Child Advocacy Groups

Publisher of the Children's Advocate news magazine covering trends and policy issues affecting children and their families.

Provides support and information for parenting in a complex world through the Parent Resource Center.

Private charitable organization dedicated to helping build better futures for disadvantaged children in the U.S. Initiatives are related to reducing teen pregnancy, improving foster care, education reform, alternatives to juvenile detention, neighborhood improvement, and increased public awareness of children's issues.

Childrens advocacy group with an array of programs that provide services in education, health, housing, metal health and employment.

A coalition of 40 Provincial Organizations and hundreds of community groups who promote legislation, policy and practice that will enable children and youth to achieve their full potential and to participate in making a better world.

A cross-Canada public education movement to build public awareness and support for the 1989 all-party House of Commons resolution to end child poverty in Canada by the year 2000.

Advocacy for American children, particularly poor and minority children and those with disabilities. Issues and programs include: Head Start, Healthy Start, Stand for Children, child care, health insurance, child safety, moral education.

National non-profit organization that works to assure children meaningful and continuing contact with both their parents and extended family, regardless of the parents' marital status.

A center for parents and parent organizations to work together on behalf of children with special needs and their families. (Massachusetts)

Designed to serve children who are orphans, handicapped, sexually abused, physically abused and pregnant teenagers in developing countries and economies of our world.

This site supports efforts in educational equity and social justice and provides resources for students and educators and valuable links to other sites.

Works to make the system better serve America's most vulnerable children by trying to change policies concerning child abuse, foster care and family preservation.

A non-profit charitable organization dedicated to preventing the abuse of infants and children through parent education and family services, and emphasizes discipline without hitting or harming.

This site works to end child abuse through parent education, home visitor, sexual abuse prevention, young parents programs, and crisis child care.

Focuses on the effect of conflict on civilian children