The Internet addresses listed below are presented as resources for your information. Better Brains for Babies does not recommend or endorse any specific site. Be sure to review site content carefully before using or recommending any of the sites below.

American Academy of Pediatrics: This site offers child health information to both parents and professionals. The publications section is particularly helpful to obtain the latest policies and publications regarding children's health and safety.
American Dietetic Association: This site contains information on nutrition and healthy eating, including specific information on child nutrition and mealtimes and links to MyPyramid.
The Brain Connection: This site contains information about the brain including clip art that can be downloaded to your computer. Also has a free e-mail newsletter.
Center for Injury Prevention: This site includes a variety of information on child passenger safety seats and injury prevention for children.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: This site contains information on a variety of issues related to physical well-being in children, including environmental hazards such as lead poisoning. The site also has a wide variety of links to other sites.
Child Trauma Academy: The ChildTrauma Academy is a not-for-profit organization based in Houston, Texas focused on education, service delivery and program consultation in the areas of child maltreatment. This site includes a variety of information on brain development and the effects of stress and trauma. The site includes links to several online learning modules related to brain development. Information is based on the work of noted researcher Dr. Bruce Perry.
Children, Youth, and Families Education and Research Network: CYFERnet is a compilation of children, youth and family resources of all the public land-grant universities in the country. Materials are carefully reviewed by college and university faculty.
Consumer Product Safety Commission: This site is operated and maintained by an independent federal regulatory agency. Their goal is to reduce the risk of injury or death from consumer products. The site includes information on product recalls and educational materials related to child and adult safety issues.
Dana Foundation BrainWeb: The BrainWeb and Brain Resource Center provides information and links to validated sites about brain diseases and disorders. Sites listed in BrainWeb describe many different distorders and include FAQs (frequently asked questions), background for talking with physicians, treatment options, support information for families and caregivers, and sources for more information.
The Education Commission of the States: The Education Commission of the States (ECS) is an interstate compact of 49 states that strives to improve public education by facilitating the exchange of information, ideas and experiences among state policymakers and education leaders. The commission focuses on news and information, policy research and analysis, technology support, and networking around issues of public education. The site includes a section on Early Learning Issues, with a focus on brain development as a primary issue.
The Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center: The Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center promotes understanding of neurological and behavioral development, emphasizing challenges associated with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities. Current research projects aim at enhancing understanding of brain-behavior relations in development, interactions between the brain and environment during development and how and why problems in any of these arise.
The Future of Children: The 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. The Future of Children is a series of downloadable publications developed by The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and The Brookings Institution. Recent topics include Childhood Obesity, Opportunity in America, and Excellence in the Classroom.
Grantmakers In Health: Grantmakers In Health (GIH) is a nonprofit, educational organization dedicated to helping foundations and corporate giving programs improve the health of all people.GIH generates and disseminates information about health issues and grantmaking strategies that work in health. The organization hosted a 2006 teleconference entitled “Making Investments in Early Care and Education a Public Policy Priorty.” Highlights of that conference are available on the site.
KidsHealth: Developed by pediatric medical specialists, this site offers information on child health to children, parents, and medical professionals. The parenting sections offer information about specific illnesses and parent support groups. The site also includes a section for children.
National Association for the Education of Young Children: NAEYC is a professional organization for people working in early childhood, including teachers, educators, and parents. This site includes a wide variety of information on early childhood development and developmentally appropriate care and education for young children.
National Center for Children in Poverty: The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) is the nation’s leading public policy center dedicated to promoting the economic security, health, and well-being of America’s low-income families and children. The site includes several reports related to the effects of poverty on brain development.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: This site provides information on seat belt use, children's safety seats, booster seats, recalls, and appropriate safety seat installation and use.
National Institute for Child Health and Development: The National Institute for Child Health and Development seeks to assure that every individual is born healthy, is born wanted and has the opportunity to fulfill his or her potential for a healthy and productive life unhampered by disease or disability.
Network on Early Experience and Brain Development: The Network's goal is to study the relationship between brain and behavioral development, to clarify the role of experience in brain development, and to enhance the understanding of how neurobiological development and behavioral development are linked. This site provides numerous references to scientific articles on brain development.
Neuroscience for Kids: This site is a place to explore the brain and learn more about how it works. This site is a rich teaching and learning resource. It has clear explanations, a variety of activities, suggestions for further study and an extensive collection of Internet links. You can also sign up for an e-mail newsletter.
New Horizons for Learning: This site has a wealth of information about neuroscience and its application to education and learning. The “News from the Neurosciences” section includes a wide variety of articles on brain development.
Parents Action for Children: Parents Action for Children is an online store that distributes 14 English and 11 Spanish-language DVDs and supporting materials in the critically-acclaimed I Am Your Child series. The materials provide simple, accessible information about a wide range of issues related to brain development and early childhood.
Safe from the Start: Safe from the Start (SFTS) is a California initiative to help communities reduce the impact of violence on children, with an emphasis on children ages 0 to 5 who have been exposed to family, school and/or community violence. The site contains a variety of resources on preventing violence and reducing its impact on children.
Safe Kids Worldwide: Safe Kids Worldwide is an international nonprofit organization dedicated solely to preventing unintentional childhood injury. It focuses on strategies to prevent unintentional injury and death due to causes such as motor vehicle crashes, fires, drowning, poisoning and falls.
Society for Neuroscience Brain Backgrounders: This site includes a wealth of information on neuroscience and the brain. The “brain backgrounders” are basic, readable information on brain anatomy and function.
Zero To Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families: Zero to Three is a national nonprofit charitable organization whose aim is to strengthen and support families, practitioners, and communities to promote the healthy development of babies and toddlers. The brain development section offers information for parents, child care providers, pediatricians, and others with a direct interest in children’s brain development.