| Useful
Websites
The following
web sites have been recommended to us as valuable information for people
involved with foster care and adoption.
Afterschool
Alliance
The Afterschool Alliance is a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising
awareness of the importance of afterschool programs and advocating for
quality, affordable programs for all children. It is supported by
a group of public, private and nonprofit organizations that share the
Alliance's vision of ensuring that all children have access to afterschool
programs by 2010.
http://www.afterschoolalliance.org
American Academy of Child
& Adolescent Psychiatry
The American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), is
a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization, was established in 1953. It
is a membership based organization, composed of over 75,000 child and
adolescent psychiatrists and other interested physicians. Its members
actively research, evaluate, diagnose, and treat psychiatric disorders
and pride themselves on giving direction to and responding quickly to
new developments in addressing the health care needs of children and their
families.
http://wwwaacap.org/
American Academy of Pediatrics
An organization of 60,000 pediatricians committed to the attainment
of optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being of all infants,
children, adolescents, and young adults.
http://www.aap.org
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Since 1948, the Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF) has worked to build better
futures for disadvantaged children and their families in the United States.
The primary mission of the Foundation is to foster public policies, human
service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the
needs of today's vulnerable children and families.
http://www.aecf.org
Autism
Society of Wisconsin:
The mission of the Autism Society of Wisconsin is to improve the lives
of all affected by autism in Wisconsin.ASW is continuing to look forward
to provide increased support and information to the autism community
in Wisconsin. Phone: 920-553-0278. Toll-free 1-888-4-AUTISM (1-888-428-8476
Wisconsin only, information and referral).
http://asw4autism.org
Casey
Family Programs
Casey Family Programs collaborates with foster, kinship, and adoptive
parents to provide safe, loving homes for youth in their direct care.
Casey Family Programs collaborates with counties, states and American
Indian and Alaskan Native tribes to improve services and outcomes for
the more than 500,000 young people in out-of home care across the U.S.
http://www.casey.org/
CHADD:
Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
CHADD is the nation's leading non-profit organization serving individuals
with AD/HD and their families. CHADD has over 16,000 members in
200 local chapters across the U.S. Chapters offer support for
individuals, parents, teachers, professionals, and others.
http://www.chadd.org
Children's Defense Fund
The Children's Defense Fund's Leave No Child Behind mission is to ensure
every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start,
and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the
help of caring families and communities.
http://www.childrensdefense.org
Child Welfare Information
Gateway
Formerly the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information
and the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse, Child Welfare Information
Gateway provides access to information and resources to help protect
children and strengthen families. A service of the Children's
Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services.
http://www.childwelfare.gov
Child
Welfare League of America
CWLA is an association of nearly 800 public and private non-profit agencies
that assist more than 3.5 million abused and neglected children and their
families each year with a range of services.
http://www.cwla.org
CollegeBoard.com
This website contains tools and resources for college bound youth and
their parents.
http://www.collegeboard.com
Family Empowerment
Network (for FASD)
The Family Empowerment Network is a resource, referral, support, and research
program serving families affected by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
and the providers who service them. The mission of the Family Empowerment
Network is simple, to empower families through education and support.
http://pregnancyandalcohol.org/index.asp?menuID=142&firstlevelmenuID=142&siteID=1
Fostering Perspectives
Fostering Perspectives is a publication dedicated to making
foster care and adoption in North Carolina the best they can be.
Foster and adoptive parents will find it to be a resource and a place
to share information, ideas, frustrations, and joys related to foster
care and adoption. Foster children will find the Kids' Pages, a
place where children who are or have been in foster care express themselves
through words and pictures. Social workers will find Fostering Perspectives
important for the way it gives voice to the concerns of the parents and
children they work with every day. Fostering Perspectives is sponsored
by the North Carolina Division of Social Services and the Family and Children's
Resource Program.
http://www.fosteringperspectives.org
International Foster Care
Organisation
IFCO is the only international network dedicated to the promotion and
support of family foster care all over the world. IFCO is the multi-cultural
arena where children, young people, foster carers, parents whose children
are in foster care, social workers, academics, researchers, volunteers,
media, policy makers and others meet, share experience, support each other,
all united by the aid of helping to make the right of every child to live
in a family a reality.
http://www.ifco.info
LaAntiDroga.com
This Spanish-language site includes drug information, expert advice on
how to handle youth drug use, and an interactive feature through which
parents can submit questions to a drug prevention expert and have them
answered online.
http://www.laantidroga.com
National Alliance on Mental
Illness
NAMI is the nation's largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated
to improving the lives of persons living with serious mental illness and
their families.
http://www.nami.org
National Child Welfare
Resource Center for Adoption The
mission of the National Child Welfare Resource Center for Adoption is
to assist States, Tribes and other federally funded child welfare agencies
in building their capacity to ensure the safety, well being, and permanency
of abused and neglected children through adoption and post legal adoption
services program planning, policy development and practice.
http://www.nrcadoption.org/
National Court Appointed
Special Advocates for Children
Court Appointed Special Advocates is a network of more than 50,000 volunteers
that serve 225,000 abused and neglected children through 900+ local program
offices nationwide. Our advocates, also known as volunteer guardians
ad litem in some jurisdictions, are appointed members of the court.
Judges rely on the information these trusted advocates present.
http://www.nationalcasa.org
National Foster Parent
Association
The mission of the National Foster Parent Association is to support foster
parents in achieving safety, permanence and well-being for the children
and youth in their care.
http://www.nfpainc.org/
National Hispanic Medical
Association
Established in 1994 in Washington DC, the National Hispanic Medical Association
is a nonprofit organization representing 36,000 licensed Hispanic physicians
in the United States. The mission of the organization is to improve
the health of Hispanics and other underserved populations.
http://www.nhmamd.org
National Indian Child
Welfare Association
The National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) is the most comprehensive
source of information on American Indian child welfare and works on behalf
of Indian children and families. NICWA provides public policy, research,
and advocacy; information and training on Indian child welfare; and community
development services to a broad national audience including tribal governments
and programs, state welfare agencies, and other organizations, agencies,
and professionals interested in the field of Indian child welfare.
http://www.nicwa.org
National Resource
Center for Family-Centered Practice and Permanency Planning:
The National Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice and Permanency
Planning focuses on increasing the capacity and resources of State, Tribal,
and other publicly supported child welfare agencies to promote family-centered
practices that contribute to the safety, permanency, and well-being of
children while meeting the needs of their families.
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/socwork/nrcfcpp/about-us.html
Parents the Anti-Drug
The AntiDrug.com was created by the National Youth Anti-Drug Media
Campaign to equip parents and other adult caregivers with the tools they
need to raise drug-free kids. Working with the nation's leading
experts in the fields of parenting and substance abuse prevention, the
Anti-Drug.com serves as a drug prevention information center, and a supportive
community for parents to interact and learn from each other.
http://www.theantidrug.com
The Pew Commission on Children
in Foster Care:
The Pew Commission on Children in Foster Care has been established to
develop recommendations to improve outcomes for children in the foster
care system. Of primary importance are expediting the movement of
such children from foster care into safe, permanent, nurturing families,
and preventing unnecessary placements in foster care.
http://pewfostercare.org/
Special Education in Plain Language
:
This is a helpful manual that parents, teachers, state staff and others worked on collaboratively.
http://www.specialed.us/pl-07/SpEd_in_Plain_Language-07.pdf./
U.S. Department of
Health & Human Services Administration for Children and Families:
This website contains numerous resources and links for families.
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/acf_services.html#aafc
U.S. Department of Health
& Human Services Indian Health Services
This website contains a wealth of resources for individuals and families.
http://www.ihs.gov
Voices for America's Children
Voices for America's is a nonpartisan, national organization committed
to speaking out for the well- being of children at the federal, state
and local levels of government. Since 1984, Voices has supported
child advocates nationwide who have achieved public policy victories for
children in early education, health, juvenile justice, child welfare,
tax and budget decisions and other areas.
http://www.voicesforamericaschildren.org
Wisconsin Council on Children
and Families
The mission of the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families, WCCF or
the Council, is to ensure that every child in Wisconsin grows up in a
just and nurturing family and community. The Wisconsin Council on
Children and Families was established in 1881 as the Wisconsin Conference
on Charities and Corrections. For well over a century, the organization
has focused on improving conditions for families and children through
policy change, expanded public investments and public education that lead
to improvements in outcomes and practices in the delivery of publicly
funded health care, education, workforce development and social services.
http://www.wccf.org
Wisconsin
Dental Association
http://www.wda.org/
For a specific list of clinics that provide free or reduced dental care
(as of October, 2007), click on: http://www.wda.org/media/02/192-reducedratedentalclinics.pdf
Wisconsin
Dept. of Children and Families
http://dcf.wisconsin.gov
Wisconsin
Foster and Adoptive Parents Association, Inc.
The Wisconsin foster and adoptive Parents Association is a statewide
association of individuals, associations and agencies that wish to work
together for the purposes of promoting and enhancing mutual coordination,
cooperation and communication among foster parents, adoptive parents,
foster parent associations and adoptive parents associations and all
child welfare agencies to improve foster care and adoptive care services
to foster and adoptive families, and in particular to foster and adoptive
children. WFAPA strives to be the collective voice for all foster
and adoptive parent local organizations, and for all foster and adoptive
children in the State of Wisconsin.
http://www.wfapa.org
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