Useful links

A selection of links to useful websites

• 5Rights Foundation - (UK)
• Australian Classification Board Information for Parents
• Australia's Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour Guidelines - which include screentime guidelines
• British Board of Film Classification website
• Bully Zero Australia Foundation - care for bullying victims and their families.
• Bullying No Way - and Australian Government initiative to combat bullying in schools.
• Center for Research on Children, Adolescents and the Media (CcaM)- University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Center on Media and Child Health - USA
• Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development - USA
• Children's Media Foundation Research Blog - A multi-authored blog featuring discussions on key areas of research connected to children and their media use by UK academics
• Children's Screentime Action Network - A US coalition of practitioners, educators, and advocates working to promote a healthy childhood by reducing the amount of time kids spend with digital devices.
• Children’s television viewing and multi-screen behaviour. Analysis of 2005–16 OzTAM audience data and 2017 survey of parents, carers and guardians. From ACMA
• Collective Shout - an Australian a grassroots campaigning movement against the objectification of women and sexualisation of girls in media, advertising and popular culture.
• Commonsense Media - USA
• Cyber Safe Kids - Australia
• Cybersafety Solutions - Australia
• Digital Me - A 2017 Australian Psychological Society survey exploring the effect of social media and digital technology on Australians’ wellbeing
• eChildhood - a registered health promotion charity dedicated to mobilising responses that reduce the harmful effects of pornography on children and young people
• eSafety - The Office of the Australian Children’s eSafety Commissioner
• Fairplay (Formerly Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood) - USA
• Fred Rogers Center for early learning and children's media - based at St Vincent's College, Pennsylvania USA
• Games and Learning - USA - a news and information service aimed at increasing the amount of information available for those interested in developing and funding new educational games for children and young adults. The site is operated by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center.
• Gaming addiction: Understanding excessive gaming, risk factors and warning signs - a presentation for GenerationNext by James Driver, Psychotherapist
• Happy Families - An Australian website featuring Dr Justin Coulson, psychologist and parenting expert
• International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media based at NORDICOM at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden collects and documents research and other information on children, youth and media around the world.
• Internet Matters - UK - An independent, not-for-profit organisation to help parents keep their children safe online.
• Joan Ganz Cooney Center - US research centre focussed on the challenges of educating children in a rapidly changing media environment
• Kijkwijzer - the Netherlands Classification website
• MediaSmarts - Canada's centre for digital and media literacy
• National Association for Media Literacy Education  - US based organisation
• Nature Play SA,  Nature Play WA and  Nature Play QLD Australian sites encouraging unstructured play outdoors and in nature.
• Network for Internet Investigation and Research  - Australia NiIRA is an innovative, independent and future-focussed online community resource, developed and run by established leaders and specialists in the rapidly-evolving field of internet-related disorders.
• New Zealand Office of Film and Literature Classification
• Parenting Research Centre - An Australian not-for-profit research organisation.
• Raising Children Network - Australian parenting website
• Screentime: What's happening in our homes? From the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Child Health Poll
• Steve Biddulph’s Website - Australian parent educator, author of Raising Girls and Raising Boys
• ThinkUKnow - Australian Internet safety program
• TRUCE (Teachers Resisting Unhealthy Children's Entertainment) US
• UK Council for Child Internet Safety
• Young & eSafe  Practical advice by young people, for young people -  an initiative of the Australian Office of the eSafety Commissioner.
• Zero to Three (USA) - A site encouraging nurturing during the early years which includes information on young children and media