Sounds like tiny human lab rat issues were the catalyst for his self extraction from humanity, or was it? JED is a nonprofit that exists to protect emotional health and prevent suicide for our nation's teens and young adults. JED equips teens and young adults with the skills and knowledge to help themselves and each other; partners with high schools and colleges to strengthen their mental health, substance abuse and suicide prevention programs and systems; and encourages community awareness, understanding and action for young adult mental health.
The head of the University of Pennsylvania's psychological and counseling services department died by suicide, officials confirmed on Wednesday. Dr. Gregory Eells, 52, died on Monday morning due to multiple blunt impact injuries, according to the Philadelphia Department of Health, and the University of Pennsylvania confirmed his death to CBS News.
Gregory Eells
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Eells jumped to his death from a 17-story building in Center City Philadelphia. The Inquirer said his death occurred about 6:40 a.m. on Monday morning along the 100 block of South Broad Street, where he had been living.
According to The Daily Pennsylvanian, the university's student newspaper, Vice Provost for University Life Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum and Chief Wellness Office Benoit Dubé wrote an email to the university community where they extended their condolence to Eells' family. The two administrators described his death as sudden and did not state the cause of death.
THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Eells had been hired in January to lead the university's Counseling and Psychological Services. He began in March after spending more than a decade at Cornell University in a similar role. According to a press release, Eells taught both graduate and undergraduate students in courses on counseling, social psychology and developmental psychology. He served as chair of the Mental Health Section of the American College Health Association in 2014 and won the Association for University and College Counseling Center Director's Award for Excellence in Counseling Center Scholarship in 2016.
Eells earned a PhD in counseling psychology from Oklahoma State University, an MA in psychology from Eastern Illinois University, and a BA in psychology and biology from Greenville College.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that police said no suicide note was left. Dr. Eells is survived by his wife and three children, who live in Ithaca, New York.
History was made on May 7th, 2019 @18:29 in this video because she spoke upon TARP, but not about its gerrymandering or the Detroit Land Bank Authority, which I am entering into the formal record.
Qatar gave $1 billion to elite American universities since 2011, according to Department of Education data.
The Qatar Foundation is suing the Texas attorney general to prevent information about Qatari funding from becoming public.
Universities are taking money from Qatar, a nation with a checkered human rights history, as students rally for social justice causes.
The nation of Qatar, a Sharia-law monarchy that has been accused of trying to influence other countries’ governments, gave $1 billion to elite American universities since 2011, according to Department of Education data.
Some universities have refused to discuss where strings are attached to that money. The Qatar Foundation, for example, filed a lawsuit against the Texas attorney general Oct. 12 to hide information about the $225 million Qatar has awarded to Texas A&M University since 2011.
The Qatar Foundation hired the politically connected powerhouse law firm Squire Patton Boggs for the suit, which was filed in response to a researcher’s public information request regarding the foreign funding.
The biggest recipient of Qatar’s educational funding, Georgetown University, repeatedly ignored requests from The Daily Caller News Foundation for basic information about the funding and whether it implicates academic independence.
Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain have accused Qatar of meddling in other nations’ internal affairs as well as funding terrorism. Qatar also wields influence through its media group, Al Jazeera.
Top Foreign Funders of U.S. Universities, 2011-2016 (Source: Department of Education)
Country Amount Qatar $1,024,065,043 England $761,586,394 Saudi Arabia $613,608,797 China $426,526,085 Canada $402,535,603 Hong Kong $394,446,859
For a nation seeking sway over the U.S., Georgetown University would be a particularly tactical site of influence. Georgetown has received nearly $333 million from Qatar since 2011 — far more than any othezzzr U.S. school has received from any foreign nation.
Georgetown is situated in the seat of power, near the State Department, and its experts are frequently cited by groups shaping policy. In fact, the Jesuit Catholic university trains many of the United States’ future diplomats at its Walsh School of Foreign Service.
Its website notes that “At SFS, you can study with former Secretaries of State” and access “connections to diplomats from just about every country, and of course, the seat of the U.S. government. Our location gives SFS the extraordinary opportunity for us to engage (and sometimes even influence) the debates that lead to real action.”
Thanks to the Qatari funding, Georgetown and its foreign service program has an entire outpost in Qatar. “Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) is an additional location of Georgetown University, based in Education City in Doha,” its website says. “The University offers a four year undergraduate program in international affairs leading to the Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service (BSFS) degree.”
The magnitude of liberal-leaning universities’ reliance on the foreign nation, a poster child for income inequality, provides a stark contrast. As U.S. college students clamor for university endowments to divest from fossil fuels, the schools take money from the oil-rich kingdom. As they rally for social justice causes, Qatar has a checkered human rights record.
Qatar has only 313,000 citizens, and 2.3 million foreigners dwelling there, many of them laborers serving the country’s elite, according to 2017 data.
“The tragedy of 1.7 million migrant workers trapped in Qatar defines modern day slavery,” the International Trade Union Confederation said in 2015.
“We were working on an empty stomach for 24 hours; 12 hours’ work and then no food all night,” one said. “When I complained, my manager assaulted me, kicked me out of the labor camp I lived in and refused to pay me anything.”
In Washington, professors of Islamic issues have engaged in activism. Jonathan A. C. Brown, a convert to Islam and the director of the Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown, which Qatar rival Saudi Arabia funds, offered an Islam-based defense of slavery, concubinage and non-consensual sex.
“The Prophet of God had slaves. He had slaves. There’s no denying that,” he said in 2017 at an International Institute of Islamic Thought talk. “Was he — are you more morally mature than the Prophet of God? No, you’re not. I’ll answer your question for you.”
Studying abroad forms a bond between U.S. students and Qatar and helps Qatari nationals learn about the U.S., according to marketing materials.
Top Recipients of Qatar-Affiliated Funding to Universities, 2011-2016 (Source: Department of Education)
Country
Amount
Georgetown University
$332,818,297
Northwestern University
$277,456,289
Texas A&M University
$225,455,141
Carnegie Mellon University
$71,456,401
Cornell University
$47,577,242
Virginia Commonwealth University
$40,117,185
University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
$7,860,694
Harvard University
$7,693,947
Purdue University
$2,794,462
Arizona State University
$2,276,044
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
$1,223,630
Meanwhile, college students have adopted a fondness for the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions to Israel movement.
The vast majority of funds from Qatar were contracts, the Education Department data shows, requiring Georgetown to do something in return for the money, unlike gifts.
Georgetown spokesman Matt Hill ignored questions from TheDCNF about the strings attached to such funds and whether they could influence curriculum and would not provide the contract governing them.
The dean of Georgetown’s Qatar campus is AhmadDallal, who the Middle East Forum describes as “a long-time and enthusiastic supporter of the State Department-designated terrorist group Hezbollah. Dallal, who chaired Georgetown’s Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies from 2003 to 2009, is also pro-Hamas, pro-Boycott/Divestment/Sanctions (BDS) against Israel, co-author of an Arabic textbook whose maps omit Israel, and signatory of a letter warning that Israel would engage in ‘ethnic cleansing’ at the start of the Iraq war.”
The Zachor Legal Institute, which opposes the movement to sanction and boycott Israel, submitted a Freedom of Information request in May to Texas A&M (TAMU), a state university, for “a summary of all amounts of funding or donations received” from Qatar and a long list of proxies.
The office of state Attorney General Ken Paxton ruled “the university must withhold the donors’ identifying information … the university must release the remaining information.”
Most of the money to TAMU were contracts, not donations.
The Qatar Foundation’s high-powered lawyers intervened, arguing the relevant portion of the attorney general’s ruling “requiring release of all remaining information other than donor identity is incorrect and without force or effect.”
They wrote:
This is an action to prevent disclosure of confidential financial information concerning the relationship between QF and Texas A&M University … QF operates programs dedicated to education, science, and community development. It is responsible for funding much of the development in Education City, a hub for higher education outside Doha. … In addition to TAMU, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Georgetown, Northwestern, and Virginia Commonwealth University have all established campuses in Education City.
The Attorney General concluded that TAMU could withhold information identifying ‘donors’ under section 552.1235. But the Attorney General stated that TAMU would be required to release all remaining information requested, which would include information related to payments made by QF to TAMU pursuant to a contract. In so doing, the Attorney General implicitly ruled that those payments were not ‘donations,’ and therefore not exempt from disclosure under the PIA … The information related to these grants and donations is also confidential commercial information and constitutes a trade secret.
The Qatar Foundation’s general counsel is Michael Mitchell, a former vice president of Ohio State University.
Marc Greendorfer, an attorney for the Zachor Legal Institute, responded to the Texas attorney general Nov. 8: “One of the Qatari entities that was the subject of our original request has taken the extraordinary step of taking the Texas Attorney General to court to suppress the information that we requested. Now, with the most recent attempt by TAMU to prevent public disclosure of information as to how Qatari entities are involved with a Texas public university, the intrigue grows, and we have to wonder what it is they are trying to keep from the public.”
TAMU and the Qatar Foundation did not return requests for comment.
The university operations by Qatar are just one prong in a massive public relations and influence push that includes millions to lobbyists and public relations firms in the U.S.
It is also not the only involvement of Squire Patton Boggs with Middle Eastern countries. The same law firm also has a $100,000-a-month contract with Qatar’s rival Saudi Arabia for the kingdom to retain former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and former Democratic Louisiana Sen. John Breaux.
According to Foreign Agent Registration Act disclosures, it worked directly with Saud al-Qahtani, the same aide who allegedly organized the killing of a Washington Post columnist.
Maine Governor LePage with his nominee Mary Mayhew,
FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
The State agency claimed Title IV-E training costs totaling $2,495,375 (Federal share) that were allowable, supported, and allocated in accordance with Federal requirements. However, the State agency did not always follow Federal requirements in claiming training costs. Specifically, the State agency improperly claimed:
•$263,659 in State employee salaries and University educational costs that were not related to the Title IV-E training program;
•$474,270 in State administrative and University educational costs that were allocated incorrectly to the Title IV-E training program; and
•$45,668 in indirect costs that did not qualify for reimbursement at the enhanced rate.
As a result, the State agency overstated the Federal share of foster care and adoption assistance training costs by $783,597. The overstatements occurred because the State agency made clerical errors that improperly allocated, coded, and calculated Title IV-E
It must be noted that Mary Mayhew was a former lobbyist for Hospitals and picked by Governor Paul Le Page who had this to say:
Every so often, I come across an inspirational piece to put out there for thought.
Here is a small company that has come up with an extremely unique idea regarding marketing a product named Bidzuku.
It seems, as a microenterprise, business investment firms tend to keep with tradition when it comes to capital ventures.
Here is the relevant scheme of Bidzuku:
Individual shopping for autos submit their criteria in an online profile. Auto dealers compete with each other and submit bids to the individual meeting their posted requirements of a vehicle.
Basically what they did was to apply online dating to the car buying market. Brilliant. No more shopping around and it expands competition to a global level.
What about applying this to the Request For Proposals (RFP) process?
As always, it's been the big non-profit corporations that are always the successful ones in securing the grants and contracts. And, as always, these big institutions are the ones who design the RFPs in the first place.
All the while, Cornell is strategically becoming the leader in policy development through their training reimbursement programs in child welfare, locking the little business man and innovation out of the public policy cycle.
What if, government took the concept of social networking to a new level.
Small businesses and microenterprises submit their proposals and funding criteria to profiles in an online new marketing network. Foundations and government would not only search for its needs, but it also becomes a learning experience, directly bringing social issues to policymakers.
In essence, this is community-based policymaking.
This type of process, not asking for proposals to meet the criteria of the government, was thriving before the 1980's when it switched over to the RFP.
The time has come to stop telling us what you want and let us tell you what we need.
I was always told that democracy contained a component called dissent. If there is no dissent, meaning a robust challenge to theory with the ability to withstand the test of time, then there is no democracy.
Now apply that to the area of child welfare.
There is no challenge because everything is a secret, kept hidden within a community of major institutions.
Let the community be policymakers once again. We do not wish to be kickedout any more.
For those who are into the statistical side of foster care, here are the States reported data for 2009.
These data are the nuts and bolts for the funding of the States child welfare operations. In order to participate in the conversations of a particular subject, it behooves a policy maker to master the subject matter.
Data tell stories, complete with pictures. This was how I was able to circumvent the secrecy of the child industry.
On the last few pages, pay attention to the reporting errors.
Social workers and administrators in the child welfare industry have been bemoaning the event of social networking and the dawning of the age of transparency and accountability.
There are gag orders issued in child abuse and neglect cases, mostly when the legitimacy for grounds of removal are highly questionable, especially in cases when the parents (original sources) are fighting for the children to come home.
There are substantial omission of data that is intentionally left out of research and never mentioned in the academic community.
Legally Kidnapped has become the only global source for parents/guardians (original sources) to reunite with their children who have been "legally kidnapped".
Legally Kidnapped is exposing the child protection industry for what it is.
One may terminate parental rights but may never terminate a legacy.
Welcome to social networking. Welcome to transparency and accountability, cyber-style.
Recent years, researchers admit high rates of suicides among youth within the foster care system. Researchers explain that suicides are caused by social and emotional conditions rather than a mental disease. Furthermore, it is often associated with hundreds of suicides and suicide attempts. “Researchers discovered attention problems and aggressive or delinquent behavior in 40 per cent of children aged five to 17 who were in home-based foster care, up to eight times more than in the general school-age population” (Gough 2007)....more...
How would you feel if someone snatched you from the family you love and locked you up for no reason, only to be beaten and overmedicated with mind altering, suicidal-side-effect psychotropic medications that you will never see your family again and will grow up to face the possibility of homelessness, unemployment, and incarceration with daily induced sessions of individual therapy?
Please keep in mind that the drugs and counseling noted above is all funded through Targeted Case Management, Medicaid.
The best part of this article is what is not included, and that is major universities do not include such data in its research and publications...Cornell.
For those of you who are following my political journey to end Medicaid fraud in child welfare, I am quite sure some of you are wondering why I am calling out academic institutions.
Well, in the spirit of National Child Abuse Propaganda Month, one finds it is such academic institutions that generate data as well as graduates who will go forth in the world validating their received public letters. This is just a very nice way of saying the universities pump false child abuse data to keep the federal dollars flowing in crank out minion-graduantes to keep promulgating the racket of child welfare fraud.
The name of the game is Medicaid fraud. The only way to catch the fraud is after the bill is paid.
The case deals with Medicaid fraud in child welfare and the "switcho-chango" factor the State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) did with the State University of New York (SUNY) and Cornell.
By BRENDAN J. LYONS, Senior writer
First published: Sunday, October 25, 2009
ALBANY -- A federal criminal investigation into systemic fraud related to audits of New York's Medicaid program is targeting numerous supervisors and employees at the state Health Department and the Research Foundation for the State University of New York.
Interviews with people familiar with the matter and documents obtained by the Times Union show that in recent weeks at least seven employees with those agencies received letters from federal prosecutors in Albany notifying them they are targets in the investigation. The letters say evidence is being prepared for presentation to a federal grand jury for indictment in a case involving fraud, health care fraud, falsification of records and conspiracy.
The targeted employees were encouraged to contact prosecutors to discuss a pre-indictment settlement, and to consult attorneys if necessary. The letters were sent by assistant U.S. Attorney Sara Lord, who specializes in white-collar crime cases.
Federal investigators with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services are pursuing whether the scandal reaches into the upper levels of management for the SUNY Research Foundation and the state Health Department, according to sources briefed on the case. At stake is more than $22 billion in annual matching federal funds for Medicaid. The allegations are that Research Foundation workers, who were under contract with the state Health Department to audit the program, were pushed to manipulate data related to the percentage of ineligible people receiving benefits...more
Stay tuned for more exposure of New York kid scams, the home of the Sophisticated Child Welfare Fraud Syndicate.
Welcome to the official kick-off of National Child Abuse Propaganda Month!
For the month of April, organizations across the nation, regardless of political affiliations, come together to promote the continuance of keeping paychecks flowing by promoting propaganda.
There is no such thing as child abuse, but there is such thing as assault and battery, mayhem, torture, etc. Why must harms against children be watered down to create flimsy reasons to take children away from a family.
Poverty is not a crime, but it is considered as grounds to remove a child. This is child abuse propaganda.
Not being able to provide medical resources is considered grounds to remove a child. This is child abuse propaganda.
Generating false data with public dollars to make public policy is not a crime. Neither is there malicious intent when publishing false research to further a compelling government interest. It is just standard operations in the realm of child welfare.
Cornell maintains the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect which, through an exclusion process, will only select research favorable to its funders. Any organization that receives federal grants for research in child welfare must submit its data to Cornell. If the data are not favorable to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Children's Bureau, then the data will not be accepted and all future funding to that particular organization will be terminated.
Some examples of data that Cornell and the Children's Bureau will not accept:
Cornell publishes and maintains false and biased research to further the compelling governmental interest of covering up the fact that they do not know what the hell they are doing.
The following organizations are among many that have information on National Child Abuse Prevention Partner Organizations. Inclusion on this list is for information purposes and does not constitute an endorsement by Child Welfare Information Gateway or the Children's Bureau. For the most current information, please refer to the National Organizations section of Child Welfare Information Gateway at http://www.childwelfare.gov/organizations/index.cfm.
Recommended updates and additions to the Information Gateway Organization database can be emailed to: OrganizationUpdates@childwelfare.gov
ARCH National Respite Coalition (NRC)
4016 Oxford Street
Annandale, VA 22003
Phone: (703) 256-9578
jbkagan@verizon.net
http://www.archrespite.org
The Mission of the ARCH National Respite Coalition is to secure quality, accessible, planned and crisis respite services for all families and caregivers in need of such services in order to strengthen and stabilize families, and enhance child and adult safety.
The National Respite Coalition (NRC) is the policy arm of the ARCH National Respite Network and it also works with State respite coalitions to build State Lifespan Respite Systems. The Network is a membership organization of respite providers, family members, crisis nurseries, State and local agencies and organizations interested in and supporting respite and crisis servics. The Network maintains the National Respite Locator services at http://www.respitelocator.org and it also provides access to respite start-up manuals, factsheets, evaluation guides and more for both parents and professionals at http://www.archrespite.org.
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
National Headquarters
141 Northwest Point Boulevard
P.O. Box 927
Elk Grove Village, IL 60007-1098
Phone: (202) 347-8600
(847) 434-4000
Fax: (202) 393-6137
(847) 434-8000
kidsdocs@aap.org
http://www.aap.org
General Scope: The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is a national, nonprofit membership organization of pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists, and pediatric surgical specialists that produces professional training materials and public education materials on child maltreatment. Its mission is to attain optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.
The AAP's Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect is concerned with issues relating to the physical, sexual, and mental abuse and neglect of children, adolescents, and their families. The committee develops appropriate policy recommendations and serves as a liaison with other organizations concerned with the health and well-being of children and their families.
Training Specific: The Pediatrics Review and Education Program (PREP The Curriculum®) provides pediatric professionals a way to complete their continuing medical education credits and to study for the Pediatric Maintenance of Certification. For additional information, see http://www.aap.org/profed/prep.htm.
Other training resources include but are not limited to:
* ALPS (Advanced Pediatric Life Support) curriculum presents the information physicians need to assess and care for critically ill and injured children during the first few hours in the emergency department or office-based setting. For more information, see http://www.aplsonline.com/;
* PEPP (Pediatric Education for Prehospital Professionals) is a curriculum designed specifically to teach prehospital professionals how to better assess and manage ill or injured children. More information is available at http://www.peppsite.com/;
* The Parenting Corner offers tips and training for parents on a variety of issues such as safety and injury prevention, mental health, and child development. For more information, see http://www.aap.org/parents.html.
Major Program(s)/Initiatives(s):
* Committee on Child Abuse & Neglect - http://www.aap.org/visit/cmte8.htm
* Committee on Early Childhood, Adoption, and Dependent Care - http://www.aap.org/sections/adoption/resources.htm
American Humane Association (AHA)
63 Inverness Drive East
Englewood, CO 80112
Phone: (303) 792-9900
Fax: (303) 792-5333
info@americanhumane.org
http://www.americanhumane.org
The mission of the American Humane Association (AHA) is to prevent cruelty, abuse, neglect, and the exploitation of children and animals.
AHA offers education and resources to professionals, conducts conferences, roundtables and training, and provides consultation and technical assistance to State and county child welfare and community agencies. In addition, AHA conducts research and evaluation, disseminates knowledge on child welfare, and advocates for social service systems that promote the best interest of children, youth, and families. AHA also offers membership subscriptions.
AHA promotes collaboration across systems, including its recent focus on the juvenile justice system and the restorative justice approach for youth justice. AHA is also known for its work on the human-animal bond which inlcudes programs that strengthen families and their connection to animals. AHA is actively involved in child welfare legislation and public policy at both the State and Federal levels.
Major Program(s)/Initiatives(s):
* National Center on Family Group Decision Making - http://www.americanhumane.org/site/PageServer?pagename=pc_fgdm
* National Child Protection Research Center - http://www.americanhumane.org/researchcenter
* Quality Improvement Center on Non-Residential Fathers & the Child Welfare System - http://www.americanhumane.org/fathers
* Breakthrough Series Collaborative on Safety & Risk Assessments - http://www.americanhumane.org/bsc
* Therapy Animals Supporting Kids (TASK)™ Program - http://www.americanhumane.org/human-animal-bond/programs/therapy-animals-supporting-kids/
American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC)
350 Poplar Avenue
CHO 3B-3406
Elmhurst, IL 60126
Phone: (630) 941-1235
Fax: (630) 359-4274
Toll-Free: (877) 402-7722
apsac@apsac.org
http://www.apsac.org
General Scope:The American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) addresses all facets of the professional response to child maltreatment: prevention, assessment, intervention, and treatment.
APSAC is committed to:
* Preventing and eliminating the recurrence of child maltreatment;
* Promoting research and guidelines to inform professional practice;
* Connecting professionals from the many disciplines to promote the best response to child maltreatment; and
* Educating the public about child abuse and neglect.
Training Specific: APSAC's Advanced Training Institutes offer in-depth training on selected topics. taught by nationally recognized leaders in the field of child maltreatment. For more information on the Institutes, see http://www.apsac.org/mc/page.do?sitePageId=54086&orgId=apsac.
Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF)
701 St. Paul Street
Baltimore, MD 21202
Phone: (410) 547-6600
Fax: (410) 547-6624
http://www.aecf.org
The Annie E. Casey Foundation works to build better futures for disadvantaged children and their families. The primary mission of the Foundation is to foster public policies, human service reforms, and community supports that meet the needs of today's vulnerable children and families.
Major Program(s)/Initiatives(s):
* Family to Family - http://www.aecf.org/MajorInitiatives/Family%20to%20Family.aspx
* Casey Family Services - http://www.aecf.org/ChildFamilyServices/CaseyFamilyServices.aspx
* Casey Journalism Center - http://www.journalismcenter.org/index.cfm
Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP)
1575 Eye Street NW
Suite 500
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (202) 371-1565
Fax: (202) 371-1472
http://www.cssp.org/index.html
The mission of the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) is to develop and promote public policies and practices that support and strengthen families and help communities produce equal opportunities and better futures for children.
The Center coordinates the national Strengthening Families initiative which is being implemented in over half of all States. Strengthening Families engages early childhood programs and other unusual partners in preventing child abuse and neglect by building five, research-based, Protective Factors that are shown to be correlated with reduced incidence of child abuse and neglect. The Strengthening Families National Network provides tools, peer support, technical assistance, and other resources for States implementing Strengthening Families. For more information about this initiative, please see http://www.strengtheningfamilies.net.
Chapin Hall Center for Children
1313 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone: (773) 753-5900
Fax: (773) 753-5940
webmaster@chapinhall.org
http://www.chapinhall.org/
Chapin Hall is a research and development center focusing on policies, practices, and programs affecting children and the families and communities in which they live. The Center devotes special attention to children facing significant problems such as abuse or neglect, poverty, and mental or physical illnesses, and to the service systems designed to address these problems.
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Children's Bureau/ACYF
1250 Maryland Avenue, SW -- Eighth Floor
Washington, DC 20024
Phone: (703) 385-7565
Fax: (703) 385-3206
Toll-Free: (800) 394-3366
info@childwelfare.gov
http://www.childwelfare.gov
Child Welfare Information Gateway connects professionals and the general public to information and resources targeted to the safety, permanency, and well-being of children and families.
A service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Child Welfare Information Gateway provides access to programs, research, laws and policies, training resources, statistics, and much more.
Child Welfare League of America (CWLA)
Headquarters
2345 Crystal Drive, Suite 250
Third Floor
Arlington, VA 22202
Phone: (703) 412-2400
Fax: (703) 412-2401
http://www.cwla.org/
The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) is the oldest national organization serving vulnerable children, youth, and their families. CWLA provides training, consultation, and technical assistance to child welfare professionals and agencies while also educating the public on emerging issues that affect abused, neglected, and at-risk children. Through its publications, conferences, and teleconferences, CWLA shares information on emerging trends, specific topics in child welfare practice (family foster care, kinship care, adoption, positive youth development), and Federal and State policies.
Major Program(s)/Initiatives(s):
* NDAS (National Data Analysis System) - http://ndas.cwla.org
* NRC for Child Welfare Data and Technology - http://www.nrccwdt.org/
* Child Welfare Standards of Excellence - http://www.cwla.org/programs/standards/default.htm
Childhelp®
15757 North 78th Street
Scottsdale, AZ 85260
Phone: (480) 922-8212
Fax: (480) 922-7061
TDD: (800) 2AC-HILD
Toll-Free: (800) 4AC-HILD
http://www.childhelp.org/
Childhelp® is dedicated to helping victims of child abuse and neglect. Childhelp’s approach focuses on prevention, intervention and treatment. The Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline, 1-800-4-A-CHILD®, operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and receives calls from throughout the United States, Canada, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Guam. Childhelp’s programs and services also include residential treatment services; children’s advocacy centers; therapeutic foster care; group homes; child abuse prevention, education and training; and the National Day of Hope®, part of National Child Abuse Prevention Month every April.
Circle of Parents
500 North Michigan Avenue
Suite 200
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: (312) 334-6837
Fax: (312) 334-6852
dwalker@circleofparents.org
http://www.circleofparents.org
The mission of the Circle of Parents is to prevent child abuse and neglect and to strengthen families through friendly, supportive, mutual self-help parent support groups and children’s programs.
Currently the Circle of Parents national network represents a partnership of parent leaders and 26 statewide organizations in 25 States and Puerto Rico. The organization was formed after a successful collaborative project of Prevent Child Abuse America and the National Family Support Roundtable, which was made possible by the Children's Bureau, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The Circle of Parents website provides links to information about the program model, its state network member organizations, training and technical assistance to its membership, parenting resources, and more.
Cooperative Extension System
USDA, Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (CSREES)
1400 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20250-2225
Phone: (202) 720-4795
http://www.extension.org/
The Cooperative Extension System is a nationwide educational collaboration of Federal, State, and local governments and State land-grant universities. The mission of the Cooperative Extension System is to disseminate research-based information on topics as varied as family and child development, health, nutrition, agriculture, horticulture, small business and personal finance. Each State Extension serves its residents through a network of local or regional offices staffed by educators in their field.
The Coopertive Extension System’s new eXtension (e-extension) Initiative provides a web-based interactive learning environment linking users to resources of the Cooperative Extension System to support a variety of educational outreach efforts including resources to promote healthy families.
Major Program(s)/Initiatives(s):
* Parenting - http://www.extension.org/parenting
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF)
650 Fifth Avenue, 19th Floor
New York, NY 10019
Phone: (212) 974-7000
Fax: (212) 974-7590
http://www.ddcf.org/
The mission of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's Child Abuse Prevention Program is to protect children from abuse and neglect in order to promote their healthy development.
The program awards grants to organizations to improve parent-child interactions and to increase parents’ access to information and services that help prevent child maltreatment before it occurs.
Major Program(s)/Initiatives(s):
* Early Intervention - http://www.ddcf.org/page.asp?pageId=342
The foundation supports early intervention initiatives that seek to integrate child abuse prevention strategies into national systems that serve large numbers of young children (ages 0 to 6) and their families on a regular basis. The foundation currently awards grants focused on the following service systems: Home Visiting Programs Early Education and Child Care Pediatric Health Care Special Populations
National Alliance of Children's Trust and Prevention Funds (ACT)
5712 30th Avenue NE
Seattle, WA 98105
Phone: (206) 526-1221
Fax: (206) 526-0220
info@ctfalliance.org
http://www.ctfalliance.org
The National Alliance of Children’s Trust and Prevention Funds (ACT) initiates and engages in national efforts that assist state Children’s Trust and Prevention Funds in strengthening families to prevent child abuse and neglect. This includes promoting and supporting a system of services, laws, practices, and attitudes that supports families by enabling them to provide their children with a safe, healthy, and nurturing childhood.
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
1509 16th Street NW
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 232-8777
Fax: (202) 328-1846
Toll-Free: (800) 424-2460
naeyc@naeyc.org
http://www.naeyc.org/
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is the nation's largest organization of early childhood educators and others dedicated to improving the quality of programs for children from birth through third grade.
National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI)
401 Wythe Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone: (703) 684-1355
Fax: (703) 684-1589
mbrsvcs@nachri.org
http://www.childrenshospitals.net/
The National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI) promotes the health and well-being of children and their families through support of children's hospitals and health systems. Through the Association, NACHRI members work to ensure children's access to healthcare and the ability of children's hospitals to provide the services children need.
National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP)
215 West 125th Street 3rd Floor
154 Haven Avenue
New York, NY 10027
Phone: (646) 284-9600
Fax: (646) 284-9623
info@nccp.org
http://www.nccp.org/
The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) is a public policy center dedicated to promoting the economic security, health, and well-being of America's low income families and children. Using research to inform policy and practice, NCCP seeks to advance family-oriented solutions and the strategic use of public resources at the State and national levels to ensure positive outcomes for the next generation.
National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome (NCSBS)
2955 Harrison Boulevard, #102
Ogden, UT 84403
Phone: (801) 627-3399
Fax: (801) 627-3321
mail@dontshake.org
http://www.dontshake.org/
General Scope: The National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome (NCSBS) offers information on shaken baby syndrome, shaken baby syndrome prevention programs, and training for professionals and parents nationwide.
Training Specific: The Online Training Center contains three training modules: the Period of PURPLE Crying® program overview, Basic Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS/AHT) education, and Intermediate Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS/AHT) education. For more information on these training modules, please see http://www.dontshake.org/lms/index.php<\a>.
Major Program(s)/Initiatives(s):
* Period of PURPLE Crying Program - http://www.dontshake.org/sbs.php?topNavID=4&subNavID=32
National Children's Alliance (NCA)
516 C Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002
Phone: (202) 548-0090
Fax: (202) 548-0099
Toll-Free: (800)239-9950
http://www.nationalchildrensalliance.org/
General Scope: The National Children's Alliance is a nonprofit membership organization that provides training, technical assistance, and networking opportunities to communities seeking to plan, establish, and improve Children's Advocacy Centers. These Centers further the goal of serving abused children through a comprehensive approach to services for victims and their families.
Training Specific: A wide range of training opportunities can be found in the Comprehensive Training Catalogue For Children's Advocacy Centers. The pdf version of the Catalogue is available for download. For more information about training resources, see http://www.nationalchildrensalliance.org/index.php?s=54.
Major Program(s)/Initiatives(s):
* Accreditation Information - http://www.nationalchildrensalliance.org/accreditationquestions
National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association (National CASA)
100 West Harrison Street
North Tower, Suite 500
Seattle, WA 98119
Phone: (206) 270-0072
Fax: (206) 270-0078
Toll-Free: (800) 628-3233
inquiry@nationalcasa.org
http://www.CASAforChildren.org
General Scope: The National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association (National CASA), and a network of over 1,000 local community program offices, support volunteers serving children. The mission of the National CASA, together with its State and local members, is to support and promote court-appointed volunteer advocacy for abused and neglected children so that they can thrive in safe, permanent homes. The role of local CASA programs is to recruit, train and support volunteers in their work with abused children.
Training Specific: National CASA creates new, research-based training opportunities, such as its new e-learning series on educational advocacy, and continuously improves its core volunteer training curriculum.
National Exchange Club Child Abuse Prevention Services
3050 Central Avenue
Toledo, OH 43606
Phone: (419) 535-3232
Fax: (419) 535-1989
Toll-Free: (800) 924-2643
info@preventchildabuse.com
http://www.preventchildabuse.com
The National Exchange Club Foundation (NECF) focuses on improving the lives of children and families through the prevention of child abuse. The NECF coordinates a nationwide network of community-based Exchange Club Child Abuse Prevention Centers that offer a professionally supervised parent aide program to at-risk parents, with the goal of replacing traditional patterns of abusive behavior with effective skills for nonviolent parenting.
National Family Preservation Network (NFPN)
3971 North 1400 East
Buhl, ID 83316
Fax: (208) 543-6080
Toll-Free: (888) 498-9047
director@nfpn.org
http://www.nfpn.org/
General Scope: The mission of the National Family Preservation Network (NFPN) is to serve as a primary national voice for the preservation of families through Intensive Family Preservation and Reunification Services (IFPS & IFRS).
Training Resources: NFPN provides links to various assessment tools, fatherhood resources, and more at http://www.nfpn.org/tools-and-training.html.
National Healthy Marriage Resource Center (NHMRC)
1620 Eye Street NW, Suite 210
Washington, DC 20006
Fax: (703) 385-3206
Toll-Free: (866) 916-4672
nhmrc@healthymarriageinfo.org
http://www.healthymarriageinfo.org
The National Healthy Marriage Resource Center (NHMRC) is a national resource and clearinghouse for information and research relating to healthy marriages.
The mission of the NHMRC is to help individuals and couples who choose marriage for themselves gain the knowledge and skills necessary to build and sustain a healthy marriage.
The NHMRC is administered under a cooperative agreement with the Office of Family Assistance within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA)
5100 SW Macadam Avenue
Suite 300
Portland, OR 97239
Phone: (503) 222-4044
Fax: (503) 222-4007
info@nicwa.org
http://www.nicwa.org
The National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) functions as the only Native American organization focused specifically on issues of child abuse and neglect and tribal capacity to prevent and respond effectively to these problems. NICWA provide workshops and training programs, using culturally appropriate NICWA developed resources, including training materials, curricula, and books. NICWA also offers technical assistance and training on child care, family preservation, and substance abuse.
Training Specific: NICWA had developed a Tribal Child Welfare Worker Certification that will serve as an aid for the continual development of Indian child welfare workers to better serve our tribal children and families. For more information, please see http://www.nicwa.org/certification/.
NICWA has developed trainings on a variety of topics related to American Indian child welfare that are available via on-site training, training institutes, or ICWA online training courses. For more information, please see http://www.nicwa.org/training/.
National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention (CBCAP) (FRIENDS)
Chapel Hill Training Outreach Project
800 Eastowne Drive, Suite 105
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Phone: (919) 490-5577, x 222
Fax: (919) 490-4905
lbaker3@nc.rr.com
http://www.friendsnrc.org
FRIENDS (Family Resource, Information, Education and Network Development Services) provides technical assistance to Federal grantee agencies implementing the Community-Based Grants for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, under the Keeping Children and Families Safe Act of 2003.
FRIENDS works to build the capacity of States and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect and strengthen and support families.
The National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention (CBCAP) (FRIENDS) is a service of the Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect.
National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse (NRFC)
101 Lake Forest Boulevard
Suite 360
Gaithersburg, MD 20877
Toll-Free: (877) 432-3411
info@fatherhood.gov
http://www.fatherhood.gov/
The National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse (NRFC) supports the Administration for Children and Families' Office of Family Assistance's (OFA) efforts to assist States and communities to promote and support Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Marriage.
Primarily a tool for professionals operating Responsible Fatherhood programs, the NRFC provides access to print and electronic publications, timely information on fatherhood issues, and targeted resources that support OFA-funded Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Marriage grantees. The NRFC website also provides essential information for other audiences interested in fatherhood issues.
Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP)
1900 Grant Street
Suite 400
Denver, CO 80203
Phone: (303) 327-4240
Fax: (303) 327-4260
Toll-Free: (866) 864-5226
info@nursefamilypartnership.org
http://www.nursefamilypartnership.org/
The Nurse-Family Partnership represents an approach to the long-established service strategy of the home visiting model that improves the health and social functioning of low income, first-time mothers, their babies, and families.
The NFP is affiliated with the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and the National Center for Children, Families and Communities (NCCFC) in the School of Nursing.
Parents Anonymous, Inc.
675 West Foothill Boulevard
Suite 220
Claremont, CA 91711-3475
Phone: (909) 621-6184
Fax: (909) 625-6304
Parentsanonymous@parentsanonymous.org
http://www.parentsanonymous.org
Parents Anonymous helps parents provide nurturing environments for their families. The organization is dedicated to strengthening families through strategies that promote mutual support and parental leadership. For State and local contacts, visit the Parents Anonymous website.
Prevent Child Abuse America (PCAA)
500 North Michigan Avenue
Suite 200
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: (312) 663-3520
Fax: (312) 939-8962
mailbox@preventchildabuse.org
http://www.preventchildabuse.org/
Prevent Child Abuse America (PCAA) is committed to promoting legislation, policies, and programs that help prevent child abuse and neglect, support healthy childhood development, and strengthen families. Working with State chapters, PCCA provides leadership to promote and implement prevention efforts at the national and local levels.
PCAA's research arm is the National Center on Child Abuse Prevention Research (http://www.preventchildabuse.org/learn_more/research.html). The Center provides a link between research and practice by developing and evaluating prevention strategies, and by disseminating information about child abuse maltreatment and its prevention across the country.
Major Program(s)/Initiatives(s):
* National Center on Child Abuse Prevention Research - http://www.preventchildabuse.org/learn_more/research.html
The National Center on Child Abuse Prevention Research enhances the link between research and practice by developing and evaluating prevention strategies, and by disseminating information about child abuse maltreatment and its prevention cross the country.
* Healthy Families America - http://www.healthyfamiliesamerica.org/
* Credentialing (Healthy Families America Programs) - http://www.healthyfamiliesamerica.org/network_resources/credentialing.shtml
Search Institute
The Banks Building
615 First Avenue NW -- Suite 125
Minneapolis, MN 55413
Phone: (612) 376-8955
Toll-Free: (800) 888-7828
si@search-institute.org
http://www.search-institute.org
Search Institute conducts research to identify what children and adolescents need to become caring, healthy, and responsible adults. The Institute also provides resources to apply this knowledge and to motivate and equip others in ensuring young people are valued and that they thrive.
ZERO TO THREE
National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families
2000 M Street NW, Suite 200
Suite 200
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 638-1144
Toll-Free: (800) 899-4301
http://www.zerotothree.org
Zero to Three's mission is to promote the healthy development of our nation's infants and toddlers by supporting and strengthening families, communities, and those who work on their behalf. Zero to Three is dedicated to advancing current knowledge, promoting beneficial policies and practices, communicating research and best practices to a wide variety of audiences, and providing training, technical assistance, and leadership development.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Administration for Children and Families
Administration on Children, Youth and Families
Children's Bureau Department of Health and Human Services Logo Child Welfare Information Gateway
Children's Bureau/ACYF
1250 Maryland Avenue, SW
Eighth Floor
Washington, DC 20024
800.394.3366
Email: info@childwelfare.gov
