Provides professionals and patients with information on specific childhood health and safety issues as well as the opportunity to order materials produced by the AAP.

Child Product Safety Recall Updates

Keeping children safe by reducing the risk of injury or death from consumer products.

Children’s Environmental Health Network

The Children's Environmental Health Network is a national multi-disciplinary organization whose mission is to protect the fetus and the child from environmental health hazards and promote a healthy environment.

KidsHealth from the medical experts of the Nemours Foundation
KidsHealth is the largest and most visited site on the Web providing doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence. Created by The Nemours Foundation's Center for Children's Health Media, the award-winning KidsHealth provides families with accurate, up-to-date, and jargon-free health information they can use. KidsHealth has been on the Web since 1995 - and has been accessed by over 100,000,000 visitors.

KidsHealth has separate areas for kids, teens, and parents - each with its own design, age-appropriate content, and tone. There are literally thousands of in-depth features, articles, animations, games, and resources - all original and all developed by experts in the health of children and teens.

National Association of Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies (NACCRRA)
Provides professionals and parents with information on child care options as well as quarterly newsletter for parents.

Provides professionals and parents with an alphabetical list of early childhood websites, a conference calendar, state information, a list of publications and a "What’s New?" section.

National Safe Kids Campaign: Promoting child safety to prevent unintentional injury

Nearly 7 million school-age children per year are regularly left home alone, according to a recent report by the Census Bureau. These days, children often take on more responsibility at an earlier age and as a result, feel that they are old enough to stay home alone. To ensure a child’s safety when staying at home alone, the National SAFE KIDS Campaign offers parents and caregivers these safety tips.

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from more than 15,000 types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction. Deaths, injuries and property damage from consumer product incidents cost the nation more than $700 billion annually. The CPSC is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical, or mechanical hazard or can injure children. The CPSC's work to ensure the safety of consumer products - such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette lighters, and household chemicals - contributed significantly to the 30 percent decline in the rate of deaths and injuries associated with consumer products over the past 30 years.

WV Birth to Three (WV BTT)

WV Birth to Three is a statewide system of services and supports for children under age three who have a delay in their development, or may be at risk of having a delay, and their family.  The Department of Health and Human Resources, through the Bureau for Public Health and the Office of Maternal, Child and Family Health, WV Birth to Three, as the lead agency for Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), assures that family centered, community based services are available to all eligible children and families. 

WV Bureau of Children and Families - PIECES Advisory Council - Partners Implementing Early Care and Education System

WV Headstart Association

The West Virginia Head Start Association represents twenty-four (24) Head Start programs statewide. Each Head Start program is unique in providing services to their families to meet the specific needs in the community.

Zero To Three

Provides parents and professionals with information on promoting the healthy development of children ages birth through three. It includes a resource list, newsroom and "Tip of the Week."