External Resources

From helpful guides and expert advice to community resources, we hope this curated list of tools and information will assist you in finding the support you need:

• 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 Child Passenger Safety Coalition. Provides information and resources for protecting children traveling on the roadways of Alaska.
• 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 Photolisting 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