Resources
- KIDS COUNT Data Center
Access hundreds of measures of child well-being at the online KIDS COUNT Data Center, including national and local data sets. Utilize data within the bounds of a single state or territory, including community-level data; search by location or topic; create profiles, maps, rankings, line graphs, or raw data. Data sets are continually updated and added as they become available. - A Guide to Resources for Creating, Locating, and Using Child and Youth Indicator Data (pdf)
This guide provides brief descriptions of the ever-increasing number of data and information resources available to those who work in the child and youth indicators field. It is a resource useful to the novice and the veteran, to those who work in governance, advocacy, research, and the media.
Items covered include: books, journals, and other publications related to the identification, measurement, development and use of child indicators; professional newsletters focused on child indicator issues and products; web sites offering data at the national, state, and local levels; research centers focusing on child and youth well-being; and technical resources for those who would like to develop their own indicators web sites.
Funding for this guide has been generously provided by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
Florida Resources
- 211 Florida
- Florida Department of Economic Opportunity
- Office of Early Learning
- Office of Early Learning, Coalition Directory
- Bureau of Economic and Business Research, University of Florida
- Children's Campaign, Inc
- Children's Forum
- Early Childhood Initiative Foundation
- Enterprise Florida
- Florida Association of Counties
- Florida Children's Council
- Florida Department of Children and Families
- Child Abuse Hotline
- Child Care Information
- Florida Youth Substance Abuse Survey
- Florida Department of Corrections
- Florida Department of Education
- Florida Division of Accountability, Research and Measurement
- Florida Office of Assessment
- Florida Office of Independent Education & Parental Choice
- Florida Division of Food, Nutrition and Wellness
- Just Read, Florida!
- Office of Safe Schools
- Public Schools/Districts
- Florida Department of Health
- Immunization Program
- Health Statistics
- School Health Services Program
- Vital Records
- WIC
- Florida Department of Juvenile Justice
- Research
- Florida Department of Law Enforcement
- Florida Housing Data Clearinghouse
- Florida Legislature, Online Sunshine
- Florida Office of Program Policy Analysis & Government Accountability
- Florida Network of Youth & Family Services
- MyFlorida
- Office of Economic and Demographic Research
- The James Madison Institute
- University of South Florida
- Institute for Child Health Policy,
- Research and Innovation
- Shimberg Center for Housing Studies
- Technical Assistance Center on Social Emotional Intervention
- The Lawton and Rhea Chiles Center for Healthy Mothers and Babies
- The Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute,
- Department of Child & Family Studies
- Center for Child Welfare
- Transition to Independence Process
- The Research and Training Center for Children's Mental Health
- Workforce Florida
National Resources
- Alliance for Justice
- Carnegie Foundation
- Census Bureau
- Center for Law and Social Policy
- Center for Social & Demographic Analysis
- Center for the Study of Social Policy
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- Center on Infant Mental Health & Development, University of Washington
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago
- Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
- Child Trends
- Child Welfare League of America
- Children's Defense Fund
- Coalition on Human Needs
- Communications Consortium Media Center
- Eckerd Family Foundation
- Economic Policy Institute
- Families and Work Institute
- Families USA
- Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics
- Food Research and Action Center
- Innovation Network
- Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Joint Center for Poverty Research, Northwestern University/ University of Chicago
- Management Assistance Group
- Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
- Milbank Memorial Fund
- Moms Rising
- National Alliance on Mental Illness
- National Association of Cities
- National Association of Counties
- National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy
- National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University
- National Center for Education Statistics
- National Conference of State Legislators
- National Governors Association
- National Institute of Mental Health
- National Science Foundation
- Organizational Research Services
- Population Reference Bureau
- Poverty & Race Research Action Council
- Rand Worldwide
- Rockefeller Foundation
- Rural School and Community Trust
- Search Institute
- The Annie E. Casey Foundation
- Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative
- KIDS COUNT
- KIDS COUNT Data Center
- KIDS COUNT Outreach Partners
- KIDS COUNT State Organizations
- The Brookings Institution
- The Carter Center
- The David and Lucille Packard Foundation
- The Education Trust
- The Finance Project
- The Frameworks Institute
- The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- The MacArthur Foundation
- The National Academies
- The Pew Charitable Trusts
- The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
- U.S. Department of Justice
- Urban Institute
- Voices for America's Children
- Youth Transition Funders Group
- Velir Studios