Support Organizations
Web sites to help you address your needs

• National Network to End Violence
• National Domestic Violence Hotline
• Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network
• National Alliance of Mental Illness
• Depression & Bipolar Support Alliance
• National Coalition for the Homeless
• Corporation for Supportive Housing
• AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth, and Families
• Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative
  (for those aging out of foster care)
• National Women’s Law Center

Accredited Postsecondary Institutions
A list of agencies and their Web sites to help you learn more about accrediting postsecondary institutions, accrediting agencies, fake degrees, and scholarship scams.

• U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education
• Council for Higher Education Accreditation
• World Wide Learn
• Federal Trade Commission

Returning to School
A list of community college support programs and their web sites.

• Gateway to College
• Achieving the Dream

Federal Student Aid for College
A list of organizations and their Web sites to help you learn more about the types of loans that are available.

• Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)

Career Opportunities
To help you explore career opportunities
(some of the sites feature video presentations)

• Peterson’s
• College Board
• Career Voyages
• Going2College
• Mapping Your Future
• Education Planner

Campus Child Care Centers
A list of organizations to help you identify on-campus child care centers at colleges and universities.

• National Center for Education Statistics
• National Coalition for Campus Children’s Centers

College Preparation
A list of organizations and their Web sites to help you learn about and prepare for the SAT and ACT tests, learn more about the Student Aid Report (SAR), and find tips on applying to college.

• College Board
• ACT
• Education Planner
• Federal Student Aid

College Loans
A list of organizations and their Web sites to help you learn more about the types of loans that are available.

• American Education Services
• College Board
• Financial Aid
• Federal Student Aid
• U.S. Department of Education

Other Types of Student Aid for College
A list of organizations and their Web sites offering scholarships and grants to students, women,
single mothers, and student parents.

• American Association of Colleges of Nursing
• American Association of University Women
  Educational Foundation
• American Indian College Fund
• Association for Women in Sciences
• Chafee Education and Training Vouchers
  for foster youth
• Education Foundation for Women in Accounting
• Education Planner
• Executive Women International
• Fast Web Scholarship Search
• Hispanic College Fund
• Hispanic Scholarship Fund
• Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
• Jeannette Rankin Foundation
• Orphan Foundation of America Scholarships

• Patsy Takemoto Mink Education Foundation
• Presidential Freedom Scholarship
• Raise the Nation
• Society of Women Engineers
• Talbots Women’s Scholarship Fund
• The Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute
• The Jackie Robinson Foundation
• The Gates Millennium Scholars
• The R.O.S.E. Fund
• Tom Joyner Foundation
• United Negro College Fund
• Women’s Opportunity Grant
• Women’s Sports Foundation

Accrediting Child Care Organizations
A list of organizations and their Web sites listing accredited early child care programs.

• National Association of the Education
  of Young Children
• National Association of Family Child Care
• National Early Childhood Program Accreditation
• National Association of Child Care Professionals

Early Learning
A list of organizations and their Web sites to help you learn more about the importance of choosing quality care and early learning.

• United Way Success By 6
• Born Learning
• Think Big Start Small
• PBS Parents

Choosing Quality Child Care
A list of organizations and their Web sites to help you find quality child care, learn more about choosing quality child care programs, and learn about quality rating systems.

• Child Care Aware
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration of Children and Families
• The National Child Care Information Center

Student Aid for Child Care
A list of national organizations and their Web sites where you can find help to pay for child care.

• YMCA
• Boys and Girls Club
• Child Care Aware (to find your local resource
  and referral agency)
• Child Care Access Means Parents In School (CCAMPIS)
• Head Start

Links to On-Campus Programs for Student Parents

• Alverno College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio
• Carteret Community College, Morehead City, NC
• Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
• Clovis Community College, Clovis, New Mexico
• College of St. Mary, Omaha, Nebraska
• Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

• Danville Community College, Danville, Virginia
• Eastfield College, Mesquite, Texas
• Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky
• East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee
• El Paso Community College, El Paso, Texas
• Endicott College, Beverly, Massachusetts
• Humboldt State University, Arcata, California