Resource Database
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Academy for Educational Development
From the website: Founded in 1961, AED is an independent, nonprofit organization committed to solving critical social problems and building the capacity of individuals, communities, and institutions to become more self-sufficient. More...
Action Alliance For Children
AAC is a resource for policy makers, children’s service providers and advocates, and the media. More...
Action for Children’s Television
From wikipedia.org: Action for Children’s Television (ACT) was founded by Peggy Charren in Newton, Massachusetts in 1968 as a grassroots organization dedicated to improving the quality of television programming offered to children. More...
Aletha Huston, Ph.D.
From the website: Aletha C. Huston…. specializes in understanding the effects of poverty on children and the impact of child care and income support policies on children’s development. More...
American Academy of Pediatrics
Media Matters is a national public education campaign of the American Academy of Pediatrics. More...
American Center for Children and Media
From the website: The American Center for Children and Media—an ‘executive roundtable’ for TV and digital industry leaders—is headquartered in Chicago, IL. More...
Amy B. Jordan, Ph.D.
Amy B. Jordan is a Senior Research Investigator at the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1996, Dr. Jordan has served as the director of research for the Media and the Developing Child sector at the Center. More...
Annenberg Public Policy Center
From the website: Established in 1993, the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania conducts and disseminates research, hosts lectures and conferences, and convenes roundtable discussions that highlight important questions about the intersection of media, communication, and public policy. More...
Annie E. Casey Foundation
From the website: Since 1948, the Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF) has worked to build better futures for disadvantaged children and their families in the United States. More...
Center for Children and Families
From the website: For decades, we have supported federal and state policymakers, program leaders, and teachers in enhancing early education to assure children’s school readiness and success. More...
Center for Early Education and Development
From the website: The Center for Early Education and Development’s mission is to improve developmental outcomes for children. More...
Center for Media Education
When Action for Children Television closed its doors in 1992, the Center for Media Education assumed the role of carrying on ACT’s work. More...
Center for Research on Child Well-being
From the website: The Bendheim Thoman Center for Research on Child Well-being (CRCW) is an interdisciplinary center at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Office of Population Research. More...
Center for Research on Children in the United States (CROCUS)
The Center for Research on Children in the United States (CROCUS) was established in 2001 with start-up funds from the Foundation for Child Development. Among its activities, CROCUS conducts research and organizes workshops on children and public policy. More...
Cheryl A. Leanza
From the website: Cheryl A. Leanza, a public interest attorney and veteran First Amendment advocate, is the managing director of the UCC’s Office of Communication, Inc. More...
Child Trends
From the website: Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to improving the lives of children by conducting research and providing science-based information to improve the decisions, programs, and policies that affect children and their families. More...
Children and Television: Fifty Years of Research
From the website: This seminal volume is a comprehensive review of the literature on children’s television, covering fifty years of academic research on children and television. More...
Children Now
From the website: Children Now is recognized as a leading national public policy organization working to ensure children have a healthy and diverse media environment. More...
Children’s Defense Fund
From the website: The Children’s Defense Fund’s Leave No Child Behind(r) mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start… More...
Children, Adolescents, and Advertising
Policy Statement from the Committee on Communications, American Association of Pediatrics (AAP) published in the December 2006 issue of Pediatrics. More...
Children, Youth and Families Consortium
From the website: The Children, Youth, and Family Consortium was established during the Fall of 1991 to build the capacity of the University of Minnesota and Minnesota communities to use research, influence policy and enhance practice… More...
Dale Kunkel, Ph.D.
Dr. Dale Kunkel studies children and media issues from diverse perspectives, including television effects research as well as assessments of media industry content and practices. More...
David Kleeman
From the website: David Kleeman is President of the American Center for Children and Media, an executive roundtable and professional development hub that promotes exchange of ideas, expertise, and information as a means for building quality. More...
David Walsh, Ph.D.
Dr. Walsh is the president and founder of the National Institute on Media and the Family based in Minneapolis, MN. More...
Division for Early Childhood
The Division for Early Childhood (DEC) is one of seventeen divisions of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC). More...
Docs for Tots
From the website: The mission of Docs For Tots is to develop, support, and grow a nationwide network of doctors able to respond to the requests of child advocacy organizations and others. More...
Early Childhood and Parenting Collaborative
The Early Childhood and Parenting Collaborative at the University of Illinois is home to more than a dozen projects focused on the education, care, and parenting of young children. More...
Early Childhood Education Journal
From the website: Early Childhood Education Journal is a professional publication for early childhood practitioners,... More...
Early Childhood Research and Practice
From the website: ECRP is a bilingual Internet journal on the development, care, and education of young children. More...
Early Childhood Research Quarterly
From the website: Early Childhood Research Quarterly is the scholarly journal of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). More...
Edward Markey
From the website: Edward J. Markey (D., Massachusetts) was instrumental in the passage of the Children’s Television Act of 1990,... More...
FatherLit Database
From the website: The FatherLit Database is a compilation of citations, annotations, and abstracts for over 8,500 basic and policy research publications on fathers, families, and child welfare. More...
Gloria Tristani
From the website: Former FCC Commissioner Gloria Tristani oversees the Benton Foundation’s work educating policymakers, academics, and activists about communications policy debates and advocating for tangible public interest benefits from the transition to digital broadcasting. More...
Good Start, Grow Smart
From the website: This booklet provides an overview of the Bush Administration’s Good Start, Grow Smart program, including program goals and accomplishments to date. More...
Handbook of Children and the Media
From the website: Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of renowned scholars from around the world, the Handbook of Children and the Media is the first and only all-inclusive, comprehensive analysis of the field for students and scholars. More...
Harvard Family Research Project
For over twenty years, Harvard Family Research Project has helped philanthropies, policymakers, and practitioners develop strategies to promote the educational and social success and well-being of children, families, and their communities. More...
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
From the website: The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the nation. More...
Hillary Rodham Clinton
As First Lady, Senator of New York, and Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton has served the public on behalf of children and families. More...
James P. Steyer
From the website: As CEO, he is responsible for the overall leadership of Common Sense Media, the nation’s leading non-partisan organization dedicated to improving the media lives of kids and families More...
Jeff McIntyre
From the website: Mr. McIntyre has years of policy experience related to children and the media… More...
Joseph Lieberman
Senator Lieberman, along with a bipartisan coalition of senators, crafted the Children and Media Research Advancement (CAMRA) Act, which received unanimous Senate approval in September 2006. More...
Lois Salisbury
Lois Salisbury joined the Packard Foundation as the director of the Children, Families, and Communities Program in March of 2002. More...
Marjorie Tharp
Marjorie Tharp is an assistant director for the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), Department of Federal Affairs in Washington, D.C. More...
Michael Rich, M.D., M.P.H.
Dr. Rich studies media as a force that powerfully affects child health and health behavior and uses it as a tool for medical research, education, and health care policy. More...
National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies
From the website: NACCRRA, the National Association of Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies, is our nation’s leading voice for child care. More...
National Association of Early Childhood Specialists in State Departments of Education (NAECS/SDE)
From the website: NAECS/SDE (National Association of Early Childhood Specialists in State Departments of Education) is a national organization for state education agency staff members with major responsibilities in the field of early childhood education. More...
National Center on Fathers and Families
An interdisciplinary policy research center, NCOFF is dedicated to research and practice that expands the knowledge base on father involvement and family development, and that informs policy designed to improve the well-being of children. More...
One Mission Many Screens - A PBS/Markle Foundation Study on Distinctive Roles for Children’s Public
“One Mission, Many Screens” outlines six fundamental principles to guide and govern public service media for children. More...
Patti Miller, M.A.
From the website: Patti Miller, Vice President and Director of the Children & the Media Program, oversees independent research projects on children and the media and monitors public policy developments in the communications field as it affects children. More...
Peggy Charren
From the Jewish Women’s Archive website (http://www.jwa.org): Peggy Charren formed a non-profit organization called Action for Children’s Television (ACT), which advocated for higher quality, less commercialized children’s television programming and fought censorship. More...
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