7 Types of Intelligence (Children)
A Child's Haven, Inc. - Therapeutic child care for neglected and abused children ages 2 to 5 years in Greenville, South Carolina, educating and assisting dysfunctional families to break abusive cycles.
A World for Children - A child placing agency providing therapeutic services to abused and neglected children through substitute care which includes: emergency shelter placements, assessment center services, and foster care utilizing well trained foster parents.
About.com's Guide to Children's Rights and Human Rights - news and information about children's rights and human rights. Includes links to UN treaties and international efforts on behalf of the rights of the child.
ACAL Association of Child Abuse Lawyers - Practical support for UK Lawyers and other professionals working for adults and children who have been abused
Action Alliance for Children - Publisher of the Children's Advocate newsmagazine covering trends and policy issues affecting children and their families. National and California-wide scope; articles available on-line. Sponsor of public education events.
Action International - Ministry with a focus on streetkids and orphaned babies.
Advocates and Volunteers for Abused and Neglected Children - Child advocates and volunteers represent abused and neglected children in juvenile court for foster homes, child welfare services and child care.
Advocates for Children - Provides support and information for parenting in a complex world through the Parent Resource Center located at 27 Lisbon Street, Lewiston, Maine.
Alternative Youth Care Halfway House - Located near Kalispell Montana, this day program is a monitored half-way house for young males that have completed a primary inpatient teatment for Chemical Dependency.
America's Non-Supporting Parents - Help find non-supporting parents that are most wanted by DHHS.
American Coalition of Abuse Awareness Newsletter - Mission is to improve the quality of life for children and adult survivors of incest and sexual, physical and emotional abuse through advancements in law, justice and public policy and education of the public and professionals.
Amnesty for Kids - Newsletter advocates childrens' rights. Inspired by one woman's own problems with her ex-husband and two children. Unrelated to Amnesty International.
Angeles Street Children Project
Angels Foster Family Agency - A non-profit San Diego, California agency is dedicated to providing services and nurturing homes for foster infants and toddlers under the age of two.
Annie E. Casey Foundation - Private charitable organization dedicated to helping build better futures for disadvantaged children in the U.S. Initiatives are related to reducing teen pregnancy, improving foster care, education reform, alternatives to juvenile detention, neighborhood improvement, and increased public awareness of children's issues.
Aspen Youth Services - Provides special education services in California, treatment, and rehabilitation services to at-risk youth and their families across the country. Various residential schools and programs located in Utah, Oregon, Idaho and Massachusetts.
Association to Benefit Children - Children’s advocacy group with an array of programs that provide services such as education, health, housing, metal health and employment.
Broken Shackle Ranch - Youth home for young men who need some direction and guidance. Offers an academic school and vocational training programs. Non-profit.
Buryat Families: Helping those left behind - A group concerned with the plight of abandoned and homeless children in Siberia.
CAS - Working with street children in Accra, Ghana, West Africa.
Casa Alianza - Living in the streets.
Casa Youth Shelter for Homeless and Runaway Youth - Crisis intervention and short term shelter for youth age 12 - 17 who are at risk of running away, have run away, or are homeless. Serves the Greater Long Beach, California metropolitan area.
Casey Family Services - Providing services in foster care, post-adoption, family presrevation, reunification, advocacy and support, and programs for teen parents and families affected by HIV/AIDs, outreach to communities in New England and Maryland.
Centre for Europe's Children - dedicated to promoting children's rights. This is the Documentation Centre for the Council of Europe's Program for Children. Includes bibliographies and UNICEF statistics on European Children's Rights.
Channel One Problems - A coalition of progressive and conservative groups opposing Channel One's presence in the schools. Extensive links to testimony, data, and activism.
Child Labor Coalition - National network for the exchange of information about child labor; provide a forum and a unified voice on protecting working minors and ending child labor exploitation; and develop informational and educational outreach to the public and private sectors.
Child Net - Streetkids and runaway youth.
Child Quest International, Inc. - Posts photos and brief bios of runaway and abducted children. Other services include posters, photo scanning, and age enhancement of children's photos.
Child Relief And You - CRY is an independent organization and its chief objectives are to restore to children their basic right to food, shelter and education.
Child rights- UNICEF - The United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF - works for children's rights, their survival, development and protection, guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Child Support Central - Listing of professional and state resources to aide in collection.
Child Support Information Network - Explains how to become more active in child support issues as a parent.
Child Support Options - Newsletter of the National Coalition for Child Support Options.
Child Work - Methods of research with street and working children: an annotated bibliography.
Childhelp USA/Virginia - Childhelp USA/Virginia promotes the prevention, education and treatment of child abuse and neglect through body safety programs for kids, residential treatment for abused children, and helpful lectures for adults - all free of charge - as well as the child abuse hotline 1-800-4-A-CHILD.
ChildHope UK - Dedicated to improving the lives and defending the rights of street children world-wide.
Children and the Law - Established in 1978, the ABA Center on Children and the Law's mission is to improve children's lives through advances in law, justice, knowledge, practice, and public policy.
Children and Violence - Researchers are becoming increasingly interested in violence and its affect on children. The site contains many links to other sites addressing different aspects of children and violence
Children in Distress - Give a child a lifetime of happiness: Bangalore garden city of India.
Children Now - A nonpartisan, independent voice for children based in California, working to translate the nation's commitment to children and families into action. Provides articles and resources in the areas of Children and the Media, Talking with Kids, and Working Families.
Children's Bill of Rights - James Mario Horstmann, proposes helping our greatest resource - our worlds' children - help themselves by enactment of a Bill of Rights they can understand, experience and practice.
Children's Defense Fund - Advocacy for American children, particularly poor and minority children and those with disabilities. Issues and programs include: Head Start, Healthy Start, Stand for Children, child care, health insurance, child safety, moral education.
Children's Institute International - Treatment and prevention of child abuse and neglect!
Children's Needs - An article exploring the possible societal consequences of children's needs being inadequately met.
Children's Relief Network - Nonprofit organization dedicated to restoring the lives of Romania's hurting street children and orphans.
Children's Rights Council - A national non-profit organization based in Washington, DC that works to assure children meaningful and continuing contact with both their parents and extended family regardless of the parents' marital status.
Children's Village - New York-based organization provides a safe haven and caring community to heal and strengthen 1,200 troubled children and their families annually.
Children’s Budget Report - A detailed analysis of spending on low-income children’s programs in 13 states(1998).
Children’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch - Eastablished in 1994 to monitor human rights abuses against children around the world and to campaign to end them. We take on abuses carried out or tolerated by governments; when appropriate, the division also deals with abuses carried out by armed opposition groups.
Christian Children's Fund - CCF is dedicated to providing long-term care to needy children worldwide. The CCF Web site offers information on child sponsorship and poverty reduction, action alerts, and online donation options.
Christian Children's Fund of New Zealand - Christian Children's Fund (CCF) is one of the world's oldest and most experienced child sponsorship organisations. CCF New Zealand began operations in 1990, as an independent affiliated partner of the CCF International Network.
Citizens' Committee for Children of New York - New York City's oldest city-based, multi-issue child advocacy organization. Founded over 50 years ago by Eleanor Roosevelt, among others.
Commercial Alert - Nondenominational group highlighting the excesses of commercialism, providing a clearinghouse to take action against corporate predators who market harmful products to children, such as violent movies and video games, and television laden with violence, sex and addiction.
Common Crossroads Missing Children - Chat, message board, and links for family and friends of missing children.
Congo Child Soldiers - disarmament and demobilization in Congo
Covenant House - US' largest non-profit child care agency serving homeless and runaway youth.
Covenant House|For Parents - How to Find a Missing Child - Steps to take when a child is discovered missing.
Crossroads Homeless Youth Program - Ingham County, MI, USA. Services include counseling for runaways and at-risk youth.
Cry For Love - A general child advocacy site. Offers links to child welfare organizations and forums.
CRY Romania street outreach - Casa Robin Hood western-modelled residential home for street children in Bucharest.
Cyberpages International - Missing Children - Postings by parents of missing children.
Defence For Children International - Defence for Children international (DCI) is an independent non-governmental organisation set up during the International Year of the Child (1979) to ensure on-going, practical, systematic and concerted international action specially directed towards promoting and protecting the rights of the child.
Education Plus Community Services - After school and summer day camp programs for children throughout New York City. Also offers CPR and HIV/AIDS training for teens and adults and computer literacy programs for all ages.
Ego-State - Therapy with streetkids.
Emma's Kids - A ministry to introduce the gospel of Jesus Christ to the streetkids, their families and friends.
Families USA Foundation - Advocates for health care and health insurance (children's, Medicaid).
Family Preservation & Child Welfare Network - Information including trends of child abuse & neglect, foster care, adoption, family violence, child and adult protective services.
Family Solutions Inc. - This private non-profit agency is licensed by the state of California. Information on foster care and group home programs for at risk youth, as well as available foster parent training and support.
Father Flanagan's Boys Town - Based in Nebraska, Boys Town offers help, hope and healing to abused, abandoned, neglected, handicapped or otherwise troubled children throughout America.
Father Patrick Jackson House - A non-denominational, non-profit transitional living program. Provides housing, counseling, links to community resources to pregnant and parenting teens in Ann Arbor, MI.
Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement - Information and links concerning government programs.
Fil-Mentoring - A Filipino non-profit and voluntary organization involved in propagating mentoring schemes and providing supplemental learning for street children.
First Call: British Columbia- Child & Youth Advocacy Movement - First Call is a coalition of 40 Provincial Organizations and hundreds of community groups who promote legislation, policy and practice that will enable children and youth to achieve their full potential and to participate in making a better world.
First Watch of Tennessee - A non-profit organization whose objectives are the protection and advocacy of children and victims of crime.
Focus Adolescent Services - Directory by state of services for runaways and other troubled teens.
For Love of Children - A nonprofit organization in Washington, DC, working to eliminate abuse and neglect, alleviate homelessness, and educate high-risk youth to be responsible, successful adults.
Foster Family-Based Treatment Association - Supporting and promoting their mission based on providing excellence in treatment services through the power of family living and enhancing the lives of children within families through strengthening family-based organizations in New Jersery.
FrazerSpirit - A non-profit group of volunteers dedicated to bettering the lives of the children at Frazer School Fort Peck Indian Reservation, MT, through an incentive program designed to instill self worth.
Future Families Agency - Adoption and Foster Care of California children by families in and around the Bay Area, with offices in San Jose, Santa Cruz and San Francisco. A licensed, professional adoption and foster care agency.
Gateway Woods Specialized Foster Care - Ministering to the needs of Indiana's abused, neglected and disturbed children in a Christian home environment.
Goodland Presbyterian Children's Home - Located in Hugo, OK, this non-profit long-term private placement agency provides services for boys ages 6-18 needing guideance and supervison from distressed single parent families.
Greyhound Home Free Program - Greyhound provides free bus transportation home for runaways.
Guardian Angels Youth Services - Fee-based agency which locates runaways, escorts runaways home or to schools or programs, provides short-term secured holding, expedites travel and passport arrangements, and offers a community disaster relief team summer experience for youth.
Help The Kids - Dedicated to aiding in the location and recovery of missing and abducted children world wide. We also provide families with services such as web publishing, legal direction, and family support groups.
Helpons Helpen - Street children from Bucharesti.
Hogar Santa Maria - A home for young girls, either orphans or from extremely poor families, in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic. Founded by a Jesuit priest, the home currently houses 21 girls, ages 3 to 9 years.
Homes for the Homeless - Founded in 1986, this private non-profit organization, provides residential educational training services to homeless families, works to reduce homelessness by providing families with the education and training that will enable them to build independent lives.
Homeward Society Foster Family Agency - Providing individualized community based services to abused, abandoned and neglected children and families in an attempt to strengthen the family unit, emancipate young adults and provide quality foster care.
How to Organize an Effective Parent/Advocacy Groups - 100 page handbook on How to Organize an Effective Parent/Advocacy Group and Move Bureaucracies.
HRW Children's Rights Division - The Human Rights Watch Children's Rights Project was established in 1994 to monitor human rights abuses against children around the world and to campaign to end them.
Huckleberry Youth Programs - A community-based agency serving adolescence in San Francisco and Marin counties. Services provided to young people are at risk for life-threatening crises relating to drug and alcohol addiction, physical and sexual abuse, emotional illness, physical illness, family breakdown, homelessness, delinquency and suicide.
Institute for Children - A nonprofit organization whose mission is to reshape foster care and adoption in America so that every child will have the chance to grow up in a loving, permanent family.
International Child Support - Help page dedicated to the growing issue of International Child Support.
Jasper Mountain Center - This residential program is a non-profit agency working to stop and prevent child abuse in all its forms, promote the physical, emotional and spiritual health of severely abused children and their families.
Kids and Commercialism - Campaign by the nonprofit Center for a New American Dream examines the hidden costs of excessive commercialism on kids and families. Free brochure now available!
Kidscape - A registered UK charity committed to keeping children safe from harm or abuse.
Knights of the Blue Cross - A US organization dedicated to help suffering kids worldwide.
Lafanmi Selavi - A home for street children in Haiti.
Leake and Watts Services, Inc. - A child care agency serving the needs of New York City and Westchester County, New York, committed to helping society’s most vulnerable and at-risk children and families.
Legacy Families - A non-profit organization dedicated to caring for special-needs children and abused children of all ages. Devoted to serving and supporting foster families and children, guided by the motto of Legacy Families: "For every child, a family."
Let The Children Live! - Colombia's street children. Care for the street children, giving them love, education and a future.
Lon Woodbury - Educational Consultant - Woodbury Reports - educational consultant; leading expert in residential facilities.
Lycos Search for Missing Children - Searchable database of runaways and other missing children.
Mike Jackson, Family Entertainment, Australia - Mike Jackson is well known for his Dr Knickerbocker song and CD albums. Mike is one of Australia's most popular children's entertainer.
Missing Indian Kids - Site designed to help locate missing children in India.
Missing Persons Magazine - Home of "Reu-Net" international missing persons registry. Also includes missing person classified ads.
Mission Possible - Helps Russian street children away from street to start a new life.
Monterey County Children and Families Commission - provides comprehensive, collaborative and integrated system of services for children from the prenatal stage to five years of age and their families
Mothers Against Fathers In Arrears - Information for custodial parents who are owed child support.
National Association for Family-Based Services - A non-profit organization promoting effective, culturally appropriate services to families. Committed to innovation through advocacy, sharing knowledge and skills, and supporting the design and implementation of humane public policy.
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children - High-tech U.S. search network which works with law enforcement agencies and other professionals to find runaways and other missing children. NCMEC also provides educational resources and a searchable database of missing children.
National Child Support Enforcement Association - Non-profit promoter of child support enforcement.
National Children's Advocacy Center - The NCAC provides prevention, intervention, training, and treatment services in the field of child abuse and neglect.
National Runaway Switchboard - 24 hour hotline service for U.S. parents and youth offering crisis intervention, message service, educational information, referrals, and runaway searches.
New Jersey Council for Childrens Rights - NJCCR is a divorce reform organization advocating every child's right to two parents and their extended families.
Nexus for Kids at Risk of State of SC Custody - NEXUS Forums convene public private partners to make recommendations to South Carolina key leaders how to support, strengthen, build helping systems for children who are in or are at risk of entering state custody.
Northern Virginia Family-Aid Foundation - Serving parents by focusing on childcare and child development resources, to give children a better start in life at the most crucial stage.
Oaxaca - Street Children Grassroots, Mexico.
One World News - Guatemalan police convicted of murder of street children.
Open House - For street children in Brazil.
Open Minds - A mission of UNICEF and P&G will provide free education to working children.
Operation Go Home - Provides liaison services between runaways and parents, a "Child Cybersearch" database, travel arrangements to bring runaways home, and educational materials.
Our Little Haven - Residential care for abused, neglected, drug exposed and special needs children ages birth through five years.
PanGæa - Street children worldwide resource library.
Partnership for Children - A non-profit group dedicated to improving the lives of children and youth in Greater Kansas City.
PATH - Professional Association of Treatment Homes is a private, nonprofit organization based in Southern Minnesota, Northern Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin, that provides culturally sensitive services to children and families in need of treatment foster care, adoption and other family services.
Paz y Cooperación - Peace and Cooperation. NGO that helps Colombia´s street children.
Pendleton Place Children's Shelter - Non-profit organization serving abused, neglected and abandoned children in South Carolina.
PINS Reform and Family Advocacy Coalition - Parents and groups seeking to reclaim the authority to raise their teenage children by changing current interpretation of the "PINS", Person In Need of Supervision law up to 18.
Places for Struggling Teens - Placement resources for parents and professionals working with teens making poor decisions.
Please Stop - An open forum for teens and pre-teens to express their feelings and ideas about stopping hate, violence, racism, harassment, bullying and drugs.
Presidio, Inc. Child Placement Agency - A quality child placement agency in Colorado, providing therapeutic foster care placement and out-client services to children and families.
Prevent Child Abuse in Iowa - Describes Prevent Child Abuse Iowa's works to end child abuse through parent education, home visitor, sexual abuse prevention, young parents programs, and crisis child care.
Project for the Improvement of Child Support Litigation Technology - Research project on the science, engineering, and application of child support guidelines.
Promoting Christian Child Care Alternatives - Resources for child protection, advise and help for those suffering abuse and for those who have a resposibility for children.
REPPER Network - Saving street children is possible!
Runaway Me : A Survivor's Story by Evan Karl Cutler - Much more than a publicity page for the autobiographical book, this site offers information to both parents and runaways. Contents include statistics, survival strategies, resources, and more.
Saskatchewan's Action Plan for Children - Strategic Directions is a key part of the government's social policy agenda.
Shelter Don Bosco - Provides an open house for street boys of Mumbai city, Bombay, India.
SKCV Children's Trust - Helping street children to a better life and a dignified future.
SOS Street Children - Works for the survival, development and protection of children worldwide.
South Carolina Families for Kids & Nexus for Youth at Risk - SC Families for Kids and NEXUS for Youth is a collaborative initiative designed to engage agencies of the State of South Carolina in a joint effort to promote healthy development, educational success, and job readiness skills for children and youth.
Specialized Alternatives for Families and Youth - A non-profit child welfare organization that specializes in therapeuticfoster care, in home intervention and behavioral health services, adoption services and training and education.
St. Catherine's Center for Children - Providing quality care and treatment to children and families in need. Focusing on issues of child abuse and neglect, mental health, and homelessness, we strive to meet the continuing needs of the community.
Stand Up for Kids - Our streetkids. Three kids we've met.
Street Child Africa
Street children - Online information and organization links.
Streetcats Foundation for Youth - Works with streetkids and runaways through youth advocacy, teen helplines, teen after-school centers and provides counseling in US.
Streetkids - Links to organizations that rescue and help children on city streets around the world.
Streetkids International - Home page.
Streetkids Outreach - A ministry of Orphans Outreach International.
Streetkids UK - Advice and support for teenagers made homeless because of their sexuality.
Streetkids Unlimited - A charitable streetkids project located in Ndola of Zambia.
Streetwise - A project to raise awareness of the issue of street children in South Africa.
Teen Mission - Malawi Orphanage.
Teens in Trouble: Runaways - Listing of runaway related links maintained by a parent for other parents from the site "Teens in Trouble: A Survival Page for Parents".
The Caring Ones - Information on promoting a better understanding of human nature, growth, and development. A database and an open forum available for exchanging ideas among parents, teachers, social workers, and others interested in, or responsible for, the care of children.
The Chaiyapruk Foundation - family and home for orphan children in Thailand.
The Child Advocate Network - Serves the needs of children, families and professionals while addressing medical, educational, psychiatric, legal and legislative issues.
The Child Welfare League of America - The Child Welfare League of America, in cooperation with the state child welfare agencies, presents the nation's first comprehensive, interactive child welfare database: the National Data Analysis System (NDAS).
The Children of the Sun - A private foundation in Peru dedicated to children of the streets.
The Children's Lifesaving Foundation - Dedicated to improving the lives of Los Angeles' at-risk and homeless youth by creating positive opportunities through educational and recreational camps and family outreach support.
The Children's Society - Children and young people are shaped by the communities they live in, and by the people who surround them. The Children's Society concentrates its resources on tackling the root causes of the problems these children and young people face.
The Childrens House - The orphanage in Carani, Timisoara, built for the orphans of Romania.
The Future of Children - Online publication by the The David and Lucile Packard Foundation whose primary purpose is to disseminate timely information on major issues related to children's well-being.
The Homestead - South African organization that helps street children rebuild their shattered life.
The Lost Child Emergency Broadcast System - Volunteer child recovery organization which broadcasts a runaway's photo and information to a web site banner and emails alert notices to volunteer recovery units and private locators in the missing child's home town or sighting location.
The Natural Child Project - With a vision of a world in which all children are treated with dignity, respect, understanding, and compassion.
There's Room In The Inn - A Christian based boarding ranch for troubled boys. Located in Warfordsburg, PA., and open to high school aged students grades 9 - 12 with life-controlling, life-threatening problems. Offering both high school diploma or GED programs, vocational and work ethic instruction, group meetings, as well as individual and family counseling.
Tuloy Foundation - Support the ``Tuloy sa Don Bosco'' street children project.
Tyler Ranch - A Washington state-based nonprofit corporation providing counseling and guidance to teach troubled youths to accept responsibility for their own actions and to learn to make healthier, pro-social decisions for their future.
UN Declaration of the Rights of the Child - Also contains a transcript of a discussion on children's legal rights in Australia.
Villa Santa Maria - A residential community specializing in the clinical treatment of children and families of children who are suffering from attachment disorders, nestled in the high desert of the Sandia Mountains, just fifteen minutes from Albuquerque.
Waddington Centre - A streetkids project in Lusaka of Zambia.
When Your Child is Missing: A Family Survival Guide - Written by others who have experienced the trauma of a missing child, this excellent site offers a wealth of practical information and advice, as well as words of hope and encouragement, to parents of missing children.
Wisconsin Council on Children and Families - A nonprofit, multi-issue child and family advocacy agency, whose mission is to promote the well-being of children and families in Wisconsin by advocating for effective and efficient health, education, and human service delivery systems.
World Children's Center - A planned community for approximately 500 orphaned, neglected and abused children from Georgia, the United States and the world.
YMCA Argentina - A transit home for street children.
YNIC and SCC - Social Change Center - A computer database, with over 300 different youth projects and 60 countries, all over the world.
Youth On Track - American Freedom Assembly is a non-profit corporation concerned for today's youth. The founder travels across the country speaking to America’s youth at schools, camps and churches. The site also provides a newsletter and a speaking schedule.
YouthCare - Programs and services for streetkids, runaway, homeless and at-risk youth.