Action Alliance for Children
http://www.4children.org/
Action Alliance for Children (AAC) is an organisation based in the United States, dedicated to protecting the welfare of children. AAC "exists to inform, educate, and persuade a statewide constituency of people who work with and on behalf of children by providing the most reliable information on current issues, trends, and public policies that affect children and families." The organisations bi-monthly newsletter, Children's Advocate, can be accessed from the site.
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Association of Children's Welfare Agencies (ACWA)
http://www.acwa.asn.au/
The Association of Children's Welfare Agencies was established in 1958 and is an Australian based advocacy organization. ACWA is concerned with policy, research and lobbying in child and family welfare. The site includes full information about the work and activities of the ACWA. There is access to a number of reports and publications as well as news and event information.
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Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies
http://www.acys.info/
The Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies (ACYS) collects, publishes and disseminates information on youth issues, and publishes the quarterly journal Youth Studies Australia, nationally and internationally recognised for its coverage of youth issues and research. The ACYS readership is an interdisciplinary body of readers, including educators, researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and increasingly, students. The project has now extended its services to make the information held by the ACYS available on its website which complements, and often extends, the information provided in print.
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Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse
http://www.austdvclearinghouse.unsw.edu.au/
The Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse provides a resource on issues of domestic violence and family violence in Australia, collating and disseminating policy, practice and research. Its aim is to 'to meet the information needs of government agencies, generalist and specialist service providers, researchers and interested members of the public'. The site contains issue papers, literature reviews, research papers and a newsletter produced in-house and has also developed two searchable online databases, one for resources and one for examples of good practice. The Clearinghouse is funded under the Women's Safety Agenda through the Office for Women, Australian Department of Family and Community Services
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Australian Family and Society Abstracts
http://www.aifs.gov.au/institute/info/infodev.html
This bibliographic database, produced by the Australian Institute of Family Studies, is a computer-based index about Australian families and the social issues which affect them. It contains more than 50,000 citations and abstracts from 1980 to date and more than 3,000 new items are added annually. The database indexes material from a wide range of social science areas including sociology, psychology, demography, health sciences, education, economics,law and social work. Documents covered include journals, conference papers, books, government reports, research reports and working papers, unpublished papers, statistical documents and theses. The database is available either online or on cd-rom to subscribers only.
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Australian Institute of Family Studies 
http://www.aifs.gov.au/
The Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) is a Commonwealth government research and information agency. The Institute was established in 1980 " ... to promote the identification and understanding of factors affecting marital and family stability in Australia." The website provides access to AIFS research, information projects and services, including databases and publications, and aims to be a focus for information resources on family research and family policy.
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Australian Institute of Family Studies Library
http://www.aifs.gov.au/institute/info/ficservices.html
The library of the Australian Institute of Family Studies provides a "nationally, and where possible internationally, accessible repository of Australian and overseas family research and information". It is an important repository of online material. Topics include: Child development and psychology; Family dynamics and relationships; Family law; Social justice; Social problems; Living standards; Economics; and Research methodology. The site provides free access to its online catalogue with clear search instructions for keyword and other search strategies. Item information indicates whether an online copy is available and download links are accessed via the catalog record.
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Australian Temperament Project
http://www.aifs.gov.au/atp/
The Australian Temperament Project (ATP) is a longitudinal study of the psychosocial development which "aims to trace the pathways to psychosocial adjustment and maladjustment across the lifespan, and to investigate the contribution of personal, family and environmental factors to development and wellbeing". The site provides information about further waves of the study. There is a list of publications, some of which can be accessed online, and links to related longitudinal studies of children and other longitudinal projects in Australia.
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BBC Children's Rights
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/features/childrensrights/
BBC Children's Rights is part of the BBC world service and aims to raise awareness of children in need. It contains information about the effects of war on children and aims to give a voice to children from developing countries. Site information includes interviews and forums.
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BC Institute Against Family Violence
http://www.bcifv.org/
The British Columbia Institute Against Family Violence aims to "support, co-ordinate and initiate research and education programs which promote the elimination of violence in all families". The Institute's publications are extensive and cover a range of topics including domestic violence, child abuse, aboriginal issues and immigrants and visible minorities. The online bibliography of resources links to a number of free online publications. There is a restorative justice literature review, access to the newsletter Aware and an extensive list of links related to family violence issues. The site also links to the BC Institute Against Family Violence library catalogue.
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Bullying in Schools and What To Do About It.
http://www.education.unisa.edu.au/bullying/
This site has been compiled by Dr Ken Rigby, Adjunct Associate Professor of Social Psychology and an educational consultant based at the University of South Australia. It contains information and research concerning bullying and harassment along with practical suggestions on how to overcome the problem. There are also links to other Internet sources on bullying and various related articles.
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Bullying UK
http://www.bullying.co.uk/
This UK charity helps parents and children deal with school bullying. The website contains information on a wide variety of topics, from how to take a complaint right through the education system to how to deal with cyber bullying by mobile phone, email and hate websites. It also includes information on racist bullying, example letters for parents to copy out to send to their child's school, information on how to get a copy of a child's school record, comprehensive sections on the different types of bullying policy, advice written specially for Bullying UK from the DCSF to parents having trouble resolving bullying issues, advice on exclusions and information on how to deal with bullying outside school.
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By the Sweat & Toil of Children: Efforts to Eliminate Child Labor
http://www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/sweat5/welcome.html
This report has been compiled by the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of International Labor Affairs. The report examines the current state of child labour in 16 different countries and "reviews the extent and nature of child labor in these countries and establishes a framework that can be used in future studies to evaluate progress in eliminating the problem".
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Canadian Institute of Child Health (CICH)
http://www.cich.ca/
The Canadian Institute of Child Health was founded in 1977 and is a national charitable organisation. It is "dedicated to improving the health of children and youth in Canada". The Institute has three core areas of focus: "monitoring children's health; educating professionals, caregivers and policy-makers; and advocating for legislation and policies that improve child health". The site provides project and activities information, as well as infromation about events and publications.
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Center for Child and Family Policy
http://www-pps.aas.duke.edu/centers/child/
The Center for Child and Family Policy is based at Duke University in the United States. The "mission of the Center for Child and Family Policy is to contribute to solutions to important problems affecting today's children and families, through an integrated system of scientific research, debate and dissemination, public service, and teaching." The website contains a large amount of information regarding the research of the center including some research reports.
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Center for Child Development
http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/~ccd/
The Center for Child Development (CCD) is based in Hong Kong and was established in September of 1991. Its concern is with children, youth, families, and school and it focuses on the "understanding of socialization of Chinese children (in Hong Kong and other Chinese societies) and cross-cultural studies of child development in the Asian-Pacific regions." Included on the site is an overview of the centre's research projects as well as publication lists.
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Center for Research on Child Wellbeing (The)
http://crcw.princeton.edu/
The Center for Research on Child Wellbeing (CRCW) is based in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. The centre is multi-disciplinary and conducts research on children's health, education, income, and family structure." Its "goal is to promote basic research on children's wellbeing and link research to practice and public policy." There is a large amount of survey data concerning Social Indicators of child well being on the site, as well as publications such as working papers.
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Center for Research on Interactive Technology, Television & Children
http://www.utexas.edu/research/critc/
The Center for Research on Interactive Technology, Television & Children is located in the Department of Human Ecology at The University of Texas at Austin. The site provides a comprehensive list of articles published by staff,
and reprints of these articles can be ordered from the centre. The articles cover topics such as "the perceived reality of television", "longitudinal studies of the effects of home viewing" and "social and cognitive effects of TV viewing.
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Center for Research on the Effects of Television
http://www.ithaca.edu/cretv/
The website of a research centre based Ithaca College in New York, USA. The centre houses an archive of representative videotaped samples of television broadcasting from 1983, used for content analysis of TV programmes and commercials/advertisements. Details of how to access the archive (not over the Internet) are available. The site provides contact information for the research staff and details of their current projects and publications.
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Center on Children, Families, and the Law (The)
http://ccfl.unl.edu/
The Center on Children, Families, and the Law is located at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. The Center conducts public policy research on issues "related to child and family policy and law" including "policy planning studies, policy impact investigations, program evaluations, needs assessments, secondary analyses of data, social indicator studies, and basic theoretical research". Publications relating to the "CHEM-L Protocol" concerning drug-endangered children; selected provisions pertaining to child welfare and juvenile justice; and "Research Advancing Practice", a publication reporting on "current findings from social science research that could impact the delivery of services to children and families", can be accessed online. They are in pdf format and require Adobe Acrobat software to access.
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Center on Fathers, Families and Public Policy (CFFPP)
http://www.cffpp.org/
The Center on Fathers, Families, and Public Policy is a "nationally-focused public policy organization conducting policy research, technical assistance, training, litigation and public education in order to focus attention on the barriers faced by never-married, low-income fathers and their families." The website has information on projects that the Center is conducting and provides access to their publications. Many CFFPP publications can only be viewed in PDF format and so require Adobe Acrobat Reader to access.
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Centre for Applied Childhood Studies
http://www.hud.ac.uk/hhs/research/acs/index.htm
This is the home page for the Centre for Applied Childhood Studies at the University of Huddersfield (UK). The Centre: promotes and conducts research on topics concerning the well-being of children and young people; and promotes and conducts work which is relevant in the development of theory, policy and practice in the field of child welfare. Information on the site includes a bibliograpy of centre publications, news and event information and links to relevannt websites.
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Centre for Family Research
http://www.ppsis.cam.ac.uk/CFR/
The Centre for Family Research was established in 1966 and is a multi-disciplinary research centre within the Faculty of Social and Political Science, University of Cambridge. The centre's research on families, kinship and relationships aims to "increase understanding of children, parents and family relationships with a focus on topics that are central to public policy, health care and people's lives". The site provides information on current research and the joint seminar series which is conducted with the Faculty of Social and Developmental Psychology.
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Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS)
http://www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/
This is an independent research centre based in the Institute of Education, London which collects, manages and analyses large scale, longitudinal data. Its collection includes the National Child Development Study (1958 cohort) and the 1970 British Cohort Study and it leads the consortium conducting the Economic and Social Research Council's new Millennium Cohort Study. The research carried out here focuses particularly on family life and parenting, family economics, youth life course transitions and basic skills. The site contains access to publications and information about the studies. Access to the data itself is via the UK Data Archive, details of which are also included on the site.
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Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR)
http://www.crfr.ac.uk/
The Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR) is a multidisciplinary research centre which aims to generate quality research relevant to Scotland and disseminate such research widely. CRFR takes a broad approach to families and relationships, and the research programme is collaborative and inclusive The CRFR has been funded by the Scottish higher education Funding Council and is a collaboration between Glasgow Caledonian University, and the Universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Stirling. The website provides profiles of people involved, contact details, information about publications and events, guidelines of how to join the Centre and links to the voluntary sector and research organisations.
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