The Georgia Center for Child Advocacy (GCCA) is a nationally accredited child advocacy center with a mission to champion the needs of sexually and severely physically abused children through prevention, intervention, therapy, and…Read more.
For over four decades, Committee for Children has been championing the safety and well-being of kids. We are leaders in the field of social-emotional learning and are dedicated to helping children develop the life skills they…Read more.
For nearly 40 years, the Centers for Disease Control, Division of Violence Prevention (DVP) has utilized and shared the best available data and conducted research to identify what works to prevent various forms of violence. Read more.
Zero Abuse Project is a national non-profit organization dedicated to creating a world where all children are free from abuse and sexual assault. We use an approach of education, training, prevention, and response to affect societa…Read more.
BeKidSafe, powered by the Center for Child Counseling, is building the capacity of educators, professionals working with children, and the larger community to promote child safety, resilience, and well-being. Our goal…Read more.
APSAC, The American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, founded in 1987, is a nonprofit national organization focused on meeting the needs of professionals engaged in all aspects of services for…Read more.
The Center for Violence Prevention Research is a federally funded, leading research institution focused primarily on violence prevention that works at the ground level, hand-in-hand with organizations delivering…Read more.
The Association for the Treatment and Prevention of Sexual Abuse (ATSA) is an international multidisciplinary organization dedicated to preventing sexual abuse. ATSA promotes sound research, effective evidence…Read more.
Mission: We protect every child’s right to grow up free from child sexual exploitation and trafficking through education, legislative advocacy, and partnerships. We empower youth and communities, advocate for policy change, and…Read more.
Protect our Children was established in 2015 with a mission to mobilize communities to prevent child sexual abuse. Born from The Ford Family Foundation’s unwavering commitment to end child sexual abuse…Read more.
The Traverse Bay Children’s Advocacy Center (TBCAC) is the regional response center for cases of child abuse and violence for a six-county region in Northwest Michigan and the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and…Read more.
kNot Today was founded in 2019 by former NFL Head Coach Frank Reich and his wife Linda. Our mission is to generate awareness and initiate and support prevention strategies to end the sexual abuse, exploitation…Read more.
Enough Abuse
The Enough Abuse Campaign is a citizen education and community mobilization initiative working to prevent child sexual abuse by building state and local partnerships, educating parents and concerned adults, training professionals, promoting prevention policies in schools and youth organizations, and advocating for legislation to prevent sexual abuse, and ensure justice for survivors and accountability for abusers. Using proven effective public health strategies from other social change movements, the goal of Enough Abuse is to put an end to the silence, shame, and denial that has allowed child sexual abuse to go unchallenged for so long.
Prevent Child Abuse North Dakota
Prevent Child Abuse North Dakota (PCAND) is dedicated to strengthening families and preventing child abuse and neglect in North Dakota. Our organization was founded in 1978. We are a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization and a chapter of Prevent Child Abuse America. Prevent Child Abuse North Dakota also employs the Director of the North Dakota Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Task Force. This task force is committed to developing and implementing a comprehensive statewide approach to preventing child sexual abuse.
The Redwoods Group Foundation
The Redwoods Group Foundation exists to scale change. They identify programs that change the world and then operate as a backbone organization to help those programs reach more people than ever before. The Redwoods Group Foundation focuses on child sexual abuse prevention, aquatic safety, and other safety areas in youth serving organizations.
Children's Advocacy Centers of Texas
Since 1995, CACTX has established our leadership to effectuate change, empower communities, and make the safety of children a top priority in every community. CACTX and our network of CACs have helped over one million children and their families impacted by crime achieve safety, justice, and healing in their most significant time of need. As we continue to scale our footprint to support high quality services to all children requiring our care, we also recognize the opportunity to cast our vision upstream and are leading effective strategies that specifically target the prevention of sexual abuse.
Monique Burr Foundation for Children
The Monique Burr Foundation for Children (MBF) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing the best prevention education programs to protect children and teens from victimization. MBF Prevention Education Programs are comprehensive, evidence-based, trauma-informed primary prevention programs that educate and empower children, teens, and all relevant adults with information and strategies to prevent, recognize, and respond appropriately to the four types of child abuse (physical, emotional, sexual, and neglect), exploitation/trafficking, bullying, cyberbullying, and digital dangers.
Chicago Children's Advocacy Center
Chicago Children’s Advocacy Center and our partners are the front-line responders in Chicago to reports of child sexual abuse. We also respond to physical abuse, witness to violence, and other cases of serious maltreatment. Since opening our doors in 2001, we have served more than 45,000 children. We are the city’s only nonprofit organization that coordinates the efforts of child protection staff, law enforcement professionals, family advocates, medical experts, and mental health clinicians under one roof. All of our work falls under three distinct service lines aimed at reducing trauma so that children and families may begin the healing process, or preventing child sexual abuse before it happens.
Janet Rosenzweig, PhD
Sex-Wise Parenting Education Resources
Dr. Janet Rosenzweig’s credentials as a sex educator led to a position with one of the first sexual abuse projects in the U.S. more than four decades ago. Her experience as a caseworker, helpline counselor, professor, researcher, author, public official, child abuse prevention specialist, and mother inspired the creation of a resource so parents can do what public systems often fail to do — ensure the sexual health and safety of their children and family. An inspirational speaker and teacher, Dr. Rosenzweig is devoted to reaching professionals and parents everywhere with the advice and techniques they need to raise sexually safe and healthy kids. She is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Institute for Human Services and a Core Instructor at the Fels Institute of Government, University of Pennsylvania.
Anthony Rizzuto, PhD
Abuse Prevention Solutions/Safe Kids Thrive
Dr Anthony (Tony) Rizzuto is President and Founder of Abuse Prevention Solutions, LLC – a private practice offering national and international consultation in the prevention of child abuse and neglect including organizational and corporate awareness and prevention strategies, training and education, policy assessment and development, accountability, and effectiveness measurement. Dr. Rizzuto also worked with the Massachusetts Legislative Task Force on the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse to develop Safe Kids Thrive, a website providing free guidance and resources for youth-serving organizations on the Elements of Prevention. These guidelines and resources are publicly available and include information on building prevention frameworks for policies and procedures, screening and hiring, codes of conduct, monitoring behavior, safe environments, reporting, and training.
Stacy Vaughan, DSW, CMSW
Strategic Social Impact
Dr. Stacy Vaughan is a social worker and educator whose career has been dedicated to safeguarding children. She is the founder of Strategic Social Impact, a social impact consulting firm and provides consultation, training, content development, and strategic support for organizations starting or expanding prevention initiatives in their communities. She frequently provides professional trainings and presentations on abuse and exploitation prevention issues. She is also the acting director of a new nonprofit formed by the collaboration of several state organizations, Connect to Protect Kids. Stacy served as Secretary of the coalition from 2017 – 2023 and is currently a Board Member and the Operations Manager providing operational support to the coalition.
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