Brookes Publishing publishes a range of Early Childhood Resources, from scholarly research volumes to practical curricula for early childhood and early intervention professionals. Browse early childhood titles by subjects such as: early intervention, inclusive and special education, developmental disabilities, learning disabilities, communication and language, behavior, mental health and more. Brookes currently has more than 250 titles in print and publish 35-40 new books every year.

Center for Child Care Workforce mission is to improve the quality of early care and education for all children by promoting policy, research and organizing that ensure the early care and education workforce is well-educated, receives better compensation and a voice in their workplace.

Child Care Aware is a non-profit initiative committed to helping parents find the best information on locating quality child care and child care resources in their community. We do this by raising visibility for local child care resource and referral agencies nationwide, and by connecting parents with the local agencies best equipped to serve their needs.

Children Now is the independent voice for children, working to translate the nation's commitment to children and families into action.

Children's Defense Fund's Child Care Advocacy E-mail Network is a free weekly newsletter for advocates interested in issues affecting early childhood and school-aged children. The newsletter provides updates and information on key federal and state developments, winning advocacy strategies, new research, and other resources to help you help children. The network is not a discussion forum, so you will not receive e-mail from other members, only CDF.

ChildStats.gov 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.

Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that studies children, youth, and families through research, data collection, and data analysis.

Civitas presents results from What Grown-Ups Understand About Child Development: A National Benchmark Survey which indicates that adults need more accurate information on raising emotionally, intellectually and socially well-developed children. This survey was sponsored by Civitas, ZERO TO THREE and BRIO Corporation, and conducted by DYG, Inc. A summary of the results and the questionnaire itself are available online.

The Future of Children is a publication of the Children, Families, and Communities Program of The David and Lucile Packard Foundation.  The primary purpose of The Future of Children is to disseminate timely information on major issues related to children's well-being, with special emphasis on providing objective analysis and evaluation, translating existing knowledge into effective programs and policies, and promoting constructive institutional change.

The High/Scope Foundation's mission is to seek, apply, and disseminate knowledge about education and human development, especially as it relates to the High/Scope educational approach to literacy. View Position Papers on How to Teach Young Children to Read as well as sample pre-application for the Early Reading First initiative that can be copied and used by interested organizations and individuals.

Kids Count Census Data Online has compiled indicators of child well-being from the 2000 US Census and created an interactive online database that uses a simple, yet powerful, interface to help you quickly and easily create, view, and print reports.

Kids in Danger is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting children by improving children's product safety.

National Association for Family Child Care is an organization dedicated to strengthening the profession of family child care by promoting high quality, professional early care and education and strengthening communities where providers live and work.

National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (NACCRRA) is the national network of more than 850 child care resource and referral centers (CCR&Rs) located in every state and most communities across the US. CCR&R centers help families, child care providers, and communities find, provide, and plan for affordable, quality child care.

National Association of the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is dedicated to improving the well-being of all young children, with particular focus on the quality of educational and developmental services for all children from birth through age 8. NAEYC is committed to becoming an increasingly high performing and inclusive organization.

The National Child Care Information Center (NCCIC), a project of the Child Care Bureau, Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is a national resource that links information and people to complement, enhance, and promote the child care delivery system, working to ensure that all children and families have access to high-quality comprehensive services.

The National Center for Children in Poverty places a special emphasis on preventing or alleviating poverty among children under age six because young child poverty poses particularly serious risks to children's healthy growth and development.

National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health Provides national leadership to the maternal and child health community in three key areas--program development, policy analysis and education, and state-of-the-art knowledge--to improve the health and well-being of the nation's children and families.

National Network for Child Care (NNCC) unites the expertise of many of the nation's leading universities through the outreach system of Cooperative Extension. Our goal is to share knowledge about children and child care from the vast resources of the landgrant universities with parents, professionals, practitioners, and the general public. We network with committed individuals around the country to bring you practical information and resources that will be useful to you in your everyday work with children.

The Southern Institute on Children and Families is an independent, non-profit organization that improves the well-being of children and families through knowledge, leadership and action. generating greater awareness and to equip community and business leaders and policymakers with knowledge to make informed decisions. 

Voices for South Carolina’s Children is an independent, nonprofit child advocacy organization that works to improve the lives of children in the Palmetto State by providing information and resources to families, child advocates, lawmakers and concerned citizens on current children’s issues.

Zero To Three Today, a record number of parents with very young children are in the workforce. More than half the infants and toddlers in the United States spend time in child care each week. The Better Baby Care Campaign is a nationwide effort to improve the quality of care for children under age three.