USA
GRADS
Organization: GRADS
Project: Comprehensive support for parenting teens
Location: Ohio, USA
Target group: Children who are victims of abuse and exploitation, families at risk
GRADS is an in-school educational program providing classes, service coordination and support for pregnant and parenting teens enrolled in the Lawrence County Vocational School District. A State of Ohio approved curriculum topics include: healthy prenatal and neonatal care, nurturing healthy children and establishing healthy families, relationships, and financial literacy. The goal of the program is to provide comprehensive support for the parenting teens, including daycare and transportation, to enable them to continue their education. For 2014-2015, Childhood approved funding for a PT GRADS teacher to assist the existing one FT teach serving 80+ students.
Read more: www.ode.state.oh.us
Contact person at Childhood:
Charlotte Brandin
[email protected]
Preventative Health program in NYC schools
Organization: Peer Health Exchange (PHE)
Project: Preventative health program in NYC schools
Location: New York, USA
Target group: Children who are victims of abuse and exploitation
Peer Health Exchange (PHE) was founded in 1999 by six Yale undergraduates, who began teaching health workshops in New Haven public schools in order to fill the gap left by an underfunded, understaffed district health program. PHE train college student volunteers to teach a comprehensive health curriculum in public high schools that lack health education. Childhood supports curriculum teaching in one NYC high school.
Read more: www.peerhealthexchange.org
Contact person at Childhood:
Charlotte Brandin
[email protected]
Creative Arts Therapy Program
Organization: Northside Center for Child Development
Project: Creative Arts Therapy Program
Location: New York, USA
Target group: Families at risk
Located in Harlem, New York, the Northside Center for Child Development has long been established in the community serving children and families in this underserved section of New York City. Northside provides a range of services, including evaluating, diagnosing, treating and educating hundreds of children and their families each year. The organization was founded in 1946 with a mission to foster the development of healthy children and families by providing comprehensive, individualized mental health services and remedial education programs. Childhood funds a program that helps children recover from sexual trauma through art.
Read more: www.northsidecenter.org/
Contact person at Childhood:
Charlotte Brandin
[email protected]
Bounce! – a peer mentoring and post-traumatic treatment program
Organization: Family Advocacy Program (FAP)
Project: Bounce! – a peer mentoring and post-traumatic treatment program
Location: New York, USA
Target group: Children who are victims of abuse and exploitation
Family Advocacy Program (FAP) is a designated Children’s Advocacy Center, a nationwide network of treatment centers for children who have been sexually abused and traumatized. FAP employs a staff of psychologists, social workers and an MD, who together with a team of other professionals, including law enforcement personnel from the DA’s office, conduct forensic interviews with the children who have been or are suspected of having been sexually assaulted, abused and exploited, to assess trauma, identify perpetrators, and to inform and alert law enforcement as well as the mental health community to take further action and/or to care for the victim/s.
The repeated telling of abuse is in itself traumatic for children. The FAP program is built on a model that tries to minimize the trauma to the child by gathering all parties in one location so that the child may recount his or her experience only once.
Childhood supports Bounce!, a peer mentoring and post-traumatic treatment program to enhance resilience among abused children.
Read more: www.familyadvocacy.net
Contact person at Childhood:
Charlotte Brandin
[email protected]
Chances for Children in Highbridge and Riverdale, NY
Organization: Chances for Children
Project: Chances for Children in Highbridge and Riverdale
Location: New York, USA
Target group: Families at risk
Chances for Children, in collaboration with Highbridge Community Life Center (HCLC), provides mental health support and services for young families and children 0-5 years old in Highbridge, a poorly serviced, high-risk neighborhood in the Bronx. The collaboration between CFC ad HLCL began in 2008 as part of the Chances for Children: Kingsbridge-Highbridge Project. Chances for Children is also providing training of their curriculum at the Riverdale Mental Health Association (RMHA), with the goal of instituting training for social workers in their model.
Read more: www.chancesforchildren-ny.org
Contact person at Childhood:
Charlotte Brandin
[email protected]
S.I.S.T.E.R.S
Organization: YouthLink
Project: S.I.S.T.E.R.S.
Location: Minnesota, USA
Target group: Street children
YouthLink is one of the largest nonprofit youth service providers in the Twin Cities, specializing in the multiple needs of homeless and precariously housed youth (14-21 y .o.), including street outreach, emergency crisis assistance, basic needs support, housing placement services, and education/career/life transition planning.
Read more: www.youthlinkmn.org/
Contact person at Childhood:
Charlotte Brandin
charlotte.brandin(a)www.childhood-usa.org
Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth Program
Organization: The Bridge for Youth
Project: Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth Program
Location: Minnesota, USA
Target group: Children who are victims of abuse and exploitation
For over 34 years, The Bridge has worked with youth and families in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul, providing immediate shelter and safety for youth in crisis, with caring and experienced counselors to help them find solutions to the difficulties they face. The Bridge works with both parents and youth, helping them resolve family conflicts and rediscover their common ground. The Bridge helps young people reconnect with their families, schools and communities; it strengthens families and helps prevent youth homelessness. The Bridge’s services are free and confidential, and available 24 hours a day. Childhood has supported The Bridge to incorporate a comprehensive program to manage and treat youth who presents with sexual abuse trauma or those who have been victims of commercial sexual exploitation.
Read more: www.bridgeforyouth.org/
Contact person at Childhood:
Charlotte Brandin
[email protected]
Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Education & Outreach
Organization: Kristi House
Project: Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Education & Outreach
Location: Florida, USA
Target group: Children who are victims of abuse and exploitation
Kristi House serves as the designated Child Advocacy Center (CAC) for Miam-Dade County, FL, and was created in 1994. Kristi House is operating its programs based on a national, best practices model of CACs throughout the United States and serves over 800 child victims of sexual abuse and their non-offending caregivers annually, of which the vast majority are extremely low or low income households. Kristi House provides community-wide services for children and teens that need support around undisclosed and untreated child sexual abuse, which often have damaging consequences for the greater community in the form of teen pregnancies, commercial sexual exploitation, increased drug use, delinquency, as well as family incest and violence.
Kristi House, previously receiving funding for Project GOLD, assisting victims of commercial sexual exploitation (CSE), now receives support to provide prevention services to child-centered organizations, parents, businesses and community groups in order to build awareness of child sexual abuse prevention from the standpoint of adult responsibility for children’s safety.
Read more: www.kristihouse.org/
Contact person at Childhood:
Charlotte Brandin
[email protected]
Residential Maternity Program
Organization: Children’s Harbor
Project: Residential Maternity Program
Location: Florida, USA
Target group: Children who are victims of abuse and exploitation, families at risk, children in alternative care
Children’s Harbor, founded in 1996 and located in southern Florida, provides a comprehensive direct services model to children in need, via community based services for the prevention and intervention of abuse and neglect; a family-style residential setting for foster care children; outpatient mental health services for children and families; a step-down foster care program, including a foster care teen maternity residence.
For the funding year of 2014-2015, Children’s Harbor received a grant to provide psychological services to teen mothers, to help them prepare for living on their own with their infants.
Read more: www.childrensharbor.org/
Contact person at Childhood:
Charlotte Brandin
[email protected]
Preventative Health program in Bay Area schools
Organization: Peer Health Exchange (PHE)
Project: Curriculum development
Location: San Francisco/Bay Area , USA
Target group: Children victims of abuse and exploitation
Peer Health Exchange (PHE) was founded in 1999 by six Yale undergraduates, who began teaching health workshops in New Haven public schools in order to fill the gap left by an underfunded, understaffed district health program. PHE train college student volunteers to teach a comprehensive health curriculum in public high schools that lack health education.
Childhood supports PHE with curriculum development and to expand the reach for PHE’s program to younger teens.
Read more: www.peerhealthexchange.org/
Contact person at Childhood:
Charlotte Brandin
[email protected]
Development of ARC (Advocacy, Relationship, Coordination)
Organization: Legal Services for Children
Project: Development of ARC (Advocacy, Relationship, Coordination)
Location: California, USA
Target group: Children who are victims of abuse and exploitation
In order to stabilize the lives of children and youth and help them realize their full potential, Legal Services for Children (LSC) provides free legal and social services to children and youth in need. LSC’s in-house attorneys and social workers, as well as the organization’s pro bono attorneys, provide every client with comprehensive, holistic services to enable the children to achieve safety and stability, and avoid unnecessary placement in the foster care and juvenile justice systems. Each year, LSC serves over 2,500 children and provides comprehensive representation to approximately 600 youth.
Childhood supports the development of ARC (Advocacy, Relationship, Coordination) to enhance agency response to child trauma and part of establishing services at the Center for Youth Wellness.
Read more: www.lsc-sf.org/
Contact person at Childhood:
Charlotte Brandin
[email protected]
San Francisco Children’s Advocacy Center
Organization: San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center
Project: SF Children’s Advocacy Center
Location: San Francisco, CA
Target group: Children who are victims of abuse
Nationally, and internationally, Children’s Advocacy Centers (CAC) provide services to children and adolescents who are victims of sexual abuse. For almost four decades, the SF Child Abuse Prevention Center (SFCAPC) has worked to prevent abuse and raise community awareness about child safety issues. With the opening of SF CAC, SFSP is expanding on existing public-private partnerships throughout their region to ensure Best Practices at the first Bay Area CAC, co-located with the Center for Youth Wellness.
Read more: www.sfcapc.org
Contact person at Childhood:
Charlotte Brandin
[email protected]
Children of Prostituted Mothers Project
Organization: Global Health Promise (GHB)
Project: Children of Prostituted Mothers Project
Location: Oregon, USA
Target group: Children who are victims of abuse and exploitation, families at risk
Founded by Brian Willis, Global Health Promise (GHB) conducts research, primarily focusing on social, mental and public health issues of families at risk, in this case children of prostituted mothers, children at risk for or victims of sexual trafficking, and public health issues surrounding this population. GHB is one of the only organizations dedicated to this group of children globally. Dr. Katherine Welsh, is principal physician for GHB.
Read more: www.globalhealthpromise.org
Contact person at Childhood:
Charlotte Brandin
[email protected]