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NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

 

Center for Civic Partnerships

The Center for Civic Partnerships is a support organization that strengthens individuals, organizations, and communities by facilitating learning, leadership development, and networking. We envision a world where everyone can live a healthy, productive life in a clean, safe environment.

 

Contact Information

1851 Heritage Lane, Suite 250
Sacramento, CA 95815
Phone: 916.646.8680
Fax: 916.646.8660

Website: http://www.civicpartnerships.org/

 

 

Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice

It is the mission of the Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice to support and promote a reoriented national preparedness to foster the development and the adjustment of children with or at risk of developing serious emotional disturbance. To achieve that goal, the Center is dedicated to a policy of collaboration at Federal, state, and local levels that contributes to and facilitates the production, exchange, and use of knowledge about effective practices.

 

Contact Information

1101 King Street, Suite 420
Alexandria, VA 22314
703.684.7710
Fax: 703.836.1040

Website: http://cecp.air.org/cultural/

 

 

Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed At-Risk

The Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed At Risk (CRESPAR) was established in 1994 as a collaboration between Johns Hopkins University and Howard University. CRESPAR's mission is to conduct research, development, evaluation, and dissemination of replicable strategies designed to transform schooling for students who are placed at risk due to inadequate institutional responses to such factors as poverty, ethnic minority status, and non-English-speaking home background.

 

Contact information

3003 North Charles Street, Ste 200
Baltimore, MD 21218
410.516.8800

Fax: 410.516.8890

Website: http://www.csos.jhu.edu/crespar/

 

 

Community Tool Box (CTB)

The Tool Box provides over 7,000 pages of practical information to support your work in promoting community health and development. This web site is created and maintained by the Work Group on Health Promotion and Community Development at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas (U.S.A). Developed in collaboration with AHEC/Community Partners in Amherst, Massachusetts, the site has been on line since 1995, and it continues to grow on a weekly basis. The core of the Tool Box is the "topic sections" that include practical guidance for the different tasks necessary to promote community health and development. For instance, there are sections on leadership, strategic planning, community assessment, grant writing, and evaluation to give just a few examples. Each section includes a description of the task, advantages of doing it, step-by-step guidelines, examples, checklists of points to review, and training materials.

 

Contact Information

Work Group on Health Promotion & Community Development
4082 Dole Human Development Center
1000 Sunnyside Ave.
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045-7555
785.864.0533
Fax: 785.864.5281

Website:  http://ctb.ku.edu/

 

 

Diversity Rx

The National Conference of State Legislatures is a bipartisan organization founded to: improve the quality and effectiveness of state legislatures; foster interstate communication and cooperation; and ensure legislatures a strong, cohesive voice in the federal system. The Immigrant Policy Project is a collaborative research effort undertaken by the State and Local Coalition on Immigration. The Coalition is comprised of the National Governors' Association, the National Conference of State Legislatures, the National Association of Counties, the United States Conference of Mayors, the American Public Welfare Association, and most recently, the National League of Cities. The goal of the Immigrant Policy Project is to address the role of state and local governments in the resettlement of immigrants and refugees. The project seeks to document immigration trends, innovative policies and programs, and priorities for state and local government.

 

Contact Information

E-Mail: rcchc@aol.com

Website: http://www.diversityrx.org/HTML/DIVRX.htm

 

 

National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC)

The mission of the National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC) is to increase the capacity of health and mental health programs to design, implement, and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems.

 

Contact Information

National Center for Cultural Competence
Georgetown University Center for Child & Human Development
Box 571485
Washington, DC  20057-1485

202.687.5387
Fax: 202.687.8899

Website: http://www11.georgetown.edu/research/gucchd/nccc/

 

 

Princeton University

Bendheim Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing (CRCW)

The Bendheim Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing (CRCW) is an interdisciplinary center at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Office of Population Research. Our mission is to stimulate basic research, educate faculty and students about issues related to children's policies, and influence policymakers and practitioners at the federal, state, and local levels. CRCW supports two initiatives: the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a basic research project, and the Future of Children, a journal for policy makers, practitioners, advocates, and researchers.  We also support researchers working on other topics related to child wellbeing and children's policies.

 

Contact Information

The Center for Research on Child Wellbeing
Wallace Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
609.258.5894
Fax: 609.258.5804

Website: http://crcw.princeton.edu/

 

 

The Commonwealth Fund

The Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation that aims to promote a high performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, minority Americans, young children, and elderly adults. The Fund carries out this mandate by supporting independent research on health care issues and making grants to improve health care practice and policy. An international program in health policy is designed to stimulate innovative policies and practices in the United States and other industrialized countries.

 

Contact Information

East 75th Street

New York, NY 10021

212.606.3800

Fax: 212.606.3500

Website: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/index.htm

 

 

University of Colorado at Boulder

BUENO Center for Multicultural Education

The BUENO Center for Multicultural Education is an integral part of the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Through a comprehensive range of research, training, and service projects, the Center strongly promotes quality education with an emphasis on cultural pluralism. The Center is deeply committed to facilitating equal educational opportunities for cultural and language minority students.

 

Contact Information

BUENO Center for Multicultural Education
UCB 247, School of Education,
Boulder, CO 80309-0249
303.492.5416

Website: http://www.colorado.edu/education/BUENO/

 

 

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured, isolated or medically vulnerable. Comprising six bureaus and 12 offices, HRSA provides leadership and financial support to health care providers in every state and U.S. territory. HRSA grantees provide health care to uninsured people, people living with HIV/AIDS, and pregnant women, mothers and children. They train health professionals and improve systems of care in rural communities.

 

Contact Information

5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20857

Website: http://www.hrsa.gov/culturalcompetence/indicators/

 

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Disclaimer: OMH does not endorse or recommend the associations, coalitions, foundations and/or organizations listed in this directory. The links are provided for educational and informational use only. OMH is not responsible for the content of the individual organization’s web pages found at these links. The directory's content displays the best effort to provide accurate information. Please check with the individual organizations for the most-up-to-date information. This directory is a not a complete list of minority health resources. OMH encourages consumers to explore resources that may not be included in this directory.