Serving Cochran, Hale, Hockley, Lubbock, Terry and Yoakum Counties of Texas
volunteer resources
Internet Resource Links
CHILD WELFARE:
http://www.dfps.state.tx.us/Child_Protection/About_Child_Protective_Services/
Administration for Children & Families (ACF)
This site provides online fact sheets that describe ACF-funded activities, projects, shelters, resource centers, community/school-based programs, Head Start, welfare reform, and much more.
www.acf.dhhs.gov/acf_site_index.html
Administration for Children & Families (ACF)—Children’s Bureau
Part of the Department of Health and Human Services, the ACF Children’s Bureau provides federal reports on child maltreatment, current initiatives, and special events. www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/cb/
American Humane Association
American Humane Association is a network of individuals and organizations working to prevent cruelty, abuse, neglect, and exploitation of children and animals and to assure that their interests and well-being are fully, effectively, and humanely guaranteed by an aware and caring society. www.americanhumane.org
American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC)
APSAC works to ensure that everyone affected by child maltreatment receives a professional response by providing scholarly and clinical materials. This site includes information on state chapters, legislation, and additional resources. www.apsac.org
Child Abuse Prevention Network
This site is for professionals in the field of child abuse and neglect. Child maltreatment, physical abuse, psychological maltreatment, neglect, sexual abuse, and emotional abuse and neglect are their key areas of concern. They provide unique and powerful tools for all workers to support the identification, investigation, treatment, adjudication, and prevention of child abuse and neglect. http://child.cornell.edu
Child Trauma Academy—CIVITAS Child Trauma Programs
Central to the Child Trauma Academy is its mission to improve the systems that educate, nurture, protect, and enrich children. Current research projects, training activities, publications, and progress reports are included in this site. www.childtrauma.org
Child Welfare League of America (CWLA)
CWLA is an association of public and private nonprofit agencies that assist abused and neglected children and families through a wide range of services. The site offers information on their programs, publications, and upcoming conferences and trainings. www.cwla.org
Kempe Center
This site was designed to provide a clinically based resource for training, consultation, program development and evaluation, and research regarding all forms of child abuse and neglect. The center is committed to multidisciplinary approaches to improving the recognition, treatment, and prevention of all forms of abuse and neglect. www.kempecenter.org
Missing & Exploited Children’s Training Programs
The Missing and Exploited Children’s Training Programs serve law enforcement, social workers, prosecutors, judges, probation officers, and elected officials. Courses are offered on many topics, including child abuse and exploitation investigative techniques; child abuse and exploitation team investigative process; child sexual exploitation; and responding to reports of missing and abducted children. www.foxvalley.tec.wi.us/ojjdp
National Children’s Advocacy Center
This agency provides prevention, intervention, and treatment services to physically and sexually abused children and their families within a child-focused team approach. www.ncac-hsv.org
National Sex Offender Registry
Child Awareness Services opened this website of accessible links to individual states’ searchable databases of registered sex offenders in the United States and other select countries. www.sexoffender.com
To report child abuse,
call the Texas Abuse
and Neglect Hotline
1-800-252-5400
or report online at
