Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is responsible for federal programs which promote the economic and social well-being of families, children, individuals, and communities.

Adolescence Directory On-Line (ADOL) is an electronic guide to information on adolescent issues. It is a service of the Center for Adolescent Studies at Indiana University. Educators, counselors, parents, researchers, health practitioners, and teens can use ADOL to find Web resources for topics concerning adolescents.

After School @ HFRP, an initiative of the Harvard Family Research Project, works to identify areas of challenge and opportunity in the emerging after school field. It focuses especially on issues related to after school evaluation, research, and accountability. HFRP also houses an OST evaluation database. The database is a tool for evaluators who are planning an OST program evaluation, allowing them to quickly get detailed information about previous OST evaluations by searching the database using relevant criteria. Practitioners can read the profiles to better understand evaluation options and methodologies. Follow this link for more information

Afterschool.gov is a clearinghouse of federal resources that support out-of-school time providers, programs and advocates. It provides information to help parents understand the issues that face kids and teens or fund, start and operate an after school program. This site offers one-stop access to government resources that support after school programs.

Afterschool Alliance is an alliance of public, private and nonprofit groups committed to raising awareness and expanding resources for afterschool programs. Initiated and currently coordinated by the C.S. Mott Foundation, the Alliance grew out of a partnership between the Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education.

AfterSchoolPRO.net - the newest resource for afterschool, out-of-school
time, and youth development professionals. Save time by accessing web-based
information through this single entry point. Readily link to organizations,
agencies, resource lists, and a complete calendar of conferences and events.
Join the AfterSchool Professional Network (no-fee national membership) and
participate in special interest exchanges and enjoy special member benefits.

The After School Project is a national program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) focused on bringing together young people in low-income neighborhoods with responsible adults – in quality programs – during out-of-school time.

Center for Social and Emotional Education is a nonprofit, international organization that helps youth prepare for healthy, responsible and productive lives by using social and emotional education to help transform problems into opportunities. It also provides parents and educators with resources and tools that promote social and emotional skills and knowledge in our children and adolescents.

Child Care Aware is a nonprofit initiative whose mission is to ensure that every parent has access to good information about finding quality child care and resources in their community, through national consumer marketing and by raising visibility for local child care resource and referral agencies.

Corporation for National Service provides information on programs such as AmeriCorps, Learn & Serve, America Reads, National Service Scholarships, and other resource links.

CYFER-net, or Children Youth Family Educational Research Network, provides hundreds of complete on-line publications featuring practical, research based information on children, youth, and families.

Families and Work Institute is a non-profit organization that addresses the changing nature of work and family life. It is committed to finding research-based strategies that foster mutually supportive connections among workplaces, families, and communities.

Forum for Youth Investment is a new national initiative dedicated to increasing the quality and quantity of youth investments and youth involvement in United States by promoting a big picture approach to planning and policy development. Its goal is to create strategic alliances among the full range of organizations that invest in youth.

4-H Council works to advance the 4-H youth development movement to build a world in which youth and adults learn, grow, and work together as catalysts for positive change. 4-H serves youth through a variety of methods including organized clubs, school-enrichment groups, special interest groups, individual study programs, camps, school-age child care programs and instructional television programs. 4-H is the Cooperative Extension System’s dynamic, non-formal, educational program for today’s young people.

The Future of Children whose goal is to disseminate timely information on major issues related to children's well-being, with special emphasis on providing objective analysis and evaluation, translating existing knowledge into effective programs and polices, and promoting constructive institutional change.

Girls' Coalition, The Girls' Coalition is a consortium of Boston-area organizations working to support girls' healthy development through programs and services, research, and advocacy. The Girls' Coalition provides information about local professional development events, new resources available on girls' development, and ways to get involved.

Girls Inc. is a national nonprofit youth organization dedicated to inspiring all girls to be strong, smart, and bold. For over 55 years, Girls Inc has provided vital educational programs to millions of American girls, particularly those in high-risk, underserved areas.

HandsNet is dedicated to building the human services community on-line. Their new site provides daily Headlines and Action Alerts from members, as well as information on our innovative new WebClipper service and expanded Training capabilities. WebClipper automatically searches web sites identified by experts in your field and ensures you never miss developments or resources vital to your work.

I Am Your Child is a national public awareness and engagement campaign to make early childhood development a top priority for our nation. Its goals are to provide families with young children the information and resources they need to promote healthy development and school readiness; unite and expand the work being done on the national, state and local levels to provide comprehensive, integrated early childhood development programs that include health care, quality child care, parent education, and intervention programs for families at risk; increase the public will to make quality resources and services more widely available to families with young children.

Internet Public Library includes a youth division (for ages 4-14 and their parents), and a teen division among others.

National AfterSchool Association (NAA, formerly National School-Age Care Alliance) is a national membership organization whose mission is to support quality programs for school-age children and youth in their out-of-school hours. Established in 1987, NAA provides an umbrella organization to link people who work with school-age children and youth in a wide variety of agencies and settings.

National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is the nation's largest organization of early childhood professionals and others dedicated to improving the quality of early childhood education programs for children birth through age eight.

National Association of Child Care Professionals’ (NCEA) mission is to provide leadership to those who build learning communities in response to individual and community needs. It does this by providing its members with national and regional training conferences and workshops; specialized periodicals, publications, and products; opportunities for peer support and networking; and information and referral services.

National Association of Resource and Referral Agencies (NACCRRA)  is the national network of community-based child care resource and referral agencies. The organization is a common-ground where families, child care providers, and communities can share information about quality child care.

National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI) advances a multi-faceted agenda to promote and protect the well-being of all African-American children. NBCDI’s wide range of programs respond to the necessity to replace the one-size-fits-all, deficit-oriented paradigm with initiatives that serve children based on their strengths and needs.

National Child Care Information Center was established to complement, enhance and promote child care linkages and to serve as a mechanism for supporting quality comprehensive services for children and families through dissemination and outreach.

National Community Education Association is a nonprofit association whose mission is to provide leadership to those who build learning communities in response to individual and community needs.

National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities is the national information and referral center that provides information on disabilities and disability-related issues for families, educators, and other professionals. Our special focus is children and youth (birth to age 22).

National Latino Children’s Institute (NLCI) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, tax-exempt organization. NLCI’s mission is to serve as the voice for young Latinos. NLCI conducts focus groups and public forums to gather information about policies and programs affecting Latino children. Every other year, NLCI selects outstanding community-based programs as exemplary models of "what works" in the Latino community. NLCI develops public education campaigns that create awareness of the needs and potential of Latino children. NLCI provides training and technical assistance on programs and policies that value young Latinos and help build healthy communities.

National Network for Child Care NNCC's goal is to share knowledge about children and child care from the vast resources of the land grant universities with parents, professionals, practitioners, and the general public.

National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care includes information on state regulations for child care centers, plus extensive links on specific health and safety issues.

The National Service-Learning Cooperative Clearinghouse, an adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse on Service-Learning, has information resources and searchable databases.

National Youth Development Information Center (NYDIC) provides practice-related information about youth development to national and local youth-serving organizations at low cost or not cost.

Program in Education, Afterschool, & Resiliency (PEAR) is dedicated to making meaningful theoretical and practical contributions to youth development, school reform and prevention.

SAC-L "listserv" electronic discussion list joins e-mail users in a world-wide discussion of issues in school-age care (co-sponsored by NIOST and ERIC/EECE). SAC-L is a discussion list for anybody interested in school-age care planning, resources, activities, funding, staff and staff development, and related subjects.

The San Francisco Beacon Initiative (SFBI) is a public-private partnership that promotes youth and family centers in San Francisco public schools.  SFBI is a project of the Every Child Can Learn Foundation.

Search Institute is an independent, nonprofit, nonsectarian organization whose mission is to advance the well-being of adolescents and children by generating knowledge and promoting its application through research and evaluation, publications and practical tools, and training and technical assistance.

Quilt: Quality in Linking Together: Early Education Partnership is a national training and technical assistance project funded by the federal Head Start and Child Care Bureaus. Its purpose is to support full-day, full-year partnerships among child care, Head Start, prekindergarten, and other early education programs at the local, state, tribal, territorial, and regional levels.

Wings For Kids’ mission is to teach five skills: self awareness, managing emotions, motivating oneself, empathy and handling relationships. Wings is dedicated to developing emotional competency in children. Currently, Wings is developing a full After School Program curriculum.