Action for Healthy Kids’ Campaign for School Wellness helps communities, parents, and professionals support schools’ efforts to implement wellness practices. To help students develop lifelong behaviors of good nutrition and physical activity, a comprehensive approach to supporting wellness in schools is necessary. Action for Healthy Kids has tools to help parents work with schools to improve school wellness practices and achieve sustainable change. Parents whose children will be attending school in the next year or two may want to begin influencing their child’s future school’s wellness practices. Retrieved July 31, 2006, from http://www.actionforhealthykids.org/

Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood (formerly Stop Commercial Exploitation of Children) is a national coalition of health care professionals, educators, advocacy groups and concerned parents who counter the harmful effects of marketing to children through action, advocacy, education, research, and collaboration. Retrieved July 31, 2006, from http://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/

Center for a New American Dream’s Kids and Commercialism Campaign raises awareness of the effects of marketing on kids. The free Tips for Parenting in a Commercial Culture booklet offers parents, educators, and concerned citizens a wealth of information that will provide a broader understanding of what children face today, and offers tips and resources to help parents and others band together to protect children from intrusive and harmful advertising. Retrieved July 31, 2006, from http://www.newdream.org/kids/index.php

Minnesota Department of Education (2006). Parent Education Core Curriculum Framework and Indicators. Retrieved September 2006, from http://www.education.state.mn.us/mde/Learning_Support/Early_Learning_Services/Coordinator_Resources/Manuals/007871.html

National Network for Child Care, Community Involvement & Partnerships in Child Care and Youth Program. Gives suggestions on how to plan, mobilize, and build coalitions around community child care. Retrieved July 31, 2006, from http://www.nncc.org/ComDev/community.involv.html

The National Institute on Media and the Family is a research-based organization whose mission is to maximize the benefits and minimize the harm of electronic media on children and families through research, education, and advocacy. Subscribe to their E-Media and receive the latest research on media issues concerning families. Retrieved July 31, 2006, from https://www.mediafamily.org/

The National Scientific Council on the Developing Child works to enhance the early development of children through the design and implementation of effective public and private policies and programs. The Council interprets and presents the findings of scientific research on child development to guide social policies, professional services, and parenting practices. Retrieved July 31, 2006, from http://www.developingchild.net/about.shtml