• Division 37 of the APA—The Division of Child, Youth, and Family Services
  Publishes a scientific and professional journal, Children's Services: Social Policy, Research, and Practice and a newsletter, The Child, Youth, and Family Services Advocate
• The Section on Child Maltreatment
  Established in 1994 to support and promote scientific inquiry, training, professional practice, and advocacy in the area of child maltreatment…it’s the only permanent organization within the APA specifically developed to address issues related to child abuse and neglect.
• Division 54 - Society of Pediatric Psychology 
  Dedicated to research and practice addressing the relationship between children's physical, cognitive, social, and emotional functioning and their physical well-being, including maintenance of health, promotion of positive health behaviors, and treatment of chronic or serious medical conditions.

• Children and Family Fellowship
  The Casey Foundation created the Children and Family Fellowship, an 11-month leadership development program for mid-career professionals. The Fellowship explicitly strives to increase the pool of leaders with the vision and ability to frame and sustain major system reforms and community capacity-building initiatives that benefit large numbers of children and families.

• Social and Emotional Competence and Physical Health
  Pulling together findings from medicine, prevention, psychology, psychiatry, public health, and education, the Social and Emotional Competence (SEC) and Physical Health initiative project investigated the relationship between social emotional competence and physical health throughout the lifespan.

• Child Development and Behavior Branch (CDB)
  The Child Development and Behavior Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, supports research on psychological, psychobiological, and educational development from conception to maturity. The branch focuses on the following program areas:
  Cognitive, Social, and Affective Development/Child Maltreatment and Violence
  Developmental Psychobiology and Cognitive Neuroscience
  Behavioral Pediatrics and Health Promotion Research
  Human Learning and Learning Disabilities
  Language, Bilingual and Biliteracy Development and Disorders
• Autism
  The NICHD, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is one of the primary Institutes doing research into various aspects of autism, including its causes, prevalence, and treatments.

• National Center for Early Development and Learning
  A national early childhood research project sponsored by the US Department of Education’s Office of Educational Research and Improvement.  NCEDL
  focuses on enhancing the cognitive, social, & emotional development of children from birth through age eight.

SRCD is a multidisciplinary, not-for-profit, professional association with an international membership of approximately 5,000 researchers, practitioners, and human development professionals from over 50 countries.  The purposes of the Society are to promote multidisciplinary research in the field of human development, to foster the exchange of information among scientists and other professionals of various disciplines, and to encourage applications of research findings.  Membership is needed for access to some information.

• Publications
  The Society publishes three journals, the Social Policy Report, the SRCD Newsletter, and a Directory of Members.