Enhancing Police Responses to Children Exposed to Violence: A Toolkit for Law Enforcement
Date Published
February 2017
Agencies
OJJDP-Sponsored
Victimization of children and youth
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.
A Circle of Healing for Native Children Endangered by Drugs
Date Published
December 2014
Agencies
OVC
Publication Type
Technical Assistance,
Instructional Material
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.
Underserved Teen Victims Initiative: Case Study Guide
Date Published
June 2012
Agencies
OVC-Sponsored
Publication Type
Program/Project Description
Recognizing When a Child's Injury or Illness Is Caused by Abuse
Date Published
July 2014
Agencies
OJJDP
HALOS Strategy: Community Collaborations for Children
Date Published
May 2014
Agencies
OVC
Publication Type
Citizen Involvement Material
Children's Exposure to Violence and the Intersection Between Delinquency and Victimization
Date Published
October 2013
Agencies
OJJDP
Report of the Attorney General's National Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence
Date Published
December 2012
Agencies
OJJDP-Sponsored
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.
Family Justice Center Alliance
The Alliance provides training, planning, consulting, and technical assistance to Family Justice Centers and family violence professionals throughout the world.
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.
Child and Youth Victimization Known to Police, School, and Medical Authorities
Date Published
April 2012
Agencies
OJJDP
National Alliance for Drug Endangered Children
This organization's mission is to break the cycle of abuse and neglect by empowering practitioners who work to transform the lives of children and families living in drug environments. The Alliance provides training and technical assistance to state drug-endangered children alliances and all those in the community who assist and care for drug-endangered children.
Enough Is Enough
The mission of Enough Is Enough is to create and sustain a safe, entertaining, and informative Internet environment, free from sexual predators, the intrusion of unwanted sexual material, and other harmful and exploitative online threats.
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.