Organizations that promote children’s health & well-being

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• Tomorrows Children's Fund - privately funded organization that strives to ease the pain and suffering of children with cancer and serious blood disorders.
• Alliance To End Childhood Lead Poisoning - created to launch a comprehensive attack on the epidemic of childhood lead poisoning.
• alopeciaKIDS.org - non-profit organization helping kids and their families cope with this condition. Provides links, photos, discussion forums, and contribution information.
• Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival (BASICS) - maternal child health information for international organizations and developing countries in nutrition, behavior change, immunization, evaluation, public/private sector partnerships, and IMCI.
• Brazelton Foundation, Inc. - encouraging and supporting education and training programs that implement preventive healthcare practices for children and families that are based on the work of T. Berry Brazelton, M.D.
• Child Family Health International - we provide free surgery, immunizations, health care services, and recycle necessary medical equipment for children in need.
• Child Health Association of Sewickley - funding source of child-related charities for programs and services that directly address children's emotional, physical, educational, cultural, and recreational needs.
• Children Afflicted with Lymphatic Malformations - CALM - organization of parents and children afflicted with lymphatic malformations. Offers information, support, medical references, and encourages research to improve treatment.
• Children of Deaf Adults (CODA) - international organization for the hearing offspring of deaf parents.
• Children's Diseases Foundation - conducts, assists, and raises money for health care and disease prevention for children in the United States and throughout the world.
• Children's Environmental Health Network - promote a healthy environment and to protect the fetus and the child from environmental hazards.
• Children's Health Council - works to reduce the number of uninsured children in Connecticut.
• Children's Health Environmental Coalition Network - provides current information on government policy, scientific research, and community action related to children's health and the environment.
• Children's Life Link, Inc. - provides medically necessary air transportation to children and families free of charge, making all treatment centers an option regardless of financial status or geographic location.
• Children's Liver Association for Support Services - information, support, and services for families coping with pediatric liver disease and transplantation.
• Children's Miracle Network (4)
• Children's Mitochondrial Disease Network, The - parental and professional organization specializing in the complexities of mitochondrial and associated disorders.
• Children's Organ Transplant Association, Inc. (COTA)
• Dyson Foundation, The - charitable organization focuses on children's health and pediatric funding.
• European Association for Children in Hospital (EACH) - umbrella organization for member associations involved in the welfare of all children before, during, or after a hospital stay.
• First Hand Foundation - international nonprofit organization founded by Cerner Corporation that offers financial assistance to families of children with health problems.
• Focus International - people united to help children worldwide who suffer from health, nutrition, and community challenges.
• Foundation for Positively Kids - raising money to open and support a pediatric skilled nursing facility to help medically fragile and terminally ill children.
• GERD Word - support and education of parents with children suffering from GERD, reflux, and related motility disorders.
• Guardian Society, The - support group for parents that have kids or adults who suffer from motility disorders, such as GERD, Hirschsprung's Disease, or other similar problems.
• Healing the Children (7)
• Hope Project, The - offers support and information to parents of autistic children.
• Information Clearinghouse on Children - primary goal is to stimulate more extensive and accurate public discussion on a range of issues affecting children's well-being, health and safety.
• Jeena - non-profit organization dedicated to helping children with developmental disorders and their families in Silicon Valley and in India.
• Jenta Industries - provides cuddly stuffed pound puppies to children who are hospitalized or who suffer from abuse or neglect through their Love Puppy Program.
• Joseph Corpina Foundation - dedicated to the enhancement of health and quality of life for children who have suffered traumatic brain injury.
• KidsPeace: The National Center For Kids In Crisis - helping children overcome crisis through public awareness and treatment programs.
• KidTHINC - arranges computer access for children in hospitals for social, recreational, and educational use.
• Locks of Love - not-for-profit organization provides hair prosthetics for children who have developed long-term medical hair loss. Service is free or on a sliding scale to children whose parents or guardians can prove financial hardship.
• Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health - focused on the promotion and protection of the health of children.
• Magic Foundation - provides support services for the families of children afflicted with chronic and/or critical disorders, syndromes, and diseases that affect a child's growth.
• Nathan's Battle - foundation established to aid in the development of therapies for Late Infantile Batten Disease. Includes disease information and resources.
• National Association for Sick Child Daycare - a non-profit, educational organization that was developed as a result of a research project designed to quantify the need for sick child care.
• Project Linus (4)
• Ronald McDonald House (23)
• School Health Annual Report Programme (SHARP) - programme designed to cater to the health care needs of children going to school in India, and other third world countries. Emphasises on school health instruction, health services, and environment
• Side-by-Side - pastoral ministry focused on helping families with critically ill children.
• Starbright Foundation - chaired by Steven Spielberg and General H. Norman Schwarzkopf. Creates and distributes technology interventions for seriously ill children.
• Sugarbugs - nonprofit organization supporting children with diabetes and their families.
• TOMI - The Resources For Hope Center - non-profit group that provides information and treatments of autism and Pervasive Development Disorder.
• Tyler For Life Foundation - improve the lives of babies by preventing mental retardation and death resulting from disorders detectable through newborn screening.
• Wigs For Kids - provides wigs and hair replacement systems for children affected by hair loss due to chemotherapy, alopecia, burns, and other medical conditions. Accepts donations of hair and money.