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Administration for Children and Families (ACF)Children's Bureau |
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Part of the Department of Health and Human Services, the ACF Children's Bureau provides federal reports on child maltreatment, current initiatives, and special events.
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American Humane Association is a network of individuals and organizations working to prevent cruelty, abuse, neglect, and exploitation of children and animals and to assure that their interests and well-being are fully, effectively, and humanely guaranteed by an aware and caring society.
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American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) |
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APSAC would like to ensure that everyone affected by child maltreatment receives a professional response by providing scholarly and clinical materials. This site includes information on state chapters, legislation, and additional resources.
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This site is for professionals in the field of child abuse and neglect. Child maltreatment, physical abuse, psychological maltreatment, neglect, sexual abuse, and emotional abuse are their key areas of concern. They provide unique and powerful tools for all workers to support the identification, investigation, treatment, adjudication, and prevention of child abuse and neglect.
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Central to the Child Trauma Academy is its mission to improve the systems that educate, nurture, protect, and enrich children. Current research projects, training activities, publications, and progress reports are included in this site.
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CWLA is an association of public and private nonprofit agencies that assist abused and neglected children and families through a wide range of services. The site offers information on their programs, publications, and upcoming conferences and trainings.
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The Institute for Children is a foster care and adoption think tank that would like to reshape foster care and adoption in America so that every child will have the chance to grow up in a permanent, loving family. Their site includes findings based on individual states and information about legislation.
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This site was designed to provide a clinically based resource for training, consultation, program development and evaluation, and research regarding all forms of child abuse and neglect. The center is committed to multidisciplinary approaches to improving the recognition, treatment, and prevention of all forms of abuse and neglect.
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The Missing and Exploited Children's Training Programs serve law enforcement, social workers, prosecutors, judges, probation officers, and elected officials. Courses are offered on many topics, including child abuse and exploitation investigative techniques; child abuse and exploitation team investigative process; child sexual exploitation; and responding to missing and abducted children.
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The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children website offers success stories, educational resources, and current events. The 'About Us' section has a list of topics varying from child pornography to services for law enforcement.
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This agency provides prevention, intervention, and treatment services to physically and sexually abused children and their families within a child-focused team approach.
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Child Awareness Services opened this website of accessible links to individual states' searchable databases of registered sex offenders in the United States and other select countries.
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PCA is a nationally recognized organization for the prevention of child abuse through media, training and technical assistance. The site has several links/resources, along with child abuse facts and special events.
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Cultural Information |
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This site provides links to various aspects of Asian culture, including Asian studies, advocacy, culture, education, health, sexuality, and women.
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This site provides a wide array of information for African American families, as well as many links to other sites of interest.
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The Center for the Study of Biracial Children produces and disseminates materials for and about interracial families and biracial children. The center provides advocacy, training, and consulting. Its primary mission is to advocate for the rights of interracial families, biracial children, and multiracial people.
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The Center for the Study of White American Culture supports cultural exploration and self-discovery among white Americans. It encourages a dialogue among all racial and cultural groups concerning the role of white American culture in the larger American society. The Center operates on the premise that knowledge of one's own racial background and culture is essential when learning how to relate to people of other racial and cultural groups. A premise of this site is that the task of building genuine and authentic relationships across racial and cultural lines is crucial to the future well-being of America.
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This site contains information, resources, and links to other sites, provided by the Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice.
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Footsteps: Celebrating African American History and Achievement |
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This online magazine celebrates the heritage of African Americans and explores their contributions to our culture.
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| In this video, 23 individuals (youth in care, alumni, child welfare professionals, birth families, and resource families) share their perspectives about why race and ethinicity matter and the importance of integrating racial and ethnic identity into child welfare practice.
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NBCDI's website includes information on membership, public policy, resources, and a calendar of upcoming events.
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This national organization seeks to educate and empower Korean American communities nationwide.
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Domestic Violence |
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Futures Without Violence is a national nonprofit organization that focuses on domestic violence education, prevention, and public policy reform. This site includes fact sheets on the effects of domestic violence on children, full text articles, and other relevant links.
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MINCAVA operates an electronic clearinghouse that provides scholarly papers on battered spouses and their children, a searchable database on the link between child maltreatment and woman battering, and links to additional resources.
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This site includes documents that address provisions of the Violence Against Women Act; issues related to child custody and protection; the overlap between child maltreatment and abuse of women; and child witnesses of domestic violence.
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Education Issues |
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CHADD works to improve the lives of people with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder through education, advocacy, and support. Their site offers great information on ADD and disability issues in the legislature.
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An interactive learning disability resource guide for parents, teachers, and students, this site provides a wealth of recent articles and legislation.
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Gay And Lesbian Issues |
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This site offers information about sexuality for teens, both homosexual and heterosexual.
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The largest national lesbian and gay political organization, the HRC envisions an America where lesbian and gay people are ensured of their basic equal rights. They lobby the federal government on gay, lesbian, and AIDS issues; educate the public; participate in election campaigns; organize volunteers; and provide expertise and training at the state and local level. This site has upcoming legislation and informational material.
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Lesbian.org promotes lesbian visibility on the Internet, and includes political and cultural resources as well as additional links. resources as well as additional links. www.
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NGLTF is a national progressive organization working for the civil rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people. Their site contains updated information on GLBT law and current issues.
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The NGLTF Youth Institute offers young people the opportunity to learn the skills necessary to create change.
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Youth Action Online is a service run by volunteers, created to help self -identifying gay, lesbian, bisexual, and questioning youth. YAO exists to provide young people with a safe space online to be themselves.
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Law and Advocacy |
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The goal of the ABA Childrens Law Division is to improve the lives of children through advances in law, justice, knowledge, practice, and public policy. This site includes child welfare tips and a lot of great child advocacy links.
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This newsletter offers news and resources for professionals and volunteers who advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children. The site includes information on legal issues, medical topics, web resources, and legislation.
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Children Now utilizes the mass media to make children a top priority across the country. They work to improve the quality of news and entertainment media for children and about childrens issues.
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This is a teen-written foster care magazine that discusses issues facing children throughout the foster care system. Their goal is to train, inform, and provide a voice for teens through print journalism. This site has samples of teen writing and order forms for their books.
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This foster parent resource provides articles, website links, and information on local foster parent associations. Links include grandparent and relative caregiver links, attachment disorders, medical links, adoption, HIV, educational issues, FAS, and ADD/ADHD.
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Hear My Voice is a unique coalition of volunteer child advocates and professionals in the areas of law, mental health, and the media. The site lists the recent success stories of difficult child advocacy cases.
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Their mission is to work with the Indian community to preserve and reunite Indian families by providing culturally appropriate legal services to Indian children, parents, extended family members, and tribes in cases governed by the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, and to serve as a community development resource for ICWA education, advocacy, and public policy.
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The ABA Juvenile Justice Center is dedicated to monitoring the legislative, fiscal, policy, and administrative changes rapidly emerging in juvenile justice systems across the nation.
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NACC is a nonprofit professional membership organization dedicated to quality represen-tation and protection of children in the legal system. Their purpose is to assist attorneys and other professionals in their work with children in the legal system. At the same time, NACC carries out a policy agenda designed to improve the legal system for children. This site provides advocacy links and upcoming events.
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NCYL provides information, training, and consultation on youth law matters to legal services for attorneys and other professionals serving poor children and youth. Its areas of expertise include abuse and neglect, termination of parental rights, public benefits for children, childrens health, and the rights of children living in institutions. NCYL provides information, training, and consultation on youth law matters to legal services for attorneys and other professionals serving poor children and youth. Its areas of expertise include abuse and neglect, termination of parental rights, public benefits for children, childrens health, and the rights of children living in institutions.
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NCAs Children's Advocacy Centers (CACs) are community-based programs that bring together representatives from law enforcement, juvenile court counselors, mental health, and other service providing agencies to address the investigation, treatment, and prosecution of child abuse cases.
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National Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Association |
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The website for the national child advocacy organization, this site includes information about the work of CASA programs as well as a library with links about several important topics impacting children including HIV, cultural awareness, and advocacy.
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This site offers links to the latest facts and figures on juvenile justice, delinquency prevention, and violence, and includes many of their publications, grant options, and local resources.
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Voices for America's Children is the nation's largest network of multi-issue child advocacy organizations. Their nonprofit, nonpartisan network spans almost every state, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. They lead advocacy efforts at the community, state and federal levels to improve the lives of all the children, especially those most vulnurable, and their families. |
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Medical/Psychological |
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The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry would like to assist parents and families in understanding developmental, behavioral, emotional, and mental disorders affecting children and adolescents. The website includes journal information, facts, re-sources, and information on legislation.
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The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) offers materials for professionals working in the field of child abuse, including policy statements, a program on the visual diagnosis of child physical abuse, and resources for prevention, recognition, and treatment.
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The I Am Your Child campaign has involved the nations leading experts in early childhood and neurodevelopment in an ongoing effort to educate families, professionals and policymakers about the crucial role of early childhood in creating healthy children. This site has a wealth of information about early childhood and brain development.
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This organization provides resources to improve the lives of people with mental illnesses and their families. Legal issues, medical information, and many other fact sheets are included in the website.
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This organization is devoted to advocacy for all people with disabilities, originally focused on mental retardation. The site includes topics such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, managed care, fetal alcohol syndrome, and the human genome project.
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The center offers help for children facing the pain of death, divorce, separation, or aban-donment, and provides a list of books/links for school professionals, parents, and advocates who deal with childrens grief.
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This program of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs offers a broad range of activities, including research, training, and public information. The site includes an index of world-wide literature on PTSD.
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Dr. David Baldwins Trauma Pages focus primarily on emotional trauma and traumatic stress, including PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), whether following individual traumatic experience(s) or a large-scale disaster. Site includes information on trauma resources, bookstore, articles, and links.
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Miscellaneous |
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This electronic guide provides information regarding adolescent issues and secondary education, including mental health risk factors for adolescents.
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Connections for Kids is a virtual encyclopedia of information for adults who want to make communities a better place for kids. Most topics include information on substance abuse, schools, and media issues.
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Facts for Families offers information for parents and families on issues affecting children and adolescents, such as depression, teen suicide, step-family problems, and child sexual abuse.
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The goal of this site is to prevent youth fire tragedy through education, intervention, and mental health support, and to facilita te the exchange of information on the topic of youth fire setting.
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This information service for parents and educators who focus on health, education, and recreation includes useful books, articles on learning disabilities, and links.
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NASW works to enhance the professional growth and development of its members, to create and maintain professional standards, and to advance sound social policies.
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Youth and Family Directory |
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Search this directory to find youth and family programs and services in your own neighbor-hood and nationwide.
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Native American |
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The public policy section of NICWAs website provides information on how specific child welfare laws impact Indian children. The site also provides links to other information on Native American culture.
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This site contains over three thousand links to various aspects of Native American culture and history.
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Virtual library of the Indian culture with an index of resources on the web, including culture, history, language, health, and art.
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Substance Abuse |
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This comprehensive site provides links to virtually every relevant topic on substance abuse, as well as links to fact sheets and statistics.
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This is the most complete resource on the web for information about programs, facilities, and schools helping young people who are not meeting expectations due to emotional, behavioral, or addiction problems.
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This site includes new forms of treatment, general information, and publications, and offers a link to area professionals.
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Topics on this site include the economic and socia l costs of substance abuse and its impact on lives; what works in prevention, treatment, and law enforcement; individual and institu-tional responsibility for combating substance abuse and addiction; the tools helpers need to succeed; and the goal of removing the stigma of abuse and replacing shame and despair with hope.
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Washington State Resources |
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Casey Family Programs provides an array of services for children and youth, with foster care as
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A network of 18 community-based, private, nonprofit child care resource and referral agencies across Washington State (USA). We offer consumer education, training and technical assistance to parents, child care providers, employers and the community.
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The Children's Alliance is statewide, member based advocacy organization dedicated to improving the safety, security, health and education of Washington's children. Its activities include policy analysis and development, public education, outreach, training, and policy advocacy. The Alliance supports collaborative efforts by individuals and organizations working on juvenile justice, food program policies, medical and dental services, family support, budget priorities, and prevention strategies.
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Through adoption support, family support, parent education, early childhood development, advocacy, counseling, residential and foster care, Children's Home Society of Washington has served Washington state's children and families for more than 100 years.
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The Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) is an agency that helps people. We do this in partnerships with families, community groups, religious organizations, private providers, other government agencies, and the many thousands of generous foster parents, neighbors, and citizens who make Washington a special place by taking care of each other.
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The Northwest Adoption Exchange program has been providing special needs adoption services since 1976 by facilitating adoptive placements in Alaska, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington through its regularly published photo-listing book.
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Established in 1990, OCVA serves the state on many levels by: Advocating on behalf of crime victims in obtaining needed services and resources; Administering grant funds for community programs working with crime victims; Assisting communities in planning and implementing services for crime victims; and Advising local and state government agencies of practices, policies, and priorities which impact crime victims.
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The Mission of the Office of the Family and Childrens Ombudsman is to protect children and parents from harmful agency action or inaction, and to make agency officials and state policy makers aware of system-wide issues in the child protection and child welfare system so they can improve services.
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The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) is the primary agency charged with overseeing K-12 education in Washington state. OSPI works with the states 296 school districts to administer basic education programs and implement education reform on behalf of more than one million public school students.
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A non-profit organization, TeamChild was founded on a simple premise: many juveniles can be diverted from delinquency or other trouble if their basic needs are met. TeamChild has developed manual and training on Education Advocacy.
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The Treehouse vision is to create a place for foster children and community supporters that will dramatically improve the lives of our kids. By establishing a visible source for services to youth, Treehouse has expanded programs and advocacy to far better meet demands that outstrip current capacity. No agency in the region responds to the needs of our foster children like Treehouse.
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CCF's mission (formerly Washington Council for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect) is to provide leadership and a statewide focus on the prevention of child abuse and neglect, and to encourage and support effective community prevention efforts.
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The State Supreme Court administers the Judicial branch of the Washington State Government. The website includes information on The Office of the Administrator for the Courts (OAC).
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State Legislature homepage. |
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