The Child Care and Early Education Research Connections promotes high quality research in child care and early education and the use of that research in policy making. Research Connections is a partnership among the National Center for Children in Poverty at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University; the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at the Institute for Social Research, the University of Michigan; and the Child Care Bureau, Administration for Children and Families of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

This website provides comprehensive information on child development, psychology, parenting, learning, health and safety as well as childhood disorders such as attention deficit disorder, dyslexia and autism.

This website is a knowledge source designed to assist policy makers, program managers, and practitioners in their efforts to promote the healthy growth and integral development of young children.

This link is to FindYouthInfo.gov. As noted at its website, it "was created by the Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs (IWGYP), which is composed of representatives from 12 Federal agencies that support programs and services focusing on youth." Topics addressed include bullying, positive youth development, transition age youth, and after school programs.

Healthy Child Care America program's goal is to educate child care providers about evidence-based health and safety practices. It is sponsored by the American Academy of Pediatrics with support from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau and the Child Care Bureau.

This MEDLINEplus link provides a compilation of child development resouces from the National Library of Medicine.

The National Black Child Development Institute supports programs, workshops, and resources for African Americn children, their parents and communities related to black child development.

This link to the National Child Care Information Center's website provides information on child development.

This link to the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child webiste provides information on early childhood and early brain development. As noted at the website "the Council is a multi-disciplinary, multi-university collaboration designed to bring the science of early childhood and early brain development to bear on public decision-making."

The National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health helps states, tribes, territories, and communities discover solutions that improve the social, emotional, and behavioral well being of children and families.

This link provides a compilation of resources on speech and language development from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

The Technical Assistance Alliance for Parent Centers is a unified technical assistance system with the mission of developing, assisting and coordinating parent training and information projects and Community Parent Resource Centers under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.