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Topia!: Society: Issues: Children, Youth and Family: Advocacy Groups (77)
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Action Alliance for Children - Publisher of the Children's Advocate news magazine covering trends and policy issues affecting children and their families. Annie E. Casey Foundation - Private charitable organization dedicated to helping build better futures for disadvantaged children in the U.S. Initiatives are related to reducing teen pregnancy, improving foster care, education reform, alternatives to juvenile detention, neighborhood improvement, and increased public awareness of children's issues. British Columbia Child & Youth Advocacy Movement - A coalition of 40 Provincial Organizations and hundreds of community groups who promote legislation, policy and practice that will enable children and youth to achieve their full potential and to participate in making a better world. Citizens' Committee for Children of New York - New York City's oldest city-based, multi-issue child advocacy organization. This site offers alerts and facts about kids in NY. National Coalition for Child Protection Reform - Works to make the system better serve America's most vulnerable children by trying to change policies concerning child abuse, foster care and family preservation. Prevent Child Abuse Illinois - This organization works to prevent all forms of child abuse and neglect through public awareness campaigns, parent education and support programs, advocacy, and training and technical assistance. Association to Benefit Children - Childrens advocacy group with an array of programs that provide services in education, health, housing, metal health and employment. Buryat Families: Helping those left behind - A group concerned with the plight of abandoned and homeless children in Siberia. Federation for Children with Special Needs - Resources for parents who care for children with special needs, including links to a nationwide directory of Parent Centers on Disability. Best Interests - An electronic magazine for children's advocacy professionals, with news and articles on legal issues, medical and mental health topics related to the care of abused and neglected children. StandUp For Kids - "A nationally acclaimed and recognized all volunteer nonprofit organization committed to the rescue of homeless and street kids. Working with high risk youth, runaways, children of the night, and throwaways. Twenty outreach program in nine states. Childhelp USA/Virginia - This site promotes the prevention, education and treatment of child abuse and neglect through body safety programs for kids, residential treatment for abused children, and helpful lectures for adults - all free of charge - as well as the child abuse hotline. Kidscape - A registered UK charity committed to keeping children safe from harm or abuse. Kids First Fund - Designed to serve children who are orphans, handicapped, sexually abused, physically abused and pregnant teenagers in developing countries and economies of our world. Wisconsin Council on Children and Families - A nonprofit, multi-issue child and family advocacy agency, whose mission is to promote the well-being of children and families in Wisconsin by advocating for effective and efficient health, education, and human service delivery systems. Partnership for Children - A non-profit group dedicated to improving the lives of children and youth in Greater Kansas City. Advocates for Children - Provides support and information for parenting in a complex world through the Parent Resource Center. World Children's Center - A planned community for approximately 500 orphaned, neglected and abused children from Georgia, the United States and the world. Family Preservation & Child Welfare Network - Offers trends and facts on child abuse & neglect, foster care, adoption, family violence, and child protective services. Eye to Eye : Palestinian refugees - Photographs and stories by young Palestinian refugees that offers visitors to come and share their stories and see where they live. Unbroken Trust - A student club dedicated to educating the public about local and world issues related to child protection and child advocacy. ProJOVEN (ForYOUTH) - A nonprofit organization working to build the first and only residential-care home for troubled adolescents in Paraguay. Channel One Problems - A coalition of progressive and conservative groups opposing Channel One's presence in the schools, with extensive links to testimony, data, and activism. Prevent Child Abuse in Iowa - This site works to end child abuse through parent education, home visitor, sexual abuse prevention, young parents programs, and crisis child care. The Child Advocate Network - Serves the needs of children, families and professionals while addressing medical, educational, psychiatric, legal and legislative issues. National Children's Advocacy Center - Provides prevention, intervention, training, and treatment services in the field of child abuse and neglect. Childhood Trust - Joint effort of Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati, the University of Cincinnati and concerned citizens, dedicated to stopping the pain of child abuse through education, evaluation, and treatment for victimized children and their families. Parent Help U.S.A. - A non-profit charitable organization dedicated to preventing the abuse of infants and children through parent education and family services, and emphasizes discipline without hitting or harming. Children's Rights Council - National non-profit organization that works to assure children meaningful and continuing contact with both their parents and extended family regardless of the parents' marital status. The Schott Center - The Schott Foundation's mission is to develop and strengthen the movement for equity in education and child care. The Foundation funds initiatives aimed at improving public policy and educational and advocacy organizations. PINS - An organization across NY State advocating parent rights to obtain the authority to raise their teenage children by reforming legislation amending the persons in need of supervision law, raising the age up to 18. Soldier Child - Focuses on the effect of conflict on civilian children ChildPAL - An organization created to ensure the protection of children from, and a zero tolerance attitude toward, the occurrence of physical, emotional and sexual abuse within our schools and community. Children and Armed Conflict Unit - Database containing up-to-date information on issues about children and armed conflict, including press releases and links to other relevant sites. Child Mental Health Advocate - The Advocate serves the needs of children, families and professionals while addressing mental health issues. The National Mentoring Partnership - An organization that promotes, advocates and is a resource for mentors and mentoring initiatives nationwide. American Youth Policy Forum - Nonpartisan professional development organization providing learning opportunities for policymakers working on youth issues at the local, state and national levels. Safer Child - A nonprofit educational information and referral resource on all issues of child welfare, child health and child safety. National Association of Child Advocates - Nationwide network of nonprofit, multi-issue, nonpartisan state and local child advocacy organizations working to ensure children's safety, security, health and education. Christian Children's Fund - This site is dedicated to providing long-term care to needy children worldwide by offering information on child sponsorship and poverty reduction, action alerts, and online donation options. National Association for Multicultural Education - This site supports efforts in educational equity and social justice and provides resources for students and educators and valuable links to other sites. Campaign 2000 - End Child Poverty in Canada - A cross-Canada public education movement to build public awareness and support for the 1989 all-party House of Commons resolution to end child poverty in Canada by the year 2000. Fair Treatment for Teens - A site that encourages participating businesses pledge to help ensure that young people won't be taken advantage of because of their age or inexperience and that they understand their rights as employees. Child Welfare League of America - Children's advocacy organization active in lobbying and humanitarian projects in the US. History and current programs described; links to publications, childrearing resources, and sponsors. National Association of Counsel for Children - Child advocacy and professional membership association representing children that are involved in the court system as victims of abuse and neglect or subjects of custody, visitation and adoption cases. Information about training and technical assistance, policy advocacy, and events. UNICEF: Child Rights - Publications and information on the work of the United Nations Children's Fund and its advocacy for children's rights, survival, development and protection through adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Children's Rights First - Concerned with children's rights to see their parents and to mental well-being when parents are separated. Children's Rights Alliance for England - Information, projects, links related to improving the status and lives of all children in England through the full implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Children's Rights, Inc. - Watchdog group dedicated to reforming government child welfare services across the US. Site offers statistics, reports on pending legislation, policy and research position papers, cases, and news and publications. Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children - The Coalition aims to ensure a collective voice for Canadian organizations and youth advocates of children's rights as described in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the World Summit for Children Declaration. Defence For Children International - An independent non-governmental organization working to promote and protect the rights of the child. International Bureau of Children's Rights - An international Canadian based organization with the mission is to protect, defend and promote the rights and the welfare of all children and ensure that children's rights are respected in accordance with the principles set forth in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Child Relief and You (CRY) - Information on the status of children in India and the organization's efforts to provide them food, clothing, shelter, and education. Terre des Hommes India Programme - Sponsored by the Germany office of the child advocacy organization. Site constitutes an interactive and educational platform to defend and protect children's rights as defined by the UNCRC,with case studies, news and opinion articles, activity centre, and downloads. National Child Welfare Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice - Seeks to enhance the capacity of state and tribal child welfare agencies to plan, implement, and evaluate family-centered services for children and families. World Vision: You can make a difference. - A leading, international, Christian aid organisation that is working worldwide to bring hope and change to communities in need through our relief and development projects aimed at helping children in developing countries Child Labor Coalition - National network for the exchange of information about child labor, providing a forum and a unified voice on protecting working minors and ending child labor exploitation, and develop informational and educational outreach to the public and private sectors. American Family Rights Association - AFRA is a very large association of parents, concerned citizens, professionals that support and work to reform our current and corrupt Child Protective Services. Parents and Advocates unite. Alliance for Children and Families - The Alliance for Children and Families is an international membership association representing more than 350 private, nonprofit child- and family-serving organizations. Parents Reform for Pasco County - Are you are a resident of Pasco County, Florida? Have you been victimized by the Child Protection Investigation unit of the Pasco County Sheriff's office? Unethically treated by the Family Continuity Program or by the 6th Judicial Court? Then this group is for you. We are going to reform the way things are done in Pasco County. We will expose the corruption that is going on within these departments. PPPC will be the voices for the children who have been wrongfully "kidnapped" by these departments! Parent News On-line Newspaper - A Place for parents who have been a victim of cps corruption or otherwise falsely accused of child abuse. Also a place to go for some up-to-date information on our family constitutional rights. Families at Risk - FAR is an organization that has representatives through out the country to help abused foster children and victims of child abuse laws. The Children's Voice - Advocating for the rights of children to equal access to both parents after separation or divorce, the eliminaton of gender discrimination, and the dismantling of the adversarial system of family law. National Network for Youth - NNY is dedicated to ensuring that young people can be safe and lead healthy and productive lives. A place of possibilities for so many of America's youth who have so few places to turn to. Wings For Children - We are devoted to help stop child abuse and find missing children. We continue fighting the court system for better rights for children; the flying sick, poor, and abused children across the country. Nevada Institute for Children (NIC) - NIC is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to advancing children's issues in Nevada and the United States. Citizen Advocates For Foster Care Rights - Citizen Advocates for Foster Care Rights website specials,book savings,special offers,contests coupons,bookclubs,activities. Welcome to For the Love of Children International - Book Club - Adorable children, for the love of children, are all about children! We are dedicated to helping children in their time of need. On the Capitol Doorstep (OTCD) - Provides information on California and federal legislation affecting young children with a focus on child care and development programs.
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