Online Resources

Center for Effective Parenting

Center for Effective Parenting is a website that offers free handouts for families that focuses on issues related to parenting and are age-appropriate.

Darkness to Light

Darkness to Light has programs that raise awareness of the prevalence and consequences of child sexual abuse by educating adults about the steps they can take to prevent, recognize and react responsibly to the reality of child sexual abuse.

Empowering Parents

Empowering Parents is a website that offers tools for parents to deal with child behavior. There are expert articles, parent blogs, parenting programs as well as many other resources for parents to help change a child’s behavior and effective parenting techniques.

Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN)

RAINN has a free, confidential, secure service that allows victims past and present to get help via its phone and online hotlines. Their website also offers many resources for statistics and other related information for sexual violence.
800-656-HOPE

Stop it Now!

Stop it Now! offers a phone and an e-mail Helpline dedicated to sexual-abuse prevention. Its Ask Now! advice column features actual situations so people can seek guidance for their own concerns.
888-PREVENT

NetSmartz Workshop

NetSmartz Workshop is an interactive, educational program of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC) that provides age-appropriate resources to help teach children how to be safer on- and offline. The program is designed for children ages 5-17, parents and guardians, educators, and law enforcement. With resources such as videos, games, activity cards, and presentations, NetSmartz entertains while it educates.

Prevent Child Abuse America

Founded in 1972 in Chicago, Prevent Child Abuse America works to ensure the healthy development of children nationwide. The organization promotes that vision through a network of chapters in 50 states and nearly 600 Healthy Families America home visiting sites in 39 states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Commonwealth of the Marianas, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, and Canada. A major organizational focus is to advocate for the existence of a national policy framework and strategy for children and families while promoting evidence-based practices that prevent abuse and neglect from ever occurring.

National Child Traumatic Stress Network

The mission of the NCTSN is to raise the standard of care and improve access to services for traumatized children, their families and communities throughout the United States. There are many great resources available to parents in working with child traumatic stress.

Public Health.org

Public Health is dedicated to connecting patients, students and professionals to the latest and most useful healthcare information and resources available. They have recently updated their resources in regards to sexual assault and violence with Open Access Journals, link to Professional Organizations, Research Organizations and Public Awareness Organizations.