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Annotation: One of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's main objectives is to provide the best available data and analysis on critical issues affecting disadvantaged children and families, as well as the knowledge and tools that practitioners, policymakers, and citizens need to advance their efforts on behalf of children. For more than half a century the foundation has worked to improve the futures for kids at risk of poor outcomes. Their mission encompasses direct support services to vulnerable children and families, and in recent years has used major grant making to support demonstrations, evaluations, and advocacy aimed at helping large public systems, as well as nonprofit networks, to become more effective in their efforts on behalf of struggling families and at-risk kids.

Keywords: Child health, Data, Data analysis, Family support, Grants, High risk children, Low income groups, Poverty

Annotation: Kids Smiles non-profit dental centers provide oral health services and outreach programs to children from birth to age 18. The centers address the oral health of children at risk for dental caries with an integrated program of oral health care, in-house education, and outreach education and screening. Headquartered in Philadelphia, centers currently operate in Southwest Philadelphia, West Philadelphia, and Washington, DC.

Keywords: Dental care, Health education, High risk children, Oral health, Screening, Service integration

Annotation: The National Abandoned Infants Assistance (AIA) Resource Center works to enhance the quality of social and health services delivered to drug- and HIV- affected children and their families. The resource center provides training, technical assistance, research, and information to service providers who assist these families. Publications include fact sheets, issue briefs, monographs and reports on the topics of abandoned infants, drug abuse, alcohol, HIV, child safety and well-being, and family well-being. Online training tools, including webinars, online tutorials, and a blog, are hosted on the website. The National AIA Resource Center, a member of the Training and Technical Assistance Network (TTA), is a service of the Children’s Bureau.

Keywords: Abandoned children, Child welfare, High risk infants, HIV, Resource centers, Technical assistance, Training

Annotation: Early Intervention Research Institute (EIRI) is the research and evaluation division of Utah State University's Center for Persons with Disabilities. It is an interdisciplinary group of researchers currently funded by a variety of federal, state, and private grants and contracts to investigate and improve policies and practices that support the well-being of at-risk children as well as those with special needs and their families. EIRI provides technical assistance and develops outcomes-based clinical and teaching practices that are used to train a variety of service providers. EIRI research data are used by program developers to improve systems of care and by policy makers to implement programs based on data-driven recommendations to improve education, health and social service outcomes. The Web site provides project abstracts and staff and contact information.

Keywords: Children with special health care needs, Early intervention, High risk children, Research