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• Administration for Children and Families
  Description: ACF is part of the Department of Health and Human Services and is the home for a number of programs concerning at-risk children. ACF is responsible for federal programs which promote the economic and social well-being of families, children, individuals, and communities.
  Date Added: 05/20/2000

• Battered Women and Their Children
  Description: Battered Women and Their Children is a website devoted to a professional and scholarly examination of the connections between domestic violence (woman abuse) and child maltreatment (child abuse and neglect).
  Date Added: 12/07/1999

• Battered Women's Justice Project
  Description: BWJP provides technical assistance for practitioners on policy issues related to the civil and criminal justice response to domestic violence, including use of the self-defense plea by battered women charged with crimes. Also provides information on the response of Native communities to domestic violence.
  Date Added: 03/22/2000

• California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare
  Description: The California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC) website is designed to: "Serve as an online connection for child welfare professionals, staff of public and private organizations, academic institutions, and others who are committed to serving children and families. Provide up-to-date information on evidence-based child welfare practices. Facilitate the utilization of evidence-based practices as a method of achieving improved outcomes of safety, permanency and well-being for children and families involved in the California public child welfare system."
  Date Added: 06/19/2006

• Child Abuse Prevention Network
  Description: Provides tools for professionals to support the identification, investigation, treatment, adjudication, and prevention of child abuse and neglect.
  Date Added: 05/20/2000

• Child Advocates
  Description: Child Advocates is an organization in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties (Bay Area, California) with over 500 volunteers working with abused and neglected children.
  Date Added: 05/20/2000

• Child Trauma Academy
  Author: Baylor College of Medicine
  Description: Addresses the maltreatment of children through direct clinical services, professional training, and research. Their website offers a publications, abstracts of ongoing research, and information for caregivers, and more. Includes online courses.
  Date Added: 04/27/1996

• Child Welfare League of America
  Description: CWLA is the nation's oldest and largest organization devoted entirely to the well-being of America's vulnerable children and their families. Website includes links to information about advocacy, programs, how to donate, publications, giftables, conferences and trainings, consultation, member agencies, and corporate friends.
  Date Added: 12/11/1997

• Child Witness to Violence Project
  Author: Pediatrics at Boston Medical Center
  Description: A counseling, advocacy, and outreach project that focuses on the growing number of young children who are hidden victims of violence: children who are bystanders to community and domestic violence. Website includes information on the program's mission, services, related projects, CWTV staff, children & violence, how to find help, tips for caregivers, a calendar, and program resources.
  Service region: Boston, MA
  Date Added: 10/02/2001

• ChildHelp USA
  Description: Organization in the field of child abuse prevention and treatment. Childhelp/Virginia programs include: body safety education for children, abuse intervention training for adults who work with children, early enrichment programs for at-risk children and families, residential treatment for victims of severe child abuse, and 24-hour abuse crisis counseling and referral services.
  Date Added: 02/10/2000

• Children's Safety Centers Network, Inc.
  Description: Organization provides a safe haven for children during parent visitation when there is threat of abuse or witnessing abuse during parent visitation or visitation exchanges. Website explains services.
  Service Region: Various locations in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
  Date Added: 10/26/2001

• Clearinghouse On Supervised Visitation
  Author: Institute for Family Violence Studies, School of Social Work, Florida State University
  Description: Offers: Information Updates; Training Manuals; Law Enforcement Manuals; Newsletters; and information about Florida Visitation Centers, and National/International Visitation Centers, and How To Start a Supervised Visitation Center.
  Date Added: 03/11/2002

• Crimes Against Children Research Center
  Description: Provides high quality research and statistics to the public, policy makers, law enforcement personnel, and other child welfare practitioners. Website posts a Fact Sheet about crimes committed against children, includes statistics.
  Date Added: 02/13/2001

• Domestic Abuse Project
  Description: Domestic Abuse Project is a multi-service agency for battered women, men who batter and their children serving the Minneapolis area. Dynamics of Domestic Violence Presentation is one of many training resources available from DAP. Other resources include manuals on groupwork with various populations and a manual on program evaluation.
  Date Added: 05/20/2000

• Domestic Violence Child Protective Services
  Description: Gives information about projects and collaborations funded by The Office of Community Services (OCS) and Administration for Children and Families (ACF) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Information includes grantee profiles, networking lists, grantee product directory, related links, fact sheets, an annotated bibliography, and lessons learned.
  Date Added: 02/16/2000

• Global Violence Prevention
  Author: Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse
  Description: Global Violence Prevention is an interactive case study about family violence. The site's purpose is to teach individuals in service provision fields to respond effectively to victims and perpetrators by guiding users through an online case study about a family experiencing violence. This site can be used by individuals or groups of students in a classroom setting. The case helps users learn how to respond to the members of the family and work effectively with other professionals in meeting their needs.
  Date Added: 04/24/2000

• The Future of Children Online Journal
  Description: The Future of Children is an online publication of the Children, Families, and Communities Program of The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The primary purpose of The Future of Children is to promote effective policies and programs for children by providing policymakers, service providers, and the media with timely, objective information based on the best available research. Vol. 9 - No. 3 - Winter 1999 is about Domestic Violence and Children and includes articles such as: Domestic Violence and Children: Analysis and Recommendations; Prevalence and Effects of Child Exposure to Domestic Violence; and The Impact of Violence on Children. Jeffrey Edleson, Ph.D. from the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse was the issue Editoral Advisor.
  Date Added: 03/14/2000

File Last Modified: Wed Jul 6 15:12:42 2005
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This website is sponsored by the Link Research Project, a project of the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse. Both the website and the Link Research Project were established with grants from the Allina Foundation (Minnesota) for the first phase of the project, and by The David and Lucile Packard Foundation (California) for the second phase. For more information or to contact project staff, please contact us via the MINCAVA email submission form.