5 A Day Program for Arkansas
DHHS
http://www.healthyarkansas.com/services/services_5aday.html
The 5 A Day for Better Health Program is the largest public-private nutrition education program ever launched. It is one of the first programs to approach Americans with a simple, positive message - to eat 5 or more serving of fruits and vegetables every day for better health.

Act 1220
DHHS
http://www.healthyarkansas.com/advisory_committee/pdf/act1220.pdf
An Act to create a Child Health Advisory Committee; to coordinate Statewide efforts to combat childhood obestiy and related illnesses; to improve the health of the next generation of Arkansans.

Act 13 of 2006
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/acts/2006S1/public/act13.pdf
An Act to Protect Children Restrained in Child Passenger Safety Seats in Arkansas from Secondhand Smoke; and for Other Purposes.

Act 8 of 2006
http://www.arcleanair.com/pdf/act8.pdf
An act to protect workers in arkansas from secondhand smoke in the workplace, and an act to protect the citizens of arkansas from secondhand smoke in public places.

American Lung Association of Arkansas
American Lung Association
http://www.lungark.org/
The American Lung Association of Arkansas is a volunteer organization working to promote lung health, keep kids from smoking and help patients with asthma, especially children.

Arkansas Comprehensive Health Insurance Pool
CHIP
http://www.chiparkansas.org/
The Arkansas Comprehensive Health Insurance Pool was created by Act 1995, No. 1339 as a state program that was intended to provide an alternative market for health insurance for certain uninsurable Arkansas residents and to provide the acceptable alternative mechanism as described in the HIPAA for providing portable and accessible individual health insurance for federally eligible individuals.

Bright Futures to Promote Child Health
HSR
http://www.hsrnet.com/brightfutures/
The Bright Futures for Infants, Children, and Adolescents Initiative was launched in 1990 under the leadership of the Federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to improve the quality of health services for children through health promotion and disease prevention.

Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction
National Toxicology Program
http://cerhr.niehs.nih.gov/
The Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction (CERHR) web site is your resource for the latest information about potentially hazardous effects of chemicals on human reproduction and development.

Child Health Advocacy Committee
DHHS
http://www.healthyarkansas.com/advisory_committee/advisory.html
The Child Health Advisory Committee addresses childhood obesity and develops statewide nutrition and physical activity standards.

Children's Dental Health Project
CDHP
http://www.cdhp.org
CDHP works with national associations of governors, state legislators, Medicaid directors and health officials to promote oral health policies across the country.

Core Public Health Journals in Child and Maternal Health
PH/HA Medical Library Association
http://info.med.yale.edu/eph/phlibrary/phjournals/v2/subject/9/index.html
The Core Public Health Journals project is to identify a list of core public health journals that should be in all libraries serving public health organizations in any or all of the specialty areas covered. The Public Health and Health Administration section of the Medical Library Association supports this project.

Families and Children Topics
DHHS
http://www.hhs.gov/children/index.shtml
A list of topics and information resources dealing with family and children issues.

Guidelines for School Programs To Prevent Skin Cancer
CDC
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5104a1.htm
Guidelines for School Programs To Prevent Skin Cancer.

Health Resources and Services Administration
Maternal and Child Health Bureau
http://mchb.hrsa.gov/
Information about HRSA funding opportunities, special programs, and related data and publications including Women's Health USA and Child Health USA.

Healthy Arkansas Program
DHHS
http://www.arkansas.gov/ha/home.html
Healthy Arkansas is a comprehensive effort to clearly define specific areas where behavioral changes can lead to healthier citizens.

Immunization Education
GIE
http://www.immunizationed.org/default.aspx
Provides links to the current guidelines on Child and Adult immunization schedules.

Interactive Atlas of Reproductive Health
CDC
http://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/GISAtlas/index.htm
The Interactive Atlas of Reproductive Health is a web-based interactive geographic information system (GIS) dedicated to reproductive health issues such as infant mortality, fertility, and low birth weight.

LactMed
National Library of Medicine
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?LACT
A peer-reviewed and fully referenced database of drugs to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed. Among the data included are maternal and infant levels of drugs, possible effects on breastfed infants and on lactation, and alternate drugs to consider.

Mary C. Egan Maternal and Child Health Library
Georgetown University
http://www.mchlibrary.info/
Provides a wide range of information for the MCH community, including a free weekly newsletter MCH Alert, full-text publications, specialized databases, and links to quality MCH web sites. Information is easy to locate through the A-Z topic index or through the knowledge paths, annotated bibliographies, and organization resource lists.

National Immunization Program
CDC
http://www.cdc.gov/nip/default.htm
The National Immunization Program (NIP) is a part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, located in Atlanta, Georgia. As a disease-prevention program, NIP provides leadership for the planning, coordination, and conduct of immunization activities nationwide.

National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center
Georgetown University
http://www.mchoralhealth.org/
The purpose of the National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center (OHRC) is to respond to the needs of states and communities in addressing current and emerging public oral health issues. Please contact the (OHRC) if you would like to distribute education materials: (info@mchoralhealth.org).

National Women's Health Information Center
DHHS
http://www.4woman.gov/
The National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC), a service of the Office on Women's Health (OWH) in the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

NIH Consensus Development Program
NIH
http://consensus.nih.gov/
The Consensus Development Program (CDP) is an unbiased, independent, evidence-based assessment of complex medical issues. The CDP conference is to evaluate the available scientific information on a biomedical issue and develop a statement that advances understanding of the issue under consideration and will be useful to health professionals and the public.

Open Wide: Oral Health Training for Health Professionals
National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center
http://www.mchoralhealth.org/OpenWide/index.htm
A series of four self-contained online modules designed to help health and early childhood professionals working in community settings (for example, Head Start and WIC staff) promote oral health in the course of promoting general health for infants, children, and their families.

Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS)
CDC
http://www.cdc.gov/prams/
A surveillance project of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state health departments. PRAMS collects state-specific, population-based data on maternal attitudes and experiences before, during, and shortly after pregnancy.

Quick Health Data Online
Office on Women's Health - DHHS
http://www.healthstatus2010.com/owh/index.html
The Department of Health and Human Services' Office on Women's Health (OWH) is pleased to provide access to Quick Health Data Online, formerly known as the National Women's Health Indicators Database (NWHID).

School Health Index
CDC
http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/shi/default.aspx
The SHI is a self-assessment and planning tool that schools can use to improve their health and safety policies and programs.

Stachybotrys
Case Western Reserve University
http://gcrc.cwru.edu/stachy/default.htm
Pulmonary Hemorrhage and Hemosiderosis in infants appears to be caused by something in home environments, most likely toxins produced by an unusual fungus called Stachybotrys chartarum or similar fungi.

ToxMystery
NLM
http://toxmystery.nlm.nih.gov/
An interactive game developed by the National Library of Medicine for educating children about potential chemical hazards around the home.

Virtual Guide to MCH Information: Knowledge Paths
MCH Library
http://mchlibrary.info/KnowledgePaths/index.html
Knowledge paths on maternal and child health-related topics contain selections of recent, high quality resources and tools for staying abreast of new developments and conducting further research.

Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
CDC
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dash/yrbs/index.htm
The YRBSS includes national, state, and local school-based surveys of representative samples of 9th through 12th grade students. These surveys are conducted every 2 years, usually during spring semester. The CDC's national survey provides data representative of high school students in U.S. public & private schools. The state & local surveys, conducted by departments of health & education, provide data representative of the state or local school district.