The Kinship Center provides adoption, foster and relative care services to the children and families of California. The site has information on adoption, fostering, relative care, and mental health. It also has vignettes from their adopted children and foster children, and relative care stories.

This handbook has information on all you want to know about adopting children from foster care through Los Angeles County. Click on the light blue “Adoptions” tab and select “DCFS Adoption Handbook.”

Adoptive Families is a national adoption magazine. The site provides information for families before, during, and after adoption.

CWLA is an association of nearly 800 public and private nonprofit agencies that assist abused and neglected children and their families each year with a range of services.

Formerly the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information and the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse, Child Welfare Information Gateway provides access to information and resources to help protect children and strengthen families. The site primarily focuses on child abuse and neglect, and adoption issues such as supporting and preserving families, and achieving and maintaining permanency.

Lilliput Children’s Services is an organization that specializes in domestic adoptions. The site provides information on adoptions including recommended books and available support.

This site addresses issues for adopted children of color, offering informative articles on related topics as well as profiles of triad members and their families, links to other internet resources, and a book reference guide with a searchable database. The site also provides reprints of past Pact Press issues, as well as opportunities to interact with other triad members and to ask questions of birth parents, adopted people, adoptive parents and adoption professionals.

This site is an online adoption book store for learning about adoption. You will find book selections on topics such as: how to adopt, international adoption, domestic adoption, and adoptive parenting, as well as adoption books for children and professionals.

CWLA is an association of nearly 800 public and private nonprofit agencies that assist abused and neglected children and their families each year with a range of services.

This site has a list of different Kinship Care services in Los Angeles County.

A Child's Journey Through Placement (Fahlberg) is a book recommended by TIES staff on children in foster care.

The Psychology of Adoption (Brodzinsky and Schechter) is a book recommended for both parents and professionals.

Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child: Making sense of the past (Keefer and Schooler) is a book recommended by TIES staff.

This site helps families find a pediatric dentist in their community.

This site gives practical tips on child health on a wide range of topics including sleeping, eating/weight control, injuries, bathing, and common diseases.

Practical information for Parents, Kids and Teens on topics ranging from how your body works to homework.

This site is for kids and designed to help fight childhood obesity. It is affiliated with the American Heart Association.

You can search for TBS Providers in Los Angeles on this site.

This organization serves children with special needs related to autism, Asperger's disorder, learning disabilities, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, mental retardation, abuse and emotional problems. The site provides information on publications, schools and programs, and conferences and events.

The Center’s research program involves understanding the origins of social, communicative, and language deficits demonstrated by individuals with autism. It also focuses on the design and testing of experimental treatment interventions. The site provides a list of resources for those with autism and their families.

This site provides helpful information on all types of mental health disorder in children from attention deficit disorder to autism to bipolar disorder.

Tools to enhance the parent-child relationship at all ages. Ten ways to help your child become resilient.

This site is sponsored by SAMHSA Center for Mental Health Services. It provides facts on children with mental, emotional, or behavioral difficulties.

Information on Attention Deficit Disorder sponsored by CHADD a parent organization for children and adults with attention deficit disorder.

This site provides information on Attention Deficit Disorder and is sponsored by the Psychiatry Department of the Massachusetts General Hospital.

This site provides helpful information on anxiety disorders in chidlren and teens.

The National Scientific Council on the Developing Child (NSCDC) is a multi-disciplinary collaboration comprising leading scholars in neuroscience, early childhood development, pediatrics, and economics.

211 LA County is dedicated to providing a professional source of guidance, advocacy, and 24 hours, 7 days per week access to a comprehensive range of human services to the people of Los Angeles County.

Bienvenidos Children’s Center provides comprehensive, culturally sensitive support services for families and children.

This site has information on Public Health Programs in Los Angeles County.

This site provides information on court hours, contact information, directions, judges, etc.

This is a support organization for relative caregivers. The site provides information on legal issues and legislation regarding relative caregivers, lists of resources and support groups, message boards, etc.

This is a database of social services in Los Angeles County

This organization provides support to children and adults who have lost a spouse, a parent, a sibling, or a child.

This site has information on legal rights of people with disabilities.

The UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families, and Communities focuses on improving society's ability to provide children with the best opportunities for health and well-being, and the chance to assume productive roles within families and communities. On this site you will find information about past and current projects, programs, publications, conferences, as well as links to other resources.

This organization works to protect the educational, health, and social service rights of impoverished and abused children in Los Angeles County.

This is an online resource for students, teachers, and parents that provides access to easy-to-use, readily available references for use in school, at home, and in life.

This is an online resource for Teachers, Parents, Students, Professionals & District Officials in the K-12 Education system with information on various topics in education and disabilities.

This site has administrative news and contact information, a school directory, and a student calendar for LAUSD.

This site has links for parents to IEP, for behavior supports, etc.

This site provides information on learning disabilties in children as well as other mental health and well care issues.

This site provides helpful information on Learning Disabilities in children.

This site has information on child mental health, parenting issues, and specific mental health disorders.

This is an online resource designed to help parents of children ages 2 to 8 better manage and enjoy the day-to-day challenges of raising great kids.

This site was created by The Girls and Boys Town National Resource and Training Center. It contains information for parents with children from ages 0-19 years.

This site provides resources and information to help make parenting more rewarding, effective, and fun.

This site has temperament questionnaires for infants and young children from birth to age 5, parenting strategies tailored to your child's particular temperament based on questionnaire results, and general informatin on temperament.

This site has information on parenting tips, tricks and secrets to have less stress, stop arguing, eliminate unwanted behavior and have overall happier, healthier and smarter children.

This site is a clearinghouse for comprehensive information on children's development and behavior. They aim to help parents navigate the sea of information available on the Internet and provide parents a means to link up with support groups, agencies, organizations, and other tools and resources.

This site has parenting and developmental information about infants and toddlers.

The Discipline Book: How to have a better-behaved child from birth to age ten (Sears and Sears). This is a parenting book written by parenting experts who have raised 8 kids.

How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk (Faber and Mazlish). This is a practical parent-friendly book focusing on communication skills in families.

Kids, Parents and Power Struggles: Winning for a lifetime (Kurcinka). This is a practical book dealing with common parent-child issues, helping parents take into account child's emotional life and temperament.

The Parent's Handbook (Dinkmeyer).

Parenting from the Inside Out (Siegel and Hartzell) is a book on parenting recommended by TIES staff.

Raising Your Spirited Child (Kurcinka). This is a parent-friendly, practical book that helps parents understand their children's temperament and devise parenting strategies effective for the child's particular temperament.

Siblings Without Rivalry: How to help your children live together so you can live too (Faber and Mazlish). This is a practical parent-friendly book encouraging problem-solving in families.

Temperament Tools: Working with your child's inborn traits (Neville and Johnson). This book offeres practical hints about how to adapt your parenting style to the individual needs of your child.

Your Baby and Child from Birth to Age Five (Leach). This is a basic parenting book including developmental milestones and practical parenting advice written by a pediatrician who raised a large family.

Tufts University has developed a WebGuide that is a directory of hundreds of sites that use reliable child development research to give practical advice covering children and teens of all ages. They have a section rating sites on adoption and foster care as well.

Bright Futures was developed at Georgetown University to promote and improve the health and well-being of infants, children, and adolescents.

AboutOurKids.org was developed by the New York University Child Study Center. On the site you will find general parenting information, articles, a Child Mental Health Disorder Guide and an Ask the Expert section.

This site translates scientific research on positive parenting into easy-to-understand resources for parents.

The Difficult Child (Turecki). This book provides behavior management suggestions based on an understanding of a child's temperament.

Parenting the Strong-willed Child (Forehand and Long). This book provides a practical, step-by-step approach to parenting challenging children.

Taking Charge of ADHD (Barkley). This book gives practical advice to parents about helping their child and themselves deal with issues associated with ADHD.

Your Defiant Child (Barkley and Benton) is a book recommended by TIES staff.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have launched a public awareness campaign, " Learn the Signs. Act Early." The campaign aims to help child care providers and health care professionals educate parents about child development. All materials are free and available online in both English and Spanish.

This organization provides a variety of services to assist individuals with FASD, and their families and their communities. The site has information on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.

Adoption and Prenatal Alcohol Drug Exposure: Research, practice, and policy (Barth, Brodzinsky, and Freundlich).

Children with Prenatal Alcohol and/or Other Drug Exposure: Weighing the risks for adoption (Edelstein et al).