April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, so let's search for sites on child abuse and safety. 

Honestly, I could easily list just one site this month and have covered the entire topic extensively. Mike Schelling's Child Health and Safety Information contains site after site on child abuse and protection, adoption and foster care, safety, domestic violence, and even health and pediatrics. He does a marvelous job with his site, and it's definitely a "must see." http://www.radix.net/~mschelling/children.html

Promoting Prevention is an excellent site that features the President's Proclamation for Child Abuse Prevention Month. The site contains facts on child abuse, ways to gain community involvement, and ways to prevent the abuse. http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/news/april/capmonth.htm

National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse features local chapters, parenting tips, work opportunities, and ways you can help. http://www.gotech.net/dv/dv.html

National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect is a service of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and is a resource for professionals seeking information on the prevention, identification, and treatment of child abuse and neglect. http://www.calib.com/nccanch/

Kids in Trouble Help page is a kids' guide to child abuse, depression, suicide, and runaway problems. http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/2910/

Organizations Concerned with the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect lists state-level organizations that can serve as resources for information and materials. http://www.calib.com/nccanch/prevmnth/
contacts/index.htm

National SAFE KIDS Campaign is dedicated solely to the prevention of unintentional childhood injury--the number one killer of children ages 14 and under.http://www.safekids.org/

April 14-19 was National Victims' Rights Week. The site for Mothers Against Drunk Driving discusses constitutional amendments for victims' rights, MADD itself, and statistics.http://www.madd.org/

The Safe Child Program can help you protect your child without fear or paranoia.

Prevent Child Sexual Abuse is a police education series that features how to talk to your child about abuse and what behavior indicators and changes to watch for. http://www.ci.san-carlos.ca.us/police/childsab.html

The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect has published their NCCAN Lessons Learned, the Experience of Nine Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Programs.http://www.calib.com/nccanch/
prevmnth/lessons/

The Child Abuse Yellow Pages provides a catalog of child abuse-related Internet resources for researchers, students, child welfare and mental health professionals, and other caring people. http://idealist.com/cayp/index.shtml

In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day (May 4), Armed Forces Day (May 17), and Memorial Day (May 26), we'll look at World War II and related sites next week. See you then. 

Robin Nobles is a freelance writer who can be reached at robinnobles@robinsnest.com.

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