Victimization of children and youth

How do I report child pornography?

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Dating Matters

Dating Matters focuses on teaching 11-14-year-olds healthy relationship skills before they start dating and reducing behaviors that increase the risk for dating violence, like substance abuse and sexual risk-taking. Dating Matters is evidence-based and includes prevention strategies for individuals, peers, families, schools, and neighborhoods.

Where can I locate information about date rape?

National Institute of Justice: Teen Dating Violence

This section of the National Institute of Justice website provides research and other information on teen dating violence, including articles and publications.

Building off a long history of research in the area of intimate partner violence, the National Institute of Justice is now looking to relationships during adolescence to understand the factors that put individuals at risk for involvement in abusive romantic relationships as adults.

National Crime Prevention Council: Cyberbullying

The National Crime Prevention Council, through funding from OVC, offers resources about cyberbullying, taking action in schools, creating community change, and how teens feel about cyberbullying.

Can I receive official AMBER Alerts via social media?

The Crime of Family Abduction: A Child's and Parent's Perspective

Date Published

May 2010

Agencies

OJJDP

National Child Traumatic Stress Network

The Network works to raise the standard of care and improve access to services for traumatized children, their families, and communities throughout the United States.

Safe Online Surfing Internet Challenge

This Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) site offers a free Internet safety and cyber citizenship educational program designed for 3rd through 8th grades.

What harms exist for children found at methamphetamine laboratories?

Are abused children more likely to offend later in life?

Who is considered a mandatory reporter of child abuse, including child sexual abuse/exploitation?

How many children are sexually abused in the United States?

Resource Guidelines: Improving Court Practice in Child Abuse and Neglect Cases

Date Published

January 1995

Agencies

OJJDP-Sponsored

Where can I go for assistance if my child has been abducted and taken to another country?

Where can I locate statistics on child abuse and neglect in the United States?

How many children have been abducted by nonfamily members?

Are resources available to assist child abduction victims and their families?

What is dating violence?

How many missing and exploited children are there in the United States?

How can I recognize the signs associated with child abuse and neglect?

To whom can I report child abuse?

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention: Easy Access to the FBI's Supplementary Homicide Reports

This tool provides access to decades of national and State data on homicide victims and known homicide offenders, including information on the age, sex, and race of victims and offenders, the victim-offender relationship, and the type of weapon used.

Helping And Lending Outreach Support (HALOS)

HALOS's mission is to provide resources and special opportunities to abused and neglected children and their caregivers through partnerships with faith-based and other community organizations. OVC produced a HALOS toolkit, which offers lessons learned and suggests strategies for establishing programs like HALOS wherever foster families and relatives need additional support for the children in their care.

Child Welfare Information Gateway: State Statutes Search

Child Welfare Information Gateway provides a searchable database of state and territory statutes on issues related to child abuse and neglect, child welfare, and adoption.

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