Resources

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Women’s Health Information	National Women’s Health Information Center http://www.4woman.gov This web site and toll-free call center were created to provide FREE, reliable health information for women everywhere.
	HRSA Office of Women’s Health http://www.hrsa.gov/WomensHealth/ HRSA provides national leadership, program resources and services needed to improve access to culturally competent, quality health care.
	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) http://www.cdc.gov/ The CDC is recognized as the lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people, providing credible information to enhance health decisions, and promoting health through strong partnership
	Our Bodies, Ourselves www.ourbodiesourselves.org The Women's Health Information & Resource Center of this site includes excerpts from our books, web-exclusive content, links, resources, and health news.

Policy and Advocacy	Institute for Women’s Policy and Research http://www.iwpr.org The Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) is a public policy research organization that focuses on issues of poverty, work and family issues, health and safety, and women's civic and political participation.
	Women’s Policy Inc. http://www.womenspolicy.org/ WPI is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization whose sole focus is to help ensure that the most informed decisions on key women's issues are made by policymakers at the federal, state, and local levels.
	Alan Guttmacher Institute: http://www.agi-usa.org/ The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) is a nonprofit organization focused on sexual and reproductive health research, policy analysis and public education.
	National Women’s Law Center (US Women’s Health Report Card) http://www.nwlc.org/display.cfm?section=health The Center’s Health and Reproductive Rights Program is dedicated to ensuring access to appropriate affordable and unencumbered health care, including reproductive health care, for all women, particularly for low-income women.

Research and Data Resources	Society for Women’s Health Research http://www.womens-health.org The Society for Women’s Health Research is the nation’s only non-profit organization whose mission is to improve the health of all women through research, education and advocacy. The Society encourages the study of sex differences between women and men that affect the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease.
	Louisiana Health Statistics http://www.dhh.louisiana.gov/offices/?ID=275 This site provides links to reports on the overall state of health in Louisiana.
	Kaiser Family Foundation http://www.kff.org/womenshealth/index.cfm The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit, independent voice and source of facts and analysis for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the general public.
	National Library of Medicine- Women’s Health Research http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/outreach/womenshealthoverview.html This page presents topics pertaining to women’s health collected by National Library of Medicine scientific publication databases to support the mission of the Office of Research on Women’s Health to promote research in the field.
	Greater New Orleans Community Data Center www.gnocdc.org Information to support nonprofit grant writing, advocacy, planning & decision-making in post-Katrina New Orleans

Leadership Development	Leadership Learning Community http://www.leadershiplearning.org/ The Leadership Learning Community exists to strengthen the work of those dedicated to developing leadership that can address a range of significant social issues. Their site includes links to resources related to leadership.
	National Youth Leadership Council http://www.nylc.org/ NYLC has led a movement of service-learning, empowering youths to transform themselves from recipients of information and resources into valuable, contributing members of a democracy. The site’s resources include toolboxes for a variety of topics.
	Kellogg Leadership for Community Change http://www.ethicalleadership.org/programs/kellogg-leadership-for-community-change Kellogg Leadership for Community Change (KLCC) is designed to strengthen community leaders by emphasizing the practice of collective leadership, in which decision-making power is distributed and shared among a diverse representation of the local population.

Community Capacity	Community Toolbox http://ctb.ku.edu/en/ The Community Tool Box offers more than 7,000 pages of for free information on essential skills for building healthy communities.
	Center for Collaborative Planning www.connectccp.org The Center for Collaborative Planning (CCP) promotes health and social justice by providing training and technical assistance and by connecting people and resources. Site includes an extensive resource library
	Community Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/ CCPH fosters partnerships between communities and educational institutions that build on each other's strengths and develop their roles as change agents for improving health professions education, civic responsibility and the overall health of communities.
	Neighborhoods Partnership Network http://www.npnnola.com/ The Neighborhoods Partnership Network (NPN) is a nonprofit, 501c3 organization consisting of a citywide network of neighborhoods that was established after the Hurricane Katrina disaster to facilitate neighborhood collaboration, increase access to government and information, and strengthen the voices of individuals and communities across New Orleans.