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Below is an extensive list of resources on a wide variety of topics.

Sister Organizations
Advocacy Groups
Bay Area Activities
Government Agencies
Health
Pages for Children
Parent Resources
Teaching Resources
Tools for Nonprofits

Sister Organizations

• Sisters of the Holy Family
• Holy Family Day Home, San Francisco, CA
• St. Elizabeth’s Day Home, San Jose, CA

Advocacy Groups

• Child Care Law Center: Advocacy for children, families and communities facing barriers to childcare
• Child Development Policy Institute and the Education Fund
• Children Now: National organization focused on ensuring that children are the top public policy priority
• Children's Defense Fund
• HandsNet: Information on improving the lives of low-income families
• The National Economic Development and Law Center 
• National Women's Law Center 
• Stand for Children: Sister organization of the Children's Defense Fund

Bay Area Activities

• Bay Area Discovery Museum
• California Academy of Sciences
• Chabot Space & Science Center
• Children’s Fairyland
• The Exploratorium
• Habitot
• Lawrence Hall of Science
• Museum of Children’s Art
• Oakland Museum
• Oakland Museum Education
• Oakland Zoo
• San Francisco Zoo

Government Agencies

• Alameda County Department of Social Services
• California Department of Education
• California Department of Education, Child Development Division
• California Department of Social Services
• Library of Congress: America’s Story from America’s Library
• Oakland Unified School District
• U.S. Department of Education

• ABCD Reading Room for State Officials: Assuring Better Child Health and Development
• Asian Health Services
• Child Health and Disability Prevention Program
• Children’s Hospital Oakland
• Hall of Health Hands-On Health Museum
• Healthy Families: Family Health Literacy
• Healthy Kids, Healthy Care
• Highland Hospital
• KidsData: Data and resources from the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health 
• La Clínica de La Raza
• UC Berkeley Child Study Center
• UCSF School of Dentistry
• West Oakland Health Council: includes West & East Oakland Health Centers

Pages for Children

• American Library Association: Great Sites for Kids and the Adults Who Care About Them
• Kids Web Digital Library
• PBS Kids
• Yahooligans

Parent Resources

• Bananas, Inc.: Northern Alameda County’s Child Care Resource & Referral Service
• California Child Care Resource and Referral Network
• Connect for Kids: Benton Foundation newsletter on children's issues
• East Bay Agency for Children
• Four C’s of Alameda County
• Girls, Inc. of Alameda County
• I Am Your Child: Parents’ Action for Children
• Parenthood.com
• Pregnancy & Parenting at iVillage
• TrustLine: Daycare referrals  
• USA Child Care: Network of child care associations

Teaching Resources

• California Association for the Education of Young Children
• Children, Youth and Families Education and Research Network (CYFERnet)
• ERIC: Education Resources Information Center
• First 5 of Alameda County: Every Child Counts
• High/Scope
• JumpStart
• National Association for the Education of Young Children
• S.C.O.R.E. Teacher Guides & Student Activities

Tools for Nonprofits

• Compass Point: Resources and trainings for nonprofit and government board members and management
• Nonprofit Issues: An electronic newsletter of nonprofit law