income persons and communities to realize their full potential. They do this by collaborating with community organizations to develop integrated community-building skills, indigenous leadership, and community building creativity in order to build local capacity and achieve greater economic, social, cultural and human development.
http://www.nedlc.org
National Head Start Association
The National Head Start Association is a private not-for-profit membership organization dedicated exclusively to meeting the needs of Head Start children and their families. The Association provides support for the entire Head Start community by advocating for policies that strengthen services to Head Start children and their families; by providing extensive training and professional development to Head Start staff; and by developing and disseminating research, information, and resources that enrich Head Start program delivery.
http://www.nhsa.org
National Information Center for Children and youth with Disabilities
The center provides information to the nation on: disabilities in children and youth; programs and services for infants, children, and youth with disabilities; IDEA, the nation's special education law; No Child Left Behind, the nation's general education law; and research-based information on effective practices for children with disabilities.
http://www.nichcy.org
National Network for Child Care
NNCC unites the expertise of many of the nation's leading universities through the outreach system of Cooperative Extension. Our goal is to share knowledge about children and child care from the vast resources of the landgrant universities with parents, professionals, practitioners, and the general public. They network with committed individuals around the country to bring you practical information and resources that will be useful to you in your everyday work with children.
http://www.nncc.org
National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care
The National Resource Center is located at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado, and is funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, HRSA. The NRC's primary mission is to promote health and safety in out-of-home child care settings throughout the nation.
http://nrc.uchsc.edu
National School Age Care Alliance
NSACA is the only national membership organization representing the entire array of public, private, and community-based providers of after school programs.
http://www.nsaca.org/
The National Economic Impacts of the Child Care Sector
The National Child Care Association has released an Industry Study: The National Economic Impacts of the Child Care Sector. The Industry Study reports how important child care is to the national economy.
For more information or a copy of the Industry Study visit the NCCA homepage at http://www.nccanet.org/index.asp.
The Center for Injury Prevention, Policy and Practice
The Center for Injury Prevention, Policy and Practice of San Diego State University publishes Safety Tip Sheets that provide information to promote safe environments in child care facilities. There are different Safety Tip Sheets fro each age group and are available in English and Spanish. For the Safety Tip Sheets or more information: http://www.cippp.org and click on Publications then scroll down and click on Safety Sheets.
U.S. Department of Education
The Department is dedicated to: • Establishing policies on federal financial aid for education, and distributing as well as monitoring those funds. • Collecting data on America's schools and disseminating that research. • Focusing national attention on the educational issues it prioritizes. • Prohibiting discrimination and ensuring equal access to education.
http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml