Children & Youth

Resources in this category:

Aaron Shepard's Kidwriter Page
http://www.aaronshep.com/kidwriter/

Resources for authors and illustrators of children's books and literature. Includes a business guide, articles, online and offline resources, and a bibliography. Searchable.

Child Development Institute
http://cdipage.com/

The Child Development Institute provides information on parenting, child development, child psychology, learning disabilities, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and dyslexia as well as reading and study skills improvement. As well as the free practical information, the CDI Store offers practical, effective, and affordable materials.

Childcare.gov
http://www.childcare.gov/

"A new web site designed to bring all of the Federal agency resource about child care together in one place. You will be able to find Federal funding sources, keep up to date on safety alerts, find and share promising practices and much more."

Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics
http://www.childstats.gov/

"This web site offers easy access to federal and state statistics and reports on children and their families, including: population and family characteristics, economic security, health, behavior and social environment,and education. "

KinderStart.com
http://www.kinderstart.com/

They provide an Indexed directory and search engine focusing on "children zero to seven on the 'net." Their mission is to "provide parents, grandparents, foster parents and teachers with the most organized, and easiest to use index and search engine available."

Notes from the Windowsill
http://www.armory.com/~web/notes.html

Notes from the Windowsill is an electronic review of childrens literature. This site also features bibliographies of juvenile literature for special interest groups.

Technology and Young Children
http://www.techandyoungchildren.org/index.html

A terrific resource for parents and educators for exploring the positive and negative impact of technology in children's lives and for learning the "do's" and "don'ts" of using technology with children, offering everything from Best Educational Practices to Internet help with tutorials, good search engines, and web design tips.

The Committee for Missing Children
http://www.findthekids.com/

This website serves as an information clearinghouse for a parent advocacy group that provides photographs of and information about missing and abducted children. This web site is created as a resource for parents of missing children as well as lawyers, other non-profits and non-governmental agencies, and the agencies that must deal with child abduction. There are links to almost one hundred non-profit child-find organizations and Non Governmental Organizations (NGO's) throughout the world. There is also information about the Amber Alert system. A link to the European site is also available.