United Way of Massachusetts Bay: www.uwmb.org/index.html/
The United Way of Massachusetts Bay is a community-focused non-profit organization dedicated to improving peoples' lives in the 80 immediate cities and towns throughout the Greater Boston region. This site describes their many initiatives and activities.

Massachusetts Department of Social Services: www.state.ma.us/dss/
The Massachusetts Department of Social Services (DSS) offers a range of services across the Commonwealth to protect youngsters and help parents. This site describes DSS' work with children and families.

Massachusetts Children's Trust Fund: www.mctf.org/
The Massachusetts Children's Trust Fund is a statewide organization whose mission is to prevent child abuse by mobilizing all segments of the community to strengthen and support parents. This site provides information about funding and resources for schools, organizations, community leaders, and parents.

The WIC Learning Center: www.wictlc.com/
The WIC TrainingWeb is the online hub of The WIC Learning Center (TLC). This site offers an online nutrition notebook, a guide to interactive training and a selection of WIC-related sites.

Communities Partners: www.compartners.org/
Community Partners is committed to developing, promoting and sustaining community-based efforts across Massachusetts. This site describes their goals to increase collaboration within and between communities, to build citizen participation, and to improve community quality of life.


GENERAL: National

Head Start: www2.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/hsb/
Head Start is a child development program that has served low-income children and their families since 1965. The Head Start Bureau maintains this site as an electronic resource for Head Start service providers, parents, volunteers, community organizations, and others who share an interest in helping children look forward to a brighter future.

Connect for Kids: www.connectforkids.org/
Connect for Kids, an award-winning multimedia project of the Benton foundation, helps adults make their communities better places for families and children. This site offers a place on the Internet for adults - parents, grandparents, educators, policymakers and others - who want to become more active citizens, from volunteering to voting with kids in mind.

All Family Resources: www.familymanagement.com/
This site provides a wide-range of quality resources that include information and services that are easily available to both individuals and organizations, for the main purpose of enriching the lives of all families.

Youth and Children's Resource net: www.child.net/
This site provides information and resources geared towards teens, kids, and parents & their teens - an online guide to youth and children resources.

Parent Soup: www.parentsoup.com/
One of the Internet's largest sites for parents - a virtual "soup" of articles, resources, guides and chat rooms.

FAMILY CRISIS

Domestic Violence Links Worldwide: www.dvsheltertour.org/links.html/
This site features links to organizations (state, local, national and international) that provide support in domestic violence situations for families/people experiencing domestic violence.

The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children: www.mspcc.org/
The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (MSPCC) is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to protecting and promoting the rights and well-being of children and families. This site offers information about their programs, services, and advocacy programs.

Divorcesource: www.divorcesource.com/
This site provides a comprehensive informational network for divorce support -- books, software, services, legal advice and more.

Growth House, Inc.: www.growthhouse.org/
Growth House's primary mission is to improve the quality of compassionate care for people who are dying. Advocating for public education and global professional collaboration, this site offers resources for life-threatening illness and end of life care.

Hospice Web: www.hospiceweb.com/
This site offers information on Hospice care, which emphasizes comfort measures and counseling to provide social, spiritual and physical support to the dying patient and his or her family.

HEALTH

The Massachusetts Department of Mental Health: www.state.ma.us/eohhs/agencies/dmh/
The mission of the Department of Mental Health (DMH) is to improve the quality of life for adults with serious and persistent mental illness and children with serious mental illness or severe emotional disturbance. This site provides information on DMH's programs and resources.

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health: www.state.ma.us/dph/
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) web site provides publications and statistics, a directory, and links to other resources and information on DPH's programs.

Massachusetts Association of Mental Health: www.mamh.org/
The Massachusetts Association For Mental Health (MAMH) web site provides education, advocacy, leadership and information to agencies, individuals, and families on national, state and local mental health issues.

American Medical Association: www.ama-assn.org/
The American Medical Association (AMA) Program on Child and Adolescent Health created this web site to provide people with resources and information on adolescent health issues.

KID FRIENDLY SITES

700 + Great Sites: www.ala.org/
This site is a compilation of links to kid friendly web sites -- originally compiled in 1997 by the first Children and Technology Committee of the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association.

ALTERNATIVE FAMILIES

Generations United: http://www.gu.org/
Generations United (GU) National Center on Grandparents and Other Relatives Raising Children seeks to improve the quality of life of these caregivers and the children they are raising. This site offers resources, links and more for grandparents who are parenting their grandchildren.

Making Lemonade, the single parent network: www.makinglemonade.com/
This site was founded by a single mom and offers links, resources and a newsletter for single parents. This site also has a children's section with fun and educational links, and articles and stories for and about children.

Single Parents World: www.parentsworld.com/
This site was founded by a single mom and offers articles, a book store, free e-mail, helpful tips, recipes, a newsletter, parenting links, and information on child support and kids & divorce.

Moms Network: www.momsnetwork.com/
"The" site for work at home moms.

COLAGE, Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere: www.colage.org/
COLAGE is the only national and international organization in the world specifically supporting young people with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender parents. This site offers resources, a pen pal program, email news lists and more.

Family Pride Coalition: www.familypride.org/
The mission of the Family Pride Coalition is to advance the well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered parents and their families through mutual support, community collaboration, and public understanding.

Fosterparenting.com: fosterparenting.com/
This site offers information, resources, chat rooms and epals.

Adoption.com: www.adoption.com/
#1 adoption website. This site offers information, resources, email groups, chat, epals and much more.

The StepFamily Foundation: www.stepfamily.org/
A site for those of you who are part of a stepfamily.