- Ai.Bi. Amici dei Bambini in Bosnia Herzegovina
Assists children and families in Bosnia Herzegovina. Information on centres for women, mine awareness, and children's rights.
- Alternate Shelter Society
Provides residential and support services to abused, homeless, and at-risk youth in Vancouver, Canada.
- Baptist Children's Home
Provides group and foster home care for children, adoptive services, and Christian family and personal counseling. U.S. and international locations.
- Bartimaeus Inc.
Provides behavioural, emotional and programming support for children and adolescents within Ontario and Quebec.
- Big Family of Michigan
A non-profit organization that provides services to Michigan's hard-to-place foster children. Events, speeches, and programs.
- Boys Hope Girls Hope
Provides at risk children with stable homes, education, and financial and emotional support. Programs, news, and locations.
- Breaking Through
A network in Ireland devoted to assisting young people at risk. News, events, lobbying, and publications.
- Bryan's House
A nonprofit organization based in Dallas, Texas that offers medically-managed child care, adolescent programs and family support services to children, teens and their families affected by HIV/AIDS.
- Center for Children in La Plata, Maryland
Provides mental health and other services to children and families in southern Maryland. Counseling, mentoring, education, and health initiatives.
- Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents
Seeks to document and develop effective services for children of criminal offenders and their families. Articles, programs, and training.
- Center for Family Life in Sunset Park
Offers family counseling, employment services, foster care, and emergency help to families and children in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
- Child & Family Services
Nonprofit agency in Western New York state offering a full range of human services, including counseling, foster care services, special needs adoption, residential treatment for youth, special education programs, and domestic violence intervention and treatment services.
- Child SHARE
Seeks to find quality foster and adoptive homes for abused, abandoned and neglected children by working through local faith communities.
- Children of the Night
A non-profit organization dedicated to assisting children between the ages of 11 and 17 who are forced to prostitute on the streets for food and a place to sleep. Services, hotline, and donation information.
- College Mentors For Kids
Pairs high risk and underprivileged youth in Indiana with college students in a mentor capacity.
- Devon Children's Fund
Serves children and young people in the UK county of Devon who are at risk of social exclusion, supporting them and their families in breaking the cycle of poverty and disadvantage.
- Eagle House
Shelter in Brisbane Australia for troubled women and children. Newsletter and contact information.
- Ennis Center for Children
Nonprofit, multi-service agency providing community based, in home, foster care, adoption and group home services to children and families through Southeast Michigan.
- European Network of Children and Youth Mentoring Organisations
Seeks to encourage responsible volunteers for youth mentoring projects in Europe.
- Family Futures Project
A Scottish Human Services Trust partnership advocating person centred planning with organisations working directly with children with special educational needs. Provides information for children, young people, families, professionals and organisations in order to help them with planning and problem solving when facing choices and changes. Contact details and e-group registration link also supplied.
- Family Service of Central Indiana, Inc.
An organization in Indianapolis, Indiana that provides counseling and services on relationships, children, domestic violence, substance abuse, and elderly and senior issues.
- Family Service of the Piedmont
A nonprofit organization that serves children and families in Guilford County, North Carolina. Mental health counseling, victim services, child abuse prevention, and community outreach.
- Family Tree Learning Centers of Edgecombe County
A community collaborative coordinated by Edgecombe County Schools, NC, providing out-of-school youth development programs, adult programs, all age access to school libraries, community events, and family support services.
- For Love of Children
A nonprofit organization in Washington, DC, working to eliminate abuse and neglect, alleviate homelessness, and educate high-risk youth to be responsible, successful adults.
- Friends of the Children
Employs full-time mentors to help at-risk children. Chapters, news, partners, and how to donate.
- George Washington Carver House
Provides crisis intervention, youth and family development, economic empowerment and recreation services for the St. Louis community.
- Good Shepherd Services
A social service and youth development agency serving vulnerable New York City children and families through a network of community-based programs and city-wide foster care services.
- Hartford Choice
Recent college graduates and students become caseworkers and mentors to inner-city youth in the Hartford, Connecticut area. Applications, testimonials, and services.
- Heart of Los Angeles Youth
Community center for young people to engage in enrichment activities in the Rampart District of Los Angeles. Programs, board and staff members, and volunteer opportunities.
- Homes for the Homeless
Founded in 1986, this private non-profit organization, provides residential educational training services to homeless families, works to reduce homelessness by providing families with the education and training that will enable them to build independent lives.
- In The Spirit of the Children Inc.
A nonprofit organization that offers comprehensive community-based services to young adults exiting foster care and to parents who have reunited with their children.
- Injury Free Coalition for Kids
Works to prevent injury among children through hospital-based, community-oriented programs. News, events, speakers' bureau, and safety tips.
- Institute for Family Development
Offers training and programs designed to help families function better, keep children safe, and stop the unnecessary removal of children into state custody.
- Jagruti Seva Sanstha
Nonprofit organization based in Pune, India that provides education, vocational training, health care and counselling to the underprivileged, particularly young women. Contact details, donor information, volunteer profiles, programs, activities and success stories.
- Jairus Agency
Puts at-risk teens in Massachusetts with meaningful volunteer jobs and mentoring relationships.
- Josai Chugakko Volunteer Club
Encourages volunteerism in Japanese students at Josai Junior High school. Projects and contact information.
- Joshua House
Operated by the Children's Home Society of Florida, provides a safe haven for children from the Tampa Bay area who have been abused, abandoned, or neglected and removed from their homes by child protection officials in order to assure their safety. Lists services available, contacts details for referals, facts and figures about activities, events calendar, information for donors, volunteers and other helpers, links to partner organisations.
- Lifeways - Child and Family Services
A United Kingdom national provider serving children with special needs and their families with supported living, foster care, respite and residential care, and family support. Site provides philosophy, management information, newsroom, and overview of services.
- Lineham Farm Children's Centre, Leeds, UK
A charity which provides free week-long activity holidays for local children in need of a break. Activities include mountain biking, climbing, archery, animal care, environmental studies, and art.
- Listen Inc
Non-profit training and development organization for community and youth workers.
- Love A Child Inc.
An interdenominational christian humanitarian and missionary organization that has schools, feeding programs, a child care program, mobile medical clinics, and an orphanage as well as building churches throughout the country of Haiti. Has contact details, information about mission and projects, television broadcast schedule, sponsorship information and secure on-line donor form.
- Making It On Purpose
Assists teens in southwest Florida during the transition from Foster Care to independent living. Foster care facts, events, programs, and volunteer and donation opportunities.
- Mentoring Europe
Promotes mentoring of children and youth in communities throughout Europe.
- moodykids.org
Supports treatment and research aimed at improving the lives of youth with early-onset mood and anxiety disorders. Information for families, clinicians, and researchers.
- Mpowering Kids
A nonprofit after-school program based in Long Island, New York that provides specialized mentoring, tutoring and cultural enrichment programs for motivated students in underserved communities.
- Navjeevan
Means "New Life." A non-governmental organisation that rehabilitates children of commercial sex workers in the red-light areas of Mumbai, (formerly Bombay) India. Located in Khapri, Murbad about 120 km from Mumbai, it is a project of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church. Gives history and purpose of mission, its needs and challenges faced, a picture gallery and the impressions of visitors as well as related activities and links.
- New Alternatives for Children
A nonprofit organization based in New York that serves children with disabilities and their families. Supports family preservation, reunification, and adoption for medically fragile children.
- One Page At A Time
A free program for children's agencies or hospitals that sends coloring pages to hospitalized children or to those who are terminally ill.
- Para Los Ninos - For the Children
Los Angeles based nonprofit family service agency providing child care, schooling and various other educational opportunities for at-risk children and support for their families and communities. Lists organisational structure, finances, services offered, newsletters, media statements and reports, information for donors and volunteers. (Has on-line video in a range of speeds.)
- Pathways Youth & Family Services, Inc.
A Texas-based organization that provides foster care services, as well as resources, training and information to protect children from child abuse and neglect.
- Peace House Foundation
Dedicated to educating Africa's orphans in a nurturing environment within their homeland.
- Professional Association of Treatment Homes
Private, nonprofit organization based in Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin, that provides culturally sensitive services to children and families in need of treatment foster care, adoption and other family services.
- PSI Family Services, Inc.
Foster care, health, social work, and independent living services.
- Recovery Foundation
Offers workshops to youth service organizations, community leaders, and youth that deal with high risk kids, violence, drugs, alcohol and suicide.
- Reedemer Ranch
A Christ-centered boarding school with a low student to staff ratio and a home and family atmosphere established to nurture and educate boys, ages 10-15.
- Residential Support Services of Charlotte North Carolina
A non-profit organization that provides residential services and community support to individuals with developmental disabilities including mental retardation, down syndrome, cerebral palsy, and traumatic brain injuries.
- Rock The Ranch
The mission of the ranch is to serve the needs of abandoned or abused children and animals.
- Saint Stelian Association
A Romanian Orthodox Church charity helping street children, youth at risk, poor families, old people in need, preventing vagrancy and child abandonment. Has details of activities, how to contribute, links and contact information. Bi-lingual, in Romana and English.
- Sarasota County Youth Development Organization
Provides opportunities for youth in Sarasota County, Florida to participate in positive, drug- and alcohol- free activities.
- School's Out
An alliance for supporting and improving after school programs in the Charleston, South Carolina area.
- Shepherd's Keep
An organization in South Africa that cares for abandoned babies, often with HIV/AIDS. Supports adoptions or fostering.
- Sonshine Community Services
Nonprofit agency in Calgary, Canada that offers community counseling, child care in family day homes, and shelter for women and children escaping family violence and abuse.
- SOSAFRIK International Inc
Pomona, New Jersey based, international humanitarian organization focused on children and youth issues in health awareness, education and intercultural exchange in the United States, African Continent and the United Kingdom. Has contact details as well as information about mission, current projects, forthcoming events, related news, resources and links, volunteer opportunities, membership and newsletter application forms.
- Specialized Alternatives for Families and Youth
Non-profit child welfare organization that specializes in therapeutic foster care, in home intervention, behavioral health services, adoption services, training and education.
- St. Ann's Infant and Materntiy
St. Ann's is a home for abused, neglected, and abandoned children and pregnant and parenting teenage women.
- Talhado Children's Haven
A nonprofit organization that helps underprivileged children in St Francis Bay, South Africa. News, projects, and photo gallery.
- The Cridge Centre for the Family
Nonprofit society based in Greater Victoria, Canada that provides child care, housing for low-income families, women's services and residential care for the disabled.
- The DREAM Program
Builds mentoring partnerships between college students and children of low-income housing developments in Vermont. News, programs, and volunteer and donation opportunities.
- The Family Place
A center located in Vermont that offers playgroups, parent education and support groups, assistance with child care costs, lending library, and a Child Advocacy Center.
- The Florence Crittenton Agency, Inc.
Non-profit organization offering services for teens in crisis, pregnant teens, high risk teens, and young moms and dads.
- The Fresh Air Fund
Sends inner city children to host families or to camp to experience country life.
- The Shepherd's Staff Ministry
A Christian ministry that provides services to children and families in Alabama.
- Transitional Care Ltd
A Social Work and Social Care company based in London, UK that offers foster care services, help with disabled children, and programs to prevent youth delinquency.
- Unang Hakbang Foundation
Presents goals, objectives and programs of Unang Hakbang Foundation (UHF), an organization helping disadvantaged children in the Philippines.
- United Methodist Children's Home of Alabama and West Florida
Offering community based services, emergency assistance, family aid, scholarships, and residential programs throughout Alabama and West Florida.
- Victory Consulting
An organization whose purpose is helping young people, and those who work with them, address issues of racism, sexism, homophobia and other "isms" that lead to fear anger and violence.
- Vifac France
Supports centers in Mexico that provide health care, education, housing, and adoption information to pregnant women with limited resources.
- Young People's Support Scheme
A voluntary organization based in Telford, UK that assists at-risk youth aged between 9 and 19. Mentoring, special educational needs, and bereavement support programs.
- Youth First
An Indiana-based organization that offers resources and programs to help youth, parents, educators, and businesses eliminate substance abuse.
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