Children's House: Information Floor

Moderator for the Information Floor in Children's House is
The Australian Institute of Family Studies

Welcome to the Information Floor in Children's House!

Here you will find a variety of relevant web resources on the situation of children around the world. We welcome suggestions for other information sites. Please send them to library@childhouse.uio.no

Contents

General
Advocacy and Policy
Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention
Child Health
Children and Cities
Children and War
Children's Rights
Early Childhood
Homeless Children and Street Kids
Youth and Adolescents
Journals with Relevance to Children
Internet Resources for Children

General

UNICEF - a wealth of resources including the full text of reports such as 'The State of the World's Children', 'The Progress of Nations', Country Profiles and children's rights information
Australian Institute of Family Studies - research and information resources on children and families (Australia)
Canadian Resource Centre for Children and Youth (CRCCY) - a resource centre of information about children, youth and families (Canada)
Children, Youth and Family Consortium - Electronic Clearinghouse, University of Minnesota - a forum for sharing information related to the health, education and welfare of children, youth and families (United States)
Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography Online Edition - searchable database of citations and abstracts from 275 English and foreign language journals from 1990 to date

Advocacy and Policy

Childnet - set up to promote and protect the interests of children in international communications (United Kingdom)
Children Now - a US policy and advocacy organisation for children. The site contains information about children's issues and links to other online information resources on children's issues (United States)
Child Welfare: Gateway to Resources - produced by the Child Welfare Research Institute in Los Angeles the site provides links to a wide collection of child welfare resources and publications including the online journal Child Welfare Review (United States)
Fundacion Paniamor - a nongovernment organization working to prevent violence against children offering training, information and advocacy programs (San Jose, Costa Rica)
I am Your Child Campaign - a campaign focusing on the importance of a child's first three years of life, designed to promote family involvement in young children's healthy development and school readiness, to mobilize communities to act on behalf of young children and their families, and to build the capacity of early childhood organizations to help families nurture their children. (United States)
Kids Help Line - a national telephone counselling service for young people aged 5 to 18 years set up to provide support and advocacy. The site provides statistics of calls received by subject, a collection of infosheets on topics such as, HIV/Aids, Domestic violence, Bullying, Drugs, Grief, Homelessness, Physical and sexual Abuse, Self Image, Family relationships, Sexuality, Suicide, and other publications. A lead article in the April Newsletter 'In the best interests of children' reviews Australia's position in relation to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and provides an update on the establishment of independent representatives of children's interests in policy making. (Australia)
Il Telefono Azzurro - an organisation promoting children's rights at every level, locally and internationally, by providing a telephone help line for ill-treated and neglected children and involvement in larger social projects and research for children. Information is in Italian. (Italy)

Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention

National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information - a government service for information on the prevention, identification, and treatment of child abuse and neglect. The site includes specialized services on statistics, child welfare, child abuse and neglect prevention, and on-line databases of documents and prevention programs. (United States)
National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect - central data archive for researchers in child abuse and neglect. (United States)
National Child Protection Clearing House - a network of people and publications including newsletters, issues and discussion papers and bibliographies on the prevention of child abuse and neglect (Australia)

National Indian Child Welfare Association - the only Native American organization focused specifically on issues of child abuse and neglect and tribal capacity to prevent and respond effectively to these problems. Public policy documents, publications, library, and links to other Native American sites are included. (United States)
Child Safety Network - Initiated by the Scout Association the site draws together community organisations concerned with the safety of children and the prevention of child abuse, such as NAPCAN, and Kids Help Line (Australia)
Family Life Development Center, Cornell University - a center for research, training, outreach and education with a focus on risk factors which lead to family violence and child neglect. Includes the Child Abuse Prevention Network, Prevention Bookmarks - links to child abuse sites (United States)

Child Health

The ABCs of Safe and Healthy Childcare: an On-line Handbook for Child Care Providers - produced by the US Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the manual provides a comprehensive overview of policies, practices and facilities required for children in child care and a series of fact sheets on childhood diseases and conditions (United States)
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry's Facts for Families - provides 46 fact sheets in French, Spanish and English on topics such as the adopted child, children and AIDS, helping children after a disaster, children of parents with a mental illness (United States)
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare - a national agency for health and statistics information, the site includes full text of two comprehensive national reports on the state of children's health and welfare and government services and policies (Australia)
Global Childnet - a Canadian based organisation offering a range of child health related information services including an online copy of the journal Global Child Health News and Review, bibliographical and organizations databases, transcripts from the Second Child Health 2000 Congress, and links to global information resources relating to the welfare of children (Canada)

Children and Cities

Habitat II: United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, Istanbul, Turkey 1996 - a major UN conference on sustainable human development which declared the rights and well-being of children should be seen as the ultimate indicator of a healthy society and good governance. The site contains a wealth of documentation from the conference including conference papers, the Istanbul Declaration, and the Habitat Agenda.
Cities and Children - designed for children from the Unicef Voices of Youth Project, presents information and encourages children to contribute
Child Research Net - International Comparative Surveys - the research results from a collection of international studies on children in urban societies. (Japan)
Growing up in Cities - an international research project to understand better the ways in which children perceive and use the urban environment - both across time and across cultures. First conducted twenty years ago the current project is revisiting the original sites in Melbourne, Australia; Warsaw, Poland; Salta, Argentina; and Mexico City and including new sites in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Bangalore, India; Johannesburg, South Africa; Oakland, USA and Trondheim, Norway.

Children and War

Impact of Armed Conflict on Children - a report from Unicef, the result of a two-year process of research and consultation undertaken by Graca Machel, the Secretary-General's Expert on the subject and a former Minister for Education in Mozambique. The site provides key findings and recommendations from the report revealing the full extent of children's involvement in the 30 or so armed conflicts around the world
Children of War - a free newsletter from Save the Children on child soldiers available on-line or in print
Children and War - key documents from the International Red Cross including current fact sheets of conflict areas throughout the world
Children and War - a guide to key reports and news articles (full text) from Unesco and other NGOs from the non-commercial publisher OneWorld Online

Children's Rights

Childwatch Database on Research and Documentation - a database of European Child Research Institutions that have information on issues related to the various articles in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (Norway)
Lawstuff - information for young people under 18 years about their legal rights. (Australia)
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Report - Bringing them Home - Community Guide to the findings and recommendations of the National Inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families (Australia)
Save the Children Fund - an international organisation working for children's rights. The web page offers press releases, information on current issues and news about publications (United Kingdom)

Early Childhood

ACWA Online - news, projects, professional courses and events databases, and links to related sites, from the Australian Association of Childrens' Welfare Agencies (Australia)
Early Childhood Floor in Children's House - includes documents on early childhood care and development, related resources and links
Consultative Group on Early Childhood, Care and Development - an international resource in support of children 0-8 years and their families (United States)
ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education - information on the development, education, and care of children from birth to early adolescence (United States)
The Perpetual Preschool - a resource website for early childhood educators, including curriculum ideas and a resource list of www sites. (United States)
READY*SET*READ Early Childhood Learning Kit - developed by the Department of Health and Human Services, the Corporation for National Service, and the Department of Education to advance President Clinton's challenge to help every child in America read independently and well by the end of third grade. The READY*SET*READ Activity Guides for Families and Caregivers, provide ideas to help young children learn about language with age-appropriate activities. (United States)
Unesco Basic Indicators on Young Children - provides statistics for countries in the following regions: Africa, Arab States, Asia, Carribean, Europe, Latin America, North America, Oceania, including number of children under 5, child mortality rates, adult literacy rates, fertility rates, access to health services, preprimary education

Homeless Children and Street Kids

European Network on Street Children Worldwide (ENSCW) - a network uniting European organisations that address the rights and needs of street children in (Eastern) Europe and Developing Countries (Belgium)
Street Kid-L Resource Page - a collection of information and resource links to missions, agencies, projects, foundations and books, journals and videos. Also provides information about the StreetKid-L Discussion List (United States)
Casa Alianza - Covenant House, Latin America - an independent, nonprofit organisation dedicated to the rehabilitation and defense of street children in Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico
SOS Children's Villages - a non-government and non-denominational organisation set up to assist orphaned and abandoned children regardless of their ethnic roots, nationality and religion, by giving them a family, a permanent home and a sound basis for an independent life

Youth and Adolescents

Adolescence Directory On-Line, Center for Adolescent Studies, Indiana University - a collection of WWW documents on the social and emotional growth and development of adolescents (United States)
National Clearinghouse for Youth Studies, University of Tasmania - resources for those who work with youth including: organisations and associations directory; programs and youth policy; research; educational courses and training; funding and sponsorship; listings of events and conferences; and contents and abstracts of the Youth Studies Australia journal.(Australia)
Nordic Youth Research Information Bibliography (NYRIB) a bibliographic database of youth research from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Sweden, Norway (Sweden)
Youth Affairs Research Network (YARN), University of Melbourne - information about youth-related research in Australia and a network of researchers linked by the YARN mailing list (Australia)

Journals with Relevance to Children
(* site contents in brackets)

Child Abuse and Neglect - official publication of the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (information for authors, ordering details)
Child and Youth Care - journal for those who work with troubled children and youth at risk published by the national Association of Child Care Workers, South Africa (full text of articles and columns)
Child Development (contents of recent issues, subscription details)
Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography Online Edition (current and back issues of abstracts to search or browse)
Child Maltreatment - the Journal of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (contents of past, present and future edition, ordering details)
Child Neuropsychology - a journal on normal and abnormal development in childhood and adolescence (abstracts for current issue, information for authors, ordering details)
Child Welfare Review - an electronic journal which contains both links to articles related to child welfare and original articles. More than one hundred articles are organized into six categories: child abuse, foster care and adoption, welfare reform and children, child poverty and inequality, child advocacy, and values and children.
Childhood - global journal of child research (fax order form)
Family Matters - journal of the Australian Institute of Family Studies (contents and abstracts of recent issues, ordering details)
Future of Children (contents and full text downloadable as Acrobat files, ordering details for free print edition)
Journal of Child Language (contents of recent issues, ordering details)
Journal of Clinical Child Psychology a journal of the American Psychological Association (subscription details)
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology (description and ordering details)
Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health - the official journal of the Australian College of Paediatrics (ordering information)

Internet Resources for Children

Africa Online - Kids Only - a special group of Web pages for children to learn about African countries from the informative Africa Online service, menu includes Learn about Africa; Global classroom; Key pals; African schools, a magazine, games and activities.
Canadian Kids Page - a jumping off point for students and teachers, parents and children to over 300 kid-safe, non-commercial sites that are fun, interesting or educational for children.
The Children Page - From the Vicolo Osservatorio in Padova, Italy, - links to interesting sites - volcanoes, frogs, astronomy, skateboards, Italian cars, soccer etc
Children's Sites by Berit Cochrane - selected and ranked fun and educational sites for kids, many by kids, for kids
KID List - an alphabetical list of sites for children and their parents, includes a lycos search.
KIDDING Around - a roadmap to the Internet especially for middle school kids and teenagers
K.I.D.S Report - Kids Identifying and Discovering Sites Report is a publication about useful Web sites produced by K-12 students. Students select and annotate all resources in each issue. The publication is supported by the InterNIC Net Scout project.
Kids Web - A World Wide Web Digital Library for Schoolkids - links to Web servers all over the world on the arts, sciences, social sciences, games and sports
Kids Web Japan - managed by the Japan Center for Intercultural Communications and designed to introduce Japan to school children aged 10 to 14 in other countries. The site provides information on daily life; schools; traditional culture; sports; regions of Japan; nature and climate; protecting the environment; history; politics and the constitution; economy and industry; international relations, with many photographs.
Launchsite - activities and projects for children linking countries together around the world - short descriptions of all projects in German, French, Spanish and English - longer descriptions and other information in English only.
The Kids on the Web - Brendan Kehoe's list of sites for and about kids, funstuff and educational sites
United Nations Cyberschoolbus - resources and discussion for teachers and students based on the rich resources of the UN. Curriculum resources on health and cities, short term projects and acitivities for the classroom, global trends, data and photographs of many different countries, and an oline introduction to the UN.
Voices of Youth - a Unicef site set up to provide information on a number of topics for children and to give them an opportunity to have their say and to read what others have to say. Topics are: The girl child; Cities and urbanization; Children's rights; Children and war.

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Last updated 7 July 1997. Email suggestions or comments toinformation@childhouse.uio.no