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• Center for Disabilities and Development website
  University of Iowa HealthCare (2007) The website of Iowa's University Center for Excellence on Disabilities, an ABCD project partner.
  http://www.healthcare.uiowa.edu/cdd/index.asp

• Children’s Mental Health: An Urgent Priority for Illinois: Final Report of Illinois' Children’s Mental Health Task Force
  Illinois Children’s Mental Health Partnership (ICMHP). April 2003. This final report by the Illinois Children's Mental Health Task Force presents a cutting-edge approach to the continuum of mental health development, support and treatment that children need from birth to age eighteen. (From Foreword)
  http://www.isbe.net/spec-ed/pdfs/cmh_priority.pdf

• Healthy Mental Development, Brief
  Early Childhood Iowa (Issue Brief No. 1, 2006). This issue brief is the first in a series developed by Early Childhood Iowa (ECI) Quality Services and Programs Component Group. This issue brief is intended to help inform policy makers about the importance of Healthy Mental Development for children from birth through five and their families.
  App. 13 IssueBrief.doc.doc

• HRSA UIC Perinatal Depression Project Information
  University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Perinatal Depression Project. (2006). This resource outlines information abou the UIC Perinatal Depression Project sponsored by HRSA (Health Resources and Services Administration) and The Michael Reese Health Trust. This project, a partner in the ABCD project, was designed to increase understanding and awareness of depression during pregnancy and postpartum (peripartum) among health care providers, affected women and family members in Illinois.
  UICHRSA Perinatal Depression Project Summary.doc