Internet Resources

Family Life Development Center (FLDC) Located at Cornell University this interdisciplinary unit of the College of Human Ecology promotes strategies that parents, mentors, service providers, policy makers, and researchers can use to prevent family violence, enhance youth development, and build stronger communities. http://fldc.cornell.edu

Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) CWLA is the oldest and largest national non-profit organization developing and promoting policies and programs to protect America's children and strengthen families. CWLA's 1,000 plus public and private non-profit member agencies serve 3 million abused and neglected children and their families each year. http://www.cwla.org

Child Abuse Prevention Network A National Collaborative Project, with Special Private Access Services for Members. http://child-abuse.com

National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information This is a key access point for information resources on child abuse and neglect in the USA. The Clearinghouse is a national resource for professionals seeking information on the prevention, identification, and treatment of child abuse and neglect and related child welfare issues. http://www.calib.com/nccanch/

National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect The central data archive for researchers in child abuse and neglect in the USA. The RCCP's partners in providing Internet working skills for child abuse prevention. http://www.ndacan.cornell.edu

Kempe Children's Center Strategic partners with Cornell's Child Abuse Prevention Network in building special Internet resources for solving problems in the field of child maltreatment. http://www.kempecenter.org

National Association of Counsel for Children (NACC) This is the Kempe Center's affiliate organization. http://www.naccchildlaw.org

American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law Key collaborators with Cornell's Child Abuse Prevention Network in building special Internet resources for legal problems in the field of child maltreatment. http://www.abanet.org/child

Prevent Child Abuse America The focal point of the prevention agenda in the USA. An early leader – and the first national collaborator with Cornell – in using computer networking to support child abuse prevention. http://www.childabuse.org

Army Family Advocacy Programs A major innovator in using prevention as an institutional focus in child abuse prevention. Cornell helped to build resources for marketing the prevention agenda. http://child-abuse.com/army/army.html

American Humane Association through its Children's Division, has worked for over a century to help improve and enhance public child welfare systems and private child-focused agencies in their responses to the plight of abused and neglected children. http://www.americanhumane.org/cpmain.html

National Children's Advocacy Center in Huntsville, Alabama, focused on prevention and treatment options for physically and sexually abused children and their families. Uses a child-centered, family focused approach. http://www.ncac-hsv.org/

Exchange Club of North Carolina – Stop Child Abuse Now. The center provides information about child abuse, programs on how to parent, and support for the long established "parent aide" approach to serving families where child maltreatment is a problem. http://www.webfresco.com/scan/

The Office on Child Abuse and Neglect (OCAN) is a part of the Children's Bureau in the Department of Health and Human Services. It funds the National Clearinghouse, the National Data Archive, and important resources for improving state responses on child abuse and neglect, and for demonstrating leading edge program models and research efforts on child abuse prevention, intervention and treatment.http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/cb/

The Family Research Laboratory. The Family Research Laboratory (FRL) is an independent research unit at the University of New Hampshire devoted to the study of family problems. They also run an annual Family Violence Research Conference in early summer. The laboratory was founded in 1975. http://www.unh.edu/frl/frlbroch.htm

CASAnet is a resource for Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) and Guardian ad Litem (GAL) programs, volunteers and professionals in their work with abused and neglected children. CASAnet is a service of the National CASA Association. http://www.casanet.org

LifeNET (Home Page for the Corporate Partners of the Child Abuse Prevention Network) http://child-abuse.com/ecinfo/lifehome.html

EC-Net Welcome (First Password Protected Page for Members) http://child-abuse.com/ecwelcome/

The Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) The Institute is a Commonwealth statutory authority established in 1980 to promote the identification and understanding of factors affecting marital and family stability in Australia. http://www.aifs.org.au/

National Child Protection Clearinghouse (Australia) The Clearinghouse is funded by the Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services under the auspices of the National Child Protection Council as part of the National Strategy for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect. http://www.aifs.org.au/nch/nch_menu.html