- Administration for Community Living (ACL) - Ensures that individuals with developmental disabilities and their families have access to culturally competent services, supports, and other assistance and opportunities that promotes independence, productivity, and integration and inclusion into the community.
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) - AHRQ is the health services research arm of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, complementing the biomedical research mission of its sister agency, the National Institutes of Health.
- Health Services Research Projects (HSRProj) - HSRProj provides information about ongoing health services research projects sponsored by leading Federal agencies and private foundations. Users can retrieve records on the projects AHRQ currently funds by browsing or searching on the sponsoring agency listings for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - This Center is recognized as the lead federal agency for health promotion, prevention, and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States.
- HRSA Bureau of Health Workforce (BHW) - Programs help to assure access to quality health care professionals in all geographic areas and to all segments of society, by increasing the diversity of health professionals and through early intervention to expose students to MCH professions. Site contains information about loan repayment, and resources for trainees.
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) - Conducts laboratory, clinical and epidemiological research on the reproductive, neurobiological, developmental, and behavioral processes that determine and maintain the health of MCH populations
- AAP Community Pediatrics
- Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP) - This association of is the national organization representing state public health leaders and others working to improve the MCH community. AMCHP approaches its work from a systems perspective that emphasizes the interrelationships between individuals, families and communities.
- Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) is a national nonprofit organization representing public health agencies in the United States, the U.S. Territories, and the District of Columbia. ASTHO tracks, evaluates, and advises members on the impact and formation of public or private health policy.
- CityMatCH - CityMatCH is a freestanding national membership organization of city and county health departments' maternal and child health (MCH) programs and leaders representing urban communities in the United States.
- The Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) is the voice of accredited public health education, representing member schools and programs accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH).
- The American Public Health Association aims to protect all Americans, their families and their communities from preventable, serious health threats and strives to assure community-based health promotion and disease prevention activities and preventive health services are universally accessible in the United States.
- Association of Teachers of Maternal and Child Health - Offers an interdisciplinary forum through which MCH faculty from schools of public health and other institutions of higher learning can share the knowledge, ideas, and skills essential to educating students, advancing MCH research, and applying research results to MCH policies, programs, and services.
- Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD) - A network of interdisciplinary Centers advancing policy and practice for and with individuals with developmental and other disabilities, their families, and communities
- National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) is comprised of the 2700 local health departments across the United States. NACCHO's mission is to be a leader, partner, catalyst, and voice for local health departments in order to ensure the conditions that promote health and equity, combat disease, and improve the quality and length of all lives.
- The National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality (NICHQ) is an independent, nonprofit organization working for more than a decade to make children's health and healthcare better through quality improvement.
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