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Links for Advocates
This is our collection of
links and resources for Advocates. We also have a yahoo group forum for
Advocates! A place for Advocates to vent, share support, get information,
and share experiences. It is a member only group and fully moderated. Please
go to the following address and join us in our discussions!
Please look through the
links, and if you have any links that you would like to contribute, please
e-mail them to us! We would like to get a
complete list of links in the near future.
2001 marked the 50th Anniversary of The
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). Founded in 1951 in
Chicago, Illinois, ACOG today has over 46,000 members and is the nation's
leading group of professionals providing health care for women. Now based in
Washington, DC, it is a private, voluntary, nonprofit membership organization.
Membership in the Alliance for Children
and Families includes nonprofit child- and family-serving organizations across
the country. The Alliance aims to strengthen members' capacity to serve and
advocate for children, families, and communities by providing public policy and
advocacy efforts, research and resource development, library services, media
information, and community programs.
American Academy of
Pediatrics
The Role of the
Pediatrician in Recognizing and Intervening on Behalf of Abused Women
Committee on Child Abuse
and Neglect
Pediatricians are in a position to
recognize abused women in pediatric settings. Intervening on behalf of battered
women is an active form of child abuse prevention. Knowledge of local
resources and state laws for reporting abuse are emphasized. Please
check out the home page for other articles.
Supporting the public interest use of
communications media, the Benton Foundation provides leadership in the emerging
communications environment and promotes the value of communications in solving
social problems.
Chance for Change is a
coalition of domestic and sexual violence agencies in the Tri-County area,
Portland, Oregon. We provide specialized presentations on teen dating violence
and date rape for young people. We have developed a longer two-week curriculum
and can train teachers to present it in the classroom. Some young people have
been successful in creating groups to work against teen dating violence. Chance
for Change can provide materials and
technical
assistance for such groups. Chance for Change also has posters and brochures
available on teen dating violence.
If you are a child abuse prevention
professional, you are in the right place. Our goal is to use the World Wide Web
to give you the fullest possible support in your work.
CSN is a resource center for maternal and
child health and injury prevention professionals in state health departments who
are committed to reducing injuries and violence among children and adolescents.
CSN staff offer expertise, resources, and contacts on any injury topic and can
help you develop, implement, and evaluate injury and violence prevention
activities.
The
ChildTrauma Academy is a not-for-profit organization based in Houston, Texas.
Mission:
The
mission of the Academy is to help improve the lives of traumatized and
maltreated children. We endeavor to improve the systems that educate, nurture,
protect and enrich these children - through education, service delivery
and program
consultation. We work to improve individual lives through clinical assessment
and treatment.
The Dependency Court
Intervention Program for Family Violence
is a pilot project developed to review
justice system procedures for women and children who have been abused. The
program offers voluntary free counseling to women and their children in cases in
which the court has intervened and removed youth from the home.
2700 NW. 36th Street, Suite 114
Miami, FL 33142
Phone: 305-638-5619
E-mail:
jjgrants@jud11.flcourts.org
The Family Violence Prevention Fund works
to end domestic violence and help women and children whose lives are affected by
abuse. The Web site offers free online catalogs, articles and information on
abuse and violence, press releases and story archives, information on public
policy efforts, and other resource materials.
This knowledge path
about domestic violence has been compiled by the
Maternal and Child
Health (MCH) Library
at Georgetown University, and it offers a
selection of current, high-quality resources and information tools. It is aimed
at policymakers, health professionals, advocates, and families who are
interested in tracking timely information on this topic, and it will be updated
periodically.
Minnesota Center Against
Violence and Abuse
Helping Children Who
Witness Domestic Violence: A Guide For Parents
(Instructor's
Manual)
The purpose of the curriculum is to help
parents who have experienced domestic violence to understand the impact on their
children and themselves; to teach parents to talk to and listen to their
children about their experience of the violence; to encourage children's
resiliency, and to support parents in strengthening their relationships with
their children.
The Mission of NCFR is to develop and
promote a nationwide system of Child Fatality Review Teams to improve the
health, safety and well being of children and reduce preventable child
fatalities and severe injuries.
National Center for
Missing and Exploited Children
PDF file on Guidelines for programs to
reduce child victimization: A resource for communities when choosing a program
to teach personal safety to children.
The National Criminal
Justice Reference Service
(NCJRS) is
a federally sponsored information clearinghouse for people around the country
and the world involved with research, policy, and practice related to criminal
and juvenile justice and drug control. NCJRS disseminates publications, grant
information, and other resources for the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Bureau of
Justice Statistics, Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinqueny Prevention, National Institute of Justice, and other partner
agencies.
The mission of the
National Domestic Violence
Fatality Review Initiative (NDVFRI) is to
provide technical assistance for the reviewing of domestic violence related
deaths with the underlying objectives of preventing them in the future,
preserving the safety of battered women, and holding accountable both the
perpetrators of domestic violence and the multiple agencies and organizations
that come into contact with the parties.
Practitioner Connection
Culturally competent
mental health service providers are specially trained in specific behaviors,
attitudes, and policies that recognize, respect, and value the uniqueness of
individuals and groups whose cultures are different from
those associated
with mainstream America.
Project Harmony
Project Harmony's
mission is to build strong communities by fostering civic leadership,
harnessing Internet technology and facilitating cross-cultural experiential
learning. Project
Harmony was
founded in Vermont in 1985 as a grassroots exchange organization for Soviet and
American high school students. Today, Project Harmony has twelve offices in six
countries and facilitates educational, professional, cultural,
and
community-based programs.
School violence is
not an urban problem.
Today all schools must have an active plan for
creating and maintaining a healthy and safe environment for students and
faculty. A Non-Profit Organization Dedicated to The Belief That No Child Should
Go To School In Fear.
To provide concrete guidance to
communities, policy leaders, and individuals engaged in activities to end
violence against women, the National Advisory Council on Violence Against Women
developed the Toolkit To End
Violence Against Women.
The recommendations contained in the Toolkit were reviewed by numerous
experts in the fields of sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking.
The mission of the Violence Against Women
and
Family Violence Research and Evaluation
program is
to promote the safety of women and family members, and to increase the
efficiency and effectiveness of the criminal justice system's
response
to these crimes.
VIOLENCE PREVENTION
RESOURCES
Violence Prevention Resources is one of
several new, comprehensive children's and youth resource guides from Streetcats
Foundation and The National Children's Coalition's
YOUTH AND
CHILDREN RESOURCE NET. Our children and youth continue to be highly at-risk
from violence on the street, at school and at home.
These resources can help you, your school,
neighborhood or city to learn what fosters violence and what can be done to
prevent it and to begin conflict resolution and keep our kids safe.
If you have a story
of a loved one that has lost the fight against Domestic Violence, please
share
it with us. We would like to continue sharing the
stories in hope that others will see just what Domestic Violence is, a travesty
that must end.
If you are a
Non-Custodial Mother, and would like support, or can share your case file,
please contact
us. You are NOT alone.......
If you are a Victim
or Survivor of Domestic Violence, and you have not received the help that you
needed, or did not gain justice through the courts, please,
let us
know. We must work together to bring about a change,
and the only way to do that is to show the problem.
Enough is ENOUGH!
Together, we CAN and WILL make a difference!
A victim's first scream is
for help: a victim's second scream is for justice."-
Carol Anika Theill
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