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General(37)- National Youth Violence Prevention Campaign “Peace by Peace” (www.ViolencePreventionWeek.org)
The goal of this campaign is to raise awareness and to educate students, teachers, school administrators, counselors, school resource officers, school staff, parents, and the public on effective ways to prevent or reduce youth violence.
- The Guidance Channel (www.guidancechannel.com)
The Guidance Channel® is an educational publishing and media company whose mission is to provide children, students, parents, adults and professionals with timely and effective tools that help them or their clients make critical life choices.
- Teaching Tolerance (http://www.tolerance.org)
Tolerance.org is a principal online destination for people interested in dismantling bigotry and creating, in hate's stead, communities that value diversity.
If you want to know how to transform yourself, your home, your school, your workplace or your community, Tolerance.org is a place to start — and continue — the journey.
- Southern Poverty Law Center (http://www.splcenter.org)
oday, the Center is internationally known for its tolerance education programs, its legal victories against white supremacists and its tracking of hate groups.
- The Lion and the Lamb (http://www.lionlamb.org)
The mission of The Lion & Lamb Project is to stop the marketing of violence to children. We do this by helping parents, industry and government officials recognize that violence is not child’s play –and by galvanizing concerned adults to take action.
- United for Peace & Justice (http://www.unitedforpeace.org/feb15)
United for Peace and Justice is a coalition of more than 800 local and national groups throughout the United States who have joined together to oppose our government's policy of permanent warfare and empire-building.
- Children’s Database (www.childtrendsdatabank.org)
National clearinghouse for research reports and statistics.
- Stand for Children (http://www.stand.org)
Stand for Children is a nonprofit membership organization that helps people who care about children come together to advocate for concrete, lasting changes that improve the lives of children.
- Children’s Defense Fund (http://www.childrensdefense.org)
The mission of the Children's Defense Fund is to Leave No Child Behind® and to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.
- Act for Change (http://www.actforchange.org)
Provides opportunities to take action on many local and internationla issues & supports many conservation and human rights organizations.
- Children’s Music Network (http://www.cmnonline.org/)
We recognize children's music as a powerful means of encouraging cooperation, celebrating diversity, building self-esteem, promoting respect and responsibility for our environment, and cultivating an understanding of nonviolence and social justice.
- Amnesty International UK (http://www.amnesty.org.uk)
Working to achieve human rights for everyone.
- Growing Communities for Peace (peace@peacemaker.org)
- Lifespan (http://www2.lifespan.org/Services/ChildHealth/Parenting/teach3.htm)
This section of the website offers parenting information on teaching children nonviolent solutions.
- ERIC Clearing House (http://www.eric.org)
This site is the leading resource of articles and book references on all education topics.
- Dr. Spock (http://www.drspock.com/article/0,1510,6147,00.html)
Specificly reguarding parents teaching children about peace and nonviolence.
- Manifesto: Families Against Violence Advocacy Network (http://www.uua.org/re/reach/spring00/social_justice/nonviolence_pledge.html)
- National Association for the Education of Young Children (http://www.naeyc.org)
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is dedicated to improving the well-being of all young children, with particular focus on the quality of educational and developmental services for all children from birth through age 8. NAEYC is committed to becoming an increasingly high performing and inclusive organization.
- California Child Care Health Program (http://www.ucsfchildcarehealth.org)
The mission of the California Childcare Health Program is to improve the quality of child care by initiating and strengthening linkages between the health, safety and child care communities and the families they serve.
- Early Childhood.com (http://www.earlychildhood.com)
The Professional Resource For Teachers And Parents.
- Early Childhood Education on Line (http://www.umaine.edu/eceol/)
The Early Childhood Education On Line LISTSERV community offers support and opportunities for information exchange to all educators: families, teachers, caregivers, and others interested in providing quality care and learning situations for young children birth through 8 years.
- The Future of Children (http://www.futureofchildren.org)
Articles and scholarly research on major issues related to children’s well-being.
- Healthy Child Care (http://www.healthychild.net)
Healthy Childcare is a bimonthly publication for childcare programs devoted to health and safety issues. Published six times a year, each issue includes information on health, safety, medicines, staff health, health education activities, illnesses, and more; including reproducible parent information sheets and mini-posters.
- Parents Action for Children (http://www.iamyourchild.org)
Formerly the I Am Your Child Foundation. Parents' Action for Children is the voice of America's parents. It is a national non-profit dedicated to advancing the interests of families and young children. Parents' Action develops parent education materials, connects parents with one another, and fights for issues such as early education, health care, and high quality and affordable child care.
- Zero To Three (http://www.zerotothree.org)
ZERO TO THREE's mission is to promote the healthy development of our nation's infants and toddlers by supporting and strengthening families, communities, and those who work on their behalf.
- Rethinkng Schools (http://www.rethinkingschools.org)
Firmly committed to equity and to the vision that public education is central to the creation of a humane, caring, multiracial democracy. While writing for a broad audience, Rethinking Schools emphasizes problems facing urban schools, particularly issues of race.
- Syracuse Cultural Workers (http://www.syrculturalworkers.com)
Catalog on Tools for Change.
SYRACUSE CULTURAL WORKERS (SCW) is an educational and cultural organization founded in 1982. Our mission is to help sustain a culture that honors diversity and celebrates community; that inspires and nurtures justice, equality and freedom; that respects our fragile Earth and all its beings; that encourages and supports all forms of creative expression.
E-mail: scw@syrculturalworkers.com
- Women's International League of Peace & Freedom (http://www.wilpf.org)
WILPF works to create an environment of political, economic, social and psychological freedom for all members of the human community, so that true peace can be enjoyed by all.
E-mail: wilpf@wilpf.org
- World Peace Project (http://www.sadako.org/)
A non-profit organization dedicated to Peace Education for Children.
- Ohio Commission on Dispute Resolution & Conflict Management (http://www.state.oh.us/cdr/schools/traumaoehlberg.htm)
Presenation on Nurturing Resiliency and Hope for Children Living in a Stressful World
- Celebrating Peace (http://www.celebratingpeace.com/)
Peace activities for children and families.
- Families Under Construction: Building Families to Last (http://www.famucon.com/)
Tools that have been carefully crafted to provide practical solutions for building, maintaining, and repairing families.
- Media Awareness Network (http://www.media-awareness.ca)
Resources and support for everyone interested in media and information literacy for young people.
- Talking With Kids (http://www.talkingwithkids.org)
Offers practical, concrete tips and techniques for talking easily and openly with young children ages 8 to 12 about some very tough issues: sex, HIV/AIDS, violence, drugs and alcohol.
- Educators for Social Responsibility (http://www.esrnational.org)
Educators for Social Responsibility (ESR) helps educators create safe, caring, respectful, and productive learning environments. We also help educators work with young people to develop the social skills, emotional competencies, and qualities of character they need to succeed in school and become contributing members of their communities.
- National Center for Children Exposed to Violence (http://www.nccev.org)
It is the mission of the National Center for Children Exposed to Violence (NCCEV) to increase the capacity of individuals and communities to reduce the incidence and impact of violence on children and families; to train and support the professionals who provide intervention and treatment to children and families affected by violence; and, to increase professional and public awareness of the effects of violence on children, families, communities and society.
- American Acadamy of Child and Adolecent Psychology (http://www.aacap.org)
nformation is provided as a public service to aid in the understanding and treatment of the developmental, behavioral, and mental disorders which affect an estimated 7 to 12 million children and adolescents at any given time in the United States. You will find information on child and adolescent psychiatry, fact sheets for parents and caregivers, AACAP membership, current research, practice guidelines, managed care information, awards and fellowship descriptions, meeting information, and much more.
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