Children’s Services Links

• Safe Kids Worldwide
  A site on preventing childhood injuries, with information on safety, tips, child, passenger safety seats and more.

• AdoptUSkids
  A site on adoption.

• NC Kids
  A site on adopting kids in NC.
• Multiple Response System
  Learn about the MRS program.
• NC Division of Social Services
  Learn about the programs offered by the Division of Social Services.
  
• NC Foster Parent Association
  Information foster parents can use.
• National Foster Parent Association
  Resources for foster parents.
• Prevent Child Abuse NC
  Preventing abuse.
• NC Child Advocacy Institute
  About children and advocating for them.
• Children’s Services Practice Notes
  Newsletter on practice implications.
• Fostering Perspectives Newsletter
  Newsletter for foster parents in NC.
• Training Matters Newsletter
  Newsletter for social workers matters to do with training.
• Jordan Institute for Families at UNC-CH School of Social Work
  Information about the profession.
• Residential Placement
  Help on locating residential facilities for children and youth;provides information on services, licensure, locating for parents and professionals.
• Annie E. Casey Foundation
  Lots of information on child welfare services, including KidsCount, grant information and more.
• Child Welfare League of America
  Child advocacy, publications, studies, more.
• Bazelton Center for Mental Health Law
  The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law is a national legal advocated for people with mental disabilities. Through precedent-setting litigation and in the public policy arena, the Bazelon Center works to advance and preserve the rights of people with mental illnesses and developmental disabilites.
• NC Youth Advocacy and Involvement Office
  Offers a blend of programs and services for children, youth and young adults. It seeks to enhance the quality of the lives of children and youth in the state through individual and class advocacy intervention and by offering opportunities for leadership development and experiential education.
• NC Commission on Indian Affairs
  Information on tribes, laws, meetings plus links.
• Child and Adolescent Bi-Polar Foundation
  Information on this diagnosis.
• Children Now
  Site on making children top priority; very well-organized site with a comprehensive list of links and resources.
• Children’s Defense Fund
  Advocating for minority and low-income children.
• Moving Ideas, the Electronic Policy Network
  Features a number of policy issue areas relevant to children’s services.
• Family Friendly Fun Site for Families with Disabilities
  Features information on quality of life issues, including parenting, grand-parenting, adoptions, pregnancy, baby care and more.
• Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities
  A site for parents to help their children succeed with information, resources and education on LD.
• Find Law
  Terrific site that allows you to search for laws, codes, lawyers, legal news, cases and more.
• Hand’s Net
  Since its founding in 1987, when it was created as a project of Hands Across America, HandsNet has brought online over 25,000 individuals and 5,000 organizations focused on children and families, housing and community development, health care, hunger, legal services, and related human services concerns, strengthening the impact of their work and their connections with each other.
• Child Trends
  Child Trends is a 26-year-old nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to improving the lives of children by conducting research and providing science-based information to improve the decisions, programs, and policies that affect children and their families.
• Work and Families Site
  Age-appropriate tips for talking to children about tragedies and http://www.familiesandwork.org/911ah/media.html Age-organized tips for helping children as they access the media. These pertain to 9/11, but can be adapted to fit in with any far-reaching tragedy.
• Promising Practices
  The Promising Practices Network (PPN) web site highlights programs and practices that credible 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.
• Research and Training Center on Family Support & Children’s Mental Health
  The Center is dedicated to promoting effective services for families whose children have emotional, behavioral or mental health disorders.
• The Future of Children- Princeton and Brookings
  Research and analysis on effective policies and programs for children.
• National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect
  Since 1988, site has provided data collected from a variety of sources.
• Child and Family Web Guide
  A comprehensive site for web links on a variety of topics.
• DSS on-line forms page
  Forms are in numerical order, a few can be typed on, but none are in Word format so they cannot be saved.
• Dear County Director Letters
  Archive of Dear Director letters since 2001.
• Administrative Letters
  Archived since 2000.
• NC General Statutes
  NC General Assembly website, can be browsed or searched
• Casey Assessments for teens
  Program Assessments that are computer based.
• NC DHHS “What We Do to Help Kids”
  A division-wide overview of services for children. What is done for other populations can be accessed from this page as well.
• NC Division of Child Development
  Search for the topic you need to find alphabetically.
  Smart Start National page for this group.
• Telability
  TelAbility is an innovative, community oriented, interdisciplinary program that uses telecommunications to improve the lives of children with disabilities. Using real time video-conferencing and internet technologies, TelAbility provides comprehensive, coordinated, family centered care to children with disabilities across North Carolina and offers education, training, and peer support for people who care for them. Lots of information and can look at individual counties for services.

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