In the United States & Canada
(services United States only)
Since 1972, Prevent Child Abuse America (PCA America) has led the way in building awareness, providing education and inspiring hope to everyone involved in the effort to prevent the abuse and neglect of our nation's children. Working with their chapters, they provide leadership to promote and implement prevention efforts at both the national and local levels. With the help of their state chapters and concerned individuals like you they're valuing children,strengthening families and engaging communities nationwide.
Their national campaign and local programs, prevention initiatives and events help spread the word in your community, creating awareness that prevention is possible. They are a family of friends, professionals, volunteers, donors and parents who are preventing child abuse and neglect before it ever starts.
(Services US and Canada)
Childhelp® exists to meet the physical, emotional, educational, and spiritual needs of abused, neglected and at-risk children. It focus our efforts on advocacy, prevention, treatment, and community outreach.
Founded in 1959 by Sara O'Meara and Yvonne Fedderson, Childhelp® is a leading national non-profit organization dedicated to helping victims of child abuse and neglect. Childhelp's approach focuses on prevention, intervention and treatment. The Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline, 1-800-4-A-CHILD, operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and receives calls from throughout the United States, Canada, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Guam. Childhelp's programs and services also include residential treatment services (villages); children's advocacy centers; therapeutic foster care; group homes; child abuse prevention, education and training; and the National Day of Hope®, part of National Child Abuse Prevention Month every April. Several of Childhelp's programs were firsts, and continue to be studied by professionals worldwide as "models that work." Sara O'Meara and Yvonne Fedderson continue to actively lead the organization and provide its vision, serving as Chairman/CEO and President, respectively.
Boost believes that all children and youth have a right to grow up in a safe, healthy, and nurturing environment. Boost is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and violence through education and awareness, and to collaborating with our community partners to provide services to children, youth, and their families.
(Services Canada only)
Boost is committed to eliminating abuse and violence in the lives of children, youth, and their families. The centre is a registered charity and provides programs and services to children, youth, and their families in Toronto and surrounding areas. In 2008, Boost opened two new locations in Central Ontario to deliver court preparation and support to children and youth. In 2009/2010, in partnership with the YMCA of Greater Toronto, Boost is providing training to professionals in 16 cities and towns across Ontario to recognize and respond to suspicions of child abuse.
Boost believes that all children and youth have a right to grow up in a safe, healthy, and nurturing environment. Boost is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and violence through education and awareness, and to collaborating with our community partners to provide services to children, youth, and their families.
In The United Kingdom
On 8 July 1884, The London Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children was established. Lord Shaftesbury was appointed as president and the Reverend Benjamin Waugh and Reverend Edward Rudolf as joint honorary secretaries.At the 1889 annual general meeting the Society changed its name to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Queen Victoria became Patron and Waugh was appointed as director. Since its establishment in London in the 1880s, the NSPCC has helped more than 10 million children in the UK, partly through ChildLine, the UK’s free, confidential helpline dedicated to children and young people. Whenever and wherever children need us, ChildLine's trained volunteers are on hand to provide advice and support 24 hours a day.
In Australia
Originally known as the Abused Child Trust, ACT for Kids has been helping Australian families keep their children safe for more than 20 years. ACT for Kids gives children all the skills, care and confidence they need to turn their tiny hearts around and lead a normal life. They’re also there for mums and dads, healing the hurt that abuse and domestic violence causes the whole family. ACT for Kids provides various services through its intensive therapy programs, safe houses, sexual abuse counselling, offering safety classes in schools, mentoring teens and running a cadetship program.
The International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, founded in 1977, is the only multidisciplinary international organization that brings together a worldwide cross-section of committed professionals to work towards the prevention and treatment of child abuse, neglect and exploitation globally.
ISPCAN's mission is to prevent cruelty to children in every nation, in every form: physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, street children, child fatalities, child prostitution, children of war, emotional abuse and child labor. ISPCAN is committed to increasing public awareness of all forms of violence against children, developing activities to prevent such violence, and promoting the rights of children in all regions of the world.
In Other Parts of the World
ISPCAN's mission is to prevent cruelty to children in every nation, in every form: physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, street children, child fatalities, child prostitution, children of war, emotional abuse and child labor. ISPCAN is committed to increasing public awareness of all forms of violence against children, developing activities to prevent such violence, and promoting the rights of children in all regions of the world.
