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Child victims

When Your Child's Identity Is Stolen

This site provides information on how to protect your child's identity, signs that your child's identity may have been stolen, and what to do if your child is an identity theft victim.

TransUnion: Child Identity Theft

This site provides information about how parents and guardians can check the TransUnion credit file of a minor child to ensure they have not been targeted by identity theft.

Stolen Futures: A Forum on Child Identity Theft

OVC and the Federal Trade Commission held a forum in 2011 to discuss child identity theft. Read transcripts from forum sessions that explored the nature of child identity theft—including foster care identity theft and identity theft within families—with the goal of advising parents and victims on how to prevent the crime and how to resolve child identity theft problems.

National Immigrant Women's Advocacy Project (NIWAP)

NIWAP is a national provider of training, legal and social science research, policy development, and technical assistance to providers and allied professionals who work with immigrant women, children, and crime victims. NIWAP hosts a library containing numerous resources on the legal rights of immigrant victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, and other crimes.

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI): Violent Crimes Against Children

This FBI program's mission is to—

  • decrease the vulnerability of children to sexual exploitation;
  • develop a nationwide capacity to provide a rapid, effective, and measured investigative response to crimes against children; and
  • enhance the capabilities of state and local law enforcement investigators through programs, investigative assistance, and task force operations.

StopBullying.gov

This website, managed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, provides information about how to prevent and address bullying in schools.