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The Bay Area Crisis Nursery (BACN), established in 1981, is the only residential crisis nursery in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. BACN was established to help prevent child abuse and neglect by providing supportive services to families. Our primary service is providing a warm, loving, homelike environment for children from birth through 5 years of age by offering 24-hour residential care. Our services are free, confidential, and voluntary. The Nursery is a magical place for children and families!

We implement family support, economic development and foster care programs that safely place separated children back with their birth families, relatives or foster families. We also preserve at-risk families to prevent child abandonment and reduce the reliance on orphanages. Our services empower families to achieve independent, self-sufficient lives and provide healthy environments for their children. Services include: parenting, counseling, early childhood development education, sustainable income generation training and short-term livelihood support.

The mission of Partnership Against Domestic Violence (PADV) is to end the crime of intimate partner violence and empower its survivors; our vision is a community free of domestic violence. To that end we work to educate the public on the dynamics of intimate partner violence; promote healthy dating relationships among adolescents and teens to prevent future violence; offer safety and shelter for battered women and their children; restore power, self-sufficiency, and control to survivors; and create an effective and coordinated community response to intimate partner violence.

The primary purpose of the Saint Louis Crisis Nursery is to provide a safe haven for children, birth through age 12, thereby preventing child abuse and neglect, and to support the needs of families. Children are cared for in the Nursery for any situation that may jeopardize their health and safety, including: parental stress, domestic violence, homelessness, and other family crises. The Crisis Nursery services are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, at five locations throughout the St. Louis and St. Charles' regions and are free of charge.

The mission of the Pregnancy Decision Health Centers (PDHC) is to empower individuals to make healthy life choices consistent with the God-given intrinsic value of every human life. PDHC provides pregnancy testing, limited OB ultrasounds, education in abortion and alternatives, adoption referrals, parenting classes, material aid support, sexual risk avoidance education, and abortion recovery services for women dealing with difficult emotional aftermaths of abortion. Each of these services are intended to support women in their pregnancy, encourage childbirth, prevent abortion and strengthen healthy families.

Hope for Justice exists to end modern slavery by preventing exploitation, rescuing victims, restoring lives and reforming society. Hope for Justice operates in nineteen locations in the following countries: UK, US, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Uganda and Norway. Our activities include: victims rescues, victims centered-support and advocacy, training frontline professionals to identify the signs of trafficking, community awareness training, short-term emergency accommodation provided to victims, community-reintegration initiatives, and communities economic strengthening through self-help groups.

Family Service Center's mission is to promote the mental health and wellbeing of individuals and families through counseling, education, and prevention. FSC is a counseling agency in Galveston County serving individuals of all ages and their families. FSC provides comprehensive mental and behavioral support services to individuals regardless of ethnicity, gender, age, diagnosis, taking into account their ability to pay. We believe that the family is a basic and essential institution that needs to be supported and strengthened so that children, adults, and our communities can function well and live as optimally as possible.

The Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center prevents the initial or deeper involvement of girls in the justice system. We reform the harmful policies and practices that contribute to the unfair, inequitable treatment of girls.Founded in 2013, the Policy Center to date has served more than 4,000 girls, trained more than 3,000 girl-serving professionals, released 27 independent reports, and advocated for the successful passage of 5 Florida laws that improve the safety, fair treatment, and well-being of girls and women. Learn more at www.seethegirl.org.

As the Accredited Parents Anonymous® of New Jersey, we operate the Parents Anonymous® Program that is an evidence-based family strengthening program for any family seeking help and support or is involved in child welfare, mental health, substance abuse, early childhood, schools, domestic violence, health care and justice systems given the issues faced by themselves and their children and youth. (http://parentsanonymous.org/research/). Parents Anonymous® is a trauma-informed practice utilizing mutual support (the giving and getting of help), parent leadership (seeking solutions and becoming empowered), and shared leadership® (working together) to achieve personal growth that improves protective factors, increases family functioning and mitigate and prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences by improving health and mental health well-being of Parents/Caregivers and their Children & Youth. National Outcome Data is collected annually measuring the change in Parents Anonymous® Parents/Caregivers, Children and Youth. We utilize a National Database, Fidelity Tools, and have Certified Staff to operate Parents Anonymous® Programs. Parents Anonymous® is both an intervention and prevention program where parents and their children and youth are empowered to create positive and long-term change for their families.

Since 1975, Children's Hunger Relief Fund (CHRF) has responded to children's immediate physical, emotional, and spiritual needs following drought, earthquakes, hurricanes, war, and other disasters. CHRF cares for thousands of children around the world from orphanages, schools, and feeding centers in Central America, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia, to a full surgery, dental, and medical clinic and children's home complex in Mexico...to child immunization clinics, AIDS prevention classes, and clean-water projects in Kenya, to assisting disaster stricken families in the U.S.

Radiant Futures is building a safer community in Orange County. Originally founded as Womens Transitional Living Center, we were the first domestic violence agency in Orange County and the third in the United States. For over 45 years, weve been a committed partner and solid presence in our community. As Radiant Futures, our work continues to evolve as we provide inclusive, comprehensives services to everyone impacted by domestic violence and human trafficking. To build a community free of harm, we also equip our neighbors with education to prevent violence and abuse.

BronxWorks helps individuals and families improve their economic and social well-being. From toddlers to seniors, we feed, shelter, teach, and support our neighbors to build a stronger community. BronxWorks serves over 50,000 Bronx residents a year from 40 locations across the Bronx, primarily in the southern part of the borough. Our services (some borough-wide) include: benefits assistance; programs for children, youth, families, and seniors; immigration services; workforce development; HIV/AIDS and other chronic illness programs; health and wellness promotion; homeless services; and eviction prevention.