Partner Organizations &
Community Resources

External Resources

The links below connect you to organizations, programs, and services that complement the work of the Office of Children's Services and support Alaska's children and families.

• The Alaska Adoption Exchange
  Helping to connect Alaska's waiting children with permanent families

• Alaska Center for Resource Families
  Training, support, and information to Alaska licensed foster and adoptive parents

• Alaska Youth & Family Network
  Supports and teaches family members with children and youth with emotional/behavioral or neural-behavioral problems

• The Annie E. Casey Foundation, Family-to-Family
  A family-centered, neighborhood-based system of foster care promoting permanence for all children

• Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Parent Portal
  Information from across all of CDC, covering everything from safety at home and the community to immunization schedules and developmental milestones.

• Child Care & Day Care Directory at Care.com
  Planning care for your child just got much easier. Take the stress out of your search for great child care with the Care.com Day care Directory

• Child Abuse Prevention Network
  Provides unique and powerful tools for Social Workers to support the identification, investigation, treatment, adjudication, and prevention of child abuse and neglect

• Child Support Services Division (CSSD)
  Collecting child support for tens of thousands of children

• The Children's Place
  Provides a child-friendly facility where personnel from many agencies (law enforcement, social workers, mental health, and medical providers) meet to coordinate an investigation of possible child abuse in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough and outlying areas

• Child Welfare League of America (NDAS)
  Making children a national priority

• Denali KidCare
  Provides health insurance coverage for children and teens through age 18, and for pregnant women who meet income guideline

• Electronic Payment (EDI) Forms
  The State of Alaska Electronic Payments Program uses the Financial EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) process to enable the electronic transfer of payments directly to a vendor's bank account. The program is designed to transmit payments to vendors more quickly and efficiently, and to reduce the cost of making those payments.

• Foster Care & Adoptive Community
  Foster parent training, chat groups, associations, news articles, and lots more

• Foster Club
  The club for foster kids and the grown-ups who care

• KidsHealth
  Lots of health info for parents, kids and teens

• The Northwest Adoption Exchange
  Photo listing service to find families for waiting children from Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington

• Prevention & Early Intervention
  Division of Behavioral Health

• The University of Alaska's Child Welfare Academy
  Training Academy for Alaska child protection workers in Alaska