STATE-LEVEL RESOURCES

Action for Children
Action for Children North Carolina is to advocate for child well-being by educating and engaging all people across the state to ensure that our children are healthy, safe, well-educated and have every opportunity for success.

Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Coalition of NC
Prevention of Adolescent Pregnancy is the business of the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Coalition of North Carolina (APPCNC).

ARCC (Appalachia Region Comprehensive Center)
Edvantia is an education research and development not-for-profit corporation founded in 1966. We partner with educators, agencies, publishers, and service providers to improve learning and advance student success.

Arc of North Carolina
The Arc of North Carolina is committed to securing for all people with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities the opportunity to choose and realize their goals of where and how they learn, live, work, and play. The Arc of North Carolina is an affiliated chapter of The Arc of the United States.

Center for the Prevention of School Violence
The Center for the Prevention of School Violence serves as a resource center and "think tank" for efforts that promote safer schools and foster positive youth development.

Center for the Prevention of School Violence Parent Resources
The Parent Resource Room provides parents with information that is designed to enhance their understanding of issues which characterize the arena of school safety.

Communities in Schools
Program contacts

Education and Law Project
The North Carolina Justice Center provides legal assistance to low-income North Carolinians in selected, “high-impact” cases that are designed to help alleviate poverty by protecting or expanding important rights for large numbers of vulnerable people.

El Pueblo, Inc.
El Pueblo is a North Carolina non-profit statewide advocacy and public policy organization dedicated to strengthening the Latino Community.

First in Families of N.C.
The goal of First In Families of North Carolina is to support people with developmental disabilities and their families to create the lives they want now and in the future.

Independent Living Resources, Inc.
Provide a wide-range of materials and services to educators and human services professionals nationally and internationally.

Inter-Faith Council for Social Service
Providing shelter, food, direct services, advocacy and information to people in need.

LimiTV
Inform parents, educators, and children about the ways excessive TV watching can compromise early childhood development, hinder learning, adversely affect health, and stimulate aggressive behavior.

National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education
At NCPIE, our mission is to advocate the involvement of parents and families in their children's education, and to foster relationships between home, school, and community to enhance the education of all our nation's young people.

National Network of Partnership Schools
Established at Johns Hopkins University in 1996, NNPS invites schools, districts, states, and organizations to join together and use research-based approaches to organize and sustain excellent programs of family and community involvement that will increase student success in school.

Action for Children North Carolina
The Mission of Action for Children North Carolina is to advocate for child well-being by educating and engaging all people across the state to ensure that our children are healthy, safe, well-educated and have every opportunity for success.

NC Justice and Community Development Center
The Justice Center is North Carolina’s leading private, nonprofit anti-poverty organization. Its mission is to reduce and eliminate poverty in North Carolina by helping to ensure that every North Carolina household gains access to the resources, services and fair treatment that it needs in order to enjoy economic security.

NC Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCCADV)
The North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCCADV) is a community of agencies and individuals who serve battered women and their children.

NC Council of MH/DD/SA Community Programs
The North Carolina Council of Community MH/DD/SA Programs was incorporated in 1982 as a nonprofit association dedicated to helping its member area programs improve their service quality and management effectiveness.

NC Parents As Teachers Network
Parents as Teachers (PAT) is a voluntary family education and support program for parents of young children.

NC Partnership for Children
Smart Start is North Carolina's nationally recognized and award-winning early childhood initiative designed to ensure that young children enter school healthy and ready to succeed.

Parent Information and Resource Center (PIRC)
The Parent Information and Resource Center (Parent Partners) has provided services to families and educators in Title I schools since 1985.

Parent Teacher Association
NC PTA encourages and supports initiatives at all levels of government – local, state and federal – to assure that every school system has sufficient funding to provide every child with an opportunity for a sound basic education.

Smart Start
Smart Start is North Carolina's nationally recognized and award-winning early childhood initiative designed to ensure that young children enter school healthy and ready to succeed.