MISSION: To improve professional and public efforts to understand and deal with risk factors in the lives of children, youth, families and communities that lead to family violence and neglect. It focuses on strategies and programs to help vulnerable children and youth by strengthening families and communities.

The Family Life Development Center, at Cornell University's College of Human Ecology, in Ithaca, NY, operates its programs of research, training, technical assistance and model program development across the United States, and in several countries around the world. Founded in 1974, the Center serves all of the major professions which deal with child abuse and its identification, prevention and treatment.

With a small core of funding from the State of New York, the Center's extensive programs are underwitten in large part by grants and contracts from state, federal and private sources. Visit the FLDC

MISSION: To support Family Advocacy Program Managers around the world with information resources on the Internet that directly address child abuse, child safety, domestic violence, and their prevention. To identify the best resources, and the most effective distribution strategies lead to the accomplishment of the Army Family Advocacy goals of community cohesion, personnel preparedness, safety, and self-sufficiency.

Family Advocacy Online is supported in part by a cooperative agreement between the U.S. Army and the Extension Service of the USDA, and is administered in the Family Life Development Center at Cornell University. First launched in 1996, the Web site now provides numerous online resources, including full-text documents, downloadable files, and audio resources. Visit Family Advocacy Online.

MISSION: To prevent child abuse in all its forms by increasing public awareness of the problem and the commitment to solve it, fostering a New York statewide network committed to child abuse prevention, serving as a resource for individuals, families and organizations, advocating for expanded and improved activities to prevent child abuse.

Prevent Child Abuse New York is the state chapter of Prevent Child Abuse America -- the premier primary child abuse prevention and advocacy organization in the USA. A membership organization with connections to community based agencies and statewide associations, Prevent Child Abuse New York has been serving families, advocates and professionals since 1980.

The New York Chapter programs include a prevention information resource center, a parenting warmline (24/7), the training and resource center for home visiting programs in New York State, the coordination of Healthy Families New York, and an annual Prevention Conference whose faculty is made up of nationally and internationally recognized experts. Visit Prevent Child Abuse New York.

MISSION: To provide access to support for survivors and victims of child abuse and child sexual abuse.

SAVE - Survivors and Victims Empowered -- provides resources and links to organizations who are expert in addressing every aspect of the victimology of child abuse, including extensive contacts for adult survivors. SAVE distributes millions of copies of Useful publications, including the journal Treating Abuse Today.
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MISSION: To solve persistent and pernicious problems through the application of the latest technology, especially information technology.

LifeNET, Inc., sponsor of the Child Abuse Prevention Network, was incorporated in 1995 with a flagship mission to apply the power of the Internet to solving the devastating problem of child abuse and neglect. Learn more about LifeNET

MISSION: 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, 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.

ISPCAN was founded in 1977, to advance the world's agenda on child abuse prevention, and to provide for scholarly activities in the field. ISPCAN sponsors the International Journal on Child Abuse and Neglect, and oversees International Congresses and area Conferences around the world. ISPCAN is the most venerable professional association in the field, with over 2,000 members worldwide.