Resources: Links to reliable information regarding infants and toddlers, worldwide.

Action for Rights of Children (ARC), ARC is an inter-agency initiative, initiated by UNHCR and the International Save the Children Alliance in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) -- Information on child and adolescent psychiatry including fact sheets for parents and caregivers, current research, practice guidelines and managed care. www.aacap.org

American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). www.aafp.org

Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP). www.aacap.org

Bi-National Conference on Treating Traumatized Children and Adolescents: Dialogues on Children and Trauma (May 18-20, 2005), The Israel Center for the Treatment of Psycho-trauma. Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Center for Family Development is Western New York's only attachment center specializing in the treatment of adopted and foster families with trauma and attachment disorder. www.Center4FamilyDevelop.com.

(The) Child Trauma Academy -- How persisting fear can alter the developing child's brain. www.childtrauma@bcm.tm.edu.

Children of Conflict initiative -- produced with the assistance of UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) and the Human Rights Fund of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office. www.unicef.org/graca/

Doctors Without Borders -- Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontires (MSF), an international independent medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural and man-made disasters, or exclusion from health care in almost 70 countries. www.doctorswithoutborders.org/

François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health & Human Rights; The FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, the first academic center to focus exclusively on health and human rights, was established at the Harvard School by Dr. Jonathan Mann.
(www.hsph.harvard.edu/fxbcenter/journal.htm)

International Conference on Children. www.irct.org.

Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research. www.mayo.edu

National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities. www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/

National Child Abuse Prevention Month (April)

National Child Traumatic Stress Network. www.nctsnet.org.

National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (NOFAS). www.nofas.org

Organization of Teratology Information Services, Wake Forest University, School of Medicine. www.otispregnancy.org

(The) Presence of the Absence: International Holocaust Conference for Eyewitnesses and Descendants of "both sides". Vienna, Austria, September 1-3. www.baycrest.org

Psychologists for Social Responsibility, established in Washington, DC. www.psysr.org

STAKES: The National Research and Development Center for Welfare and Health. Helsinki, Finland. www.stakes.fi

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. www.samhsa.gov

U.S. Agency for International Development. www.usaid.gov

UNESCO. www.unesco.org

United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR). www.unhcr.org.

United Nations, Division for Social Policy and Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. www.un.org/esa/socdev/sib/v2issue2.htm

Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy. www.voices.no

(Annual) White Bison Wellbriety Conference. www.whitebison.org

Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children. www.womenscommission.org.

World Conference on the Promotion of Mental Health and Prevention of Mental and Behavioral Disorders.  Oslo, Norway, October 2006.

World Congress for Play and Child Psychotherapy. www.playtherapy.org/

World Federation for Mental Health www.wfmh.org

Zero To Three is a national organization located in Washington, DC, offering training and resources to serve children birth to three. www.zerotothree.org

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