If you could stop just one child from being abused, would you do it? Now is your chance. ONE BILLION children are abused or neglected. No one does more to protect kids around the world than the child abuse professionals of ISPCAN. Whether it's happening next door, or in a tiny village half a world away, child abuse and neglect will affect all of us, and if we don't work together to break the cycle, the numbers will triple.
ISPCAN is in a strong position to grow if it can attract more unrestricted support. Most professionals working on child abuse and neglect, especially in developing countries, don't earn large salaries. Consequently, ISPCAN can't depend on donations solely from members. The ISPCAN Council believes that children every where deserve to live in safety and with opportunities to learn. However, many countries don't have child protection personnel and if they do, they lack funding for training and support. ISPCAN is the only multi-disciplinary professional organization in the world that brings the collective expertise of medical professionals, social workers, mental health professionals, and the legal profession for the protection of children. ISPCAN was created through the efforts of Dr. Henry Kempe who is famous in Colorado for mobilizing professionals around the world to recognize, treat and prevent child abuse and neglect. ISPCAN works closely with the Kempe Center and professionals associated with Children's Hospital of Colorado.
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Thanks to ISPCAN's international training program work in Nizhny Novgorod we now have a operating Resource Center, which continues the work in child abuse and neglect. We are no longer planning but are in actually in operation! We have instituted the Child Helpline model, replicated the model for Investigate Committee and Prosecution, and the model for child clinics and hospitals.
In addition, we published the first Russian textbook on child abuse, containing eight chapters for training of professionals working with children in Russian universities. The text was recommended by the Russian Ministry of Higher Education in 2011. We have so much to be proud of and hope to present our results at the Istanbul Congress in September.
Best regards,
Elena Volkova
Doctor of sciences, Professor of Psychology,
Director of Psychology Institute NNSPU
May 2012
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We at the Tartu Child Support Centre in Estonia have witnessed first hand that professional knowledge has grown among specialists that have completed ISPCAN training. Specialists are better equipped to recognize children and families in need, and people in need have the courage to call for help, knowing they will be heard. Thanks to ISPCAN, we have remained a consulting and supervisory centre for former trainees and act as a competence centre in Southern Estonia. ISPCAN has enabled to establish this system by providing an opportunity for trainings of multidisciplinary teams in different regions of Estonia.
Gratefully,
Malle Roomeldi on the behalf of the Tartu Child Support Centre, Estonia
May 2011
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Based on the relationships created at ISPCAN's Denver Roundtable in May, teams in the South Pacific have invited ISPCAN partners from the Philippines to a leadership summit this summer in American Samoa with political leadership, criminal justice partners, medical partners and child maltreatment organization/agency presence from a number of south and western Pacific jurisdictions. Teams in both the south and western Pacific are collaborating on the development of a regional response model for child maltreatment/trafficking in the Pacific.
I'd like to acknowledge the organizers at ISPCAN and the open sharing of information by individual participants that made this possible. Thank you and we look forward to working together again soon.
-Suzanna Tiapula
Director, National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse, Alexandria VA
July 2011
To support individuals and organizations working to protect children from abuse and neglect worldwide.
The International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN), proposed in 1976 at a gathering of international child abuse leaders led by Dr. Henry Kempe and incorporated in 1977, is the only multidisciplinary international organization that brings together a worldwide cross-section of committed professionals to work towards the prevention and treatment of child abuse, neglect and exploitation globally.
ISPCAN's goal is to prevent cruelty to children in every nation, in every form including physical and emotional abuse, sexual abuse, domestic violence, neglect, street children, child prostitution and trafficking, children of war and child labor. ISPCAN is committed to promoting the rights of children in all regions of the world, increasing public awareness of all forms of violence against children and developing approaches to prevent violence.
The organization was founded by Dr. C. Henry Kempe, whose pioneering article on the Battered Child Syndrome first brought child abuse and neglect (CAN) out into the open, forcing professionals, government officials and community members to begin to acknowledge this widespread problem. ISPCAN's monthly, peer-reviewed journal, Child Abuse and Neglect, is now the preeminent publication in the field of CAN, and its biennial ISPCAN International Congress has become the most prestigious international conference on CAN worldwide. In the past 30 years, ISPCAN's International Congresses have been held in 17 cities around the world.
Current major ISPCAN programs include 1) coordinating and convening regional and international educational conferences; 2) coordinating high impact regional and country-wide, capacity building, training and advocacy projects worldwide; 3) publishing peer reviewed publications and reports; 4) providing and managing interactive Web technology: information sharing, virtual discussions and training resources; a career center; and professional networking activities.
Organization name
International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect
other names
ISPCAN
1977
Tax id (EIN)
84-0743126
Category
Youth Development
Address
12200 E. Iliff Ave Building C, Suite 103Arapahoe County, CO, US