Links to Other Resources
Adoption
Alcohol and Drugs
Autism
- Cracking the Autism Riddle: Common Sense about Vaccines and Autism – Dr. Harvey Karp
Babysitting
Bullying
- Anti-Defamation League
- Bully Beware
- Educators for Social Responsibility
- National Crime Prevention Council
- NEA – National Bullying Awareness Campaign (NBAC)
- Parents Against Hate Project
- Peace Builders
- PTA – Understanding Bullying
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- Success Unlimited
- The Giraffe Project
Child Development
Childcare
Community Resources
Eating Disorders
Environmental and Health
- Environmental Protection Agency
- The Children’s Environmental Health Network
- Children’s Health Environmental Coalition (CHEC)
- Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PESUS)–10 regions in the U.S., each with a center to deal with environmental issues, with clinical experts in pediatric environmental health
- Association of Occupational Environmental Clinics (AOEC)
- www.ourstolenfuture.org
- www.checnet.org
- www.environmentalhealthnews.org
- www.ewg.org
Ethical Kids
Mental Health/Depression
- www.wellmother.com/postpartum.html
- www.betterbirthfoundation.com
- http://infotrail.com/dad/dad.htm, Postpartum Depression, Support and Education
- National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, Information & Service Center 800-950-NAMI (6264)
National Institute of Mental Health www.nimh.nih.gov - National Mental Health Association–Includes specifically a tip sheet for “healthy parenting for mothers with depression”
- American Psychological Association
- Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy
- Information on cognitive therapy from the founder, Aaron Beck
- www.maternallychallenged.typepad.com, Tracy Thompson’s blog
Military Families
- A Year of Absence: Six women’s stories of courage, hope and love, edited by Jessica Redmond
- Military Family Support
- Jenny Spouse, a comic strip about the life of a militray spouse
- Military OneSource, a comprehensive resource for military families
- National Military Family Association
- Militaryhomefront.dod.mil
- Parentopia.net, Devra Renner’s blog
- Zerotothree.org’s military resources
Parenting – General
- American Academy of Child Psychiatry
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- NPIN.org
- Private Tutor at Care.com
- Reader’s Circle
Secondary Infertility
- American Society of Reproductive Medicine
- Genetics & IVF Institute
- MicroSort Sperm Separation
- The InterNational Council on Infertility Information Dissemination
Tobacco and Smoking
- Center for Disease Control, Office of Smoking and Health
- Doctors Against Tobacco
- Smoke Free Maryland
- Tobacco Free Kids