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American Academy of Pediatrics
Media Matters is a national public education campaign of the American Academy of Pediatrics. More...
American Family Physician
From the website: American Family Physician is a semimonthly, peer-reviewed journal of the American Academy of Family Physicians. More...
California Childcare Health Program
From the website: Established in 1987, the California Childcare Health Program is a community-based program of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Nursing, Department of Family Health Care Nursing. More...
California Children and Families Commission
The California Children and Families Act of 1998 is designed to provide, on a community-by-community basis, all children prenatal to five years of age with a comprehensive, integrated system of early childhood development services. 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...
Center for Screen-Time Awareness
From the website: Center for SCREEN-TIME Awareness provides information so people can live healthier lives in functional families in vibrant communities by taking control of the electronic media in their lives, not allowing it to control them. More...
Center on Media and Child Health
From the website: The Center on Media and Child Health is dedicated to understanding and responding to the effects of media on the physical, mental, and social health of children through research, production, and education. More...
Child Development
From the website: As the flagship journal of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Child Development has published articles, essays, reviews, and tutorials on various topics in the field of child development since 1930. 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 Interactive Media - Research Compendium Update
From the website: This report is an update of the Children and Interactive Media: A Compendium of Current Research and Directions for the Future report to the Markle Foundation from October 2000. 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’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’s Learning from Educational Television: Sesame Street and Beyond
From the website: This volume documents the impact of educational television in a variety of subject areas and proposes mechanisms to explain its effects. 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...
Common Sense Media
From the website: Common Sense Media is dedicated to improving the media and entertainment lives of kids and families. 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...
Dimitri A. Christakis, MD MPH
Dimitri Christakis MD MPH, is a pediatrician and epidemiologist at the University of Washington School of Medicine. His current research interest is the effect of media usage on young children’s cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and social development. 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 Education Journal
From the website: Early Childhood Education Journal is a professional publication for early childhood practitioners,... More...
Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media
From the website: The Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media presents state-of-the-art research and ready-to-use facts on the media’s interaction with children and adolescents. More...
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute
From the website: The Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG) is a multidisciplinary institute at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. More...
Gary Knell
From the website: Gary Knell is President and Chief Executive Officer of Sesame Workshop. Mr. Knell leads the non-profit educational organization in its mission to create innovative, engaging content that maximizes the educational power of all media to help children reach their highest potential. 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...
It’s Child’s Play: Advergaming and the Online Marketing of Food to Children
Webcast of Roundtable discussion accompanying release of report. July 19, 2006. The Kaiser Family Foundation released the first comprehensive analysis of the nature and scope of online food advertising to children… More...
Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics
From the website: Written for physicians, clinicians, psychologists and researchers, each bimonthly issue of the Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics is devoted entirely to the developmental and psychosocial aspects of pediatric health care. 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 for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
From the website: The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is dedicated to improving the well-being of all young children… More...
National Black Child Development Institute
From the website: Since 1970 The National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI), a nonprofit organization, has provided and supported programs, workshops, and resources for African American children, their parents and communities… More...
National Institute on Child Health and Human Development
The NICHD was initially established to investigate the broad aspects of human development as a means of understanding developmental disabilities, including mental retardation, and the events that occur during pregnancy. More...
PEDIATRICS
From the website: PEDIATRICS is an official peer-reviewed journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. More...
Playing for Keeps
Playing for Keeps helps to translate research about play into usable everyday practice by parents, teachers, human service providers, and the toy industry. More...
Ready to Learn International Center on Care and Education of Children
From the website: The Ready to Learn International Center on Care and Education of Children works in partnership… to carry out needs assessments, policy analysis, research, strategic planning, program design, technical assistance, and training. More...
Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
From the website: The Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics was founded in 1982 to improve the health care of infants, children, and adolescents by promoting research and teaching in developmental and behavioral pediatrics. More...
Studying Media Effects on Children and Youth: Improving Methods and Measures, Workshop Summary
Workshop Summary (2006). Board on Children, Youth and Families More...
The Center on Children and Families
From the website: The Center on Children and Families focuses on the well-being of America’s children and their parents, especially those in less advantaged families. More...
The Children’s Partnership
From the website: The Children’s Partnership is a national nonprofit, nonpartisan child advocacy organization with offices in Santa Monica, CA and Washington, DC. More...
The Effects of Electronic Media on Children ages Zero to Six: A History of Research
This issue brief explores the history of research about the effects of electronic media on children zero to six years old (including the funding sources), summarizes the findings of the seminal studies in this area, and notes gaps in the research base. More...
Tufts University Child & Family WebGuide
The Child & Family WebGuide describes trustworthy websites on topics of interest to parents and professionals. More...
Yale University Family Television Research and Consultation Center
From the website: The Yale University Family Television Research and Consultation Center has become the focus of a variety of activities related to the popular electronic media and especially the role of television and other communication processes in child, adolescent, and family life. More...
Zero to Three Journal
Zero to Three Journal keeps subscribers informed on advances in research, programs and policies which affect infants, toddlers and their families. More...
Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families
ZERO TO THREE is a national, nonprofit organization located in Washington, DC, dedicated solely to advancing the healthy development of babies and young children. More...
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