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The Institute is a national resource center and clearinghouse on gender violence in Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities.

Pathways to Safety International (formerly the Americans Overseas Domestic Violence Crisis Center) provides crisis services to victims crime outside the United States, including the crimes of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

ECPAT International is a global network of organizations and individuals working together for the elimination of the sexual exploitation of children.

NACC is a non-profit child advocacy and professional membership association dedicated to providing high quality legal representation for children.

The Child Witness to Violence Project is a counseling, advocacy, and outreach project that focuses on the growing number of young children who are bystanders to community and domestic violence.

The National Association of Social Workers is a membership organization of professional social workers. The National Association of Social Workers works to enhance the professional growth and development of its members, to create and maintain professional standards, and to advance sound social policies.

The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund is dedicated to honoring and remembering the service and sacrifice of law enforcement officers in the United States.

Team HOPE matches searching families with experienced and trained volunteers who have had or still have a missing or sexually exploited child. Among the services that Team HOPE provides is to help families in crisis with a missing, sexually exploited, or recovered child as they handle the day-to-day issues of coping and/or searching for their child.

Use the CyberTipline to report cases of suspected online child sexual exploitation, including: online enticement of children for sexual acts, child sexual molestation, child sexual abuse material, child sex tourism, child sex trafficking, unsolicited obscene materials sent to a child, misleading domain names, and misleading words or digital images on the Internet.

The mission of the Crimes Against Children Research Center is to combat crimes against children by providing high quality research and statistics to the public, policymakers, law enforcement personnel, and other child welfare practitioners.

The Center for Victims of Torture works locally, nationally, and internationally to build healing communities where torture survivors feel welcomed, protected and healed.

This organization promotes victims' rights and offers information and referrals to victims of crime.

This non-governmental organization's general aim is to help establish and develop victim-offender mediation and other restorative justice practices throughout Europe.

The Centre offers information on victims' rights, services, and financial assistance in Canada.

NAMI is dedicated to improving the lives of individuals and families affected by mental illness. NAMI operates a hotline which provides information, resource referrals, and support to people living with a mental health conditions, their family members and caregivers, mental health providers, and the public. Contact the NAMI hotline toll free at 800–950–NAMI (6264) or by text "NAMI" to 741741.

The Center for Public Representation seeks to improve the quality of lives of people with mental illness and other disabilities through the systemic enforcement of their legal rights while promoting improvements in services for citizens with disabilities.

For three decades, the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law has been the nation's leading legal advocate for people with mental disabilities.

The ACLU works in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country.

The Vera Institute of Justice combines expertise in research, demonstration projects, and technical assistance to help leaders in government and civil society improve the systems people rely on for justice and safety.

The America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response (AMBER) Alert System is a voluntary partnership between law-enforcement agencies, broadcasters, transportation agencies, and the wireless industry, to activate an urgent bulletin in the most serious child-abduction cases.

The AMBER Alert website provides information on issuing AMBER Alerts, toolkits for raising awareness, and more.

This agency provides services to parents in cases of international family abductions. If you believe your child is in the process of being abducted by a parent, legal guardian, or someone acting on their behalf, call them at 888–407–4747 or 202–501–4444.