Federal Trade Commission: How To Protect Your Child From Identity Theft
This article offers informative steps to help parents avoid, recognize, and repair the damage caused by child identity theft.
Juvenile (under 18)
Changing Minds
This national campaign seeks to raise awareness, teach skills, and inspire public action to address children's exposure to violence and trauma. Funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, this campaign seeks to engage teachers, coaches, counselors, doctors, nurses, law enforcement officers, and other professionals and caregivers on proven ways to help heal the damage of childhood trauma.
Missing Children, State Care, and Child Sex Trafficking: Engaging the Judiciary in Building a Collaborative Response
Date Published
June 2015
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OJJDP-Sponsored
Through Our Eyes: Children, Violence, and Trauma DVD
Date Published
April 2015
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OVC
Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2014 National Report
Date Published
December 2014
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OJJDP-Sponsored
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.
Equifax: Are My Children at Risk of Identity Theft?
This article provides advice on how to manage a child's credit, including what to do if you think your child may be an identity theft victim.
Federal Trade Commission: Back to school: Protect your child’s information
In the wrong hands, the personal information on school forms can be used to commit fraud in your child's name — to apply for government benefits, open credit card accounts, or apply for a loan. This blog post provides information on how you can help protect your child's identity.
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.
Report of the Attorney General's National Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence
Date Published
December 2012
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OJJDP-Sponsored
Through Our Eyes: Children, Violence, and Trauma
Date Published
April 2014
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OVC
Enhanced Services to Children and Youth Exposed to Violence: Promising Practices & Lessons Learned
This site provides a collection of promising practices, lessons learned, and related resources derived from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services-funded grantee demonstration projects designed to enhance services provided to children and youth who have been exposed to violence.
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.
Family Resource Information, Education, and Network Development Service (FRIENDS)
FRIENDS provides services to the community-based child abuse prevention community through targeted training and technical assistance efforts, as well as information to the general child abuse prevention community.
National Children's Advocacy Center
The Center models, promotes, and delivers excellence in child abuse response and prevention through service, education, and leadership.
National Runaway Safeline
The mission of the National Runaway Safeline is to help keep America's runaway, homeless, and at-risk youth safe and off the streets. Contact the Safeline toll free at 800-RUNAWAY (800-786-2929), text at 66008, or via online chat.
National Victim Assistance Academy Resource Paper: Child Abuse and Neglect
Date Published
September 2012
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OVC
Children's Exposure to Violence: A Comprehensive National Survey
Date Published
October 2009
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OJJDP
Helping Children Exposed to Domestic Violence: Law Enforcement and Community Partnerships, Final Report
Date Published
March 2001
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NIJ-Sponsored
Polyvictimization: Children's Exposure to Multiple Types of Violence, Crime, and Abuse
Date Published
October 2011
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OJJDP
Children's Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence and Other Family Violence
Date Published
October 2011
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OJJDP