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Using the Internet for Advocacy - Web Sites Devoted to Advocacy

Arkansas Related Sites

Arkansas Legislature: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/
Find information about your legislators, Legislative committees, bills and laws.

Arkansas Advocates: www.aradvocates.org
Tips on advocacy (see links, Advocacy 101), what is going on in Arkansas. Short reports. Locate your Arkansas legislators. Good links.

Sites With an Advocacy Focus

Children’s Defense Fund: www.childrensdefense.org
Bi-weekly newsletter. To join e-mail network, sign up on website or send e-mail to majordomo@listbox.com and write in the body of the message: subscribe cdchildcare

Child Welfare League of America: www.cwla.org (follow advocacy link)
Links to Congress, alerts & notices

Child Advocate: www.childadvocate.net 
Focus on mental and physical health issues for children
http://www.childadvocate.net/stateresources.htm#I1 lists state advocacy groups

Connect for Kids Weekly: www.connectforkids.org
Get an e-newsletter with resources each week! All you have to do is give your e-mail address.

Voices for America’s Children: www.childadvocacy.org 
National child advocacy association

Center for Community Change: http://www.communitychange.org/advocacy.htm
How to be an advocate

Advanced Consulting: http://www.advocacyguru.com/what's_free!.htm
Tips for advocacy

Project Vote Smart: www.vote-smart.org
Information on state and national legislators, voting record of individual Congresspersons

Zero to Three: www.zerotothree.org
National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families.

Sites With an Early Childhood Emphasis

National Association for the Education of Young Children: www.naeyc.org 
Click on Public Policy and find lots of national and some state-related information

Southern Early Childhood Association: www.southernearlychildhood.org
Position papers and links provide resources and good information

Clearinghouse on Early Education and Parenting: http://ceep.crc.uiuc.edu/ 
Research and information for parents and educators; click ERIC/EECE Archive to access digest articles

National Center for Early Development and Learning: www.ncedl.org
Information on children’s development, birth through age 8

National Institute of Early Education Research: http://nieer.org 
Recent news and research related to early education, national and state

National Head Start Association: www.nhsa.org 
Head Start emphasis for information and advocacy

Getting Ready: www.gettingready.org
School readiness information with focus on specific state efforts

National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care: http://nrc.uchsc.edu/
Includes data on all 50 states licensing regulations

Additional Sources for National Information

U.S. Department of Education: www.ed.gov

Child Trends: www.childtrends.org

National Center for Children in Poverty: www.nccp.org

Society for Research in Child Development: http://www.srcd.org/spr.html (public policy reports)

National Child Care Information Center: www.nccic.org

American Academy of Pediatrics: www.aap.org

 



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