Search Results: MCH Organizations

Annotation: Children Now is a research and action organization dedicated to assuring that children grow up in economically secure families, where parents can go to work confident that their children are supported by quality health coverage, a positive media environment, a good early education, and safe, enriching activities to do after school. Children Now uses uses media advocacy and works to improve the quality of images for and about children in the news and entertainment media. Children Now is an independent, nonpartisan organization.

Keywords: Chid advocacy, Child health, Communication, Economic factors, Information sources, Parent child relations, Publications, Public awareness campaigns

Annotation: The Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) works with policymakers, scholars, and advocacy groups to design, execute, and disseminate the results of research projects that illuminate policy issues affecting women and families. Publications include a catalog, numerous reports, and the Research News Reporter, a monthly information service that includes newspaper clippings and resources relevant to women and families on such topics as health care, education, and employment. The institute also maintains several listservs and provides referrals, publications, and reference information to consumers. WPR also sponsors conferences, workshops, and training seminars.

Keywords: Economic factors, Women's rights

Annotation: The Women's and Children's Health Policy Center (WCHPC) was established in 1991 to address current policy issues related to evolving health systems reforms impacting on the health of women, children, and adolescents. The Center's mission is to draw upon the science base of the university setting to inform policies, programs, and the practice of maternal and child health nationally. A significant emphasis is given to conducting and translating research for application in the field. WCHPC provides timely information useful to public and private sector Maternal and Child Health (MCH) professionals, and to elected officials and other policymakers. Specific activities undertaken in support of state and local public health programs involve methods and tools development, program evaluation, and providing continuing education and expert consultation.

Keywords: Adolescent health, Child health, Children with special health care needs, Economic factors, Health care delivery, Health policy, Information sources, Perinatal health, Program descriptions, Publications, Public policies, Research, Women's health

Annotation: The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) is a non-profit, non-partisan policy research organization whose mission is to identify and promote strategies to reduce child poverty and improve the well-being of low-income children and their families. NCCP alerts the public to demographic statistics about child poverty and to the scientific research on the impact of poverty; designs and conducts studies to identify programs, policies, and practices that work best; disseminates information about economic security, early care and learning, and family stability; brings together public and private groups; and challenges policymakers and opinion leaders to change the adverse consequences of poverty on young children. NCCP maintains a web site of information and resources and publishes newsletters, reports, issue briefs, and fact sheets, and maintains an e-newsletter. In partnership with the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at the Institute for Social Research, the University of Michigan; and the U.S. Child Care Bureau, it provides the Web resource Child Care and Early Education Research Connections.

Keywords: Child care, Child health, Conferences, Early childhood education, Economic factors, Education, Family child care, Family support, Information dissemination, Information sources, Libraries, Maternal health, Poverty, Publications, Public policies, Statistics, Young children

Annotation: The Partnership for America's Economic Success, funded by the Pew Charitable Trust, is comprised of funders, business leaders, economists, policy experts, and advocates to lay the groundwork for making the success of every child the nation's top economic priority. The Partnership commissions research on the economic benefits of investments in children, the policy changes needed to fund services commensurate with their economic value, and a communications and coalition-building effort needed to advance these policies.

Keywords: Children, Cost effectiveness, Economic factors, Financing, Research