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Links to Other Consumer Resources
Care Coordination - Indiana Healthy Families: A voluntary home-visitation program designed to promote healthy families and healthy children through a variety of services, including child development, access to health care and parent education.
ChildbirthChild Care Children's Issues - Child Trends: Helping children, youth and families through research, data collection and data analysis.
- Connect for Kids: A place for adults who want to become more active citizens, from volunteering to voting with kids in mind.
- Indiana Head Start: Provides comprehensive services for low-income Hoosier pregnant women, infant and toddlers (ages birth to three). All programs provide early childhood educational, social, medical, dental, nutritional and mental health services to the enrolled children.
- Indiana Youth Institute: Promotes the healthy development of children and youth by serving the institutions and people of Indiana who work on their behalf.
- March of Dimes: Caring for Your Baby
- Prevent Child Abuse Indiana: A nonprofit organization dedicated to serving as a catalyst for preventing child abuse in all its forms to enhance the quality of life for children and families in Indiana.
Children with Special Needs- Family to Family (Indiana First Steps): Expanded support services to families enrolled in First Steps.
- Indiana First Steps: Helps to ensure Indiana families have access to early intervention services close to home.
- About Special Kids: Supports children with special needs and their families by providing information, peer support, and education, and building partnerships with professionals and communities.
- Our-Kids: A resource for parents raising special kids with special needs.
EmployersGenetics- Genetic Alliance: A coalition of support groups, consumers and professionals dedicated to promoting the common interests of children, adults and families with or at risk for genetic disorders.
Health Disparities- Race and Health Differences: There are continuing disparities in the burden of illness and death experienced by African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders, and American Indians/Alaska Natives, as compared to the U.S. population as a whole.
Hispanic ServicesIndiana WICMedicaidParent Support- Family to Family (Indiana First Steps): Expanded support services to families enrolled in First Steps.
- About Special Kids: Supports children with special needs and their families by providing information, peer support, and education, and building partnerships with professionals and communities.
- NeoFight: An Indianapolis-based organization dedicated to helping families experiencing a perinatal crisis.
- Sidelines: Support during high-risk pregnancies.
Parents & Expectant ParentsSafe Sleep/SIDS- First Candle/SIDS Alliance: Promotes infant health and survival during the prenatal period through two years of age.
- National Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Resource Center: Provides educational materials for national, state and local organizations and offers resources and references to increase public awareness about SIDS and related topics.
- Neo Fight: A support group for families experiencing a perinatal crisis.
- SIDS Network: Offers peer counseling, crisis intervention and support group meetings for those affected by a SIDS death, as well as literature, SIDS educational materials and educational programs.
Substance Abuse- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Information and education on the birth defects and associated problems that result from alcohol use during pregnancy.
- Prenatal Substance Use Prevention Program (PSUPP): An Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) program that aims to improve birth outcomes by assuring that babies are born to women who are free of substances such as tobacco, alcohol and other drugs.
Teen Pregnancy and Prevention- Always: Information for mothers in talking with their daughters about women's issues.
- Campaign for Our Children: Develops research-based prevention educational media campaigns to encourage healthy, responsible sexual decisions among early-adolescent youth.
- Children Now (Talking About Tough Issues: Sex/Sexuality)
- Girl Power: National public education campaign sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to help encourage and motivate 9- to 14-year-old girls to make the most of their lives.
- Girls, Inc.: A national non-profit youth organization dedicated to inspiring all girls to be strong, smart and bold.
- National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy: Campaign strives to reduce the teen pregnancy rate by one-third between 1996 and 2005.
- Talking with Kids About Tough Issues: A national initiative to encourage parents to talk with their children earlier and more often about tough issues like sex, HIV/AIDS, violence, alcohol and drug abuse.
Women's Health & Issues
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