Child victims
Child Welfare Information Gateway: State Statutes Search
Child Welfare Information Gateway provides a searchable database of state statutes on issues related to child abuse and neglect, child welfare, and adoption.
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention: Statistical Briefing Book (SBB)
The SBB enables users to access statistics on juvenile victimization and youth involved in the juvenile justice system. The SBB provides timely and reliable statistical answers to the most frequently asked questions from policymakers, the media, and the general public. In addition, the data analysis and dissemination tools available through SBB give users quick and easy access to detailed statistics on a variety of juvenile justice topics.
Childstats.gov
This website offers easy access to statistics and reports on children and families, including: family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education and health. The Forum fosters coordination, collaboration, and integration of Federal efforts to collect and report data on conditions and trends for children and families.
Department of Defense: Family Advocacy Program
The Family Advocacy Program serves as a resource for military families experiencing family violence by providing prevention efforts, early identification and intervention, support for victims, and treatment for offenders.
Childhood Violent Trauma Center
The Childhood Violent Trauma Center works to—
- increase the capacity of individuals and communities to reduce the incidence and impact of violence on children and families;
- train and support the professionals who provide intervention and treatment to children and families affected by violence; and
- increase professional and public awareness of the effects of violence on children, families, communities, and society.
Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect
The Center provides fundraising, education, parental resources, clinical services, research, and advocacy efforts to end child abuse and neglect.
International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect
The International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect supports individuals and organizations working toward the prevention and treatment of child abuse, neglect, and exploitation through publications, congresses, professional training events, and worldwide activities.
National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges: Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment
This website provides publications and other information designed to support the safe and trauma-informed interactions between survivors of domestic violence and their children, the courts, and other systems.
Children's Defense Fund
The Children's Defense Fund represents America's children, particularly low-income, minority, and disabled children. This organization seeks to educate the Nation regarding the needs of children and to encourage preventive investments in children.
Child Welfare Information Gateway
A service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Child Welfare Information Gateway promotes the safety, permanency, and well-being of children and families by connecting child welfare, adoption and related professionals as well as the general public to timely, essential information.
Child Find of America
This nonprofit charity works to locate missing children for free and works to prevent child abduction. Child Find performs investigations, distributes photos, mediates, and disseminates information to the public.
American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children
The Society's mission is to ensure that everyone affected by child maltreatment receives the best possible professional response. Its website offers related publications and information on legislation and professional education.
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention: Missing and Exploited Children
This page provides information about Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention efforts to address missing and exploited children. It offers publications and resources to support victims and their families.
National Council on Child Abuse and Family Violence
The National Council on Child Abuse and Family Violence provides intergenerational violence prevention services by bringing together community and national stakeholders, professionals, and volunteers to prevent family violence, child abuse and neglect, spouse/partner abuse, and elder abuse.
The National Center for Fatality Review and Prevention
The National Center for Fatality Review and Prevention promotes, supports, and enhances fetal and infant mortality review and child death review methodology and activities to local, state, and national audiences.
Shared Hope International
Shared Hope International is a faith-based, worldwide effort to prevent and eradicate sex trafficking and slavery through education and public awareness.
Chadwick Center for Children and Families
The Chadwick Center for Children and Families promotes the health and well-being of abused and traumatized children and their families.
Child Witness to Violence Project
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.
AMBER Alert
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.
Crimes Against Children Research Center
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.
U.S. Department of State: International Parental Child Abduction
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.