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Mother's Advocate is a website dedicated to helping women have the healthiest, safest, most satisfying birth possible.

While every birth is unique, there is substantial evidence that points to ways you can improve your chances of having the best birth experience. This website offers free video clips and print materials that will educate and inform you on how to have the birth you want for you and your baby.

They have insurance, a health-care provider, and an appointment -- but many parents still regularly miss their children's immunization visits.

A new study from Columbia University Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital claims that there are several factors contributing to these slipups -- for example, parents are nearly four times as likely to miss an appointment that they've rescheduled, and nearly three times as likely to miss an appointment if they have difficulty communicating with their child's health-care provider.

The purpose of this website is to provide tools and information for news organizations, journalists, journalism educators, and a broad coalition of news story informants on ways to improve reporting on mental health issues.

US Department of Health and Human Services offers flash movies, games, and information about bullying and how to prevent it.

NATIONAL CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION MONTH, 2009
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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION

A list of current classes and events for parents, teens and kids from Seattle Children's.

Events and classes include car seat checks, infant CPR, babysitting classes, children with special needs, meal support training for parents, and more.

FRIENDS, the National Resource Center for CBCAP, provides training and technical assistance to Federally Funded CBCAP Programs. This site serves as a resource to those programs and to the rest of the Child Abuse Prevention community.

An ongoing nationally award-winning media and community advocacy campaign developed in Spokane takes a close look at what it takes to protect and nurture our children. Led by the Spokesman-Review newspaper and partners at The Inlander, KHQ, 1510 AM KGA/Mark Fuhrman Show, KREM, KSPS, KXLY and FOX 28.