Organizations+and+Programs


 * AFRICA **

Kenya African Network for the Prevention and Protection Against Child Abuse and Neglect is the Kenyan National chapter of the African Network for the Prevention and Protection against Child Abuse and Neglect, a pan-African child rights organization with chapters in seventeen African countries.


 * AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND**

Bravehearts is an Australian based non-profit organization whose mission is to "set the standard in the provision of specialist therapeutic services and support to survivors of child sexual assault and their non-offending family; to facilitate highly effective preventative community education and awareness programs; to accumulate and disseminate relevant information ; and thus; reduce the incidence of future child sexual assault in our society" (Bravehearts Website, 2010).


 * EUROPE

Iceland**

Blatt Afram "(pronounced: blout a-from) which translates as “Straight Forward,” is the leading grass roots child sexual abuse (CSA) prevention organization in Iceland".(Blatt Afram Website, 2010) (Click on English on the home page to view in English)


 * NORTH AMERICA**

Darkness 2 Light a non-profit organization based in the USA whose goal through their programs is to "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" (Darkness to Light Foundation Website, 2010).


 * SOUTH AMERICA**

**AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND**

Australian Centre for Child Protection is based at the University of South Australia. It provides research, professional development, community engagement, and advocacy around issues of child protection, including child sexual abuse (ACCP Website, 2010).

Bravehearts is an Australian based non-profit organization whose mission is to "set the standard in the provision of specialist therapeutic services and support to survivors of child sexual assault and their non-offending family; to facilitate highly effective preventative community education and awareness programs; to accumulate and disseminate relevant information ; and thus; reduce the incidence of future child sexual assault in our society" (Bravehearts Website, 2010).

South Eastern Centre Against Sexual Assault (SECASA) The Victorian (Australia) Centres Against Sexual Assault (CASAs) are non-profit, government funded organisations that provide support and intervention to women, children and men who are victim/survivors of sexual assault. They also work towards the elimination of sexual violence through professional and community education, informing government policy, advocating for law reform and facilitating research to increase community understanding of the nature and incidence of sexual assault. There are 15 CASAs across the state of Victoria and the Victorian Sexual Assault Crisis Line (after hours). These offer free, confidential 24 hour emergency or crisis care for victim/survivors of sexual assault. This includes crisis counselling support, access to medical care and legal services as well as counselling support for adults who were abused in their childhood. The South Eastern Center Against Sexual Assault provides services within the Southern Metropolitan Region of Melbourne to children and adults, both female and male, who have been sexually assaulted. The Centre also works with non-offending family members, partners, caregivers and support workers. The Southern Metropolitan Region encompasses the south east suburbs of Melbourne and covers the Mornington Peninsula, Westernport and the Dandenong, Berwick, Cranbourne and Pakenham growth corridors. Website http://www.secasa.com.au Youth site http://www.secasakids.com.au


 * EUROPE**

Iceland

Blatt Afram "(pronounced: blout a-from) which translates as “Straight Forward,” is the leading grass roots child sexual abuse (CSA) prevention organization in Iceland".(Blatt Afram Website, 2010) (Click on English on the home page to view in English)


 * NORTH AMERICA**

Darkness 2 Light a non-profit organization based in the USA whose goal through their programs is to "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" (Darkness to Light Foundation Website, 2010).


 * SOUTH AMERICA**