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CHILDREN’S ADVOCACY CENTERS
National Children’s Advocacy Center
www.nationalcac.org
The National Children’s Advocacy Center is a nonprofit agency providing prevention, intervention, and treatment services to physically and sexually abused children and their families within a child-focused team approach. They provide resources and information for parents and professionals.
National Children’s Alliance
www.nca-online.org
The National Children’s Alliance (formerly the National Network of Children’s Advocacy Centers) is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to provide training, technical assistance and networking opportunities to communities seeking to plan, establish and improve Children’s Advocacy Centers.
Northeast Regional Children’s Advocacy Center
www.nrcac.com
The Northeast Regional Children’s Advocacy Center (NRCAC) is a training and technical assistance project that provides information, consultation, technical assistance and training, helping to establish child-focused programs that facilitate and support coordination among agencies responding to child abuse. NRCACs also provide regional services to help strengthen Children’s Advocacy Centers already in existence.
Massachusetts Children’s Alliance
www.machildrensalliance.org
The Massachusetts Children’s Alliance (MACA) is a networking and training organization created to support communities across Massachusetts to establish and improve CAC programs.
MASSACHUSETTS STATE AGENCIES AND ORGANIZATIONS
Office of the Attorney General
www.ago.state.ma.us
The Office of the Attorney General is a state agency to protect public safety and security and to protect the state’s consumers.
Massachusetts Office of Victim Assistance
www.mass.gov/mova
The Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance (MOVA) is an independent state agency devoted to upholding and advancing the rights of crime victims by providing direct services, through outreach and education, policy and program development, legislative advocacy and grants management. MOVA works to serves crime victims, their families, and witnesses to violence, while promoting healing and justice.
Massachusetts Department of Children and Families
www.mass.gov/dss
The Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF) is the state agency that receives and responds to child abuse and neglect reports and provides an array of services to children and families across the Commonwealth.
Massachusetts Department of Mental Health
www.mass.gov/dmh
The Department of Mental Health is the state agency to work with adults with serious and persistent mental illness and children with serious mental illness or severe emotional disturbance.
Department of Mental Retardation
www.dmr.state.ma.us
The Department of Mental Retardation (DMR) is a state agency that provides support to the Commonwealth’s citizens who have mental retardation.
Department of Early Education and Care
www.eec.state.ma.us
The Department of Early Education and Care is the state agency that monitors child care providers in Massachusetts.
Department of Transitional Assistance
www.state.ma.us/dta
The Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA), formerly known as the Department of Public Welfare, is the state agency responsible for administering public assistance programs for needy citizens of the Commonwealth.
Massachusetts Trial Court
www.state.ma.us/courts/courtsandjudges/courts
Massachusetts Trial Court website with information about the Administrative Office of the Trial Court, the seven Trial Court Departments, Jury system, Probation Department, a link to the Law Library Site and a link to Massachusetts Appellate Court decisions.
Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry
www.state.ma.us/sorb
The Sex Offender Registry Board is the state agency responsible for keeping track of convicted sex offenders and classifying each offender.
The Criminal History System Board
www.state.ms.us/chsb
The Criminal History Systems Board is the state agency responsible for maintaining the Commonwealth’s criminal justice information system, maintaining firearms licensing and transaction records, disseminating Massachusetts criminal offender record information, and giving assistance to those individuals or families that may be victims of crime.
Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
www.mspcc.org
The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty (MSPCC) is dedicated to protecting the rights of children and their families by providing prevention, education and treatment services both in the home and through community-based locations across the Commonwealth.
Child Witness to Violence Program
www.childwitnesstoviolence.org
The Child Witness to Violence Project (CWVP), which is run under the auspices of the Department of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at Boston Medical Center, is a counseling, advocacy and outreach project that focuses on the growing number of young children who are bystanders to community and domestic violence. CWVP is staffed by a multi-cultural, multi-lingual staff of social workers, psychologists and early childhood specialists as well as a consulting pediatrician and attorney.
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
www.ncmec.org
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is a hub for recovering missing children and preventing child abuse.
National Sex Offender Registry
www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/cac/registry.htm
The National Sex Offender Registry enables every citizen to search the latest information from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico for the identity and location of known sex offenders. Unlike registry websites maintained by individual states, the national registry allows searches across multiple states.
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
www.ncadv.org
The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence is a national organization that includes information for victims and professionals. For victims, information helps define the problem of Domestic Violence and provides a checklist for victims. Also, it includes information on what to do including making safe plans. The site includes information for professionals in the form of articles, resources, and public policy.
American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children
www.apsac.org
American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) is a professional society for those working in the field of child abuse and neglect. Their mission is to work with providers to improve services to child abuse victims and their non-offending families.
National Organization for Victim Assistance
www.try-nova.org
National Organization For Victim Assistance provides toll-free phone numbers and web site addresses for a variety of agencies whose work may be of interest to victims/survivors of violent crime or crisis, or for those who work in the field of victim assistance or crisis response.
Office for Victims of Crime
www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc
The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) was established by the 1984 Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) to oversee diverse programs that benefit victims of crime. OVC provides substantial funding to state victim assistance and compensation programs—the lifeline services that help victims to heal. The agency supports trainings designed to educate criminal justice and allied professionals regarding the rights and needs of crime victims.
