In the United States, the child welfare system is a set of government services designed to protect children and encourage family stability. They are not a single entity but a collection of different organizations. In some instances and localities, such services are called Child Protective Services.
Many children come to the attention of child welfare social workers because of any of the following actions, which are often collectively termed child maltreatment:
Child Poverty :: Children, Youth and Family
Welfare :: Organizations
Organizations :: Youth

United Nations Children's Fund - Works for the survival, development and protection of children, guided in its programs by the Convention on the Rights of the Child. A very comprehensive website.
Meta Description: [ The United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF - works for children's rights, their survival, development and protection, guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child. ]
Africamix Collective Volunteer Pledge for Needy Children - Traveling arts and music festival organized to help combat child abuse and neglect.
Angels' Arms - Aims to provide a nurturing temporary group home for difficult to place foster children. Helps children with their fears and discomfort in times of change. A St. Louis based non-profit organization.
Meta Description: [ AngelsÂ’ Arms provides a nurturing home for foster children until a forever home is found. ]
Asociacion Casa Guatemala - An shelter in Guatemala for orphaned, abandoned, or abused children. Information about their activities, projects and supporters. Includes details of their needs, and on volunteering.
Meta Description: [ Orphanage located on the banks of the Rio Dulce in Guatemala, Central America committed to help orphaned, abandoned, abused, and malnourished children in need. Volunteer program with volunteers from all over the world. ]
Canadian Relief Foundation (CRF) - Organisation with a mission to help women and children in developing countries affected by war, conflict and natural disaster. Currently has programs to help orphans in Afghanistan and India.
Meta Description: [ Canadian Relief Foundation - a grassroots volunteer-based organziation dedicated to relieving the suffering of children, women and elderly victims of war and natural calamities. ]
Child Welfare - Suite 101 - Dedicated to sharing articles and links regarding child welfare, as well as adoption and foster care.
Meta Description: [ Issues surrounding child welfare and the state of foster care in the United States. Thousands of children enter foster care each year. This topic covers how the system works and why it often fails. ]
Children's Water Fund - Providing clean, disease-free water systems to families otherwise forced to drink disease-invested water in Africa.
Meta Description: [ Children's Hunger Relief Fund was founded by dedicated local volunteers who wanted to make sure that every dollar would provide maximum benefit to the children in need. Since 1997, the organization has kept its overhead at or below 3% of total program spending . We Work with Local Project Manager... ]
Children, Seeds of Peace - Has a goal to reach the children of Afghanistan. Aim is to establish a connection between children in America to children in Afghanistan.
Meta Description: [ Children, Seeds of Peace is a non-profit 501[c](3) organization whose goal is to reach the children of the Middle East by eliminating barriers that create conflict in today’s world. ]
Clothes Helping Kids - Organization that collects clothing and uses the proceeds to fund grants to Save the Children and community-based organizations.
Educate the Children - Conducts educational and community development projects in Nepal.
Foundation for the Children - Small organization describes its educational projects for disadvantaged children in South America.
Friends Orphanage Project - An evangelical Christian ministry of Cornertone Miracle Center Church which seeks to provide for the basic needs of AIDS/HIV orphaned children in Uganda. Statement of faith and photograph gallery included.
Global Care International Children's Charity - British charity supporting many small NGOs worldwide. Site contains information on programs, donation opportunities and contact forms.
Help Afghan School Children Org. - Helping new Afghan returnees from Pakistan and Iran to send their children into school.
HopeHIV - A charity supporting AIDS orphans in Africa. Includes news, projects, FAQ, and related information.
Meta Description: [ With your help, HOPEHIV is unearthing and empowering future leaders for Africa from within the orphan generation. ]
International Care and Relief - Devoted to providing help in crisis situations with long term care and aid with the emphasis on self help, health care, educational support for children in need.
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Jyoti Children's Development Foundation, Inc. - Supports and educates handicapped children in India.
Meta Description: [ A tax exempt charitable Organisation for the betterment of environment and humanity for over 12 years. ]
Michael and Susan Dell foundation - Seeks out opportunities to support or develop programs that address our five essential focus areas: children’s health, education, safety, youth development and early childhood care.
Meta Description: [ With an endowment of more than one billion dollars, MSDF proactively seeks out opportunities to support or develop programs that address the five essential focus areas of children's health, education, safety, youth development and early childhood care. Using a collaborative, outcomes-driven appro... ]
Newborns in Need - Organized to care of sick and needy babies and their families.
Reach Out - An unofficial organization through high schools across America that is dedicated to various acts of service to children worldwide. Promote activities such as sponsoring children, creating a correspondence with them, and raising money for victims of natural disasters.
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Right to Play - Organization working with volunteers and partners to use sport and play to enhance child development in areas of disadvantage. Fund raising, gallery, links, list of athletes, auction.
Save the Children - An international children's charity based in the UK which supports both emergency and long-term relief and development projects. Site offers information about areas of activity, giving, events, and current projects.
Meta Description: [ We're outraged that millions of children are still denied proper healthcare, food, education and protection. We're working flat out to get every child their rights. We Save the Children. Will You? ]
Shoes for Orphan Souls - Non-profit organization formed to collect and distribute new shoes and medicine for children around the world. Includes background, and donation information.
Meta Description: [ Shoes for Orphan Souls, a ministry of Buckner International, has distributed more than 1.5 million pairs of new shoes to at-risk children in the United States and to orphans in 55 countries around the world. ]
SOS Children's Villages - International child welfare organisation providing long term care for orphans and children in need. Accepts online donations.
Meta Description: [ SOS Children's Villages International is the umbrella organisation to which all national SOS Children's Village associations are affiliated. We provide long term care for orphans and children in need. Make an online donation or sponsor a child. ]
Springs For Life Foundation - Creating opportunities for underprivileged and at-risk youth. Founded by Seattle Seahawk's Shawn Springs.
Stand For Children - Building a powerful, grassroots citizen voice to ensure all children have the opportunity to grow up healthy, educated, and safe.
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The Brooke Foundation - Provides education, information, resources and support to individuals and families with children coping with physical and mental disabilities.
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US Fund for UNICEF - Works for the survival, protection, and development of all children worldwide through education, advocacy, and fundraising.
Meta Description: [ The U.S. Fund for UNICEF supports child survival, protection and development worldwide through education, advocacy and fundraising. ]
Whizz-Kidz - Children's charity helping disabled children throughout the UK. Kids charity providing mobility aids (wheelchairs, walking aids) to kids.
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