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Children First Vision Statement: Children First is a learning community of children, families, and teachers guided by an uncompromising commitment to honor the sacred in every individual. We nurture one another. At Children First… We feel safe and powerful. We cherish diversity and learn from struggle. We build enduring friendships. We embrace conflict and prize communication. We find joy. We see beauty and touch nature. We know freedom. We celebrate and create. We are a school without walls, a community without borders.

JFCU advocates for and supports the rights and needs of children affected by all forms of violence and/or whose right to education has been denied. Special attention is given to children heading households and those affected by child marriage and armed conflict.

Working together with Hawaii's children, individuals, and families to create safe and promising futures.

To Ensure the well-being of Alabama's children through research, public awareness, and advocacy.

DC Action works to ensure that all DC children, regardless of race, ethnicity or zip code, have the best possible opportunity to reach their full potential. DC Action promotes public investments and policies that support children's positive development.

Transforming the lives of children at risk, providing them and their future generations with productive futures and Eternal hope. Hope Unlimited for Children is a ministry committed to rescuing Brazil's street children who live in mortal risk (over 8 million). Using a comprehensive Christ-centered model, Hope's youth experience personal transformation while being equipped to live successful, productive lives as adult members of society

Their mission is to share the love of Christ by helping Maryland's most vulnerable children thrive in families.

Chisholm Services for Children is the only non-profit organization in Central Nova Scotia offering a long-term care residential program, which specializes in early intervention. Chisholm is dedicated to guiding children 12 and younger who face severe adverse circumstances like neglect and abuse, to a realization of self-worth. Chisholm helps children develop skills and capacities to function successfully in a community setting and grow as healthy, stable individuals.

At Safetynet Children & Youth Charities, we believe to break the cycles of poverty, families and children must have the basics. For that reason we have a clothing bank, and non-perishable food bank. Our clothing bank carries clothing for infants, children, youth and adults, including business suits for men our woman who are re-entering the work force and need proper attire for employment interviews. We also have on hand non-perishable foods, toiletries, diapers, formula, dishes and other of the day to day necessities. Safetynet also believes in the value of education, and continuing education in breaking the cycles of poverty. We provide free of cost one to one academic tutoring for children and youth, who are struggling in school.With that tutoring we mentor children and youth in the value of an education. Safetynet is pleased to announce its new musical tutoring. Volunteers are now teaching children, who have a interest or aptitude in music, piano, and guitar free of charge.

Voices for Illinois Children champions the full developement of every child in Illinois to assure the future well-being of everyone in the state.  We work with families, communities and policymakers on all issues to help children grow up happy, healthy, nurtured, safe and well educated.

An estimated 800,000 children in the European Union are separated from an imprisoned parent on any given day. Yet few people are aware of the impact that a parent's incarceration can have on a child. Children separated from a parent in prison frequently experience multiple emotional and social difficulties associated with their parent's incarceration. They not only have to cope with the parent's absence and the disruption of the child-parent bond, but are also vulnerable to social exclusion, financial hardship, discrimination and shame. Children of Prisoners Europe (COPE) is a pan-European network which encourages innovative perspectives and practice to ensure that the rights of these children (as enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the European Convention on Human Rights) are fully respected and that action is taken to secure their well-being and healthy development. The network is a membership-based organisation made up of non-governmental organisations and individuals across Europe and beyond, linked by a staff team based at its French headquarters. Raising awareness among child-related agencies, prison services and policymakers to the specific needs of children of prisoners and promoting initiatives that take these needs into account, the organisation is seeking to: - Expand programmes that support the child-parent relationship and help minimise violence for children with an imprisoned parent; - Introduce the child's perspective throughout the criminal justice process, from arrest to resettlement; - Foster cross-sectoral collaboration among public and private agencies involved in supporting and making decisions about children of prisoners; - Obtain better information and greater visibility for prisoners' children and influence policy at the national, European and international level on their behalf; - Promote the exchange of initiatives, expertise and good practice for children with imprisoned parents; - Enhance the competence of professionals within the field. Working to foster the promotion and provision of policies, frameworks and meaningful action on behalf of children affected by parental incarceration to protect their development and well-being, our aim is to ease the burden of the imprisonment of a parent on the child.

Adsum for Women & Children offers support and housing to women and children who are homeless or at risk of becoming so. There are five locations: an emergency shelter, 2 apartment buildings offering housing that is stable, affordable & supportive; a short-term centre with on-site programming and new condo units for families.