Support Groups

British Association for the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (BASPCAN)

10 Priory Street, York, Y01 1EZ England

Fax: (01904) 642 239

BASPCAN is a professional networking association for those working in the field of child protection. Services include: a forum for discussion and exchange of information and research findings; publication of a journal and newsletter; training events.

The Children's Legal Centre (CLC)

The Children's Legal Centre, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex C04 3SQ England

URL: http://www2.essex.ac.uk/clc

The Children's Legal Centre is a national charity that promotes the rights of children. The Centre runs a free and confidential legal advice and information service covering all aspects of law and policy affecting children and young people. The service is open to children, young people and anyone with concerns about them. It publishes Childright, a monthly journal which focuses on law and policy affecting children, both in the UK and internationally.

Child Rights Information Network (CRIN)

17 Grove Lane, London, SE5 8RD UK

Fax: (0171) 793 7630

URL: http://www.crin.ch/

CRIN is an international information network for organisations and individuals who are involved in child rights activities. Members of the network are committed to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and sharing information with others to promote children's rights.

Childnet International

35 Piccadilly, London, W1V 9PB UK

Fax: (0171) 701 1418

Childnet International is a non profit organisation, concerned to enable children to benefit from all the changes in international communications, and to protect them from any negative influences.

End Physical Punishment of Children (EPOCH)

77 Holloway Road, London, N7 8JZ England

Fax: (0171) 700 1105

EPOCH is an informal alliance of organisations which share the aim of ending all physical punishment of children by education and legal reform, coordinated by EPOCH, a national campaign launched in 1989 in the UK. Services include putting organisations and groups in touch with one another and providing help and advice on campaigning. Information is provided on legal reforms as well as examples of leaflets, posters and stickers used in the UK campaign against physical punishment.

National Children's Bureau

8 Wakeley Street, London, EC1V 7QE England

Fax: (0171) 278 9512

URL: http://www.caritasdata.co.uk/charity1/ch002131.htm

Involved in child protection issues.

The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)

42 Curtain Road, London, EC2A 3NH England

Fax: (0171) 825 2525

The NSPCC exists to: help children suffering from significant harm as a result of ill treatment; help protect children who are at risk from such harm; help abused children to overcome the effects of such harm; and work to protect children from further harm. The NSPCC operates a child protection helpline, provides an independent voice campaigning on behalf of children; undertakes research into child abuse trends and issues, provides training for social workers and other professionals, and publishes books, leaflets and newsletters to educate parents, children and the general public about child abuse.

Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family

Faculty of Law, University of Calgary,

2500 University Drive NW, Calgary Alberta T2N 1N4 Canada

The Institute has strong involvement with law enforcement regarding training packages and research in the area of child sexual abuse. It is currently developing a national research program on juvenile justice.

Canadian Society for the Investigation of Child Abuse (CSICA)

PO Box 42066, Calgary, Alberta T2J 7A6Canada

The Canadian Society for the Investigation of Child Abuse was formed in 1985 in response to a growing need for a coordinated, professional approach to child sexual abuse investigations. Major activities of the society include training child sexual abuse investigators, and responding to the needs of children, particularly in the area of child witness court preparation.

Child Welfare League of Canada

180 Argyle Avenue, Suite 312, Ottawa, Ontario K2P 1B7Canada

The Child Welfare League of Canada (CWLC) is dedicated to protecting and promoting the well being of Canada's children, particularly those who are at risk because of poverty, abuse and neglect.

133-990 Beach Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6E 4M2Canada

URL: http://edie.cprost.sfu.ca/gcnet/index.html

Global Childnet is an organisation currently developing a range of easily accessible, child health related, online services using the internet. They deal exclusively with electronic information on children and children's health. The services they currently offer via their web pages include list of links to existing information sources, news briefs on relevant information on the internet and access to their two databases.

Institute for the Prevention of Child Abuse

25 Spadina Road, Toronto, Ontario M5R 289 Canada

National Clearinghouse on Family Violence, Health Promotion and Programs Branch

Finance Building, Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 1B4 Canada

URL: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/familyviolence/bilingual.htm

The Clearinghouse collects, develops and distributes resource materials on violence against children, women and seniors to front-line workers, policy makers, researchers and the general public in Canada.

Youth Relationships Project

Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontaria N6A 5C2Canada

Ph: (519) 679 2111 ext 4726

This research project targets the prevention of violence in relationships. It is argued that child abuse, spouse abuse and sexual violence towards women share a related developmental course which is not inevitable. If well planned, alternative sources of information and experience are provided to adolescents who come from abusive families, then there is a substantial possibility of reducing future victimisation and offenses.

MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA

Covenant House America Latina

Oficina Regional para America Latina

San Jose, Costa Rica

Casa Alianza is a private, non profit organisation that works in the defense and rehabilitation of street children in Central America and Mexico. Casa Alianza is the Latin American branch of the New York based Covenant House, with its Regional Office in Costa Rica. Casa Alianza served some 5,000 street children and 4,000 children at risk over the past year.

Australian and New Zealand Association of Children's Contact Services (ANZACCS)

PO Box 11054, Wellington, New Zealand

URL: ~anzaccs/about.html"http://www.ozemail.com.au/~anzaccs/about.html

Australian and New Zealand Association of Children's Contact Services is a non profit association promoting informed debate about the role and limitations of supervised parent/child contact ('visitation' or 'access') services. It aims to promote the availability of high quality services. The web site features a variety of information, publications, links to related sites and listings of service providers. Child abuse and domestic violence issues are addressed within the site.

PO Box 6434, Wellington, New Zealand

Barnardos believes that with effective care, support and education all children and young people can experience a cycle of success. Barnardos caters for families under stress, families in crisis and sole parent families, as well as children and young people at risk, with special needs or who are disadvantaged. the ways in which service providers can best target their work.

Children's Issues Centre

Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand

URL: http://www.otago.ac.nz/Web_menus/Dept_Homepages/CIC/CIC.html

The Children's Issues Centre aims to monitor, coordinate, produce and disseminate information about children's well being and healthy development and facilitate programs and policies which enhance their well being and healthy development.

Institute for Child Protection Studies (CPS)

PO Box 5375, Hamilton, New Zealand

CPS is a non profit social service committed to the protection of children. It provides services to any person who is interested in the well being and safety of children, whether that person has a role in preventing child abuse or is required to respond to children at risk of abuse. CPS offers readily accessible multi disciplinary training with a strong emphasis on the practical skills required to recognise child abuse and to become accountable as a child advocate.

Childwatch International

PO Box 1132, Blindern, N-0317 Oslo, Norway

URL: http://childhouse.uio.no/childwatch/

Childwatch International is an international network for institutions and individuals involved in research for children with the aim of initiating and coordinating research and information projects on children's living conditions and the implementation of children's rights.

International Save the Children Alliance (ISCA)

59 Chemin Moise-Duboule, 1209 Geneva, Switzerland

URL: http://www.crin.ch/wilonew/iscailo.htm

The International Save the Children Alliance is made up of 25 member organisations. The rights of the child first advocated by the founders of the Save the Children movement and now expressed in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child are the basis for this work. Save the Children is dedicated to making a reality of children's rights everywhere. This is undertaken both through development programs to improve conditions for children and through advocacy.

ECPAT International (End Child Prostitution, Pornography and Trafficking)

328 Phaya Thai Road, Bangkok 10400, Thailand

Fax: (66-2) 215 8272

URL: http://www.rb.se/ecpat/

ECPAT is a global network of organisations and individuals working together for the elimination of child prostitution, child pornography and the trafficking of children for sexual purposes. It seeks to encourage the world community to ensure that children everywhere enjoy their fundamental rights free and secure from all forms of commercial sexual exploitation.

American Humane Association, Children's Division

63 Inverness Drive East, Englewood, CO 80112-5117 USA

URL: http://www.americanhumane.org

The organisation is involved in advocacy, child protection, training in child protection, program evaluation and research in child protection.

American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC)

407 South Dearborn Ave, Suite 1300, Chicago, IL 60605USA

URL: http://www.apsac.org/index.html

The role of APSAC is to ensure that everyone affected by child abuse and neglect receives the best possible professional response. To achieve that goal, APSAC is committed to: providing continuing professional education which promotes effective, culturally sensitive and interdisciplinary approaches to the identification, intervention, treatment and prevention of child abuse and neglect; educating the public about the complex issues involved in child abuse and neglect; and ensuring that public policy affecting America's response to child maltreatment is well informed and constructive. Services include: the quarterly publication, The APSAC Advisor, the quarterly journal Child Maltreatment, APSAC guidelines for practice, training tapes and access to a nationwide 5000 member network through the national office.

Annie E Casey Foundation: Kids Count Project

701 St Paul Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 USA

URL: http://www.aecf.org/

Kids Count is a project of the Annie E Casey Foundation. It is a national and state by state effort to track the status of vulnerable children and their families in the USA. By providing policy makers and citizens with benchmarks of child well being, Kids Count seeks to enrich local, state and national discussions concerning ways to secure better futures for all children.

Center for Effective Discipline

155 W. Main Street, Suite 100-B, Columbus, OH USA

URL: http://www.stophitting.com/

The Center for Effective Discipline is a non profit organisation which provides educational information to the public on the effects of corporal punishment of children and alternatives to its use. The Center is headquarters for and coordinates the two following organisations: National Coalition to Abolish Corporal Punishment in Schools and End Physical Punishment of Children.

Child Welfare League of America (CWLA)

440 First Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001-2085 USA

URL: http://www.cwla.org/

CWLA is an association of almost 1,000 public and private non-profit agencies that assist over two million children and families each year with a wide range of services, including: child protection; family foster care and kinship care; adoption; family preservation and support; child day care; independent living services; residential group care; and teenage pregnancy prevention and services for teen parents .

Family Resource Coalition (FRC)

20 North Wacker Drive, Suite 1100, Chicago, IL 60606 USA

URL: http://www.chtop.com/frc.htm

FRC is a membership organisation composed of social service agencies concerned with family issues and strengthening families through prevention services. FRC maintains a clearinghouse for information on family resource programs throughout the USA and Canada, publishes a quarterly newsletter and program directory, sponsors conferences and workshops and provides technical assistance to family based service programs.

Kempe Children's Center

1205 Oneida Street, Denver, CO 80220 USA

The organisation aims to prevent and provide treatment of child abuse and neglect. Services include: research, training, therapeutic preschool referrals, and adolescent perpetrators' group.

10100 Park Cedar Drive, Charlotte, NC 28210 USA

Kidsrights provides information to the public about children's rights and child abuse. It is a comprehensive clearinghouse for education and prevention materials in the fields of child abuse, molestation, teen rape and suicide, drug abuse, self esteem, AIDS, and related children's rights subjects. The materials are in both print and video and ranges from preschool to professionals.

PO Box 14038, San Francisco, CA 94114-0038 USA

The Morris Center provides low cost, innovative, long term, recovery alternatives for adult survivors of physical, sexual and emotional child abuse. Programs represent a collaboration among survivors, volunteers, community agencies, and clinicians. The guiding philosophy of the center is prevention through recovery.

National Association of State VOCAL Organizations (NASVO)

PO Box 1314, Orangevale, CA 95662 USA

The Association aims to bring balance and professionalism to the child protection system and family preservation. It helps abused children without abusing innocent children and families and seeks criminalisation of intentional false reporting.

National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse

1033 North Fairfax Street, Alexandria, VA 22314 USA

The aims of this organisation is to improve the investigation and prosecution of child abuse through court reform, professional specialisation and interagency coordination.

National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (NCCAN)

PO Box 1182, Washington, DC 20012-1183 USA

URL: http://www.calib.com/nccanch/index.htm

Former database name was Child Abuse and Neglect. This database contains more than 15,000 bibliographic citations with abstracts to materials concerned with the definition, identification, prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect.

National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect, Family Life Development Center

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4401 USA

URL: http://www.ndacan.cornell.edu/index.html

The Archive's mission is to facilitate the secondary analysis of high quality data sets relevant to the study of child abuse and neglect. The primary activity of the Archive is the acquisition, preservation and dissemination of these data sets.

National Exchange Club

3050 Central Avenue, Toledo, OH 43606-1700 USA

URL: http://www.nationalexchangeclub.com/

This organisation provides volunteer parent aides services to abusive and neglecting families.

National Indian Child Welfare Association

3611 SW Hood Street, Suite 201, Portland, OR 97201 USA

Ph: (503) 222 4044, ext 28

The National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) is a private, non profit organisation dedicated to improving the lives of Indian children and their families. NICWA has three major areas of organisational activities: information exchange, community development and public policy development.

PO Box 27958, Washington, DC 20038-7958 USA

One Voice is a national (USA) non profit organisation dedicated to addressing childhood sexual abuse and its effects on both children and adults. It is located in Washington DC and is a resource for callers from across the USA, providing attorney and advocacy referrals, as well as education and outreach programs.

Parents Anonymous

675 W Foothill Blvd, Suite 220, Claremont, CA 91711 USA

Parents Anonymous is both a secondary and tertiary prevention model for parents who have abused their children and others who are at risk of abusing their children because of stressors in their lives which may be perceived as overwhelming.

Parents United International

515 15th Street, Modesto, CA 95354 USA

URL: http://www.localink.net/sjpu/

Parents United is available for those in need of help healing and dealing with child sexual abuse as a victim, non offending parent, AMAC (adult molested as a child) or sexual offender.


	Support Groups UK British Association for the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (BASPCAN) 10 Priory Street, York, Y01 1EZ England Ph: (01904) 613 605 Fax: (01904) 642 239 BASPCAN is a professional networking association for those working in the field of child protection. Services include: a forum for discussion and exchange of information and research findings; publication of a journal and newsletter; training events. The Children's Legal Centre (CLC) The Children's Legal Centre, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex C04 3SQ England Ph: (1206) 872 466 Fax: (1206) 874 026 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www2.essex.ac.uk/clc The Children's Legal Centre is a national charity that promotes the rights of children. The Centre runs a free and confidential legal advice and information service covering all aspects of law and policy affecting children and young people. The service is open to children, young people and anyone with concerns about them. It publishes Childright, a monthly journal which focuses on law and policy affecting children, both in the UK and internationally. Child Rights Information Network (CRIN) 17 Grove Lane, London, SE5 8RD UK Ph: (0171) 703 5400 Fax: (0171) 793 7630 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.crin.ch/ CRIN is an international information network for organisations and individuals who are involved in child rights activities. Members of the network are committed to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and sharing information with others to promote children's rights. Childnet International 35 Piccadilly, London, W1V 9PB UK Email: [email protected] Ph: (0171) 525 9014 Fax: (0171) 701 1418 Childnet International is a non profit organisation, concerned to enable children to benefit from all the changes in international communications, and to protect them from any negative influences. End Physical Punishment of Children (EPOCH) 77 Holloway Road, London, N7 8JZ England Ph: (0171) 700 0627 Fax: (0171) 700 1105 EPOCH is an informal alliance of organisations which share the aim of ending all physical punishment of children by education and legal reform, coordinated by EPOCH, a national campaign launched in 1989 in the UK. Services include putting organisations and groups in touch with one another and providing help and advice on campaigning. Information is provided on legal reforms as well as examples of leaflets, posters and stickers used in the UK campaign against physical punishment. National Children's Bureau 8 Wakeley Street, London, EC1V 7QE England Ph: (0171) 843 6000 Fax: (0171) 278 9512 URL: http://www.caritasdata.co.uk/charity1/ch002131.htm Involved in child protection issues. The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) 42 Curtain Road, London, EC2A 3NH England Ph: (0171) 825 2500 Fax: (0171) 825 2525 Email: [email protected] The NSPCC exists to: help children suffering from significant harm as a result of ill treatment; help protect children who are at risk from such harm; help abused children to overcome the effects of such harm; and work to protect children from further harm. The NSPCC operates a child protection helpline, provides an independent voice campaigning on behalf of children; undertakes research into child abuse trends and issues, provides training for social workers and other professionals, and publishes books, leaflets and newsletters to educate parents, children and the general public about child abuse. CANADA Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family Faculty of Law, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary Alberta T2N 1N4 Canada Ph: (403) 220 6653 Fax: (403) 289 4887 Email: [email protected] The Institute has strong involvement with law enforcement regarding training packages and research in the area of child sexual abuse. It is currently developing a national research program on juvenile justice. Canadian Society for the Investigation of Child Abuse (CSICA) PO Box 42066, Calgary, Alberta T2J 7A6Canada Ph: (403) 289 8385 Email: [email protected] The Canadian Society for the Investigation of Child Abuse was formed in 1985 in response to a growing need for a coordinated, professional approach to child sexual abuse investigations. Major activities of the society include training child sexual abuse investigators, and responding to the needs of children, particularly in the area of child witness court preparation. Child Welfare League of Canada 180 Argyle Avenue, Suite 312, Ottawa, Ontario K2P 1B7Canada Ph: (613) 235 4412 Fax: (613) 788 5075 Email: [email protected] The Child Welfare League of Canada (CWLC) is dedicated to protecting and promoting the well being of Canada's children, particularly those who are at risk because of poverty, abuse and neglect. Global Childnet 133-990 Beach Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6E 4M2Canada Ph: (604) 682 6008 Fax: (604) 682 6771 Email: [email protected] URL: http://edie.cprost.sfu.ca/gcnet/index.html Global Childnet is an organisation currently developing a range of easily accessible, child health related, online services using the internet. They deal exclusively with electronic information on children and children's health. The services they currently offer via their web pages include list of links to existing information sources, news briefs on relevant information on the internet and access to their two databases. Institute for the Prevention of Child Abuse 25 Spadina Road, Toronto, Ontario M5R 289 Canada Ph: (416) 921 3151 Fax: (416) 921 4997 Email: [email protected] National Clearinghouse on Family Violence, Health Promotion and Programs Branch Finance Building, Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 1B4 Canada Ph: (613) 957 2938 Fax: (613) 941 8930 URL: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/familyviolence/bilingual.htm The Clearinghouse collects, develops and distributes resource materials on violence against children, women and seniors to front-line workers, policy makers, researchers and the general public in Canada. Youth Relationships Project Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontaria N6A 5C2Canada Ph: (519) 679 2111 ext 4726 Email: [email protected] This research project targets the prevention of violence in relationships. It is argued that child abuse, spouse abuse and sexual violence towards women share a related developmental course which is not inevitable. If well planned, alternative sources of information and experience are provided to adolescents who come from abusive families, then there is a substantial possibility of reducing future victimisation and offenses. MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA Casa Alianza Covenant House America Latina Oficina Regional para America Latina San Jose, Costa Rica Ph: (506) 253-5439 Fax: (506) 224-5689 Email: [email protected] Casa Alianza is a private, non profit organisation that works in the defense and rehabilitation of street children in Central America and Mexico. Casa Alianza is the Latin American branch of the New York based Covenant House, with its Regional Office in Costa Rica. Casa Alianza served some 5,000 street children and 4,000 children at risk over the past year. NEW ZEALAND Australian and New Zealand Association of Children's Contact Services (ANZACCS) PO Box 11054, Wellington, New Zealand Ph: (04) 385 6614 Fax: (04) 385 6730 URL: ~anzaccs/about.html"http://www.ozemail.com.au/~anzaccs/about.html Australian and New Zealand Association of Children's Contact Services is a non profit association promoting informed debate about the role and limitations of supervised parent/child contact ('visitation' or 'access') services. It aims to promote the availability of high quality services. The web site features a variety of information, publications, links to related sites and listings of service providers. Child abuse and domestic violence issues are addressed within the site. Barnardos PO Box 6434, Wellington, New Zealand Ph: (04) 385 7560 Fax: (04) 385 3769 Barnardos believes that with effective care, support and education all children and young people can experience a cycle of success. Barnardos caters for families under stress, families in crisis and sole parent families, as well as children and young people at risk, with special needs or who are disadvantaged. the ways in which service providers can best target their work. Children's Issues Centre Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph: (03) 479 5038 Fax: (03) 479 5039 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.otago.ac.nz/Web_menus/Dept_Homepages/CIC/CIC.html The Children's Issues Centre aims to monitor, coordinate, produce and disseminate information about children's well being and healthy development and facilitate programs and policies which enhance their well being and healthy development. Institute for Child Protection Studies (CPS) PO Box 5375, Hamilton, New Zealand Ph: (07) 846 6577 Fax: (07) 846 6603 CPS is a non profit social service committed to the protection of children. It provides services to any person who is interested in the well being and safety of children, whether that person has a role in preventing child abuse or is required to respond to children at risk of abuse. CPS offers readily accessible multi disciplinary training with a strong emphasis on the practical skills required to recognise child abuse and to become accountable as a child advocate. NORWAY Childwatch International PO Box 1132, Blindern, N-0317 Oslo, Norway Ph: (22) 85 43 50 Fax: (22) 85 50 28 Email: [email protected] URL: http://childhouse.uio.no/childwatch/ Childwatch International is an international network for institutions and individuals involved in research for children with the aim of initiating and coordinating research and information projects on children's living conditions and the implementation of children's rights. SWITZERLAND International Save the Children Alliance (ISCA) 59 Chemin Moise-Duboule, 1209 Geneva, Switzerland Ph: (22) 788 8180 Fax: (22) 788 8154 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.crin.ch/wilonew/iscailo.htm The International Save the Children Alliance is made up of 25 member organisations. The rights of the child first advocated by the founders of the Save the Children movement and now expressed in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child are the basis for this work. Save the Children is dedicated to making a reality of children's rights everywhere. This is undertaken both through development programs to improve conditions for children and through advocacy. THAILAND ECPAT International (End Child Prostitution, Pornography and Trafficking) 328 Phaya Thai Road, Bangkok 10400, Thailand Ph: (66-2) 611 0972 Fax: (66-2) 215 8272 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.rb.se/ecpat/ ECPAT is a global network of organisations and individuals working together for the elimination of child prostitution, child pornography and the trafficking of children for sexual purposes. It seeks to encourage the world community to ensure that children everywhere enjoy their fundamental rights free and secure from all forms of commercial sexual exploitation. USA American Humane Association, Children's Division 63 Inverness Drive East, Englewood, CO 80112-5117 USA Ph: (303) 925 9417 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.americanhumane.org The organisation is involved in advocacy, child protection, training in child protection, program evaluation and research in child protection. American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) 407 South Dearborn Ave, Suite 1300, Chicago, IL 60605USA Ph: (312) 554 0166 Fax: (312) 554 0919 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.apsac.org/index.html The role of APSAC is to ensure that everyone affected by child abuse and neglect receives the best possible professional response. To achieve that goal, APSAC is committed to: providing continuing professional education which promotes effective, culturally sensitive and interdisciplinary approaches to the identification, intervention, treatment and prevention of child abuse and neglect; educating the public about the complex issues involved in child abuse and neglect; and ensuring that public policy affecting America's response to child maltreatment is well informed and constructive. Services include: the quarterly publication, The APSAC Advisor, the quarterly journal Child Maltreatment, APSAC guidelines for practice, training tapes and access to a nationwide 5000 member network through the national office. Annie E Casey Foundation: Kids Count Project 701 St Paul Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 USA Ph: (410) 547 6600 Fax: (410) 547 6624 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.aecf.org/ Kids Count is a project of the Annie E Casey Foundation. It is a national and state by state effort to track the status of vulnerable children and their families in the USA. By providing policy makers and citizens with benchmarks of child well being, Kids Count seeks to enrich local, state and national discussions concerning ways to secure better futures for all children. Center for Effective Discipline 155 W. Main Street, Suite 100-B, Columbus, OH USA Ph: (614) 221 8829 Fax: (614) 228 5508 URL: http://www.stophitting.com/ The Center for Effective Discipline is a non profit organisation which provides educational information to the public on the effects of corporal punishment of children and alternatives to its use. The Center is headquarters for and coordinates the two following organisations: National Coalition to Abolish Corporal Punishment in Schools and End Physical Punishment of Children. Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) 440 First Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001-2085 USA Ph: (202) 638 2952 Fax: (202) 638 4004 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.cwla.org/ CWLA is an association of almost 1,000 public and private non-profit agencies that assist over two million children and families each year with a wide range of services, including: child protection; family foster care and kinship care; adoption; family preservation and support; child day care; independent living services; residential group care; and teenage pregnancy prevention and services for teen parents . Family Resource Coalition (FRC) 20 North Wacker Drive, Suite 1100, Chicago, IL 60606 USA Ph: (312) 338 0900 Fax: (312) 338 1522 URL: http://www.chtop.com/frc.htm FRC is a membership organisation composed of social service agencies concerned with family issues and strengthening families through prevention services. FRC maintains a clearinghouse for information on family resource programs throughout the USA and Canada, publishes a quarterly newsletter and program directory, sponsors conferences and workshops and provides technical assistance to family based service programs. Kempe Children's Center 1205 Oneida Street, Denver, CO 80220 USA Ph: (303) 321 3963 Fax: (303) 329 3523 Email: [email protected] The organisation aims to prevent and provide treatment of child abuse and neglect. Services include: research, training, therapeutic preschool referrals, and adolescent perpetrators' group. Kidsrights 10100 Park Cedar Drive, Charlotte, NC 28210 USA Ph: (704) 541 0100 Fax: (704) 541 0113 Kidsrights provides information to the public about children's rights and child abuse. It is a comprehensive clearinghouse for education and prevention materials in the fields of child abuse, molestation, teen rape and suicide, drug abuse, self esteem, AIDS, and related children's rights subjects. The materials are in both print and video and ranges from preschool to professionals. Morris Center PO Box 14038, San Francisco, CA 94114-0038 USA Ph: (415) 452 1939 Fax: (415) 452 6253 Email: [email protected] The Morris Center provides low cost, innovative, long term, recovery alternatives for adult survivors of physical, sexual and emotional child abuse. Programs represent a collaboration among survivors, volunteers, community agencies, and clinicians. The guiding philosophy of the center is prevention through recovery. National Association of State VOCAL Organizations (NASVO) PO Box 1314, Orangevale, CA 95662 USA Ph: (916) 988 9482 The Association aims to bring balance and professionalism to the child protection system and family preservation. It helps abused children without abusing innocent children and families and seeks criminalisation of intentional false reporting. National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse 1033 North Fairfax Street, Alexandria, VA 22314 USA Ph: (703) 739 0321 The aims of this organisation is to improve the investigation and prosecution of child abuse through court reform, professional specialisation and interagency coordination. National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (NCCAN) PO Box 1182, Washington, DC 20012-1183 USA Ph: (703) 385 7565 Fax: (703) 385 3206 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.calib.com/nccanch/index.htm Former database name was Child Abuse and Neglect. This database contains more than 15,000 bibliographic citations with abstracts to materials concerned with the definition, identification, prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect. National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect, Family Life Development Center Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4401 USA Ph: (607) 255 7794 Fax: (607) 255 8562 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.ndacan.cornell.edu/index.html The Archive's mission is to facilitate the secondary analysis of high quality data sets relevant to the study of child abuse and neglect. The primary activity of the Archive is the acquisition, preservation and dissemination of these data sets. National Exchange Club 3050 Central Avenue, Toledo, OH 43606-1700 USA Ph: 1800 XCHANGE Fax: (419) 535 1989 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.nationalexchangeclub.com/ This organisation provides volunteer parent aides services to abusive and neglecting families. National Indian Child Welfare Association 3611 SW Hood Street, Suite 201, Portland, OR 97201 USA Ph: (503) 222 4044, ext 28 Fax: (503) 222 4007 Email: [email protected] The National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) is a private, non profit organisation dedicated to improving the lives of Indian children and their families. NICWA has three major areas of organisational activities: information exchange, community development and public policy development. One Voice PO Box 27958, Washington, DC 20038-7958 USA Ph: (202) 667 1160 Fax: (202) 462 4689 One Voice is a national (USA) non profit organisation dedicated to addressing childhood sexual abuse and its effects on both children and adults. It is located in Washington DC and is a resource for callers from across the USA, providing attorney and advocacy referrals, as well as education and outreach programs. Parents Anonymous 675 W Foothill Blvd, Suite 220, Claremont, CA 91711 USA Ph: (909) 621 6184 Fax: (909) 625 6304 Parents Anonymous is both a secondary and tertiary prevention model for parents who have abused their children and others who are at risk of abusing their children because of stressors in their lives which may be perceived as overwhelming. Parents United International 515 15th Street, Modesto, CA 95354 USA Ph: (209) 572 3446 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.localink.net/sjpu/ Parents United is available for those in need of help healing and dealing with child sexual abuse as a victim, non offending parent, AMAC (adult molested as a child) or sexual offender. Back