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ABA Center on Children and the Law
A program of the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division for child-related public interest law and practice reform.

Administration for Children and Families
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services division. It funds state, territory, local, and tribal organizations to provide family assistance (welfare), child support, child care, Head Start, child welfare, and other programs relating to children and families.

Childtrends
A nonprofit, nonpartisan research center that provides science-based information on child well being, marriage and family issues, research methods and welfare and poverty.

Friends of the Children
Founded in Portland, Oregon, the organization pairs high-risk children with paid professional mentors who provide support and guidance for twelve years of each child's life.

The Future of Children
Policy briefs and a twice-yearly journal on children’s issues published by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton and the Brookings Institution.

Juvenile Rights Project

Oregon non-profit corporation that provides high-quality legal services individually and through class-wide advocacy to children and families who can’t afford to retain counsel.

Oregon Juvenile Court Improvement Project
A federally-funded project to improve court practice in child abuse and neglect cases. Trains juvenile court judges, funds the Juvenile Court Mediation Project and publishes the Juvenile Court Dependency Benchbook.

Steering Committee on Unmet Legal Needs of Children
American Bar Association’s coordinating group for such projects as the Teen Dating Violence Prevention Initiative, school based legal clinics, access to quality legal representation and other unmet legal needs of children and youth.