Finding Resources
Familiarity with local and national resources is important for the care of children and their families. However, locating resources can be time consuming. Our Finding Resources document contains helpful tips to find local resources and a partial list of national ones. You may also enter your zip code below to search for nearby resources.
A Safe Environment for Every Kid (SEEK) – Resources for Families
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause anxiety, stress and challenges for parents, caregivers and families. Download the SEEK Resources for Families document which contains helpful information and a list of useful resources.
Resources for parents
- 24/7, confidential, free, information on local treatment centers, support groups and community organizations
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
- 24/7, confidential, free, support for those in crisis or who are suicidal
Postpartum Support International
- Offers a helpline and other resources
- Treatment locator for providers who specialize in treating substance use disorders, addiction and mental illness
National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI)
- Educational programs and helpline for individuals with mental illness and their family members
Resources for professionals
- Resources on effective screening, referral and support for postpartum depression
Center of Excellence for Integrated Health Solutions
- Evidence-based resources, tools and support for organizations working to integrate primary and behavioral health care
Resources for parents
- 24/7, confidential, free, information on local treatment centers, support groups and community organizations
- Treatment locator for providers who specialize in treating substance use disorders, addiction and mental illness
Alcoholics Anonymous & Narcotics Anonymous
- Free fellowships of men and women who share their experience, strengths, and hopes, to recover from alcoholism and drug addiction
Resources for professionals
Maryland MDs Making a Difference (MD3)
- Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral, and Treatment (SBIRT) for individuals who misuse, abuse or are dependent on substances including illegal drugs, prescription medications, alcohol and nicotine
Center of Excellence for Integrated Health Solutions
- Evidence-based resources, tools and support for organizations working to integrate primary and behavioral health care
Resources for parents
- Helpline offers parent support and helps find local resources
The Boys Town National Hotline
- Hotline available to families in crisis or in need of resources
For Parents: Dealing with Temper Tantrums
- Article on how to approach temper tantrums
Childhood Discipline: Challenges for Clinicians and Parents
- Article on childhood discipline
Resource for parents and professionals
National Initiative to End Corporal Punishment (NIECP)
- Up-to-date information on corporal punishment for parents and professionals with the aim of ending this practice in the US
Resources for parents
- Helpline offers parent support and helps find local resources
The Boys Town National Hotline
- Hotline available to families in crisis or in need of resources
- Article on how parents can manage stress
Resource for professionals
Assessing Parenting Behaviors to Improve Child Outcomes
- Article on assessing parenting behaviors to improve child outcomes
Resources for parents
National Domestic Violence Hotline
- Advocates offer 24/7 free, confidential help, information, crisis intervention, safety planning and connection to local resources. Help is available in over 200 languages
- Email hotline for survivors of violence to obtain legal information
For Parents: After Domestic Violence
- Article for parents after domestic violence has occurred
Resources for professionals
- Non-profit with a mission to end domestic violence against women and children
National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCVD)
- Comprehensive resource center for those wanting information related to domestic violence
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN)
- Information on resources and services for children and families who experience traumatic event
National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV)
- Addresses the consequences of domestic violence by collaboration at the state, national, and international levels. Website also includes a resource and policy center
Key article: Children’s exposure to intimate partner violence: Impacts and interventions
- Article on the impacts of intimate partner violence and interventions
Resources for parents and professionals
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV)
- Supports survivors of domestic violence and advocates
Resources for parents
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, previously ‘food stamps’)
- SNAP provides nutrition benefits to supplement the food budget of families so they can purchase healthy food
Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC)
- Offers healthy foods, good advice on healthy eating and referrals to other health, welfare and social services
2-1-1 Emergency Food Assistance
- 24/7, confidential, free, help in 180 languages
- Offers information on enrollment in:
For parents: Feeding Your Family
- Article for parents to help families provide healthy food for their children.
Resources for professionals
Addressing Food Insecurity: A Toolkit for Pediatricians
- Helpful information for pediatricians regarding screening families for food insecurity and how to connect families to federal nutrition programs and other resources
Resources for parents
Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline
- Offers a hotline and prevention, intervention and treatment programs
Adult Survivors of Child Abuse (ASCA)
- Support group for adult survivors of neglect, physical, sexual and/or emotional abuse
Resources for professionals
Child Welfare Information Gateway
- Connects pediatricians and other professionals to comprehensive resources to help protect children and strengthen families
AAP Policy Statements
- Abusive head trauma in infants and children
- Runaway youth
- Identifying child abuse fatalities in infancy
- Ongoing pediatric care for abused children
- Effective discipline to raise healthy children
- Eye examination in child abuse
- Oral and dental aspects of child abuse
- Care of adolescent after sexual assault
- Expert witness participation in civil and criminal proceedings
- Evaluation of suspected physical abuse
- Evaluating children with fractures for child physical abuse
- Medical child abuse
- Sexual abuse evaluation in primary care
- Evaluating for suspected child abuse: conditions that predispose to bleeding
Resources for professionals
AAP Screening, Technical Assistance & Resource (STAR) Center
- The STAR Center seeks to improve the health, wellness, and development of children through practice and system-based interventions to enhance early childhood screening, counseling, referral, and follow-up for developmental milestones, perinatal depression, and social determinants of health
Systematic review articles on Screening for Social Determinants of Health:
- Screening Children for Social Determinants of Health: A Systematic Review
- Psychometric and Pragmatic Properties of Social Risk Screening Tools: A Systematic Review
Resources for parents
- Info and advice regarding 150 common child behaviors
- Parenting resources for children’s behavior and development
- Parenting resources for numerous topics, such as development, nutrition, safety and many more!
Resources for professionals
- Too many referrals don’t pan out. SEEK Helpful Hints offers useful ways to strengthen your referral process and improve the care you provide to children and families. This pertains to both in-house and community referrals and includes ways to easily find local resources.
Unite Us is an organization that may be beneficial to your practice. They offer services that help to address social needs of patients and families by facilitating referrals to a wide array of community resources. Unite Us has different levels of services; some are free. Click here to see if Unite Us is in your state, and Click here to learn more about their services.