American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry -
Promotion of mentally healthy children, adolescents and families
through research, training, advocacy, prevention, comprehensive
diagnosis and treatment, peer support and collaboration.
http://www.aacap.org/
California Center for Public Health Advocacy (CCPHA)
is a
nonpartisan nonprofit organization that raises awareness about
critical public health issues and mobilizes communities to
promote the establishment of effective health policies.
www.publichealthadvocacy.org
Children's Center for the Common Good
helps
children reveal that which is good through arts and actions.
http://www.cccgood.org/
Center for a New American Dream helps Americans change
the way they consume to improve quality of life, protect the
environment, and promote social justice.
www.newdream.org
Center for Informed Food Choices advocates for eating a
whole foods, plant-based diet and educates about the politics of
food. They publish "Informed Eating," a free monthly email
newsletter that exposes food industry tactics and analyzes
nutrition policy.
www.informedeating.org
Child-Responsible Media Campaign works to protect
children from the negative effects of violent media through
raising awareness of media violence issues, advocating for
policies that limit children’s exposure to media violence, and
tracking legislation related to media violence.
www.medialegislation.org
Concerned Educators Allied for a Safe Environment
(CEASE) is a network of parents, teachers and other
concerned individuals, who are dedicated to creating a safe and
healthy world for children.
http://www.peaceeducators.org
Dads and Daughters
is the national, nonprofit membership
organization of fathers and daughters. DADs provides tools to
strengthen father-daughter relationships and to transform the
pervasive cultural messages that value daughters more for how
they look than for who they are.
www.dadsanddaughters.org
Family and Home Network is a national nonprofit
organization founded in 1984, supporting and advocating for
parents who forgo or cut back on paid employment in order to
spend generous amounts of time nurturing their children.
www.FamilyAndHome.org
Hardy Girls, Healthy Women support organizations, schools, communities, providers,
parents and girls in their efforts to change the culture from
one that values girls and women on how they look to one that
recognizes girls and women for who they are and what they
contribute to the world.
www.hardygirlshealthywomen.org
Healthy Media Choices,
a national nonprofit with offices in New York and Vermont,
serves teachers and parents of children ages zero to eight by
providing tools to create a healthy relationship with media.
http://www.healthymediachoices.org/
Kids Can Make a Difference - an educational program for
middle- and high school students, focuses on the root causes of
hunger and poverty, the people most affected, solutions, and how
students can help. The major goal is to stimulate the students
to take some definite follow-up actions as they begin to realize
that one person can make a difference.
www.kidscanmakeadifference.org
Lesson
One
gives
adults a proven plan to help children develop the life skills
and internal discipline necessary to learn and thrive in today’s
society.
www.lessonone.org
Media Center of the Judge Baker Children’s Center is a
dedicated to improving the lives of children whose emotional and
behavioral problems threaten to limit their potential. The
Center strives to provide services of the highest standard, to
search for new knowledge, to teach, and to apply and disseminate
knowledge to promote healthy development.
www.jbcc.harvard.edu
Media Education Foundation
is a nonprofit educational
organization devoted to media research and production of
resources to aid educators and others in fostering analytical
media literacy.
www.mediaed.org
Media Literacy.com
is designed to increase awareness of
the need for media literacy and the many resources available for
teaching it.
www.medialiteracy.com
Motherhood Project an initiative of the Institute for
American Values, is to put the importance of motherhood on the
national agenda and to foster a renewed sense of purpose,
passion, and power in the vocation of mothering.
www.motherhoodproject.org
Mothering
magazine helps
families establish their own unique parenting traditions and
make informed choices that consider the needs of all family
members.
www.mothering.com
National Action Against Obesity
is a non-partisan, all-volunteer advocacy group whose mandate is
to expel junk food from schools and daycare, eliminate obesity-
and disease-accelerators from the U.S. food supply, and to break
the Secondhand Obesity cycle--obesity passed down from one
generation to the next and across the culture. NAAO believes
reversing the obesity crisis is hinged upon America's 0-5 year
olds and fostering a new generation called "Gen-H" for Healthy.
www.actionagainstobesity.com
National Association of Mothers' Centers (NAMC)
addresses
the needs of mothers through a network of programs that offer
information and support, break the isolation of motherhood,
advance maternal health and well-being, and recognize the
importance of mothers to society.
www.motherscenter.org
Praxis Project - Provides technical assistance, training,
strategic consultation and other kinds of support to advance
community media and policy advocacy on health issues. The
organization works with communities to identify solutions that
shift from individual blame to institutional and systemic
approaches.
www.thepraxisproject.org
New Mexico Media Literacy Project
provides media literacy
CD-ROMS, videos and curricula that are used in thousands of
schools, worldwide.
www.nmmlp.org
School Mediation Associates' mission
is to
transform schools into safer, more caring, and more effective
institutions.
www.schoolmediation.com
Share, Save, Spend
helps families understand the
relationship of money, values and habits in today's
hyper-consumer culture and, in turn, provide resources/tools to
assist them in achieving financial sanity.
www.sharesavespend.com
TRUCE (Teachers Resisting Unhealthy Children’s Entertainment)
produce and provide an annual guide for teachers and parents to
help them in selecting toys that are educationally and
developmentally appropriate for young children.
www.truceteachers.org
TV-Turnoff Network encourages children and adults to
watch much less television in order to promote healthier lives
and communities.
www.tvturnoff.org