LINKS

Adoption

• Lifetime Adoption Facilitation Center - Daily (seven days per week) nationwide services to both birth and adoptive parents, including college scholarships for birth mothers, counseling, housing referrals, and listings of children, babies, and adoptive families.

• National Adoption Center - including Faces of Adoption photo listing area and AdoptionQuest, information on adoption.

• North Carolina Center for Adoption Education
  All-triad education, support, and information group.

• Oklahoma Adoption Exchange

Child Abuse (Oklahoma Child or Adult Abuse 1-800-522-3511)

• Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (CCAN) - was established in the Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in 1992. 
• Child Abuse Prevention Association - CAPA's mission is to prevent and treat child abuse by creating changes in individuals, families, and society.
• Child Abuse Prevention Network - created by Cornell's Family Life Development Center, with NCPCA-NYS, the U.S. Army, APSAC, and LifeNET.
• National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse (NCPCA)
• National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect

Child Advocacy

• Children's Defense Fund

• Child Welfare League of America

• Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy

• NAMI Oklahoma

• National Youth Development Information Center - information on research and evaluation of youth development and youth development programs, funding for youth development programs, youth development public policy, training for youth development professionals, and youth development statistics and publications.

Disabilities

• Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health
• National Information Center for Children & Youth with Disabilities
• Oklahoma Able-Tech - Working to improve assistive technology so that those with disabilities can reach their greatest potential.
• Oklahoma Disability Law Center, Inc.
• Parents as Partners
• Redlands Partners - Oklahoma's Developmental Disabilities Partnership Network

Foster Care

• Foster Parent Associations Network - List of foster parent associations with information regarding joining, networking and communication among members.
• Foster Parents CARE (Child Advocate Resource Exchange) - Dedicated to foster and adoptive children and those involved in their care.
• Foster Parent Home Page - Information for foster parents.

Parenting Sites

• Natural Child Project - Award-winning site on parenting and education that respects children.
• National Parenting Center - Providing parents with information on raising children: Starting with pregnancy and birth, information about your baby and toddler through teen.
• New Parents Network - spotlighting one or more files from our software that reaches parents and professionals on touch screen kiosks located at health centers.

State and Federal Agencies

• State Governmental Agencies
• Federal Agencies

Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth.
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