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  • Almanac of Policy Issues: CHIP - Background information and links on the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
  • Institute for Children's Environmental Health - The primary mission of ICEH is to mitigate environmental exposures that can undermine the health and well-being of children and to detoxify environments wherever children spend time.
  • Changing Bodies, Changing Lives - A book for teens on sex and relationships by Ruth Bell.
  • The Children's Environmental Health Institute - Committed to decreasing the prevalence, morbidity, and mortality of environmentally related childhood diseases. CEHI identify, develop, and promote solutions to improve children's environmental health through scientific research, environmental education, and public policy.
  • Iris the Dragon Inc. - A small publishing company specializing in children's illustrated books that deal with mental illness and brain disorders, their first book is called "Catch A Falling Star".
  • Maternal & Child's Health Policy - Specializes in issues affecting children, including those with special health care needs and those from low-income families.
  • Pee Dee Healthy Start Inc South Carolina - A prevention program in response to high infant mortality rates, low birth weight babies, inadequate health care for women of child bearing age and their families in rural areas in SC.
  • Helping Children Deal With Grief - Detailed information discussing complicated grief stemming from traumatic death, AIDS, abuse, or violence. Workshops designed to melt the wall between a child and his or her grief for parents, educators, and therapists by Linda Goldman, teacher, counselor, author, certified grief therapist and educator.
  • Connie's Corner - Donating Gifts for Bereavement and Loss - The quilters at Connie's Corner are donating one photo memory quilt per month to a child who has suffered the loss of a parent.
  • Children's Health and the Environment - Pan American Health Organization Center for Sanitary Engineering and Environmental Sciences (CEPIS) resources and information.
  • Families USA - Provides advocacy for consumers of family health care by acting as a watchdog over children's payer programs
  • U.S. EPA - Office of Children's Health Protection (OCHP) - Environmental Protection Agency site on children's environment and health. Publications, references and resources.
  • Children's Environmental Health Information Resources for Public Health Professionals - National Network of Libraries of Medicine project to provide public health professionals with access to information resources.
  • Center for Children's Health and the Environment - CCHE is the nation's first academic research and policy center to examine the links between exposure to toxic pollutants and childhood illness. Provides fact sheets, reports, conference and contact information.
  • Covering Kids - National health access initiative for low-income, uninsured children, offering information on child health outreach, enrollment, and simplification strategies.
  • What Children Need When They Grieve - A 9/11 widow and mother provides guidance and support for those caring for grieving children. Links to other professional support organizations.
  • Facts for Life - UNICEF presents practical, effective and low-cost ways to protect children's lives and health. Includes child development and early learning, nutrition and growth, immunization, hygiene, and injury prevention. [PDF version requires free Adobe download.]
  • Children's Health Matters - Outreach program that facilitates enrollment of children in Medicaid and other insurance programs
  • Three Trees: A Center for Grieving Children - A non-profit, non-affiliated organization that focuses on serving children and their families as they grieve the loss of a loved one.
  • Children's Environmental Health - Minnesota Department of Health information to protect the health of children as it relates to environmental hazards.