Research Guides: Family Science and Human Development: Websites

Websites

Center for Family Policy and Practice
CFFPP works to support low-income families and develop public awareness of their needs.
Children's Defense Fund (CDF)
CDF is a non-profit organization that advocates nationwide on behalf of children.
Children, Youth, and Family Consortium
CYFC works to improve the lives of children, youth and families by supporting and creating new knowledge and encouraging the use of evidence-based knowledge in public and private policy development and family related professions.
Child Trends
Child Trends is a research center that studies children at all stages of development.
Families and Work Institute
FIW is a "non-profit, non-partisan research organization that studies the changing workforce, the changing workplace, the changing family and the changing community."
Kids Count Data Center
A national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the United States.
National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP)
The NCCP is a "...public policy center dedicated to promoting the economic security, health, and well-being of America’s low-income families and children. ...We promote family-oriented solutions at the state and national levels."
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change
The Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development seeks to address the problems of persistent and concentrated urban poverty and is dedicated to understanding how social and economic changes affect low-income communities and their residents. Based at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio.
ChildStats.gov
Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics (Forum) works to coordinate the collection and reporting of Federal data on children and families. It issues an annual report titled "America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being."
Coalition on Human Needs
CHN is an alliance of national organizations working together to promote public policies that address the needs of low-income and other vulnerable people.
Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP)
"IRP is a center for interdisciplinary research into the causes and consequences of poverty and social inequality in the United States...Based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, (it is) one of three National Poverty Research Centers sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.'
Minnesota Center Against Violence
"The mission is MINCAVA is to support research, education, and access to violence related resources."
Search Institute
"Drawing on extensive research, Search Institute brings hopeful solutions to pressing challenges in the lives of young people and their communities." Known for creating list of developmental assets to promote positive youth development.

National Clearinghouse on Families and Youth
National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)
The NSFG "gathers information on family life, marriage and divorce, pregnancy, infertility, use of contraception, and men's and women's health."

Administration on Aging (AOA)
The Administration on Aging (AOA) is the principal agency of the U.S Department of Health and Human Services designated to carry out the provisions of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (OAA), as amended (42 U.S.C.A. § 3001 et seq.).
AARP (American Association of Retired Persons)
AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization for people age 50 and over.
Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE)
Gerontological Society of America (GSA)
"Interdisciplinary organization devoted to research...to advance the study of aging and disseminate information among scientists, decision makers, and the general public."