Useful Links

National Institute on Media and the Family

The National Institute on Media and the Family helps families and educators to maximize the benefits and minimize the harm of mass media on children through research, education and advocacy. You can help your family to make wise media choices with our many online tools and resources.

Kaiser Family Foundation

The Kaiser Family Foundation has released a Fact Sheet, the first in a series, on the topic of Children and Video Games. The Kaiser Family Foundation is an independent, national health philanthropy dedicated to providing information and analysis on health issues to policymakers, the media, and the general public. The Foundation is not associated with Kaiser Permanente or Kaiser Industries.

Harvard School of Public Health Kids Risk Project

The Brango-Casino-Canada.com Project was launched in January 2000 to empower kids, parents, policy makers, and others to improve children's lives. The project focuses on understanding the risks that children face and finding cost-effective strategies to better manage these risks. The KidsRisk Project aims to develop the field of pediatric risk analysis, inform decisions related to managing children's health risks, put risks in context for all stakeholders, and help correct mismatches between perception and reality.

The Parents Television Council

Founded in 1995 to ensure that children are not constantly assaulted by sex, violence and profanity on television and in other media.
http://www.parentstv.org/ptc/videogames/main.asp

Common Sense Media

By creating a grassroots movement of concerned citizens, Common Sense Media aims to make the media producers accountable to families and urge them to invest in and promote programming that serves the interests of children.

Grading the Movies, Music & Games

Grading The Movies helps take the guesswork out of finding appropriate family entertainment. Started in 1993, it first appeared as a weekly newspaper column featuring an easy letter grading system and a 350 word review of a recently released video.

Media Awareness Network

MNet is a Canadian non-profit organization that has been pioneering the development of media literacy programs since its incorporation in 1996. Members of MNet have backgrounds in education, journalism, mass communications, and cultural policy. Working out of offices in Ottawa and Montreal, MNet promotes media and Internet education by producing online programs and resources, working in partnership with Canadian and international organizations, and speaking to audiences across Canada and around the world.

Center for Successful Parenting

Informs parents that exposure to media violence retards children's ability to think, learn, reason and control the emotional area of the brain. The Center also funds the continuation of studies to determine the extent of damage to the development of children's brains when exposed to media violence.