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  • Administration for Children and Families (ACF): Within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ACF is responsible for federal programs which promote the economic and social well-being of families, children, individuals, and communities.
  • Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS): Presented by the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
  • American Humane Association: The Children's Division of the American Humane Association (AHA) has worked for over a century to help improve and enhance public child welfare systems and private child-focused agencies in their responses to the plight of abused and neglected children.
  • Child Trends: A one-stop shop launched in June 2002 for the latest research and data to inform decision-making effecting child/youth well-being.
  • Child Welfare Information Gateway: Reports, databases, and other sources of statistics and demographic data on children and families in the United States, child abuse and neglect, child welfare services, children and youth in foster care, and domestic and international adoption.
  • Child Welfare League of America: The State Fact Sheets provide descriptive information on the condition of vulnerable children in all fifty states and the District of Columbia, using indicators of child protection, health, child care, education, and income support.
  • ChildStats.gov: The official web site of the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics
    • America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being: Cites numerous indicators to depict the well-being of children in such areas as economic security, health, behavior and social environment, and education.
  • Children in the States: Produced by the Children's Defense Fund.
  • Children's Bureau - STATISTICS & RESEARCH: Includes Child Maltreatment and Child Welfare Outcomes.
  • CLIKS Online Data: From the Annie E. Casey Foundation, has County-City-Community level information on kids. This website brings together data on the well-being of children collected by KIDS COUNT grantees from state and local sources. The system allows users to access state-specific inventories of data from local sources, such as health departments, human services agencies, and schools.
  • Cost of Child Abuse and Neglect In the United States [pdf]*: Prevent Child Abuse America presents data to document the tremendous nationwide costs resulting from the abuse and neglect of children. The research section of their site also includes fact sheets, surveys and reports.
  • FedStats: Statistics from various federal government agencies including crime and justice, demographics and health.
  • Human Services Policy (HSP): Indicators & Databases: Indicators of well-being (trends) of children. (For policy community)
  • KIDS COUNT Data Book Online: The Annie E. Casey Foundation funds a nationwide network of state-level KIDS COUNT projects that provide a detailed picture of the condition of children.
  • Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCH) - Child Health USA: Population characteristics, health status, child abuse, state and city level data, and MCH measures and goals.
  • National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect: A project of the Family Life Development Center College of Human Ecology, Cornell University. The mission of the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN) is to facilitate the secondary analysis of research data relevant to the study of child abuse and neglect. By making data available to a larger number of researchers, NDACAN seeks to provide a relatively inexpensive and scientifically productive means for researchers to explore important issues in the child maltreatment field.
  • Trends in the Well-Being of America's Children & Youth 2003: Indicators include population, family, neighborhood, economic security, social development, behavioral health, education and achievement.
  • U.S. Census Bureau: This site provides statistics on a wide range of topics. Visit their children's page as well as their reports on low income uninsured children by state.

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Last Updated September 26, 2007
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