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Institute for Child Health Policy
Description: The goal of this organization is to research, evaluate, formulate, and advance health policies, programs, and systems that promote the health and well-being of children and youth in the state of Florida and nationally.
National Indian Child Welfare Association
Description: Every Indian child must have access to community-based, culturally-appropriate services which help them grow up safe, healthy and spiritually strong – free from abuse, neglect, sexual exploitation and the damaging effects of substance abuse. The website discusses and expresses this philosophy.
Description: The National Runaway Switchboard gives help and hope to youth and their families by providing non-judgmental, confidential crisis intervention and local and national referrals through a 24-hour hotline. Website can be viewed in Spanish, French and Chinese also.
– Evaluation –
Buros Institute of Mental Measurements
Description: This is the website for the Buros Institute for Mental Measurement. Buros provides information to users of commercially published standardized tests, including the Mental Measurement Yearbook which provides reviews of these tests.
Evaluating the National Outcomes – Children: Academic And Functional Literacy Outcomes 
Description: Includes literature reviews, abstracts describing standardized instruments and measures.
Evaluating the National Outcomes – Children: Academic And Functional Literacy Outcomes
Description: Includes literature reviews, abstracts describing standardized instruments and measures.
Evaluating the National Outcomes – Children: Conceptual Model For Children
Description: Includes literature reviews, abstracts describing standardized instruments and measures.
Evaluating the National Outcomes – Children: Contribution And Citizenship Outcomes
Description: Includes literature reviews, abstracts describing standardized instruments and measures.
Description: Includes literature reviews, abstracts describing standardized instruments and measures.
Evaluating the National Outcomes – Children: Physical Health Outcomes
Description: Includes literature reviews, abstracts describing standardized instruments and measures.
Evaluating the National Outcomes – Children: Presence And Participation Outcomes
Description: Includes literature reviews, abstracts describing standardized instruments and measures.
Evaluating the National Outcomes – Children: Responsibility And Independence
Description: Includes literature reviews, abstracts describing standardized instruments and measures.
Evaluating the National Outcomes– Children: Personal And Social Adjustment Outcomes
Description: Includes literature reviews, abstracts describing standardized instruments and measures.
Evaluating the National Outcomes– Children: Satisfaction Outcomes
Description: Includes literature reviews, abstracts describing standardized instruments and measures.
Description: This publication focuses on promising practices and strategies for evaluating child services; from the Harvard Family Research Project ( available online and in print).
Is Your Community Ready for eGovernment?
Author: Fesenmaier, Julie
Description: To understand the dynamic nature of eGovernment infrastructure investment, the LABORATORY FOR COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT at the University of Illinois has created the eGovernment Readiness Index. This Index is a diagnostic and evaluation tool designed to provide policy makers with greater insight on how to best allocate investments for eGovernment adoption and to benchmark the evolution of eGovernment services.
– General Information –
4-H National Headquarters Web Site
Description: This Web site has links to state 4-H Web sites and state specific information, as well as national 4-H information.
Description: A website that gives the latest national trends and research on indicators of child, youth, family, and community
well-being.
Author: Lewis, Andrew; Bill Pinkovitz
Description: This project identifies several Community Indicators. It includes resources with templates designed to provide easy access to data about your community. They will also enable you to obtain similar data about other communities throughout the United States.
Each Community Indicator includes an easy-to-use template that will enable even novice users to access, input, and display data in a presentatoin-ready Excel™ format. Detailed online instructions explaining how to use the templates and how they were developed is included with each Community Indicator.
Author: Nordby, Ann
Description: This Technology trend explores the Obama administration's new policy of placing all government data online, with few exceptions. Researchers and government contract holders will have an easier time getting information on government spending, contract status, census data, health and safety information and much more as data.gov is rolled out over the next several years.
Economic Development Information System
Description: A website that includes links to county profiles, regional information, industry profiles, and state comparisons. Includes a lot of demographic data.
Federal Consumer Information Center
Description: A website with general consumer information about a variety of topics.
Kindergarten Entry Skills (Habilidades para entrar en el kindergarten)
Description: This publication discusses the skills that are necessary for children entering kindergarten. Information is included on cognitive and social skills. Resources are provided. This publication is also available in Spanish as "Habilidades para entrar en el kindergarten" at http://ceep.crc.uiuc.edu/poptopics/k-entry-sp.html.
Rural America at a Glance, 2005
Description: Rural America At A Glance, 2005 is a six-page brochure that 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 brochure is the fourth in a series of reports that uses current social and economic data to highlight population, labor market, income, and poverty trends in rural areas. This brochure provides information on key rural conditions and trends for use by public and private decisionmakers and others in efforts to enhance the economic opportunities and quality of life for rural people and their communities.
Description: Take Charge is a an interactive data base developed and supported by the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development that provides leadership and community development relevant data at the county and city level.
Author: Miller, Dawn
Description: One-third of Americans today live in blended families, but life in the blender remains a mystery to many. The Stepfamily Life is a weekly column written by a real-life stepmom that explores the joys and challenges of blended family life. New content is added to the site regularly and extensive links to resources for stepfamilies.
Wisconsin Community Development Photo Archive
Author: Lewis, Andrew
Description: This resource provides images from Wisconsin that would be helpful in making presentations on a variety of community development topics.
– Links, Other Resources –
Description: A website that gives the latest national trends and research on indicators of child, youth, family, and community
well-being.
Description: The website for the National Poverty Center provides information and data on poverty in the United States. Links to articles, research, and a description of how poverty is measured are included.
U.S. Census Bureau: Current Poverty Data
Description: This is a website from the US Census Bureau that links to current statistics on poverty in the US.
U.S. Census Bureau: Current Poverty Data
Description: This is a website from the US Census Bureau that links to current statistics on poverty in the US.
– Professional Development –
Author: Family, Harvard
Description: 4-H Environmental Inquiry (4-H EI) was started in 2000 to assist Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) educators in playing a key role in science education reform in their communities. By providing opportunities for youth to engage in authentic, open-ended research Extension Educators are increasing their ability to think out side the box.
Standards for Educational Accountability Systems
Author: Baker, Eva; Daniel Koretz; Joan L. Herman; Robert L. Linn
Description: The Standards for Educational Accountability Systems is a collaborative project between CRESST and the Consortium for Policy Research in Education. The standards are intended to provide guidance to states and districts in conducting self-reviews of their own systems and to delineate criteria by which developing accountability systems can be judged.
The Promising Practices Network
Description: The Promising Practices Network web site highlights programs and practices that research indicates are effective in improving outcomes for children, youth, and families. The information offered is organized around three major areas: Proven and Promising Programs, Research in Brief, and Strengthening Service Delivery.
– Programming Resource –
4-H National Headquarters Web Site
Description: This Web site has links to state 4-H Web sites and state specific information, as well as national 4-H information.
Description: This web site, with its tools and links to a wide range of economic development literatures, is designed to enable anyone interested in their local economy to use standard indicators to make a first cut at understanding its potential.
Description: This publication focuses on promising practices and strategies for evaluating child services; from the Harvard Family Research Project ( available online and in print).
Is Your Community Ready for eGovernment?
Author: Fesenmaier, Julie
Description: To understand the dynamic nature of eGovernment infrastructure investment, the LABORATORY FOR COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT at the University of Illinois has created the eGovernment Readiness Index. This Index is a diagnostic and evaluation tool designed to provide policy makers with greater insight on how to best allocate investments for eGovernment adoption and to benchmark the evolution of eGovernment services.
Poverty in America's Living Wage Calculator
Description: Created by the Poverty in America Project, the Living Wage Calculator is a tool that estimates the cost of living in a community or region. The Calculator lists typical expenses, the living wage and typical wages in the location you have selected.
Rural America at a Glance, 2005
Description: Rural America At A Glance, 2005 is a six-page brochure that 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 brochure is the fourth in a series of reports that uses current social and economic data to highlight population, labor market, income, and poverty trends in rural areas. This brochure provides information on key rural conditions and trends for use by public and private decisionmakers and others in efforts to enhance the economic opportunities and quality of life for rural people and their communities.
Sharing a Family's Story: A Tool for Family Advocacy
Author: Greder, Kimberly; Lois Schmidt; Barbara Woods; Jeanne Warning
Description: Learn how family stories can be used for advocacy. Professionals and volunteers who work with families can help families learn to share their stories and ensure that their stories are heard to make a difference in how services are delivered to families and in public policy. This publication also includes information and activities to use with the video "Sharing a Family's Story".
The Promising Practices Network
Description: The Promising Practices Network web site highlights programs and practices that research indicates are effective in improving outcomes for children, youth, and families. The information offered is organized around three major areas: Proven and Promising Programs, Research in Brief, and Strengthening Service Delivery.
What Do I Expect From My Child Care Provider?
Author: Sprain, Joan
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions and reflection questions to assist in fostering a healthy relationship between parents and child care providers.
– Research –
Author: Nordby, Ann; Marcelo Suarez-Orozco
Description: This research spotlight focuses on why issues of immigration and education. "Immigration is the face of globalization", according to researcher and author Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, and significant percentages of immigrants to the US and most other first-world countries are failing to get an adequate education to enter the workforce. Many are instead being incarcerated. Why is education failing so many? That should be the question we are all asking, Suarez-Orozco says.
National Center for Early Development and Learning
Description: This website provides information on research relating to children's development from birth through age eight.
The Promising Practices Network
Description: The Promising Practices Network web site highlights programs and practices that research indicates are effective in improving outcomes for children, youth, and families. The information offered is organized around three major areas: Proven and Promising Programs, Research in Brief, and Strengthening Service Delivery.