A-Z
Resources and Services
This list includes links to resources and a community services locator.
How to Use
To find resources, use the links to resource guides (knowledge paths, resource briefs, bibliographies, organization lists, MCH Links, and more).
To find community services and providers, use the links (in italics) to the community services locator, an online tool for finding services for families.
This list does not include information available in the databases or from the MCH Alert.
If your topic is not here, use the search page or the community services locator.
- Abstinence education: Knowledge path | Bibliography
- Access to health care: Knowledge path | Family resource brief | Special needs knowledge path | Primary health care services | Health insurance
- Accessibility: SEE Universal design
- Active Living: Knowledge path
- Address for the MCH Library
- Adolescents
- Adolescent development: Knowledge path | Family resource brief | Primary health care services | Developmental assessment and learning services | Parenting education
- Adolescent health: Resource brief | Resource guides | Health and wellness services
- Adolescent mental health: Knowledge path | Mental health services
- Adolescent mortality: Organizations list
- Adolescent nutrition: Knowledge path | Family resource brief | Nutrition services
- Adolescent pregnancy: Knowledge path | Family resource brief | Bibliographies: Prevention, Prenatal care | Organizations list | Primary health care services | Reproductive health services
- Adolescent psychiatrists and psychologists: Mental health services
- Adolescent transition: Special needs knowledge path | Education/special needs services | Family support groups
- Adolescent violence prevention: Knowledge path | Family resource brief | Organizations list | Community violence prevention and intervention services | Mental health services
- Adolescents with special health care needs: Knowledge path | Family resource brief | Bibliography | Community services locator
- Adoption: Special needs knowledge path | Organizations list | Family support services | Parenting education
- Advocacy: Special needs knowledge path
- Afterschool programs: Knowledge path
- Aggressive behavior: Knowledge path | Education/special needs services | Mental health services | Family support services
- AIDS/HIV: Organizations
list | Health
and wellness services
- AIDS/HIV in pregnancy: Bibliography| Reproductive health services
- Alcohol: SEE Substance use
- Alcohol use during pregnancy: SEE Substance use during pregnancy
- Anxiety disorders: Knowledge path | Community services locator
- Arts: Special needs knowledge path
- Asian languages: Languages index
- Asperger syndrome: SEE Autism spectrum disorders
- Assisted reproductive technologies (ART): Resource brief | Reproductive health services
- Asthma: Knowledge path | Family resource brief | Publication | Health and wellness services
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: Knowledge path | Community services locator
- Audiologists: Hearing and speech services
- Autism spectrum disorders: Knowledge path | Family resource brief | Community services locator
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- Battering: Knowledge path | Domestic violence prevention and intervention services
- Bereavement: Knowledge path | Family resource brief
- Best practices: SEE Community programs and services
- Bioterrorism: SEE Terrorism
- Bipolar disorders: Knowledge path | Community services locator
- Birth: Knowledge path | Reproductive health services
- Birth defects: Knowledge paths: Infant mortality and pregnancy loss, Special needs
- Breast cancer screening: Reproductive health services
- Breastfeeding: Resource brief | Bibliographies: Working mothers, Consumer education materials, Promotion, support, and education | Organizations list | Bright Futures Nutrition | Nutrition services
- Bright Futures: MCHB-Funded Projects | 3rd Edition Guidelines | Other Publications | Bright Futures for Women's Health and Wellness
- Bullying: Knowledge path | Bibliography | Community violence prevention and intervention services | Mental health services
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- Cervical cancer screening: Reproductive health services
- Childbirth education: SEE Pregnancy/prenatal care
- Children
- Child abuse: Knowledge path | Organizations list | Child abuse prevention and intervention services
- Child care: Organizations list | Child care/early childhood education
- Child development: Knowledge path | Family resource brief | Bibliography | Bright Futures Projects | Bright Futures 3rd Edition Guidelines | Primary health care services | Developmental assessment and learning services | Parenting education
- Child Find: Developmental assessment and learning services
- Child Health Day
- Child health insurance: Knowledge path | Bibliography | Health insurance
- Child health supervision: Bright Futures Projects | Bright Futures 3rd Edition Guidelines | Primary health care services
- Child maltreatment: Knowledge path | Child abuse prevention and intervention services
- Child mental health: Knowledge Path | Bibliography | Bright Futures Mental Health | Bright Futures 3rd Edition Guidelines | Mental health services
- Child psychiatrists and psychologists: Mental health services
- Child mortality: Organizations list
- Child nutrition: Knowledge path | Family resource brief | Bibliography | Bright Futures Nutrition | Bright Futures 3rd Edition Guidelines | Nutrition services
- Children's hospitals
- Child safety: Resource brief | Organizations list
- Child study team: Developmental assessment and learning services
- Child support enforcement: Financial support services
- Children with special health care needs: Knowledge path | Family resource brief | Bibliographies: Adolescents, Child care, General, Guidelines and standards, Managed care | Organizations list: Adoption, Foster Care, General, Genetics | Community services locator
- Children's Bureau historical publications
- Chronic illnesses: SEE Children with special health care needs
- Comments/Feedback: submit online
- Communities
- Community-based care: Special needs knowledge path | Community services locator
- Community health centers: Primary health care services
- Community parent resource centers: Education/special needs services
- Community programs and services: Bibliography: Effective practices | Organizations list: Effective programs | Community services locator
- Community violence prevention and intervention services
- Community design: Knowledge path
- Consumer health and safety: Organizations list | MCH Links
- Coping: Resource brief | Mental health services | Family support services
- Cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis in MCH: Resource brief
- Counselors: Mental health services
- Crime victims: Community violence prevention and intervention services
- Culturally competent services and culturally sensitive materials: Knowledge paths: Racial and ethnic disparities in health, Special needs | Resource brief | Bibliography | Organizations list
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- Data: MCH Links
- Databases of NCEMCH: Healthy Start Collection Database | MCHLine® | MCH Links | MCH Projects Database | MCH Organizations Database | Title V Information System Web Site
- Dating violence: Knowledge path | Family resource brief | Dating violence prevention and intervention services
- Dental health: SEE Oral health
- Dentists: Oral health care services
- Depression: Knowledge
path | Family resource brief | Mental
health services
- Depression during and after pregnancy: Knowledge path | Family resource brief | Reproductive health services | Mental health services
- Design, universal: SEE Universal design
- Developmental disabilities: Knowledge path | Community services locator
- Developmental screening: Bibliography | Primary health care services | Developmental assessment and learning services
- Diabetes: Knowledge path | Family resource brief | Primary health care services | Nutrition services
- Dietitians: Nutrition services
- Directions to the MCH Library
- Disabilities: SEE Children with special health care needs
- Disasters and terrorism: Resource brief | Bibliography | Community services locator
- Disparities: SEE Racial and ethnic disparities in health
- Domestic violence: Knowledge path | Family resource brief | Domestic violence prevention and intervention services
- Drug abuse: SEE Substance use
If your topic is not here, use the search page or the community services locator.
- Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT) services: Knowledge path | Family resource brief | Primary health care services | Health insurance
- Early childhood
- Early intervention: Special needs knowledge path | Developmental assessment and learning services
- Early literacy: Knowledge path | Early childhood education
- Eating behaviors: Knowledge path | Family resource brief | Nutrition services
- Eating disorders: Knowledge path | Organizations list | Mental health services | Nutrition services
- Education: Special needs knowledge path | Education/special needs services
- Effective community programs: Organizations list
- Effective program practices: Bibliography
- Emotional development: Knowledge path | Family resource brief | Primary health care services | Developmental assessment and learning services | Parenting education
- Employment services: Financial support services
- Environment/universal design: Special needs knowledge path
- Environmental concerns during pregnancy: Knowledge path | Reproductive health services
- Environmental health: Resource brief | Organizations list
- EPSDT: SEE Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT) services
- Ethnic disparities in health: SEE Racial and ethnic disparities in health
- Evidence-based services: SEE Community programs and practices
- Exercise: SEE Physical activity
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- Faith-based support services
- Family health history: Resource brief
- Family planning services: Reproductive health services
- Family resource briefs: Index to Family resources | Resource page
- Family resource centers: Organizations list | Family support services | Education/special needs services
- Family support: Special needs knowledge path | Family support services
- Family violence: Knowledge path | Organizations list | Child abuse prevention and intervention services | Domestic violence prevention and intervention services
- Fatherhood: Resource brief
- Federal government: MCH Links | Community services locator
- Feedback form
- Fertility: Knowledge path | Reproductive health services
- Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders: Knowledge path | Community services locator | Resource brief
- Final reports: MCHB Final Reports
- Financial support services
- Financing services and health insurance: Knowledge path | Special needs knowledge path | Health insurance | Financial support services
- Finding community services in your area
- Firearms: Knowledge path | Community violence prevention and intervention services
- Fitness: SEE Physical activity
- Folic acid consumption: Knowledge path | Reproductive health services | Nutrition services
- Food
- Food assistance: Financial support services
- Food marketing: Knowledge path
- Food safety: Knowledge path
- Foreign language material sources and services: SEE Non-English languages material sources and services
- Foster care: Special needs knowledge path | Organizations list | Family support services
- Funding sources: Organizations list | Financial support services
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- Gangs: Knowledge path | Community violence prevention and intervention services
- Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender services
- General information and resources/libraries: MCH Links
- Genetic health history: SEE Family health history
- Genetics: Resource
brief | Organizations
list | Genetics
services
- Genetic testing: Knowledge path | Genetics services
- Government assistance programs: Financial support services
- Grandparent support: Family support groups
- Guns: SEE Firearms
- Gynecologists: Reproductive health services
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- Head Start: Child care/early childhood education
- Health and wellness services
- Health directories
- Health disparities: SEE Racial and ethnic disparities in health
- Health history: SEE Family health history
- Health information technology: Resource brief
- Health insurance for children: Knowledge path | Family resource brief | Bibliography | Health insurance
- Health reform: Knowledge path
- Health supervision: Bright Futures Projects | Bright Futures 3rd Edition Guidelines | Primary health care services
- Healthy People 2010/2020: Maternal, Infant, and Child Health
- Healthy Start
- Healthy Tomorrows: Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program
- Hearing and speech services
- History: SEE Family health history; MCH history
- HIV: Reproductive health services
- Home health care and hospice care
- Home visiting: Bibliography | Home health care and hospice care | Resource brief
- Hospice: Special needs knowledge path | Home health care and hospice care
- Hospitals: Special needs knowledge path | Children's hospitals
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- Immigration services: Financial support services
- Immunizations: Resource brief | Bibliography | Organizations list | Primary health care services
- Independent living: Special needs knowledge path | Education/special needs services | Family support groups
- Indian Health Service offices: Primary health care services
- Individualized education programs: Education/special needs services
- Infants
- Infant development: Knowledge path | Primary health care services | Developmental assessment and learning services | Parenting education
- Infant mortality: Knowledge path | Family resource brief | Bibliography | Organizations list | Healthy Start | National Sudden Infant Death Resource Center | Sudden and other unexpected infant death prevention and intervention services
- SEE ALSO Newborns
- Infertility: Knowledge path | Reproductive health services
- Information technology: SEE Health information technology
- Injury prevention: Resource brief | Organizations list
- Insurance: Health insurance| SEE ALSO Child health insurance
- Intimate partner violence: Knowledge path | Family resource brief | Dating violence prevention and intervention services | Domestic violence prevention and intervention services
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- Juvenile diabetes: Knowledge path | Family resource brief | Primary health care services | Nutrition services
- Juvenile justice: Knowledge path | Community violence prevention and intervention services
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- Knowledge paths: Index
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- Lactation consultants: Nutrition services
- Languages, non-English, material sources and services: SEE Non-English languages material sources and services
- Learning assessment: Developmental assessment and learning services
- Learning problems and disorders: Knowledge path | Education/special needs services
- Legal assistance: Financial support services
- Libraries: MCH Library | MCH Links
- Linguistic competence: Knowledge path
- Locating community services in your area
- Location of the MCH Library
- Low birthweight: Knowledge path
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- Mammograms: Reproductive health services
- Marriage and family therapists
- Maternal morbidity and mortality: Organizations list
- Maternal mortality: Organizations list
- MCH resources
- MCH Alert: Weekly electronic newsletter
- MCHB final reports
- MCHB resource centers: MCH Links
- MCHB Training Program: MCHB Training Program Evaluation
- MCH History
- MCH Library: Information about the library and its resources
- MCHLine®: Information about materials in the MCH Library
- MCH Links: Information about other MCH-related resources on the World Wide Web
- MCH policy: MCH Alert | MCHLine®
- MCH professional education: Resource page
- MCH programs: MCHLine® | MCH Projects Database | MCH Organizations Database
- MCH Projects Database: Information about projects funded by MCHB
- MCH research: MCH Alert | MCHLine® | MCH Research Program | MCH Projects Database
- MCH Thesaurus: List of indexing terms
- Media: New media primer
- Medicaid: Knowledge path | Health insurance | SEE ALSO Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT) services
- Medical home: Special needs knowledge path | Primary health care services | Child Health Day
- Media violence: Knowledge path
- Mental health: Knowledge path | Family resource brief | Bibliographies: Adolescent, Children, Primary care | Bright Futures Mental Health | Bright Futures 3rd Edition Guidelines | Mental health services
- Mental retardation: Knowledge path | Community services locator
- Midwives: Reproductive health services
- Migrant health centers: Primary health care services
- Military personnel and their families
- Minority health: Organizations list | SEE ALSO Racial and ethnic disparities in health
- Miscarriage: Knowledge path | Family resource brief
- Model programs: SEE Community programs and services
- Mood disorders: Knowledge path | Community services locator
- Multimedia resources
- Multiples: Family support groups
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- National Center for Maternal and Child Health: Web site
- National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center: Web site
- National Organizations: MCH Links
- Newborns
- Newborn care: Health and wellness services | Family support groups | Child care/early childhood education
- Newborn screening: Knowledge path | Bibliography | Genetics services
- News: News page
- Non-English languages material sources and services
- General: Organizations list | Community services locator
- Spanish: Knowledge path | Organizations list | Community services locator
- Nutrition: Knowledge
path | Family resource brief | Special
needs knowledge path | Bibliographies: Childhood, Physical
Activity for Women | Organizations
list | Bright
Futures Nutrition | Bright
Futures 3rd Edition Guidelines | Nutrition
services
- Nutrition assistance programs: Knowledge path | Financial support services
- Nutrition during pregnancy: Knowledge path | Bibliography | Reproductive health services | Nutrition services
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- Obesity: Knowledge path | Family resource brief | Nutrition services
- Obstetricians: Reproductive health services
- Oppositional behavior: Knowledge path | Education/special needs services | Mental health services | Family support services
- Oral health: Knowledge path | Family resource brief | Special needs knowledge path | Organizations list | National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center Web site | Bright Futures Oral Health | Bright Futures 3rd Edition Guidelines | Oral health care services
- Organizations Database: Information about other MCH-related organizations
- Orthodontists: Oral health care services
- Other languages material sources and services: SEE Non-English languages material sources and services
- Outreach: Bibliography | Community services locator | Knowledge path
- Overweight: Knowledge path | Family resource brief | Nutrition services
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- Palliative care: Special needs knowledge path | Home health care and hospice care
- Pap tests: Reproductive health services
- Parents
- Parenting: Knowledge path | Special needs knowledge path | Organizations lists: General, Adolescent parents | MCH Links | Parenting education
- Parent support: Family support groups
- Parent training and information centers: Education/special needs services
- Pastoral counselors: Faith-based support services
- Patient travel and lodging: Special needs knowledge path
- Pediatric dentists: Oral health care services
- Pediatricians: Primary health care services
- Perinatal health: Knowledge
path | Reproductive
health services
- Perinatal depression: Knowledge path | Family resource brief | Reproductive health services | Mental health services
- Periodontists: Oral health care services
- Pervasive developmental disorders not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS): SEE Autism spectrum disorders
- Physical activity
- Children and adolescents: Knowledge path | Family resource brief | Bright Futures Physical Activity | Bright Futures 3rd Edition Guidelines
- Women: Bibliography
- Physical education: Knowledge path
- Physical fitness: SEE Physical activity
- Physical therapy
- Poison control centers
- Policy: SEE MCH policy
- Postpartum depression: Knowledge path | Family resource brief | Reproductive health services | Mental health services
- Preconception: Knowledge path | Family resource brief | Reproductive health services
- Pregnancy / prenatal care: Knowledge path | Family resource brief | Bibliographies: AIDS/HIV, Nutrition, Prenatal care, Smoking, Substance use | Organizations list | Bright Futures Nutrition | Bright Futures 3rd Edition Guidelines | Reproductive health services
- Pregnancy loss: Knowledge path | Family resource brief
- Pregnancy prevention: SEE Adolescents | Reproductive health services
- Premature infants: Knowledge path
- Prematurity: Bibliography | Health and wellness services | Family support groups | Education/special needs services
- Prenatal care: Knowledge
path | Family resource brief | Reproductive
health services
- Prenatal testing: Knowledge path | Reproductive health services | Genetics services
- Preschools: Child care/early childhood education
- Primary care and mental health: Bibliography | Primary health care services | Mental health services
- Primary health care
- Professional associations (MCH-related): MCH Links | Professional networks
- Professional education: Resource page
- Professional resources: Resource page
- Programs: SEE Community programs; MCH programs
- Promising practices: SEE Community programs and services
- Psychiatrists and psychologists: Mental health services
- Psychosocial development: Knowledge path | Primary health care services | Developmental assessment and learning services | Parenting education | Mental health services
If your topic is not here, use the search page or the community services locator.
If your topic is not here, use the search page or the community services locator.
- Racial and ethnic disparities in health: Knowledge path | Family resource brief | Bibliography
- Rape: Child abuse prevention and intervention services | Community violence prevention and intervention services | Dating violence prevention and intervention services | Domestic violence prevention and intervention services
- Recreation: Special needs knowledge path
- Rehabilitation: Special needs knowledge path | Hearing and speech services | Physical therapy | Children's hospitals
- Reproductive health services
- Research: SEE MCH research
- Resource mothers: SEE Home visiting
- Respite care
- Rural health: Resource Brief
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- Safe sleep: Knowledge path
- Safety: SEE Child safety
- Schools
- School-based nutrition education: Knowledge path
- School-based services: Education/special needs services | Knowledge path
- School food service: Knowledge path
- School health: Resource brief | Bibliographies: School health education, School health services | Organization list
- School psychologists: Education/special needs services
- School readiness: Knowledge path | Education/special needs services
- School resources: Resource page
- School violence: Knowledge path | Community violence prevention and intervention services
- Screening: Knowledge paths: Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT) Services in Medicaid, Special needs | Bibliographies: Child developmental screening, Neonatal screening | Developmental assessment and learning services | Health and wellness services
- Self-help groups: Family support groups
- Service coordination: Knowledge path
- Sexual assault: Child abuse prevention and intervention services | Community violence prevention and intervention services | Dating violence prevention and intervention services | Domestic violence prevention and intervention services
- Sexual health care: Reproductive health services
- Sexuality education: Knowledge path | Resource brief | Bibliography | Organization list | Reproductive health services | Parenting education | SEE ALSO Abstinence education
- Sexually transmitted diseases: Reproductive health services
- SIDS: SEE Sudden infant death
- Smoking
and tobacco use: Knowledge
path | Bibliography | Health and wellness services
- Smoking during pregnancy: Knowledge path | Bibliography | Reproductive health services
- Social development: Knowledge path | Family resource brief | Primary health care services | Developmental assessment and learning services | Parenting education | Mental health services
- Spanish language materials sources: Knowledge path | Bibliography | Organizations list | Organizations search | Mi Futura Será Brillante | Community services locator
- Special education: Special needs knowledge path | Education/special needs services
- Special health care needs: SEE Children with special health care needs
- Speech-language pathologists: Hearing and speech services
- Sports: Special needs knowledge path, Physical activity knowledge path
- Spouse abuse: SEE Domestic violence
- State and territorial health agencies: Professional networks
- State information: MCH Links | Community services locator
- Statistics sources: Bibliography | Organizations list | MCH Links
- STDs: Reproductive health services
- Stillbirth: Knowledge path
- Substance
use: Knowledge
path | Bibliography | Organizations
list | Mental
health services
- Substance use during pregnancy: Knowledge path | Reproductive health services | Mental health services
- Sudden infant death: National Sudden Infant Death Resource Center | SEE also Infant mortality | Sudden and other unexpected infant death prevention and intervention services
- Suicide: Knowledge path | Mental health services
- Supplemental Security Income (SSI): Financial support services
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- Teen: SEE Adolescent
- Thesaurus: MCH Thesaurus
- Tobacco use: SEE Smoking
- Terrorism: Resource brief | Bibliography
- Title V: MCHB-Funded Projects and Final Reports | State Title V MCH/Medicaid Coordination
- Toll-free numbers for health information: Health directories
- Training: SEE MCHB Training Program; Professional education
- Transition to adulthood: Special needs knowledge path | Education/special needs services | Family support groups
- Trauma: Resource brief | Children's hospitals
- Twins, triplets, multiples: Family support groups
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- Universal design: Special needs knowledge path
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- Vaccines: SEE Immunizations
- Victims of crime: Knowledge path | Community violence prevention and intervention services
- Violence and violence prevention: Knowledge path | Family resource brief | Resource brief | Organizations list | SEE also Domestic violence | Child abuse prevention and intervention services | Community violence prevention and intervention services | Dating violence prevention and intervention services | Domestic violence prevention and intervention services
If your topic is not here, use the search page or the community services locator.
- Women's health: Resource brief | Bibliographies: Consumer education materials, General, Nutrition and physical activity | Bright Futures for Women's Health and Wellness | Primary health care services | Reproductive health services
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- Youth: SEE Adolescent
