2024 PROGRAMS WE SUPPORT
Childhood does not employ its own staff in the field but evaluates, monitors, and reviews project applications from other organizations, and provides funding for services for children in need.
Programs addressing CSAE prevention
Children’s Advocacy Centers of Texas – Building Public Will to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse in Texas
Texas
CACTX has a network of 70 CACs across Texas. The campaign targets adults, caregivers, and those interacting with children professionally or personally. The pilot runs in four diverse Texas regions, with the goal of a statewide launch and eventual national rollout. Normalizing proactive CSA prevention conversations using trusted, diverse voices.
Lantuun Dohio – Children & Family Wellbeing Program
Arlington County, VA
Organizing culturally tailored workshops for children and adults to raise awareness of CSEA by translating and disseminating evidence-based materials (NCMEC), and conducting advocacy for victims from the Mongolian community in Northern Virginia.
Massachusetts Citizens for Children
Building the Capacity of Schools to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse: Implementing and Evaluating the Safety S.T.A.R.S. Program
Boston, Massachusetts
Grades K-12. Ten Massachusetts school districts in a year-long initiative to adopt comprehensive strategies to prevent child sexual abuse (CSA). Training for 5,000 teachers and administrators in 50-60 schools.
The Nest Foundation – K-12 Violence Prevention Curriculum and Victim’s Assistance Response
Texas
Programming in Texas schools focused on increased student safetythrough prevention education curricula addressing both perpetration and victimization of sexual violence, and providing victim-centered, trauma-informed tools and policies in schools for more effective response to disclosures of sexual violence.
Prevent Child Abuse Vermont – The Creating Protective Equity Project
Burlington, VT
Addresses the heightened risk of child sexual abuse for Native Tribes in Alaska and Native Tribes and Spanish-first-language families in NewMexico, by providing training to adults who live with and/or work with children to strengthen both professionals’ and families’ knowledge and skills about preventing child sexual abuse.
SafeBAE – Summer Activist Institute
US (national focus)
Annual Summer Activist Institute for 25 high-school students focused on empowering youth with the knowledge and tools to address sexual violence prevention and response in their communities.
University of Minnesota Foundation
Disrupting Youth Sex Trading in the African-American Community: A Collaboration between MYST and the Northside Healing Space
Minnesota
Works with youth and adult leaders in the African American community in North Minneapolis to identify promising strategies to prevent sextrading.
Programs addressing CSAE perpetrator prevention
MASOC – Massachusetts Child and Adolescent Assessment Protocol (M-CAAP)
Massachusetts
In an effort to intervene in the pattern of stigmatization and punitive targeting of youth with problematic sexual behavior, MASOC trains clinicians across Massachusetts to use the M-CAAP – an assessment protocol that demands a clinician look at the whole child, and not exclusively at their problematic sexual behaviors.
Stop It Now! – What’s OK? – Deterring Youth From Sexually Harming
US (national focus)
Website and helpline providing information and guidance to youth with questions about sexual thoughts, interests, and behaviors that could be concerning, harmful, and/or illegal.
Programs addressing CSAE response
The Bridge for Youth – Intervention, Prevention, and Support for Youth Experiencing Homelessness
Minnesota
Connects with youth in the Twin Cities currently homeless, or at risk of experiencing homelessness, and disrupts the cycle of sexual exploitation by providing a continuum of basic needs services which empower youth to get off the streets, and increase their levels of safety, housing stability and self-sufficiency.
Coalition for Responsible Home Education – Recognizing and Preventing Abuse and Neglect of At-Risk Homeschooled Children
Stoughton, MA
Awareness building and virtual training for child welfare professionals on the prevalence of, and best practices in response to CSEA within homeschooling environments.
Girls for Gender Equity – Sisters In Strength
Brooklyn, NY
Direct service program for cis and trans girls and gender non-conforming survivors of sexual violence ages 15-19, promoting healing and teaching them advocacy skills to lead change in their communities to end gender-based violence.
Holly’s House – Bridging the Mental Health Care Gap for Child Survivors of Sexual Abuse
Evansville, Indiana
12 Week Program for children and families dealing with CSEA. Offers help during the peri-traumatic era. Program reduces children (73%) and parental (62%) symptoms of PTSD while promoting healthy family communication in a short time frame.
Safe Horizon – The Streetwork Project: Wrap–around Mental Health Support for Homeless Youth in Harlem
New York, NY
Provides services to homeless youth ages 16-25, in an effort to address the link between homelessness and vulnerability to CSEA. Funding will directly support mental health staff and their supervision as it relates to mental health engagement.
Programs addressing online safety
Alaska Children’s Trust – Alaska Children’s Trust Online Safety for Young Children
Anchorage, Alaska
Due to Alaska’s geography, over 85% of its communities are unreachable by roads, making digital programs essential. Alaska’s Children’s Trust distributes child protection card decks to families in rural communities to prevent Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse online. Serving 3,000 families.
Human Trafficking Front – Putting an End to the Online Sexual Exploitation of Children: Preventing Victimization and Strengthening Child Protection Systems
Miami-Dade County, FL
Promotes a holistic approach to online child protection with an aim of strengthening the prevention, detection, and reporting of signs, and developing child-centered approaches by delivering trainings to first responders, professionals, parents, and families, using reliable, evidence-based resources, as well as developing social media campaigns in English and Spanish to broaden reach and awareness.
New York Foundling – Internet Sexual Exploitation Prevention Workshops
New York, NY
Educational workshop focused on online sexual exploitation for middle school students aged 11-14 in New York City.
Economist Impact Unit & Childhood USA – U.S Out of the Shadows Index
United States (50 states)
Benchmarking research project measuring individual states’ action, and inaction, on CSEA prevention and response systems.