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• Action Alliance for Children – Action Alliance for Children 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. AAC is a resource for policy makers, children's service providers and advocates, and the media. In addition, AAC facilitates dialogue among diverse community groups (child care workers, educators, parents, human service providers, advocates, media, policy makers).
  http://www.4children.org/index.htm
   
• California Association for the Education of Young Children (CAEYC) - The purpose of CAEYC is to serve and act on behalf of the needs and rights of young children with primary focus on the provision of educational services and resources to adults who work with and for children birth through age eight.
  http://www.caeyc.org/
   
• California Child Development Administrators Association (CCDAA) - The California Child Development Administrators Association promotes quality early childhood programs in California through the provision of education, technical assistance, and networking for administrators of publicly funded programs. The Association provides a forum for administrators to work together to improve the quality, availability and efficiency of child development programs.
  http://www.ccdaa.org/
   
• California Head Start Association - The California Head Start Association is the unified voice providing leadership and advocacy for the California Head Start community.
  http://www.ca-headstart.org/index.html
   
• Child Development Policy Institute (CDPI) – The Child Development Policy Institute’s mission is to help establish sound public policy focused on what is best for the children of California.
  http://www.cdpi.net/
   
• Child Development Policy Institute-Education Fund (CDPI-EF) - Education, research, and child development policy: these are what the Child Development Policy Institute Education Fund is all about. From Welfare Reform to child care facilities financing and development to promoting school success, CDPI Education Fund has been and will continue to be at the forefront of these and other issues.
  http://www.childlinkca.org/index.php
   
• Children's Defense Fund (CDF) - The mission of the Children’s Defense Fund is to Leave No Child Behind and to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.
  http://www.childrensdefense.org/
   
• County Welfare Directors Association of California (CWDA) - The County Welfare Directors Association of California is a non-profit association representing the human service directors from each of California’s 58 counties. The Association’s mission is to promote a human services system that encourages self-sufficiency of families and communities, and protects vulnerable children and adults from abuse and neglect.
  http://www.cwda.org/
   
• Family Child Care Associations Listing – A list of local and national family child care associations. Also provides links to state regulations on family child care.

  http://www.cafcc.org/afcca.html
  http://pages.ivillage.com/soulutionsgroup/id24.html
   

• League of Women Voters of California (LWV) - The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in government and influences public policy through education and advocacy. They do not support or oppose any political party or any candidate. They do, however, take action on selected government issues in the public interest.
  http://ca.lwv.org/
   
• National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) - The National Association for the Education of Young Children exists for the purpose of leading and consolidating the efforts of individuals and groups working to achieve healthy development and constructive education for all young children.
  http://www.naeyc.org/

• Building Child Care (BCC) - The Building Child Care Project exists to provide a centralized clearinghouse of information and services designed to improve child care providers' access to financial resources for facilities development projects in California.
  http://www.buildingchildcare.org/
   
• Child Care Options – The Child Care Options website provides detailed information to developers, planners, and businesses, about the industry of child care; child care as an economic development issue, its economic impact in Santa Clara county and its impact on the community. Links to the Economic Impact of Child Care in Santa Clara County and the True Cost of Quality Child Care in Santa Clara County are provided.
  http://www.childcareoptions.org/

• California Code of Regulations – This site provides access to the regulatory code.
  http://www.calregs.com/
   
• Child Development Division – The Child Development Division is branch of the State Department of Education that manages state funded child development programs. The other is the Community Care Licensing Division of the Department of Social Services.
  http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/di/or/division.asp?id=cdd
   
• Child Care Bureau – The Child Care Bureau is part of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. The Child Care Bureau is dedicated to enhancing the quality, affordability, and availability of child care for all families. The Child Care Bureau administers federal funds to states, territories, and tribes to assist low-income families in accessing quality child care for children when the parents work or participate in education or training.
  http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ccb/
   
• Find California Code – This site provides access to specific code sections governing child development programs in California.
  http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/calaw.html
   
• FIRST 5-Santa Clara County – FIRST 5 utilizes Proposition 10 funds to promote, support and improve early childhood development for children prenatal through age five and their families. FIRST 5 intends to accomplish this by concentrating efforts on School Readiness with an emphasis on quality health care, family support, early care & education, and strong neighborhoods/communities.
  http://www.santaclarakids.org/
   
• Head Start Bureau – The Head Start Bureau is part of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Head Start and Early Head Start are comprehensive child development programs that serve children from birth to age 5, pregnant women, and their families. They are child-focused programs and have the overall goal of increasing the school readiness of young children in low-income families.
  http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/hsb/
   
• Smart Start San Jose
  Smart Start San José is part of the City of San Jose's Early Care and Education (child care) Initiative. The goal of the program is that all children enter school with the foundation needed for academic and social success.
   

• Social Service Agency of Santa Clara County - The mission of the Social Services Agency is to:

  • Prevent abuse and to ensure the medical, physical, financial, and emotional well-being of children and adults at risk of abuse, neglect, or exploitation,
  • Maintain or restore family and kinship ties whenever possible and help families understand and learn the skills and behaviors needed to safely care for and nurture their children and elders,
  • Maintain safe, healthy, and independent lifestyles for residents through specialized and in-home services aimed at preventing or delaying institutionalization in a manner that respects their personal liberty,
  • Assist residents in acquiring the resources needed to gain and retain competitive employment and to secure a more challenging, satisfying, and economically rewarding life for themselves and their children.
    http://www.cwda.org/
  
   
• State FIRST 5 Commission – Link to the state commission on Proposition 10.
  http://www.ccfc.ca.gov/

• WestEd – E3 Institute, Advancing Excellence in Early Education
  http://www.santaclaracares.org/
  The purpose of the Institute for Early Childhood Professional Development is to support and strengthen early childhood professional development through education, recruitment, and financial incentives. The Institute serves California's Santa Clara County and reaches new recruits, family child care providers, center-based programs, programs for children with special needs, employers, faith-based providers, and the corporate community with the goal of leveraging local resources for child care professionals, especially through the Comprehensive Approaches to Raising Educational Standards (CARES) program.

• California Budget Project - The California Budget Project (CBP) serves as a resource to the media, policymakers, and state and local constituency groups seeking accurate information and analysis of a range of state policy issues. Through independent fiscal and policy analysis, public education, and collaboration with other organizations, we work to improve public policies affecting the economic and social well-being of low- and middle-income Californians.
  http://www.cbp.org/about.htm
   
• Community Child Care Council of Santa Clara County
  http://www.4c.org
  Providing care and hope for all families and children is the focus of the Community Child Care Council of Santa Clara County (4C Council). Founded in 1971, the 4C Council is a private, non-profit agency that has a long tradition of providing to residents of Santa Clara County the following free and confidential services: Child care resource and referrals, Alternative payment programs, a provider nutrition reimbursement and education program.
   
• National Child Care Information Center (NCCIC) - The National Child Care Information Center, a project of the Child Care Bureau, Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is a national resource that links information and people to complement, enhance, and promote the child care delivery system, working to ensure that all children and families have access to high-quality comprehensive services.
  http://nccic.org/
   
• Parents Helping Parents (PHP) – Parents Helping Parents is a parent-directed, community-based organization, whose mission was developed in response to the need in our community for information, training, and support services for families who have children with special needs and the professionals who serve them.
  http://www.php.com/
   
• Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) – Policy Analysis for California Education is an independent policy research center whose primary aim is to enrich education policy debates, from preschool through college, with sound analysis and hard evidence.
  http://pace.berkeley.edu/
   

• HousingSCC - HousingSCC is a searchable website for subsidized housing in Santa Clara County
  http://www.housingscc.org/
   
• NewspaperLinks.com – Provides links to newspapers published in the United States.
  http://www.newspaperlinks.com/home.cfm

Date last updated: March 24, 2006

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