The International Center for Research and Policy on Childhood at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (CIESPI at PUC-Rio), is dedicated to engaging in research studies on, and social projects for, children, young people and their families and communities. Its purpose is to support the development and implementation of policies and practices for children and young people that contribute to their full development and the promotion and defense of their rights. CIESPI is particularly concerned with children growing up in contexts of vulnerability including poverty.
The National Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse CNPAC is a non-governmental organization from the Republic of Moldova that promotes the right of children to protection against all forms of violence, directing their actions to inform, raise awareness and motivate society to stop maltreatment of children.
Challenging Heights promotes youth and family empowerment and children’s rights to education and freedom from forced labour in Ghana. They provide educational support to hundreds of vulnerable or underserved children, rescue trafficked children and provide survivors with aftercare, support communities to build resistance to slavery and keep children in school, and influence national policy and create advocates to fight modern slavery.
CHAMPS is a national policy and communications campaign to ensure bright futures for kids in foster care by promoting the highest quality parenting. CHAMPS builds on research that shows that loving, supportive families – whether birth, kin, foster or adoptive – are critical to the healthy development of all children. CHAMPS calls on policy makers to make foster parenting a priority. This requires a new partnership between foster parents and the public agencies responsible for foster care.
Chance for Childhood is a charity working in Africa to support the most vulnerable children, such as street connected children, disabled children, children affected by conflict and kids behind bars.
The mission of Chances for Children-NY (CFC) is to strengthen relationships between at-risk parents and their children, from birth to age five. They want to provide coping skills for parents and to prevent destructive interactions from interfering with the healthy development of both parent and child.
The CHANGE Trust envisions an African society that protects its children in every aspect of life; economic, social and political growth.
Changing The Way We Care℠ (CTWWC) is an initiative designed to promote safe, nurturing family care for children: those reunifying from residential care facilities (also known as “orphanages”) or those at risk of child-family separation. This includes strengthening families and reforming national systems of care for children, including family reunification and reintegration, and development of alternative family-based care. CTWWC envisions a world where all children thrive in safe and nurturing families.
The Charis Project is a Christian 501(c)3 corporation dedicated to protecting children by strengthening and empowering families and communities, and providing quality care for children from disrupted families. The organization began fundraising to support those caring for vulnerable children in Northern Thailand in a children's home setting. However, they learned that institutional care is fundamentally flawed and that they needed to move away from the idea of an orphanage altogether to do what is best for the life and development of children.
Chenla is a medical organization working in remote Cambodia where the most difficult hurdles to child survival remain. They work towards every child having the opportunity to reach his or her potential.