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Colorado Child Advocacy Organizations and Associations
Denver Metro Area Community Service and Advocacy Groups
- Central Visitation Program (Denver) - CVP provides a safe, supervised and comfortable setting for court ordered visits between children and parents of low-income families involved in high conflict divorce, custody and/or restrainng order proceedings. http://hometown.aol.com/cvpdenver
- Denver Children's Advocacy Center (Denver) - DCAC conducts research and training on child maltreatment issues, and works to improve children's safety. Contact: 1271 Elati Street, Denver, CO 80204, (303) 825-3850
- Denver University College of Law Child Advocacy Clinic (Denver) - Law students in the Child Advocacy Clinic legally represent at-risk children in the Denver Metro area. http://www.law.du.edu/clinics/calc/index.html
- Mile High United Way (Denver) - MHUW's Helpline makes a wide range of referrals to services like shelter, housing, protection from family violence, and other critical social services in the Denver metro area. http://www.unitedwaydenver.org/home/index.html
- Piton Foundation (Denver) -- Piton is a private foundation that develops and implements programs to improve public education, expand economic opportunities for families, and strengthen low-income Denver neighborhoods. http://www.piton.org/
- Project Safeguard (Denver) - Project Safeguard offers emergency legal advocacy and assistance for battered women. http://www.unitedwaydenver.org/IRIS/iv0fyw5z.htm
- Servicios de la Raza, Inc. (Denver) - Servicios de la Raza provides and advocates for comprehensive, culturally proficient human services to the Latino, urban, working class of the Denver metro area. Contact: 4055 Tejon Street, Denver, CO 80211, (303) 458-5851
- Urban Peak (Denver) - The Urban Peak provides temporary shelter and services for homeless and runaway youth in the Denver metro area and Colorado Springs. http://www.urbanpeak.org/
Government Websites (Local, State and Federal)
National Child Advocacy Organizations
- Adoption Exchange (Aurora, CO) - The Adoption Exchange is a national database of children who need adoptive families. http://www.adoptex.org/locales.htm
- American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law (Washington, D.C.) - The Center on Children and the Law works to improve children's lives through advances in law, justice, research, public policy and practice. http://www.abanet.org/child/home.html
- American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado (Denver) - the ACLU of Colorado protects the constitutional rights of all Coloradans through litigation, education, and advocacy. http://www.aclu-co.org/
- Center for the Future of Children (Los Altos, CA) - CFC does research and analysis to promote effective policy and programs for children. http://www.futureofchildren.org/
- Children's Rights (New York, NY) - Children's Rights is a non-profit group that reforms State and local child protection systems through impact litigation. http://www.childrensrights.org/
- Child Welfare League of America (Washington, D.C.) - CWLA develops and promotes national policies to protect maltreated children and strengthen families. www.cwla.org/
- Kempe Children's Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect (Denver) - The Kempe Center provides clinical treatment, training, research, and education on how to prevent and treat child maltreatment. http://www.kempe.org/
- National Association of Counsel for Children (Denver) - NACC provides training and technical assistance to attorneys and other professionals, serves as a public information referral center, and engages in public policy and legislative advocacy. http://naccchildlaw.org/
Academic Institutions and Think Tanks
- Chapin Hall Center for Children (Chicago) - Chapin Hall, at the University of Chicago, researches children's issues, especially the issues of children living with poverty, maltreatment, and mental and physical illness. http://www.chapin.uchicago.edu/
- The Urban Institute (Washington, D.C.) -- The Urban Institute is a national non-profit organization that researches child protection and other social service issues. http://www.urban.org/index.htm
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