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Here are some additional resources and organizations that might be useful in understanding child safeguarding and protection (examples or toolkits) and supporting your own programming (books, videos, in-country partnering, etc).
Note: These organizations are not meant for gaining financial support.
Links for Hotlines in Countries around the World.
US National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children For partners and hotlines in countries around
InHope Foundation Tackles online child sex abuse material. For partners and hotlines in countries
around the world click on Hotlines.
Organizations:
Keeping Children Safe - Assistance with writing child safeguarding policies
European Commission Rights of the Child
Hesperian Health Guides Free guides for health: Where there is no Doctor, Where there is no Dentist,
Health worker Guides, Health posters, etc.
Child Protection Working Group – their CPWG youtube account for informational videos
Sphere Project sets humanitarian industry standards for many areas of work, including Water, Shelter,
Hygiene, Food, etc. The handbook is available in many languages.
Raising Voices - Ugandan organization with toolkits and programs to use for reducing violence.
Faith to Action Initiative - Christian organization assisting those wishing to help orphans
International Catholic Child Bureau
NSPCC for the UK
Better Care Network (BCN)
International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN)
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS)
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Institute
Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict
Alliance for International Youth Development
Coalition for the Resilience of Children and Youth in Latin America and the Caribbean (CORELAC)
ProQOL more languages for self-test but sheets can only be scored in the UK
Child Welfare Information Gateway by the US Dept. of Health & Human Services
Laws of the World on Children and Adolescents
Child Rights International Network – has online library with country resources
Int’l Red Cross Red Crescent (IRCR)
Doctors Without Boarders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)
Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Lutheran World Relief (LWR)
Medecins du Monde/Doctors of the World
International Relief & Development
Child Rights Foundation (CRF) in Cambodia – posters, manuals, etc
National Child Protection Authority for Sri Lanka
Education in Emergencies – INEE (Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies)