Child Abuse
Many Links on Child Abuse
Issues. 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,
Welcome to
the Summer 2005 Edition of the Unified Response Newsletter, a publication of the
National Center on Child Fatality Review. To view the newsletter, please click
on the link below.
A Letter from Bonney Finney to all Blue
Ribbon Heroes
Abuse No More
Personal Site with many links,
resources and a place to share.
The American
Professional Society of the Abuse of Children
APSAC’s mission is to enhance the ability
of professionals to respond to children and families
affected by abuse and violence.
An
Introduction To Child Abuse
In 1962, C. Henry Kempe conducted a survey
of eighty-eight hospitals in which he identified 302 children who had been
"battered." The survey, which for the first time defined the "battered child
syndrome," graphically catalogued brutality to young children, many of whom
suffered multiple injuries.
While earlier....
Best Interests
The E-Magazine for Children's Advocates
Bikers Against Child Abuse
A dedicated group of people who are
determined to help the children of abuse. If you would like to help but can not
make the meetings, runs or just feel you cant be 100% then be a supporter of the
club. If you are someone who is against child abuse then let us know, they are
looking for
people like you.
CASA
The National Court Appointed Special
Advocate (CASA) Association mission is to speak for the best interests of abused
and neglected children who are involved in the juvenile courts.
They work with state and local CASA and
volunteer guardian ad litem programs to promote and support quality volunteer
advocacy to help assure each child a safe, permanent, nurturing home.
Child Abuse
We are a community of people
dedicated to breaking the cycle of
child abuse and neglect, serving
and strengthening children and families.
Child Abuse
Child abuse is harm to, or neglect of, a
child by another person, whether adult or child. Child abuse happens in all
cultural, ethnic, and income groups.
Child Abuse Prevention
Services (CAPS)
is a not for profit, volunteer
organization founded in 1982 to respond to the growing problem of child abuse
and neglect on Long Island, New York. In 1995 CAPS created the Child Safety
Institute, providing innovative and comprehensive child safety and child
prevention programs and materials.
Childhelp
Founded in 1959 by Sara O’Meara and Yvonne Fedderson,
Childhelp® is a leading national non-profit organization dedicated to helping
victims of child abuse and neglect.
Children Are Worth
Saving
Community Outreach Program who's primary
goal is Creating Abuse Awareness, Education, Recognition, prevention and
Intervention because children's health and well being are their #1 priority.
Children's Defense
Fund
Provides information is also available on
infant mortality rates, prenatal care, low birth weight, teenage
202-628-8787
Child Welfare League
of America
Provides information on child advocacy,
statistics on abuse and neglect, foster care, and child welfare.
Clinic-based screening for domestic violence: use of a child safety
questionnaire
A series of four child
safety questionnaires
(designed for parents
of infant, preschool-age,
school-age, and
adolescent patients), which
included specific
questions about domestic
violence, was given to
all mothers presenting to a
university out-patient
general pediatric clinic.
The questionnaires,
offered in both English and
Spanish, were reviewed
for the presence of
domestic violence
exposure, usually at the time of
the clinic
visit.
Committee for Children
Committee for Children, a
nonprofit organization, is an international leader in social, emotional, and
academic learning. Our award-winning programs and prevention curricula focus on
the topics of youth violence, bullying, child abuse, personal safety, and
emergent literacy. Each year, our programs reach millions of children and
educators throughout the world.
The Future of Children
The Future of Children seeks to
promote effective policies and programs for children by providing policymakers,
service providers, and the media with timely, objective information based on the
best available research.
HAVOCA
Provides support, friendship and advice
for any adult who's life has been affected by childhood abuse.
How to Teach Children
About Living in a World With Violence
Violence in today's world runs the gamut
from bullying to murder, and finds fertile ground in television programs,
movies, videos, and superhero games, where it's gussied up and glamorized.
Violence is all around us, and it's taking its toll on children.
Kaboom
Our mission is to create great play spaces
through
the participation
and leadership of communities.
Kempe Children's
Center
Provides information for parents and other
consumers regarding child abuse.
303-864-5252
Mental Health Services for Children
Who Witness Domestic Violence
In the past decade, a growing
body of empirical research has
demonstrated that exposure to
domestic violence deleteriously affects children's
social, emotional, and cognitive development.
Furthermore, data suggest that such exposure
has long-term consequences for children's well-being, ultimately
affecting their adult functioning.
National Children's
Alliance
Provides information about state statutes.
National Data Archive
on Child Abuse and Neglect
A resource since 1988, NDACAN promotes
scholarly exchange among researchers in the child maltreatment field. NDACAN
acquires microdata from leading researchers and national data collection efforts
The National
Exchange Center
Provides information on physical child
abuse, sexual child abuse, neglect, Shaken Baby Syndrome, and Fetal Alcohol
Syndrome.
1.800.924.2643
No Excuse for Child
Abuse
Great personal site on child abuse
Prevent Child Abuse
North Carolina
Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina is the
only statewide, nonprofit organization dedicated to the prevention of child
abuse and neglect in all its forms. We are a state chapter of Prevent Child
Abuse America with a thriving statewide Prevention Network. Our Prevention
Network consists of over 200 organizations and volunteers working to implement
critical child abuse prevention programs in their local communities.
The S.O.C. Foundation
was established as a not-for-profit
organization to raise funds, awareness and resources to aid in the prevention of
and intervention in child abuse, family violence, and legal injustice against
children.
Should
childhood exposure to adult domestic violence be defined as child maltreatment
under the law?
This manuscript is based on a speech first
presented at the workshop on “Children and Domestic Violence” sponsored by the
David & Lucile Packard Foundation and held at the National Academy of Sciences
in Washington DC on April 10, 2000.
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
