Child Sexual Abuse Prevention
Public Health Approaches
Stop It Now!
351 Pleasant Street, Suite B319, Northampton, MA 01060
Office: 413.587.3500 Fax: 413. 587.3505
Helpline: 1.888.PREVENT (1.888.773.8368), helpline@stopitnow.org
General inquiries: info@stopitnow.org
www.stopitnow.org
Stop It Now! offers adults the tools they need to prevent sexual abuse before a child is harmed. We provide support, information and resources that enable individuals and families to keep children safe and create healthier communities. In collaboration with our network of community-based programs, we reach out to adults who are concerned about their own or others sexualized behavior toward children.
Our website and our confidential, national toll-free HELPLINE (1.888.PREVENT) provide information, resources and referrals.
The Helpline is available Monday through Friday, 9:00AM-6:00PM
(EST) at 1.888.PREVENT (1.888.773.8368).
Darkness to Light
7 Radcliffe Street,
Suite 200,
Charleston, SC 29403
Office: (843) 965-5444 Fax: (843) 965-5449
Email: darkness2light_2000@yahoo.com
www.darkness2light.org
Darkness to Light's mission is to shift responsibility for preventing
child sexual abuse from children to adults by providing information
on how to prevent, recognize and react responsibly to child
sexual abuse. Initiatives include:
- National media campaign involving TV, radio, outdoor and
print ads to raise awareness.
- Education and community grassroots programs using 7 Steps
to Protecting Children as the cornerstone.
- National helpline and website to provide avenues to resources
for those in need.
- Mobilization of advocates to help change laws and policies
for the protection of children.
Generation Five (Gen5)
2 Massasoit Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
Office: (415) 285-6658 Fax: (415) 285-6668
Email: info@generationfive.org
www.generationfive.org
Gen 5 programs provide leadership training to communities and
foster national strategy and information exchange on child sexual
abuse. Gen 5 is not a direct service organization; rather, they
work in collaboration with service providers to ensure that
affordable, culturally relevant support is available to survivors,
offenders and affected families.
Stop the Silence: Stop Child Sexual Abuse, Inc.
P.O. Box 127, Glenn Dale, MD 20769
Toll free: 1-866-397-2309
E-mail: ppine@stopcsa.org
www.stopcsa.org
Stop the Silence® works with others toward the prevention and treatment of child sexual abuse. The Mission of Stop the Silence (www.stopcsa.org) is two-fold: to increase awareness and to address the relationships between CSA prevention and the broader issues of overall family and community violence.
Stop the Silence focuses on the following areas of work:
- Advocacy
- Support and training for service providers
- Community education and outreach
- Policy development and application
- Research and evaluation
Stop the Silence hosts the International Race to Stop the Silence: Stop Child Sexual Abuse, an awareness raising foot race and walk in Washington, D.C. each April during Child Abuse Prevention Month in partnership and collaboration with groups in the U.S. and other countries.
Intervention
Strategies
American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC)
P.O. Box 30669
Charleston, SC 29417
843-764-2905
Email: apsac@comcast.net
www.apsac.org
APSAC addresses all facets of the professional response to
child maltreatment: prevention, assessment, intervention and
treatment. Its publications and training cover all aspects
of child maltreatment, including emotional neglect, psychological
maltreatment, and physical and sexual abuse.
The Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA)
4900 SW Griffith Drive, Suite 274
Beaverton, OR 97005
(503) 643-1023 Fax (503) 643-5084
Email : atsa@atsa.com
www.atsa.com
ATSA provides referrals for affiliated sex
offender treatment providers throughout the United States. ATSA
is a professional membership association for clinicians working
with and treating sexual abusers. ATSA has local state chapters
around the nation. Their focus is on the prevention of sexual
abuse through effective management of sex offenders. It was
founded to foster research, facilitate information exchange,
further professional education, and provide advancement of professional
standards and practices in the field of sex offender evaluation
and treatment.
Child Molestation Research & Prevention Institute
P.O. Box 7593
Atlanta, GA 30357
(404) 872-5152
or
274 14th Street
Oakland, CA 94612
(510) 808-0386
contact@childmolestationprevention.org
www.childmolestationprevention.org
The Child Molestation Research & Prevention Institute is
a national science-based nonprofit organization dedicated to
preventing child sexual abuse through research, education, and
family support. Because people who develop a sexual interest
in children usually develop it during their teenage years and
even younger, our focus is on providing information to professionals
and to families about the early warning signs of a problem,
as well as the availability of early diagnosis and effective
treatment from a sex-specific specialist. We want to stop molestation
at the very earliest point possible -- before it even happens.
Child Welfare Information Gateway
(formerly known as National Clearinghouse on Child
Abuse and Neglect)
1250 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, DC 20024
Toll free: 1-800-FYI-3366 (1-800-394-3366)
Email: info@childwelfare.gov
www.childwelfare.gov
Child Welfare Information Gateway connects professionals and concerned citizens
to timely, essential information and resources targeted to the
safety, permanency, and well-being of children and families.
The clearinghouse provides information products and technical
assistance service to help professionals and others locate information
on the prevention, reporting, identification and treatment of
child abuse and neglect and related child welfare issues. Their
comprehensive website has information on laws and statutes,
as well as statistics, related to CSA.
Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence
(CPSDV)
2400 45th Street # 10
Seattle, WA 98103
(206) 634-1903
www.cpsdv.org
CPSDV is an inter-religious educational resource
addressing issues of sexual and domestic violence. The Center
has a number of resources to help religious leaders and communities,
as well as secular organizations, understand religious issues
associated with domestic violence and sexual abuse, including:
presentations, books, publications and videos. Their goal
is to engage religious leaders in the task of ending abuse,
and to prepare human service professionals to recognize and
attend to the religious questions and issues that may arise
in their work with women and children in crisis. Their
emphasis is on education and prevention.
The Family Violence and Sexual Assault Institute (FVSAI)
6160 Cornerstone Court East, San Diego, CA 92121
Office: (858) 623-2777, ext. 406 Fax: (858) 646-0761
Email: fvsai@alliant.edu
www.fvsai.org
FVSAI provides training, networking, education and program
evaluation for other agencies, practitioners and organizations.
FVSAI published the first national journal on family violence,
acts as an international resource center and disseminates information
in a quarterly publication. FVSAI Bookclub offers valuable reading
resources to clinicians, advocates, attorneys, social workers
and criminal justice personnel.
International Center for Assault Prevention
606 Delsea
Drive
Sewell, NJ 08080-9199
856-582-8282 ext. 151
Email: jcollins@eirc.org
www.internationalcap.org
International CAP's mission is the prevention of interpersonal
violence through curriculum development, research and evaluation,
public education and comprehensive training. Its best-known
program is the Child Assault Prevention Project (CAP).
CAP is recognized as one of the country's most comprehensive
and innovative prevention programs. It has conducted trainings
in 32 states and 18 countries and every year, more than one
million children, parents and teachers receive CAP workshops.
The main thrust of CAP programming is intended to educate adults
to recognize and respond to child abuse and neglect and to teach
children empowering strategies to help keep them safe.
National Adolescent Perpetration Network
(NAPN)
Kempe Center
1825 Marion Street
Denver, CO 80218
Office: (303) 864-5192 Fax: (303) 837-2791
Email: Ryan.Gail@tchden.org
www.kempe.org/napn
National Adolescent Perpetration Network is a cooperative network of professionals working with sexually abusive youth. NAPN provides information and referrals, hosts annual national conferences, and advocates for reasonable, evidence based responses to these youth. Individuals seeking information or treatment referrals can contact Gail Ryan.
MaleSurvivor
PMB 103, 5505 Connecticut Ave. N.W.,
Washington, DC 20015-2601
Toll free: 1-800-738-4181
www.malesurvivor.org
MaleSurvivor conducts research, education, advocacy, and activism
to promote prevention, treatment and elimination of sexual abuse
of male children and adults. MaleSurvivor coordinates regional
retreats and an annual conference for male survivors and provides
online chat rooms that allow survivors and professionals to
talk to each other.
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC)
Charles B. Wang International Children Building
699 Prince Street
Alexandria, Virginia 22314 - 3175
www.ncmec.org
NCMEC is a public-private partnership and serves
as a national clearinghouse for information on missing children
and the prevention of child victimization. NCMEC works
in partnership with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention (OJJDP) of the Office of Justice Program at the U.S.
Department of Justice. NCMEC’s website brings images
and information about missing children as a wealth of child
protection information to a global audience.
CyberTipline is a service offered by NCMEC,
it is a toll free line to report any information pertaining
the sexual exploitation of children on the web or any other
type of industry that makes use of child pornography (same number
as above). To report sexually exploited, abused or missing
children call
1-800-THE-LOST
(1-800-843-5678).
The National Children's Advocacy Center (NCAC)
210 Pratt Avenue
Huntsville, AL 35801
(256) 533-0531 Fax (256)534-6883
Email: webmaster@ncac-hsv.org
www.nationalcac.org
NCAC is a non-profit agency providing prevention, intervention, and treatment services to physically and sexually abused children and their families within a child-focused team approach. Since opening in 1985 as the nation’s first Children’s Advocacy Center, the NCAC has become a leader in the field of prevention and intervention of child maltreatment.
Prevent Child Abuse America (PCAA)
500 N. Michigan Avenue
Suite 200
Chicago, IL 60611
(312) 663-3520 Fax
(312) 939-8962
www.preventchildabuse.org
A national volunteer-based organization committed to preventing
child abuse in all its forms through research, public education,
program, and advocacy. PCAA has a network of 90 chapters
in 38 states, which work to increase public awareness, advocate
on a state level and are accessible resources for comprehensive
information and referrals in child abuse prevention. Write
for a catalog of publications.
Prevention and Motivation Programs, Inc.
Home of Good-Touch/Bad-Touch®
P.O. Box 1960, Cartersville, GA 30120
Office: (770) 607-9111 or (800) 245-1527
email: support@goodtouchbadtouch.com
www.goodtouchbadtouch.com
Prevention And Motivation Programs, Inc. is the home office
of Good-Touch/Bad-Touch®. It offers On-Site and Audio-Video
professional development / training for adults in the research-based
Good-Touch/Bad-Touch® curriculum, with materials for PreK
through 9th Grades.It provides materials to help parents and
other caregivers talk with children in their own homes about
sexual abuse and protection skills. It also has a resource booklet
available for those who are more research-minded, with information
about sexual abuse and effective prevention education.
The Safer Society Foundation, Inc. (SSFI)
PO Box 340
Brandon, VT 05733
(802) 247-3132
www.safersociety.org
A national research, advocacy and referral center dedicated
to the prevention and treatment of sexual abuse. SSFI was founded
in 1964. They offer a variety of services including the
Safer Society Press, sex offender treatment referrals, responding
to research requests, and training and consultation. Excellent
publications for treatment providers, child & adult offenders,
survivors and mandated reporters. A free catalog is available.
Sexual Abuser Treatment Referral Line
SSFI runs a national referral service for anyone interested
in locating a treatment provider for an individual with sexual
behavior problems. Available by phone (Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, EST),
fax or email.
Sex Abuse Treatment Alliance (SATA)
P.O. Box 761
Milwaukee WI 53201
(517) 482-2085 (voicemail only)
Email: help@satasort.org
SATA is a non-profit organization to prevent sexual
abuse by educating the public, supporting and working with those
who have been abused and who have abused; sharing resources
and referrals for those abused, the abusers and treatment providers;
promoting workable clinical methods for treatment of the abused
and abusers, promoting the use of restorative justice methods,
and supporting research in treating sex offenders. SATA
also provides a network of support for abusers who are currently
in treatment and answers to general questions about sex offender
treatment from the point of view of recovery. Adults abusing
or family members can request answers to questions about jail,
treatment or recovery.
VOICES In Action (VIA)
8041 Hosbrook Road, Suite 236
Cincinnati, Ohio 45236
1-800-7-VOICE-8 / 1-800-786-4238
www.voices-action.org
VIA is an international nonprofit organization
providing support for victims of incest and child sexual abuse.
VIA helps victims of incest and child sexual abuse to become
survivors; it generates public awareness of the prevalence of
incest, its impact; and ways in which it can be prevented or
stopped through educational programs. It also serves as
a clearinghouse and dissemination center,connecting victims
and survivors to local resources when needed.
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