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Links/Resources:

Zero to Three
Zero to three is a national nonprofit multidisciplinary organization that advances the healthy development and well-being of infants, toddlers and their families.

National Association for the Education of Young Children
The National Association for the Education of Young Children promotes excellence in early childhood education families.

Pre-K Now
This national organization advances high-quality, voluntary pre-kindergarten for all three and four year olds.

Association for Children of New Jersey
Association for Children of New Jersey (ACNJ) is a statewide non-profit child advocacy organization. ACNJ works on behalf of children and families.

BUILD New Jersey
Build New Jersey is an early childhood collaborative supporting State efforts to prepare our youngest children for a successful future.

Census Bureau
The United States Census Bureau site provides income and poverty reports, publications, and census data related to people, income, and poverty.

Children's Defense Fund
The Children's Defense Fund is a nonprofit organization whose 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.

Child Trends
Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan children's research organization that collects and analyzes data; conducts, synthesizes, and disseminates research; designs and evaluates programs; and develops and tests promising approaches to research in the field.

Child Welfare League of America
Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to develop and promote policies and programs to protect America's children and strengthen America's families.

Connect for Kids
Connect for Kids, an award-winning multimedia project, helps adults make their communities better places for families and children. The web site offers a place on the Internet for adults—parents, grandparents, educators, policymakers and others—who want to become more active citizens.

The Future of Children
The Future of Children promotes effective policies and programs for children by providing policymakers, service providers, and the media with timely, objective information based on the best available research.

Joint Center for Poverty Research
The Joint Center for Poverty Research's mission is to advance the understanding of the causes and consequences of poverty and the effect of policies designed to reduce poverty.

The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Through its Health Policy program, The Kaiser Family Foundation provides facts, analysis, and explanation on health policy issues to policymakers, the media and the public.

Join Together
Join together is a nonprofit organization advancing effective alcohol and drug policy, prevention and treatment.

MDRC
MDRC is a nonprofit, nonpartisan education and social policy research organization dedicated to learning about what works to improve programs and policies that affect the poor.

National Center for Children in Poverty
Part of the Mailman School at Columbia University, the National Center for Children in Poverty identifies and promotes strategies that prevent child poverty in the United States and that improve the lives of low-income children and their families.

National Research Center For Women & Families
The National Center for Policy Research for Women & families is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to providing unbiased, research-based information that can be used to improve the lives of women and families.

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Official Home Page
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), created by Congress in 1962, supports and conducts research on topics related to the health of children, adults, families, and populations.

Prevent Child Abuse
Prevent Child Abuse New Jersey leads statewide efforts to eliminate physical, sexual and emotional child abuse and neglect.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focuses on the pressing health and health care issues facing our country. The Foundation works with a diverse group of organizations and individuals to identify solutions and achieve comprehensive, meaningful and timely change.

The Urban Institute | Research of Record
The Urban Institute is a nonprofit nonpartisan policy research and educational organization established to examine the social, economic, and governance problems facing the nation.