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HOW WE ARE ORGANIZED Justice for Children and Youth is the operating name of the Canadian Foundation for Children, Youth & the Law, Inc. The Foundation is an Ontario non-share capital corporation with charitable status. It is administered by a 15 member Board of Directors who are elected at our Annual General meeting. The corporation itself is made up of members who pay a yearly fee or one life-time fee (sustaining member). Justice for Children and Youth has a small staff of 4 lawyers and 2 support staff. In addition we have many volunteers, students and others who work on specific projects on a contract basis. In addition to representing clients, our lawyers also perform public legal education and law reform work. One lawyer spends half of the time working on community development projects and outreach.

Mission Statement of the Russell Home for Atypical Children  The mission of The Russell Home for Atypical Children is to provide quality of care along with unconditional love of children and child-like adults with multiple special needs.  Providing a family atmosphere residential home, 24 hour respite care, dance classes, art classes and socialization with others to promote personal growth and confidence.

TO ACT AS GUARDIAN AD LITEM/COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE FOR CHILDREN.

Transform children's lives, inspiring and preparing communities to build brighter futures

The official Mission Statement of Little Children of the World states that its mission is to help develop caring communities for children at risk so they will be able to escape poverty and abuse and become, within a context of Christian values, contributing members of their society.

Parent Trust for Washington Children strengthens families and helps keep kids safe.

Coleman Advocates believes that all children and families deserve access to high quality education, living wage jobs, family-supporting benefits, affordable housing, and a voice in the decisions that affect us. Since 1975, Coleman Advocates has pioneered programs and policies to expand opportunity for San Francisco’s children, youth and families, Many of these hard-won programs and policies have served as models adopted by communities all over the country. Coleman currently focuses on building more effective, equitable, and supportive public schools in San Francisco and beyond. We believe the transformation of our educational system requires the involvement of the entire community—not just teachers, school administrators, and politicians. Our organizational model has evolved over the years and today combines the development of rigorous policy proposals and implementation plans with deep community engagement and leadership development involving youth and parents.

Our agency is dedicated to solving the vast problem of child abuse. RRHC is a community driven and community funded agency that attempts to prevent child abuse through education and community awareness. Rural Response for Healthy Children has been in operation since 1987. We are well known for the successes we have had in the following community programs: We have successfully built community partnerships with agencies such as; the Children's Aid Society (developed disclosure procedures for child abuse) partnered in the Booster Club for Kids, Huron County Health Unit, and Ontario Early Years programs, to name a few. Rural Response for Healthy Children is a well-respected agency in the county and we are known for our strong volunteer programs and ability to coordinate partnerships. We were awarded by the National Projects Fund, the opportunity to develop and disseminate a "volunteer tool kit" for nationwide distribution.

Concern Organization for women and children (CWC) is an independent non- profit organization working to support women and children through empowering them economically and giving them a better chance to health , nutrition and education services Concern aims to develop and uphold standards and create an environment in which every woman and child can exercise their human rights and live up to their full potential. It aims to raise the women level and development expertise to enable them to fully and effectively participate in the cultural, economic and social life in order to achieve progress. Concern is guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child and strives to establish children's rights as enduring ethical principles and international standards of behaviour towards children and insists that the survival, protection and development of children are universal development imperatives that are integral to human progress. Concern works on development and organization of the women energies and coordinate their efforts within the organized collective action in order to remove social and legal barriers that prevent their development and prevent them from full and effective participation in the community building through supporting institutional capacity for women and train them on modern skills and work to encourage women to use the technology and get along with continuous variables to achieve women economic empowerment through the following: 1- Economic empowerment and facilitating access to soft loans 2- Encourage productive family's projects in coordination with donors 3- Contribute to the reduction of illiteracy 4- Achieving gender equality 5- protect women and children from violence through psychosocial support programs for marginalized groups in Yemen.

To provide trained, court-appointed volunteers who advocate for abused and neglected children in Boulder County

At FOCUS, our mission is to embrace and equip families of children with disabilities to make everyday life better.

CFH establishes and provides a safe and secure home to benefit double orphans in Kampala by providing proper social services, free their lives from any abuses; and afford them a loving and healthy upbringing in terms of physical, emotional, social, mental and spiritual dimensions, so as to attain full development. CFH renders guidance, parental counsel, role modeling, and life-skill training to teach children healthy habits and social behavior. We raise up children who are self-sufficient, socially adjusted, confident and proactive to be Godly contributors and leaders to the world around them. CFH provides nutritional food, basic health care, hygiene advice and all the essentials they need to stay healthy under the care of the organization. CFH Provides education up to university level by supporting them with the basic educational needs in the field of academic and vocational trainings to allow each child to reach their academic potential and open up opportunities for their futures.