Enhanced Services to Children and Youth Exposed to Violence
This site provides promising practices and lessons learned from Administration for Children and Families' grantee demonstration projects on children and youth exposed to violence.
Elementary school age (5-10)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI): Violent Crimes Against Children
This FBI program's mission is to—
- decrease the vulnerability of children to sexual exploitation;
- develop a nationwide capacity to provide a rapid, effective, and measured investigative response to crimes against children; and
- enhance the capabilities of state and local law enforcement investigators through programs, investigative assistance, and task force operations.
FRIENDS, National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention
FRIENDS provides services to the community-based child abuse prevention community through targeted training and technical assistance efforts.
National Children's Advocacy Center
The Center models, promotes, and delivers excellence in child abuse response and prevention through service, education, and leadership.
National Victim Assistance Academy Resource Paper: Human Trafficking
Date Published
September 2012
Series
Publication Type
Issue Overview,
Instructional Material
Agencies
OVC
National Victim Assistance Academy Resource Paper: Child Abuse and Neglect
Date Published
September 2012
Series
Publication Type
Instructional Material
Agencies
OVC
Children's Exposure to Violence: A Comprehensive National Survey
Date Published
October 2009
Agencies
OJJDP
Helping Children Exposed to Domestic Violence: Law Enforcement and Community Partnerships, Final Report
Date Published
March 2001
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Polyvictimization: Children's Exposure to Multiple Types of Violence, Crime, and Abuse
Date Published
October 2011
Agencies
OJJDP
U.S. Attorney General's Defending Childhood Initiative: Formative Evaluation of the Phase I Demonstration Program
Date Published
November 2011
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Safe From the Start: Taking Action on Children Exposed to Violence
Date Published
November 2000
Agencies
OJJDP
Effects of Federal Legislation on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children
Date Published
July 2010
Agencies
OJJDP
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in New York City, Volume Two: Formative Evaluation: The New York City Demonstration
Date Published
September 2008
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Children's Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence and Other Family Violence
Date Published
October 2011
Agencies
OJJDP
Guia de Recursos de la Familia Contra el Secuestro Parental Internacional (Spanish Version of Family Resource Guide on International Parental Kidnapping)
Date Published
February 2002
Agencies
OJJDP
Child and Youth Victimization Known to Police, School, and Medical Authorities
Date Published
April 2012
Agencies
OJJDP
The Nexus Between Economics and Family Violence: The Expected Impact of Recent Economic Declines on the Rates and Patterns of Intimate, Child and Elder Abuse
Date Published
March 2010
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID): Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment
USAID's WID program supports the education of girls and fosters economic and political opportunities for women. These programs help create conditions that lessen the vulnerability of women and children to traffickers. USAID also funds direct anti-trafficking programs, which are described in more detail in Trafficking in Persons: USAID's Response.
District of Columbia Polyvictimization Client Response Team
2012-VF-GX-K007
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2012
$748,249
Child Response Initiative
2012-VF-GX-K006
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2012
$749,905
Filling the Gap in Victim Assistance Programming Regarding Hybrid Financial Exploitation to Further the Mission of the Office for Victims of Crime
2012-VF-GX-K003
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2012
$131,337
Unified will enhance the capacity of tribal victim services programs and providers to better serve victims, sustain victim service programs, and build strong collaborative relationships with grantees.
2012-MU-GX-K004
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2012
$749,970