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World Society of Victimology

The World Society of Victimology is a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization that advances victimological research and practices around the world; encourages interdisciplinary and comparative work and research in this field, and advances cooperation between international, national, regional, and local agencies and other groups who are concerned with the problems of victims.

U.S. Department of Justice: Tribal Justice and Safety

The Tribal Justice and Safety website provides information for American Indian and Alaska Native Tribal governments to further improve the safety of their communities. This site also provides information to the general public and other federal agencies to better understand the resources available for improving safety in American Indian and Alaska Native communities.

Traumatic Stress Institute

The Institute promotes excellence in trauma-informed services to organizations nationally and internationally who treat clients with histories of psychological trauma and attachment disruptions.

Clery Center

This nonprofit organization works to prevent campus violence and crimes and to assist campus victims in the enforcement of their legal rights.

Privacy Rights Clearinghouse

The clearinghouse provides identity theft resources, consumer information, publications, and advocacy.

National Sexual Violence Resource Center

The National Sexual Violence Resource Center provides information and tools to prevent and respond to sexual violence. They seek to create lasting change by mobilizing advocates, service providers, leaders, and communities to support survivors, advance victims’ rights, and prevent sexual abuse, assault, and harassment.

National Organization of Parents Of Murdered Children, Inc.

This organization provides the ongoing emotional support needed to help parents and other survivors facilitate the reconstruction of a "new life" and to promote healthy grief resolution.

National Criminal Justice Association

The National Criminal Justice Association represents state, Tribal, and local governments on crime prevention and crime control issues. Its members represent all facets of the criminal and juvenile justice community, including law enforcement, corrections, prosecution, defense, courts, victim-witness services, and educational institutions to federal, state, and local elected officials.

National Crime Victim Law Institute

This organization actively promotes comprehensive and enforceable legal rights for crime victims, and access to knowledgeable attorneys to help protect those rights in every case, through victim centered legal advocacy, education, and resources.

National Crime Victim Bar Association

The National Crime Victim Bar Association educates attorneys, victim service providers, and the general public about civil legal remedies for crime victims. The National Crime Victim Bar Association also provides referrals for crime victims to civil attorneys in their local area.

National Center on Elder Abuse

The National Center on Elder Abuse provides the latest information regarding research, training, best practices, news, and resources on elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation to professionals and the public.

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC)

NCMEC works to locate and recover missing children and raises public awareness about ways to prevent child abduction, molestation, and sexual exploitation. NCMEC offers a 24-hour, toll free hotline, 800-THE-LOST (800-843-5678), a CyberTipline to collect leads from the public, and online resources on finding missing children and assisting families.

Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)

MADD has hundreds of chapters that assist victims of drunk driving crashes at the local level. Its website offers statistics, activism information, and program awareness resources. Victims of drunk driving and their loved ones can call MADD's 24-hour hotline 877-MADD-HELP (877-623-3435) to speak with a victim advocate for emotional support, guidance, and referrals.

International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies

The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies shares information about the effects of trauma, reducing traumatic stressors, and clinical strategies. Its website offers journals and related resources for the public, professionals, and the media.

Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma

The Institute is a resource and training center and provides information on many areas of family violence and sexual assault.

Futures Without Violence

Futures Without Violence offers resources for healthcare professionals, employers, educators, policy leaders, advocates, survivors, and others seeking information on domestic and sexual violence, harassment, stalking, human trafficking, and child abuse.

FaithTrust Institute

The Institute provides training and consultation to religious communities on issues of sexual abuse and domestic violence.

Child Welfare League of America

The Child Welfare League of America is a coalition of hundreds of private and public agencies that serves abused and neglected children and their families. Services include child abuse prevention and treatment, youth programs, residential treatment, child daycare, and family preservation.

Child Welfare Information Gateway

A service of the 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 providing publications, research, and learning tools selected by experts to support thriving children, youth, families, and communities.

American Psychological Association

The American Psychological Association offers information on posttraumatic stress disorder and a Disaster Response Network, which includes more than 1,500 psychologists who volunteer to provide free onsite mental health services to disaster survivors and the relief workers who assist them.

Association of Professionals Solving 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.

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP)

This organization offers information as a public service, distributing fact sheets for parents and caregivers and research and guidelines for psychiatric staff. Its website offers articles for helping children cope with trauma, stress, and disasters. Information is also available in Spanish.

The Crime Victims Center

The Crime Victims Center is a community and victims’ rights organization dedicated to the prevention and treatment of sexual abuse and the provision of comprehensive, trauma-informed support services to victims of violent crime and elderly, minor, and disabled victims of all crime.

National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma, and Mental Health

This organization seeks to enhance agency- and system-level responses to survivors of domestic and sexual violence and their families through comprehensive training and technical assistance, research and evaluation, policy development, and public awareness.

Aurora Center

The Aurora Center's mission is to recognize and reduce sexual assault, relationship violence, and stalking on campus and to create an atmosphere where all members of the community can learn, work, and live to their full potential.

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