Connecticut, New Jersey, New York

2010-2011

180 Turning Lives Around (180) - Domestic Violence Parenting Program
180 is a Monmouth County community based nonprofit dedicated to ending domestic violence and sexual assault. The primary purpose of the Domestic Violence Parenting Program is to reduce the incidence of all forms of child abuse and neglect in families affected by domestic violence living in Monmouth County, NJ.  Program foci include strengthening parenting skills, raising awareness about risky parenting behaviors, and providing other supportive services. http://www.180nj.org/

Child Abuse Prevention Program (CAPP) - Train the Trainer Parent Program for Parent Coordinators
Child Abuse Prevention Program is a not-for-profit agency that educates young children about their right to be safe. CAPP’s Train the Trainer Program is a comprehensive training program for Parent Coordinators in NYC DOE elementary schools. The program will provide training, a curriculum, and consultation to Parent Coordinators in all five NYC boroughs on conducting abuse prevention workshops for the parents in their schools. http://www.childabusepreventionprogram.org/

The Child Abuse Prevention Services (CAPS) - Keeping Kids and Families Safe from Abuse
Child Abuse Prevention Services is a volunteer organization that provides child abuse and violence prevention programming for children and youth in New York’s Nassau and Suffolk counties. CAPS’ Keeping Kids and Families Safe from Abuse program is a child abuse prevention education program for children, parents, and educators in at risk Long Island communities. The program offers the tools and strategies to help children protect themselves from abuse and the language and resources to disclose and intervene in abusive situations. http://www.capsli.org/

The Child Center of New York - The Asian Outreach, School-Based Child Abuse Prevention Project
The Child Center of NY (CCNY) is a nonprofit organization providing comprehensive and culturally sensitive services to children and families living in Queens. The School-based Asian Outreach program will provide mental health screenings to students and provide therapy for those students and families that are at risk of abuse or neglect. CCNY will also conduct parent education workshops and conduct outreach to the school community to educate them about child abuse and receive referrals for students with multi-lingual needs. http://www.childcenterny.org/

Child Guidance Center of Southern Connecticut - Comparing Effectiveness of Therapeutic Interventions with Abused Children
The Child Guidance Center is an outpatient mental health center for children and adolescents. The Comparing Effectiveness project will provide mental health services to physically and/or sexually abused children using either traditional therapy or trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT). An additional new pilot study will evaluate the comparative success of traditional therapy and TF-CBT. http://www.childguidancect.org/

Children’s Museum of the Arts - ARTogether – An Art Therapy-Based Visitation Support Program for Families with Children in Foster Care
Children’s Museum of the Arts (CMA) is a children’s museum that provides hands-on art experiences for children with practicing artists, both in their art-filled interactive museum and in the community. CMA’s ARTogether program is a new museum-based visitation support program for families with children in foster care. ARTogether will help birth families rebuild relationships during supervised family visits and work to eliminate the recurrence of abuse and neglect that led to the child’s initial placement. http://www.cmany.org/

Children's Village - New Directions
Children’s Village is a residential child welfare agency dedicated to the treatment of severely emotionally troubled youth. New Directions works with juvenile sex offenders and youth with problematic sexualized behavior (PSB) from the New York City region. New Directions provides an intensive residential treatment program which has the goal of changing the attitudes and impulses of youth with PSB and preventing further sexual abuse of children. http://www.childrensvillage.org/

Coalition Against Child Abuse & Neglect - Mental Health Program – Spanish-Speaking
The Coalition Against Child Abuse & Neglect (CCAN) is a non-profit center for child abuse prevention and child victim advocacy. The Spanish-Speaking expansion of the Mental Health Program will support a bilingual Mental Health Specialist to provide, in Spanish, individual, family, group, and crisis therapy services to child victims of sexual abuse and their non-offending family members. The expansion will also allow for the Project Kidz Talk sexual abuse support group for children and non-offending family members to be conducted in Spanish. http://www.ccanli.org/

Court Appointed Special Advocates of New York (CASA) - Project Family Connect
CASA is a child advocacy organization whose mission is to help move children quickly through New York City’s foster care system into safe, permanent homes where they can thrive and reduce the traumatic effects of lingering too long in the system. Project Family Connect serves children in foster care whose parents are incarcerated by locating the parents and, where appropriate, by facilitating child/parent visits so that the incarcerated parent can be a part of the child’s permanency planning. http://www.casa-nyc.org/

Exchange Club Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse of Southern Connecticut - Hispanic Crisis Parent Aide Program
Exchange Club is a child abuse prevention and treatment organization serving the greater Stamford area. Exchange Club’s Hispanic Crisis Parent Aide Program provides intensive home based services to high risk Hispanic or predominantly Spanish speaking families referred for service. A trained Parent Aide models and teaches parents about child development, age appropriate discipline, stress relief, anger management and more nurturing ways of parenting in order to break the cycle of abuse. http://www.exchangeclubparentingskillscenter.com/

Girls Educational and Mentoring Services (GEMS) - Support Services for Victims of Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Domestic TraffickingGEMS is an agency committed to ending commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking of children.  The Support Services program provides essential services to victims of commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking. Services include holistic case management and counseling, youth development such as educational and employment support, and youth leadership, which educates young women on public speaking and community organizing to end the commercial sexual exploitation of children. http://www.gems-girls.org/

Good Shepherd Services - Sanctuary Model
Good Shepherd Services is a leading youth development and family service agency. Good Shepherd’s Sanctuary Model program will provide comprehensive clinical trauma reduction methodology for adolescent girls, ages 12 to 21, placed at a residential center by the NYC Administration for Children’s Services. The program will also work with the girls’ families and provide staff training or coaching in order to reduce the effects of trauma on the program’s vulnerable young women. http://www.goodshepherds.org/

Greenwich House - Child Parent Psychotherapy for the Children’s Safety Project
Founded as a Settlement House, Greenwich House is now a social and health services organization. Greenwich House’s Children’s Safety Project treats three to five year old victims of child abuse and domestic violence. The new Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) component will provide more comprehensive and effective evidence-based services to children ages 3-7, as well as an expansion of services to include families with children in the 0-3 age range. http://greenwichhouse.org/

Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services - The Trauma Treatment and Training Project for Children Ages 0-5
The Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services (JBFCS) is one of the nation’s largest providers of behavioral health and counseling services, offering over a hundred programs to all New Yorkers. The Trauma Treatment and Training Project is a combined direct service and training program addressing the needs of very young children (0 – 5 years old) who have witnessed or experienced violence, abuse, and/or neglect.  The project will use the Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) approach to teach caregivers about the effects of trauma and offer strategies for building (or re-building) children’s and caregivers’ feelings of safety. http://www.jbfcs.org/

Jewish Family Service of Metrowest/Rachel Coalition - Kids’ Corner
The Jewish Family Service of MetroWest is a New Jersey not-for-profit organization and the lead for the Rachel Coalition, which is coalition of nine not-for-profit community organizations that provides intervention, prevention, and training services to victims of domestic violence in Northern New Jersey. The Kids’ Corner program will provide comprehensive, evidence-based therapeutic support services for children exposed to domestic violence, who are at increased exposure to physical abuse and incest, and their non-offending caregivers in New Jersey. http://www.rachelcoalition.org/  

Kingsbridge Heights Community Center - The Trafficked Youth Initiative
Kingsbridge Heights Community Center is a non-profit multi-service agency that provides programs and services in the Northwest Bronx. Kingsbridge’s Trafficked Youth Initiative will provide assessment and treatment to children and youth between the ages of 7 and 21 who have been involved with commercial sex trafficking. The initiative will also promote prevention through its outreach and education program. http://www.khcc-nyc.org/

Mental Health Association in Passaic County - Consumer Parent Support Network
The Mental Health Association in Passaic County’s (MHAPC) purpose is to serve adults and families affected by mental illness through support services, education and advocacy. The organization’s Consumer Parent Support Network teaches Passaic County parents who have serious mental illness how their mental illness affects their children and how they can improve their parenting skills to avoid child abuse and neglect.  Some of the services provided include home visiting, individual and group parent/child education, and case management. http://www.mhapc.com/

Mental Health Association of Westchester Inc. - Court Appointed Special Advocates Program
The Mental Health Association of Westchester County promotes mental health in Westchester through advocacy, community education and direct services.  The Court Appointed Special Advocates Program professionally trains volunteers to serve children in foster care or children at risk for foster care by advocating for their education, health care, mental health, and permanency planning. The goal is for each child to achieve a safe, permanent home as quickly as possible. http://www.mhawestchester.org/

My Sisters’ Place - My Sisters' Place Child Protective Services/Domestic Violence Collaboration
My Sister’s Place (MSP) is a not-for-profit organization working to end intimate partner violence and the effects of domestic violence on women and children throughout Westchester County, New York and the surrounding region. MSP’s CPS/SV collaboration aims to help families impacted by domestic violence and child abuse achieve safety through the provision of comprehensive supportive services. The goals of the collaboration are to ensure the family’s safety and security and that the child(ren) remain safely with the non offending parent. http://www.mysistersplaceny.org/

New Alternatives for Children - Mental Health Treatment for Victims of Sexual, Physical and/or Emotional Abuse
New Alternatives for Children (NAC) is a social service and healthcare organization which specializes in serving children who are medically fragile and/or have multiple disabilities. NAC’s Mental Health Treatment program will expand mental health services to children who have experienced sexual, physical, and/or emotional abuse and their non-offending parents at one of their mental health clinics. Children and parents will have access to all NAC services, such as psychological evaluations and a variety of different therapies. http://nac-inc.org/

The New York Center for Children - Therapy Groups for Children Entering the Foster Care System
The New York Center for Children (NYCC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing comprehensive assessment and treatment services to abused children. NYCC’s Therapy Groups program will provide therapeutic groups for children aged 6 to 12 years old at the onset of their time in foster care. Services will include evidence-based therapy, group support, and foster family involvement. http://www.newyorkcenterforchildren.org/

New York Foundling Hospital - Maria Lucadamo Crisis Nursery & Family Center Aftercare Program
The New York Foundling is one of New York City’s oldest social service organizations. The Maria Lucadamo Crisis Nursery and Family Center of The New York Foundling is a safe place for parents who are under extreme pressure, or facing crises, to turn to for temporary respite to ensure their children are kept safe from harm.  The after-care program provides critical, comprehensive after-care services to respite families to help keep the families intact and protect the children from potential harm. http://www.nyfoundling.org/

New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NYSPCC) - Trauma Recovery Program
The NYSPCC was established in 1875 as the first child protective agency in the world. NYSPCC’s Trauma Recovery Program is a critical mental health resource for children who have experienced trauma due to physical and sexual abuse, neglect and family violence. Using phase-oriented treatment and cognitive-behavioral techniques, The NYSPCC clinicians provide specialized clinical care to help children process their traumatic experience and learn coping skills in order to prepare them to move forward in a healthy and productive direction. http://www.nyspcc.org/

Safe Horizon - Bringing Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention to the Manhattan Child Advocacy Center
Safe Horizons is a New York not-for-profit organization that provides support, prevents violence, and promotes justice for victims of crime and abuse, their families, and communities. Safe Horizon recently opened their Manhattan Children’s Advocacy Center, which is a co-located cross-disciplinary team to investigate, treat, and prosecute cases of child physical and sexual abuse. Safe Horizon’s program will implement the Child and Family Traumatic Stress Initiative (CTFSI) mental health treatment model at their Manhattan Children’s Advocacy Center. CFTSI is a four-session mental model that helps to decrease the impact of potentially traumatic events on children. http://www.safehorizon.org/

Sanctuary for Families - Immigrant Children & Families Initiative
Sanctuary for Families is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the safety, healing, and self-sufficiency of battered women and their children. Sanctuary’s Immigrant Children & Families Initiative is a culturally and linguistically appropriate individual, group and family counseling, and parenting workshops conducted in over ten languages, as well as psychiatric and psychological interventions. The program targets at-risk immigrant mothers in order to cultivate healthy families and prevent child abuse and neglect in vulnerable immigrant families. http://www.sanctuaryforfamilies.org/

SCAN-New York Volunteer Parent-Aides Association - The Strong Men, Strong Families Initiative
SCAN is a community service organization focused on strengthening and preserving families. SCAN’s Strong Men, Strong Families Initiative will provide targeted outreach to fathers referred to Preventive Services. The initiative will teach fathers positive childrearing practices, such as child-centered love, limits and discipline, and strong communication. SCAN will also provide opportunities for positive family interactions, such as camping trips and outings to state parks, in order to foster progress in strengthening the family. http://www.scanny.org/

SCO Family of Services - The Nurse-Family Partnership
SCO Family of Services is a New York not-for-profit child and family services agency. SCO’s Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) is an evidence-based program documented to support first-time, low income parents to prevent child abuse and neglect and build strong families. Since young parenting mothers have fewer resources and strong relationships, the NFP program will strengthen program participation among families who are at risk of dropping the program by employing a Case Manager to locate and maintain family involvement. http://www.sco.org/

SCO Family of Services/Center for Family Life - ParentShip Program
The Center for Family Life is a community based organization that provides a broad array of services to families living in the Sunset Park community of Brooklyn. The ParentShip Program brings together newly immigrated Latina and Chinese mothers to participate in a clinical group program designed to provide social and emotional parenting support. The program offers an opportunity for parents to develop themselves as nurtured and nurturing people, capable of making responsible and informed choices in rearing their bicultural children. http://www.cflsp.org/

St. John’s University - PARTNERS (Preventing Adverse Reactions to Negative Events and Related Stress)
The PARTNERS program is a multi-disciplinary clinical-research program, based in the Department of Psychology at St. John’s University. The PARTNERS’ clinic in Queens, New York provides scientifically-proven mental health services that are specialized for victims of child physical and/or sexual abuse and adapted for multicultural families. As an expansion to the PARNTERS program, a full-time bilingual trauma therapist will be employed to conduct outreach, assessments, therapy, and case management for abused Latino children and their families. http://www.stjohns.edu/partners 

Susan B. Anthony Project - Safe Touch Puppet Show
Susan B. Anthony Project is a Connecticut not-for-profit serving survivors of domestic and sexual abuse. The Safe Touch Puppet Show uses a curriculum that involves puppets that interact with young children and teach them to identify feelings and clarify the difference between good touch, bad touch, and the “uh-oh” touches. Children are taught to trust their instincts and tell an adult when they feel uncomfortable or unsafe. The objective of the Safe Touch curriculum is to help children develop a clear sense of their body rights and a voice to speak out against people who may be violating this right. http://www.sbaproject.org/

Westchester Jewish Community Services - Family Therapy for the Treatment of Child Sexual Abuse
Westchester Jewish Community Services (WJCS) is a broad-based human service agency. WJCS’s Family Therapy program is an extension of the Child Sexual Abuse Treatment Program, which provides evidence-based individual therapy to sexually abused children. The program extension will provide family therapy services to sexually abused children along with their parents and, where appropriate, their siblings once the abused child’s safety has been established. http://www.wjcs.com/

Wynona's House - Family Advocacy Program
Wynona’s House is a Child Advocacy Center with a mission to promote the healing of victims of child abuse by providing a strong community response to investigation, prosecution, treatment and prevention of child abuse. Wynona’s House’s Family Advocacy Program will facilitate the Non-Offending Caregiver’s (NOC) Support Group and community outreach programming for prevention curriculum. By supporting the non-offending caregiver, the Family Advocacy Program will help abused children cope with their experiences. http://wynonashouse.org/

NY Committee of Hearts

Covenant House New York/Under 21 - Safe Families Project: Child Abuse Prevention Initiative at the Covenant House Mother and Child Shelter Program
Covenant House is a childcare agency that provides emergency shelter and other services for the homeless, runaway, and at- risk youth of New York City. The Safe Families Project is a child abuse preventative measure for the residents of Covenant House’s Mother Child Emergency Shelter Program. The Safe Families Project will provide the shelter’s young single mothers (under 21 years of age) with information regarding the dangers, symptoms, and consequences of child abuse and maltreatment using workshops and role-play exercises. http://covenanthouseny.org/

NY Committee of Hope

Of Home, Family and Future, Inc. (OHFF) - Educational Mentoring Initiative
OHFF is a charitable organization formed for the purpose of providing funds for individuals who have shown the potential to become successful members of society, but lack the resources to overcome poverty or abuse. The Educational Mentoring Initiative provides mentoring and financial assistance to young adults who have been in foster care due to abuse and neglect and helps them complete their goal of a college degree.  http://www.ofhomefamilyandfuture.org/