ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION: The Children's Foundation was established in 1969 as a private non-profit organization to give impoverished children and families a voice in the nationwide effort to eliminate hunger in the United States. The Foundation is the link between the millions of hungry children in this country and the programs designed to feed them and their families. Projects include: WIC (Women, Infant and Children) Advocacy Project, Family Day Care Advocacy Project, Food for Child Care Centers and Schools-Food Advocacy Project. Working throughout the country, the Foundation serves as a vehicle for community organizations that seek to reform and expand federal food assistance programs.

PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: Monthly Newsletter, Feed Kids-It's the Law!; a WIC Bulletin and

a Child Care Food Project Bulletin. Fact sheets on related issues and numerous reports are also available.

ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION: The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) is a privately supported North American Organization. The overall goal of CWLA is to improve the care and services for deprived, neglected and dependent children, youth and their families. CWLA works to achieve their goals through their membership agencies by providing consultation, development of standards of services and research. Some CWLA agencies (177) provide services to unmarried parents. These services include family education, family planning referral, counseling and a variety of other services.

REGIONAL OR STATE OFFICES: The Child Welfare League has Washington, D.C. offices which focus on legislation:

CWLA

William Pierce, Director

1346 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20036

The American Parents Committee, Inc.
Nancy McConnell, Director

1346 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036

Phone: (202) 833-2850

PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: Washington Report on Children Services, Washington Social Legislation Bulletin, Office of Regional, Provincial and State Child Care Associations Newsletter, and the Child Welfare Planning Notes.

ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION: Coalition for Children and Youth (CCY) goals are to attain satisfactory quality of life for children and youth; to strengthen the efforts of organizations and professions in assisting families to guide their children's development; and to attain a maximum unity of policy and action of all agencies, organizations and individuals concerned with children and youth. CCY monitors all legislation affecting children and youth, sponsors forums on health and justice and other issues. The organization also provides technical assistance to its membership.

REGIONAL OR STATE OFFICES: There are no regional or state offices. For information contact the Washington, D.C. office.

PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: A Monthly Newsletter, Focus on Children and Youth; The Children's Political Checklist, How to Raise Money for Kids, America's Children-1976, and a Directory of Child Advocates.

ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION: The Day Care and Child Development Council of America, Inc. is a private, non-profit membership organization of providers of day care, parents and child care advocates. The agency's goal is to facilitate the availability and development of quality child care for all families who want and need child care at a price which they can afford by the year 2000. Many of the Council's members have special teenage parent programs, and have assisted in the development of day care in high schools.

REGIONAL OR STATE OFFICES: There are no regional or state offices. For information contact the Washington, D.C. office.

PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: Voice for Children, a monthly magazine. A catalogue of other publications is available.

ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION: Family Impact Seminar is a policy analyses project of the Institute for Educational Leadership at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The Seminar was established to develop and test methods of examining governmental programs to determine how they affect the membership and functioning of families. The objective behind the analyses is to achieve a climate of greater governmental sensitivity to the needs of the full range of diverse American families. Family Impact Seminar has initiated a pilot project, "Teenage Pregnancy and Family Impact: New Perspectives on Policy", to determine what role families play in the prevention and/or resolution of the adolescent's pregnancy and whether public policies and programs are aware of the family's role. The seminar has also conducted studies on foster care policies and their effect on families, and a study on flexible work hours to determine their positive and negative effects on the functioning of the family.

REGIONAL OR STATE OFFICES: There are no regional or state offices. To find out more information about the programs and activities of the Seminar, contact the Washington, D.C. office.

PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: Family Impact Seminar: An Introduction Toward an Inventory of Federal Programs with a Direct Impact on Families; Interim Report of Family Impact Seminar; Teenage Pregnancy and Family Impact: New Perspectives on Policy.