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Oklahoma links
 Family & Consumer Sciences
- As an Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service at Oklahoma State University, this site provides a variety of information from articles and contacts to chat rooms and success stories.
- Oklahoma Nursing Home Comparisons
- Oklahoma Nursing Home report comparisons from Medicare.
- Family Medicine Residency Program
- Produced by the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, this site contains information about the university's family residency program.
- Oklahoma 4-H
- The 4-H Youth Development Program aids Oklahoma youth, families, and communities and provides news releases, opportunities and a place to track the group by county.
- Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth
- This site provides links to different programs, organizations and Web sites, all grouped by topic.
- Oklahoma Department of Human Services
- The site provides information and links to topics, departments and agencies ranging from adoption to volunteer services. It also includes a directory.
- Oklahoma Family and Consumer Sciences
- The site includes information on various topics such as health, parenting and gerenotology.
- Oklahoma Family Policy Council
- The council is a statewide nonpartisan, nonprofit research, education and communications organization that includes initiatives, research and a bill watch.
- Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy
- The institute addresses issues facing children and youth and includes initiatives, statistics and a legislative agenda.
- Oklahoma Marriage Initiative
- Gov. Frank and Kathy Keating 's marriage initiative site offers marriage related links, as well as news releases and information about the issues.
- Oklahoma Office of Juvenile Affairs
- Besides annual reports, the site offers links to related juvenile sites, job announcements and news releases.
- Oklahoma Parent Teacher Association
- The site provides contact information and education programs both locally and nationally.
- OSU Department of Family Relations and Child Development
- Site offers grant information, publications and career options.
- Vital Records Information for Oklahoma
- The site discusses how to obtain Oklahoma vital records, such as birth and death cerificates, marriage licenses and divorce decrees on the county and state levels.
National Links
Organizations
- Action Alliance for Children
- This site includes research to inform and educate those who work with and on behalf of children.
- Annie E. Casey Foundation
- The foundation's goals are providing grants, funding demonstrations, providing services, delivering technical assistance and disseminating data and analyses -- all aimed at helping states, cities, and neighborhoods do a better, more cost-effective job of supporting children and families.
- American Coalition for Fathers and Children
- In an effort to create a family law system, legislative system and public awareness that promotes equal rights for all parties affected by divorce, this site includes legal resources, studies, organizations and a reading room.
- American Youth Policy Forum
- Research, career preparation and juvenile justice are a few topics highlighted by this site in an attempt to provide learning opportunities for policymakers on youth policy issues at the national, state and local levels.
- Children Now
- Using newsletters, a links directory and publications, this organizations tries to to ensure that children grow up in economically secure families where parents can go to work confident that their children are supported by quality health coverage, a positive media environment, a early education, and safe and productive things to do after school.
- Cybersmart
- The organization is designed to develop curriculum, training programs for professional development and related services designed to help educators empower students to take full advantage of computers and the Internet, instead of only monitoring them.
- Family Health International
- This site works with universities, ministries of health and non-governmental organizations to offer reproductive and family health around the world through biomedical and social science research, innovative health service delivery interventions, training and information programs.
- Focus On the Family
- The site provides articles, news releases and materials pertaining to strengthening families.
- Family Support America
- This site offers publications, programs and a learning center to help support strong families and be a voice for them.
- Genealogy Helplist
- This site allows people to choose a county across the nation or a country and receive a listing of publications about ancestry there.
- National Council on Family Relations
- This site provides a forum for family researchers, educators and practitioners to share in the dissemination of knowledge about families, including two journals: Journal of Marriage and Family and Family Relations.
- National Youth Violence Prevention Center
- This site could be a source of information on prevention and intervention programs, publications, research, and statistics on violence committed by and against children and teens.
- Partnership Against Violence Network
- The site provides a virtual library of information about violence and youth-at-risk, representing data from seven different federal agencies.
- Planned Parenthood
- This reproductive health care organization site includes health information, research and media sources.
Publications
- American Family Physician
- This online journal provides archives, as well as current articles regarding family health issues.
- American Journal of Family Therapy
- Also containing archives and current articles, this site centers around psychiatric issues facing families.
- Divorce Magazine
- The site includes articles, divorce statiticss, resources and support information.
General Reference
- Nursing Home Comparisons
- Compare nursing homes in your state, including inspection problems via Medicare.
- Center for Adolescent Studies
- The site sponsored by Indiana University focuses on providing support to adults working with youth, investigating current social issues and providing tools for teens to learn and practice new, healthy behaviors. Topics range from teacher talk to directories for searching drug prevention programs.
- Center for Child and Family Policy
- Duke University uses this site to offer scientific research, debate and dissemination, public service, and teaching in an attempt to solve important problems affecting today's children and their families.
- Child Support Calculator
- The site allows for calculations by state of probable child support payments.
- The Divorce Software Web Site
- The site includes several calculators, as well as, legal, financial and personal resources concerning divorce.
- How to Get a Divorce
- This site offers a dictionary, state laws, research and access to professionals as it walks through the steps of getting a divorce.
- Kids Cyberland
- This site resembles a supermarket with links to Web sites for kids ranging from recalled child products to coloring pages.
- Family Life.com
- Offering audio, visual and print stories, this site focuses on marriage and couples.
- Nursing Home Info
- This site provides consumer, provider and legal information concerning nursing homes, including a state-by-state analysis.
- Retirement
- Using a state-by-state analysis, the site includes information and links about retirement communities and the different types of retirement.
Government Agencies
- Administration for Children and Families
- This Department of Health and Human Services site provides research, databases and reports.
- Medicare
- Federal health insurance program for seniors.
- Nursing Home Comparisons
- Compare nursing homes in your state, including inspection problems via Medicare.
- Adolescent and School Health
- Sponsored by the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this site offers primary source reports on topics ranging from risk behaviors to health strategies, especially focusing on national health programs.
- Child Stats
- As the official site of the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, this site offers access to federal and state statistics and reports on children and their families, including population and family characteristics, economic security, health, behavioral and social environment, and education.
- Federal Support for Youth and Family Programming
- This site displays a list of federal agencies that support community-based programs and initiatives benefiting young people and their families.
- First Gov for Kids
- The site is set up like a one-stop shop for federal kids sites.
- First Gov for Seniors
- Hosted by the Social Security Administration, this site supplies information including consumer protection tips, education and training programs, health resources, legislation affecting seniors, retirement planning steps, technology information, tax assistance and retirement calculators.
- National Center for Health Statistics
- The site provides links to primary source data, statistics and reports including information concerning births, deaths, marriages and divorces.
- Safe and Drug Free Schools Program
- Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, this site is designed to prevent violence in and around schools and strengthen programs that prevent the illegal use of alcohol, tobacco and drugs by providing news updates, research, model programs, publications and related sites.
- Students.gov
- This site acts as a gateway offering current and future college students easy access to information and services they need from the U.S. government. The site offers links to other Web sites and databases.
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Oklahoma Web Resources