Helpful Websites
A collaboration between Clinton, Highland, Greene, Fayette and Montgomery counties to provide education and resources to those experiencing economic difficulties.
Ohio State Extension newsletter answering questions about current topics dealing with family issues.
The Princeton-Brookings Future of Children seeks to promote effective policies and programs for children by providing policymakers, service providers, and the media with timely, objective information based on the best available research. Recent publication topics include Children and Electronic Media, Antipoverty Programs, and Excellence in the Classroom.
Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center that studies children at every stage of development. Their mission is to improve outcomes for children by providing research, data, and analysis to the people and institutions whose decisions and actions affect children, including policymakers, program providers, foundations, and the media.
The Brookings Center on Children and Families studies policies on the well-being of America's children and their parents, especially children in less-advantaged families, and seeks a more effective means of addressing poverty, inequality and lack of opportunity in the United States.
Founded in 1948, the primary mission of the Annie E. Casey Foundation is to foster public policies, human-service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today’s vulnerable children and families. In pursuit of this goal, the Foundation conducts research and makes grants that help states, cities, and neighborhoods fashion more innovative, cost-effective responses to these needs.
The University of Minnesota’s Children, Youth and Family Consortium's website is a bridge to a wide range of information and resources about children and families. It connects research, teaching, policy, and community practice. They have a wide variety of resources, although a current area of special focus is “educational disparities.”
CSREES' unique mission is to advance knowledge for agriculture, the environment, human health and well-being, and communities by supporting research, education, and extension programs in the Land-Grant University System and other partner organizations. CSREES doesn't perform actual research, education, and extension but rather helps fund it at the state and local level and provides program leadership in these areas.
The Carsey Institute is national center for policy research on youth, working families, and sustainable development in small cities and rural communities. Studies provide tools for policy makers and community leaders working to increase upward mobility, support the middle class, and create sustainable, healthy communities. The three applied and policy research programs include regional and national projects, and our resources support organizations throughout the country.