Resources and Related Links

-Arts Education Partnership
The Arts Education Partnership (formerly the Goals 2000 Arts Education Partnership) is a national coalition of arts, education, business, philanthropic and government organizations that demonstrates and promotes the essential role of the arts in the learning and development of every child and in the improvement of America's schools.

-National Center for Educational Statistics
The primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the United States and other nations.

-Arts & Learning Resources
The National Assembly of States Arts Agencies (NASAA) is the membership organization that unites, represents and serves the nation's state and jurisdictional arts agencies.

-The Sharing Place
The Sharing Place is dedicated to providing a safe and caring environment where children, teens, and their families who are grieving the death of a loved one may share their feelings while healing themselves.

- The Dougy Center
The mission of The Dougy Center for Grieving Children is to provide to families in Portland and the surrounding region loving support in a safe place where children, teens and their families grieving a death can share their experiences as they move through their healing process. Through our National Center for Grieving Children and Families we also provide support and training locally, nationally and internationally to individuals and organizations seeking to assist children in grief.

-Bad Dog Rediscovers America
Founded in 1997 by Michael Moonbird and Victoria Lyons with many new ideas of what an after school youth arts programs should be. They develop and implement innovative programs and projects that utilize the creative arts as a vehicle to open young minds and hearts to the immensity of life's possibilities... to imagine, to dare, to create. They believe young people need a place where they can explore as on a journey the depths of their courage. Where that courage leads them at the end of each journey is the fire of imagination, knowledge and self-worth.