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  • ATSDR - Office of Children's Health
    Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry with specialized information on the toxicology of children. Provides ongoing examination of relevant child health issues like cancer and hazardous waste sites.
  • Almanac of Policy Issues: CHIP
    Background information and links on the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
  • American Public Health Association: SCHIP and Public Health
    SCHIP page of APHA, the oldest and largest organization of public health professionals.
  • Barr-Harris Children's Grief Center
    Serves children who have lost a sibling; lost a parent through death, divorce, or abandonment; or imminent death of a family member; affiliated with the Institute for Psychoanalysis in Chicago, Illinois, US.
  • Center for Children's Health and the Environment
    CCHE is the nation's first academic research and policy center to examine the links between exposure to toxic pollutants and childhood illness. Provides fact sheets, reports, conference and contact information.
  • Children's Environmental Health
    Minnesota Department of Health information to protect the health of children as it relates to environmental hazards.
  • Children's Environmental Health
    Project of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. Provides a summary of the medical and scientific information about environmental effects on health.
  • Children's Environmental Health Information Resources for Public Health Professionals
    National Network of Libraries of Medicine project to provide public health professionals with access to information resources.
  • Children's Environmental Health Network
    The CEHN is a national multidisciplinary project whose purpose is to protect the health of children as it relates to environmental hazards.
  • Children's Grief and Loss Issues
    Offering information, seminars, books, CDs and videos to help a child deal with grief issues.
  • Children's Health Care
    An estimated 10 million children have no medical insurance. Online NewsHour Transcript with Elizabeth Farnsworth and two health care experts.
  • Children's Health Environmental Coalition
    CHEC dedicated to prevention of non-genetic childhood cancer and other environmentally caused childhood illnesses.
  • Children's Health Matters
    Outreach program that facilitates enrollment of children in Medicaid and other insurance programs
  • Children's Health and the Environment
    Pan American Health Organization Center for Sanitary Engineering and Environmental Sciences (CEPIS) resources and information.
  • Covering Kids
    National health access initiative for low-income, uninsured children, offering information on child health outreach, enrollment, and simplification strategies.
  • Dawnas Handy Guide
    A teachers' manual with lessons that incorporate Christian philosophy and current scientifically proven lifestyle information.
  • Dream Publishing Co.
    Offers the Sillwee Wobbert Picture Book series to help empower children to overcome their medical problems.
  • FAMIS, Family Access to Medical Insurance Security Plan
    FAMIS is Virginia's new low-cost health insurance for children whose families earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but do not have private health insurance.
  • Facts for Life
    UNICEF presents practical, effective and low-cost ways to protect children's lives and health. Includes child development and early learning, nutrition and growth, immunization, hygiene, and injury prevention. [PDF version requires free Adobe download.]
  • Families USA
    Provides advocacy for consumers of family health care by acting as a watchdog over children's payer programs
  • Health Care Financing Administration: CHIP
    Official federal site devoted to the Children's Health Insurance Program.
  • Helping Children Deal With Grief
    Detailed information discussing complicated grief stemming from traumatic death, AIDS, abuse, or violence. Workshops designed to melt the wall between a child and his or her grief for parents, educators, and therapists by Linda Goldman, teacher, counselor, author, certified grief therapist and educator.
  • Institute for Children's Environmental Health
    The primary mission of ICEH is to mitigate environmental exposures that can undermine the health and well-being of children and to detoxify environments wherever children spend time.
  • Iris the Dragon Inc.
    A small publishing company specializing in children's illustrated books that deal with mental illness and brain disorders, their first book is called "Catch A Falling Star".
  • Maryland Covering Kids
    Maryland Covering Kids aids enrollment of children into public and private health insurance through outreach activities.
  • Maternal & Child's Health Policy
    Specializes in issues affecting children, including those with special health care needs and those from low-income families.
  • Mommy's Light
    Non-profit organization in the Delaware Valley dedicated to children who have lost their mothers. Serving southeastern PA, southern NJ or northern DE.
  • National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health
    Provides an overview of research center mission and purpose, publications, programs, and research tools offered.
  • Partnership for Children's Health and the Environment
    National partnership committed to working collaboratively for a more sustainable and effective children's environmental health movement.
  • Pee Dee Healthy Start Inc South Carolina
    A prevention program in response to high infant mortality rates, low birth weight babies, inadequate health care for women of child bearing age and their families in rural areas in SC.
  • Pi Communication Materials
    Books devoted to early childhood speech and language, emphasizing early intervention techniques to help increase baby/toddler talking, ages 1-3 years.
  • SD Children's Special Health Services
    Use this page to find out about diagnostic, consultative, and care coordination services for children with special health care needs, including financial assistance
  • St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
    A research and treatment facility for catastrophic diseases in children, primarily pediatric cancers. [Tennessee]
  • Terrorism and Kids: Comforting Your Child
    A book to help parents deal with children affected directly or indirectly by terrorism.
  • The Center for Grieving Children, Teens, and Families
    Provides grief support groups for children, teens and families from the Philadelphia region. Also provides grief support resources and training for professionals supporting bereaved families.
  • The Children's Environmental Health Institute
    Committed to decreasing the prevalence, morbidity, and mortality of environmentally related childhood diseases. CEHI identify, develop, and promote solutions to improve children's environmental health through scientific research, environmental education, and public policy.
  • The Gentle Revolution
    Books, CD-rom, video and kits for reading, math and enjoyment.
  • Three Trees: A Center for Grieving Children
    A non-profit, non-affiliated organization that focuses on serving children and their families as they grieve the loss of a loved one.
  • U.S. EPA - Office of Children's Health Protection (OCHP)
    Environmental Protection Agency site on children's environment and health. Publications, references and resources.
  • West Virginia Healthy Kids and Families Coalition
    A diverse group of individuals, agencies and organizations, both private and public, committed to improving access to quality health care for West Virginia’s children and families.