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ACF is the federal organization responsible for welfare reform child support child care Head Start child welfare and other programs relating to children and families.

Information on its programs for the elderly, information about resources for practitioners who serve the aged statistical information on the aging and information for consumers (older persons and their families) including how to obtain services for senior citizens and electronic booklets on aging related issues. It also includes a link to AoA’s National Aging Information Center and extensive links to other aging related Web resources.

Health Information Technology is key to the nation’s strategy to bring health care into the 21st century by advancing the use of IT. The AHRQ initiative includes more than $260 million in grants and contracts in 41 states to support and stimulate investment in health IT, especially in rural and under-served areas. Through these and various other projects, AHRQ and its partners will identify challenges to health IT adoption and use, solutions and best practices for making health IT work, and tools that will help hospitals and clinicians successfully incorporate new IT.

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health, designed this Web page as part of a campaign to increase awareness of the need to act fast when someone may be having a heart attack. Fast action can save lives and limit damage to the heart

Provides practical health care information, research findings, and data to help consumers, health providers, health insurers, researchers, and policymakers make informed decisions about health care issues

HCUPnet: A tool for identifying, tracking, and analyzing national hospital statistics

Office of the Associate Administrator for Science – Environmental health information and resources on the linkage between human exposure to hazardous substances (chemicals) around hazardous waste sites (Superfund) and adverse human health effects.

Answers to some common environmental questions from NIEHS, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, which conducts basic research on environmental health and environment-related diseases. Links to information on programs, grants, research, events, contracts, employment, and training.

ADA Home Page provides access to Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) regulations for businesses and State and local governments, technical assistance materials, ADA Standards for Accessible Design, links to Federal agencies with ADA responsibilities and information, updates on new ADA requirements, information about Department of Justice ADA settlement agreements and enforcement activities and access to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) ADA material.

A Seattle area community of individuals, family members, and friends whose lives are touched by Asperger’s Syndrome.

Action for Autism was started in 1991 to provide support and services to persons with autism and their families, and to create an environment in India in which people with Autism are able to grow to their full potential.

Autism Outreach Project, a (Washington) State Needs Project through the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction in collaboration with the Infant Toddler Early Intervention Program of the Department of Social and Health Services and Northwest Educational Service District 189.

The National Institutes of Health support two major research networks dedicated to understanding and treating autism

The Autism Society, the nation’s leading grassroots autism organization, exists to improve the lives of all affected by autism. We do this by increasing public awareness about the day-to-day issues faced by people on the spectrum, advocating for appropriate services for individuals across the lifespan, and providing the latest information regarding treatment, education, research and advocacy.

Autism Speaks was founded in February 2005 by Bob and Suzanne Wright, grandparents of a child with autism. Since then, Autism Speaks has grown into the nation’s largest autism science and advocacy organization, dedicated to funding research into the causes, prevention, treatments and a cure for autism; increasing awareness of autism spectrum disorders; and advocating for the needs of individuals with autism and their families

Assists families during the first 100 days after an autism diagnosis

In 1996 Karen Simmons (author, keynote speaker, and businesswoman in autism-related endeavors) had a vision to simplify the information gathering and evaluating process for families dealing with Autism Spectrum Disorders… and Autism Today was the outcome. Autism Today receives over 2 million hits a month which consists of 55,000 unique visitors and 25,000 members.