Health Services for Children in Foster Care
Links
Link Categories
Professional and National Organizations
- American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) - Assists parents and families in understanding developmental, behavioral, emotional and mental disorders affecting children and adolescents.
- American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) - Committed to the attainment of optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescent, and young adults.
- American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry
- American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) - A membership society dedicated to serving professionals who work in child abuse and neglect.
- APP
- Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA) - An international organization focused specifically on the prevention of sexual abuse through effective management of sex offenders.
- Child Welfare Information Gateway - Provides access to information and resources to help protect children and strengthen families.
- Child Welfare League of America- The nation's oldest and largest membership-based child welfare organization.
- National Child Traumatic Stress Network - NCTSN is a collaboration of academic and community-based service centers that develops and disseminates evidence-based interventions, trauma-informed services, and public and professional education.
- National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) - A non-profit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to improving the effectiveness, efficiency, and quality of America's health care system.
- National Resource Center for Child Protective Services - Provides training and technical assistance services to state, local and tribal child protection agencies to improve the effectiveness of children's services throughout the country.
- Safer Society Foundation, Inc. - A non-profit agency for the prevention and treatment of sexual abuse.
Medical Topics
- Asthma in Children - MedlinePlus website on asthma in children.
- Autism Society of America - Promotes lifelong access and opportunity for all individuals within the autism spectrum, and their families, to be fully participating, included members of their community.
- Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents - A national health promotion initiative dedicated to the principle that every child deserves to be healthy and that optimal health involves a trusting relationship between the health professional, the child, the family, and the community as partners in health practice.
- Child Abuse Evaluation and Treatment for Medical Providers - Provides a single, comprehensive source of child abuse information with which to diagnose and manage child and adolescent abuse victims.
- Cornell Research Program on Self-Injurious Behavior in Adolescents and Young Adults
- Dental Care for People With Developmental Disabilities
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Center for Excellence - A Federal initiative devoted to preventing and treating FASD.
- KidsHealth (Nemours Foundation) - Provides doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence.
- The MedlinePlus website, sponsored by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes for Health, has information on health topics, medications, and a medical encyclopedia.
- National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (NOFAS) - Dedicated to eliminating birth defects caused by alcohol consumption during pregnancy and to improving the quality of life for those affected individuals and families.
- Sickle Cell Information Center -
Provides sickle cell patient and professional education, news, research updates and world wide sickle cell resources.
Information on Sickle Cell: There are several excellent Internet sites that provide information on sickle cell anemia and sickle cell trait. Click on the links that follow.
- U.S. Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - CDC serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States.
- Zero to Three - Click on Key Topics for information on early childhood development.
New York State Resources
- Child Advocacy Resource and Consultation Center (CARCC) - CARCC's mission is to work with multi-disciplinary teams throughout New York State to promote and enhance multidisciplinary responses to child sexual abuse and child fatality reviews.
- Eligibility Manual for Child Welfare Programs
- New York City Immunization Registry
- OPTS Program - OPTS Program is a newly structured, consumer-driven organized healthcare delivery approach to providing supports and services to individuals with mental retardation and developmental disabilities in NYS.
- New York State Department of Health
- Asthma Information
- Caring for Children with Special Needs
- Child Teen Health Plan (CTHP) Provider Manual
- Controlled Substances Regulations
- eMedNY - Electronic Medicaid system of New York State
- HIV/AIDS Information
- HIV Clinical Resource, AIDS Institute
- Medicaid Updates
- Newborn Screening Program Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health
- Recommended Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedule
- Healthy People 2010 - Healthy People 2010 is the prevention agenda for the Nation. It is a statement of national health objectives designed to identify the most significant preventable threats to health and to establish national goals to reduce these threats.
Adolescent Sexuality
- I Wanna Know (American Social Health Association) - Answers to your questions about teen sexual health and sexually transmitted diseases.
- Sex, Etc. (Network for Family Life Education, State University of New Jersey at Rutgers) - A website by teens for teens.
- It's Your (Sex) Life (Kaiser Family Foundation)
- Teenwire (Planned Parenthood Federation of America)
Substance Abuse
- National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare - NCSACW provides technical assistance and information that promotes effective practice, organizational, and system changes at the local, state, and national levels.
- National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and SAMHSA's National Clearinghouse for Drug and Alcohol Information
- Screening and Assessing Adolescents for Substance Use Disorders - Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) Series 31
- Treatment and Adolescents with Substance Use Disorders - Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) Series 32
- New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS)
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