RESOURCES
Browse our links below for helpful services and resources.
Angel Faces
http://www.angelfacesretreat.org
Angel Faces® is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide healing retreats and ongoing support for adolescent girls and young women with burn/trauma injuries to achieve their optimum potential and develop meaningful relationships for themselves, their families and their communities. Angel Faces'® programs include the Angel Faces® Retreat and Angels in Flight® ongoing support.
Freedom Charity
http://www.freedomcharity.org.uk
We aim to empower young people to feel they have the tools and confidence to support each other and have practical ways in which they can help their best friend around the issues of family relationships which can lead to early and forced marriage and dishonour based violence.
Fresh Start Surgical Gifts
Fresh Start Surgical Gifts is one of the most dedicated charities for children. We transform the lives of disadvantaged infants, children, and teens suffering from physical deformities caused by birth defects, accidents, abuse, or disease through the gift of reconstructive surgery and related healthcare services.
Kids Korps - Youth Volunteerism
Kids Korps USA engages young people, ages 5 through 25, in community service. Our mission is to instill in America’s youth the spirit of giving while providing valuable education in leadership and responsibility. Our vision is to develop leaders for life through youth volunteerism. The mission of Kids Korps has an indelible and unique impact beyond the many benefits of volunteerism: we shape young lives through exposure to, and direct involvement in community service. The daily benefit of improving ones community is tangible. The lifelong benefit to young volunteers is an increase in their level of maturity, empathy, and positive perspective on how THEY can make the world a better place.
CARE International
CARE is a leading relief and development non-governmental organization fighting global poverty. We worked in 84 countries, supporting 1,051 poverty-fighting projects to reach more than 122 million people in 2011. CARE helps tackle underlying causes of poverty so that people can become self-sufficient. CARE is often one of the first to deliver emergency aid to survivors of natural disasters and war and, once the immediate crisis is over, we help people rebuild their lives. While CARE is a large international organisation with more than 11,000 employees worldwide, we have a strong local presence: 97% of our staff are nationals of the countries where our programmes are run.
YachtAid Global
http://www.care-international.org
YachtAid Global is dedicated to delivering humanitarian, developmental and conservation aid onboard yachts to isolated as well as underprivileged coastal communities worldwide. In times of natural disasters, YachtAid Global has the ability to mobilize and shift resources quickly to provide disaster relief in ways that others have not explored.
National Law Center
http://www.nationallawcenter.org
The NLC produces extensive legal materials and national training in the area of child sexual exploitation law. NLC PROTECTS Seminars feature experts on child pornography investigation and prosecution, Internet forensics, online enticement investigation, human trafficking, and other child sexual exploitation issues.
Thomson Reuters Foundation
www.trust.org/trustlaw/womens-rights
TrustLaw is a global centre for free legal assistance and a hub of news and information on anti-corruption issues, good governance and women's legal rights. Our award-winning services deliver news, information, free legal help and media development to a number of different audiences. Whether you are an NGO, a legal firm, a journalist or an advocate for human rights, we believe we have something unique to offer.
Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition
Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition (BSCC) is an alliance of over 60 government and nonprofit agencies in the United States and Latin America that is convened along the U.S.-Mexico Border Region to combat slavery and human trafficking. BSCC is committed to bilaterally preventing and intervening in the commercial and sexual exploitation of women and children while advocating for all exploited persons. BSCC is the only bilateral bi-national project that provides services in Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego, CA.
Nationwide Directory of Shelters for Women in the United States
WomenShelters.org is all about providing easy to find shelter listings for women in need. We want to make it simple and easy to use for women who need help quick. We provide listings of emergency shelters, transitional housing, family shelters, residential treatment centers, and other residential services for women.
Women's Resource Center
Women’s Resource Center (WRC) is dedicated to providing the highest quality supportive services, counseling, shelter and education to North San Diego County women, children and men involved in or threatened by domestic violence or sexual assault.
National Coalition for the Homeless
http://www.nationalhomeless.org
If you are not homeless yet, it may be possible to avoid becoming homeless by finding out about prevention or emergency assistance programs in your area. Often these programs can help in paying rent, utilities, or bills. If you are homeless now, emergency assistance programs may help with temporary shelter, or security deposits and/or first month's rent.
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
The Mission of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV) is to organize for collective power by advancing transformative work, thinking and leadership of communities and individuals working to end the violence in our lives.
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® opened in 1984 to serve as the nation’s clearinghouse on issues related to missing and sexually exploited children. Today NCMEC is authorized by Congress to perform 19 programs and services to assist law enforcement, families and the professionals who serve them. 800 843 5678
The Feminist Art Project
http://feministartproject.rutgers.edu/home/
The Feminist Art Project is an international collaborative initiative celebrating the Feminist Art Movement and the aesthetic, intellectual and political impact of women on the visual arts,art history and art practice, past and present. The Feminist Art Project is a strategic intervention against the ongoing erasure of women from the cultural record. The Feminist Art Project re-focuses public attention on the signal achievements of the Feminist Art Movement and shines a spotlight on current feminist art influences, trends and accomplishments. Begun in 2008 with now about 400 video works online by about 90 international women artists: www.artfem.tv
Director: www.evelinstermitz.net - http://artfem.tv - www.world-of-female-avatars.net
Students First
Mission: Build a national movement to defend the interests of children in public education and pursue transformative reform, so that America has the best education system in the world. Led by Michelle Rhee, the former Chancellor of D.C. Public Schools, StudentsFirst formed in 2010 in response to an increasing demand for a better education system in America. Our grassroots movement is designed to mobilize parents, teachers, students, administrators, and citizens throughout the country, and to channel their energy to produce meaningful results on both the local and national level. StudentsFirst is a 501(c)4 organization based in Sacramento, CA.
Women’s Alcohol & Chemical Dependency Treatment Program
http://www.villaveritas.org/programs/womens-program
The Women’s alcohol and chemical dependency treatment program at Villa Veritas Foundation (Kerhonkson, New York). This program has the unique status of being one of the very few women’s programs in the field of chemical dependency that is designed for and administered by women.
Book: Ms. Single Mom
Speak UP Enterprises is pleased to present Robbie Butler’s book, "Ms. Single Mom – Yes, You Can!" This comprehensive, practical, and easy to read Self Help Guide is designed and created to help single mothers manage a situation that is often overwhelming. “Ms. Single Mom” is a comprehensive Self Help Guide for all single mothers (never married, divorced, widowed, substitutes). This is an encouraging, enlightening, and empowering book.
