National Children's Alliance

🚨Open NCA Job Alert🚨 🌟Program Associate, Grants Management (remote position): Administers and oversees the assigned grant portfolio and provides full scope of programmatic and fiscal assistance to NCA sub awardees. Must have experience in managing and reconciling grant portfolios and providing technical assistance as well as knowledge of federal grant regulations. Interested in making an impact for kids on a national scale, and taking the next step in your career in the movement? Check out the job description and posting below and apply ASAP, or forward to someone in your network who may be a good fit for this position: https://lnkd.in/gZhd-xPN

What are the intricacies of mandatory reporting in child abuse cases? In this latest episode of our podcast, One in Ten, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Melanie Nadon, Ph.D., MPA joins us to explore the disparities in report substantiations by educators compared to other professionals, the influence of socio-political shifts on welfare referrals, and the challenges of over-reporting. Listen to the episode now and subscribe to One in Ten: https://lnkd.in/gpGruNAW

🌏🛩Representing Mission Kids on the global stage, our CEO of External and Global Affairs, Abbie Newman, recently joined the International Standard Setting Organization (ISO) International Workshop Agreement 49 in Reykjavik, Iceland, focused on advancing the Barnahus model—a compassionate, multidisciplinary approach to supporting children affected by abuse. 🤝Abbie collaborated alongside leaders from the Council of the Baltic Sea States; the World Childhood Foundation/World Childhood Foundation USA; UNICEF/UNICEF USA; the Council of Europe; Europol; National Children's Alliance; and National Children's Advocacy Center; along with experts from 50 countries, each committed to strengthening child protection worldwide. 🌟 We’re thrilled to see Mission Kids #ignitingchange on the global stage! Abbie's passionate involvement reflects our commitment to protect children through research, advocacy, and action. By contributing to this vital international dialogue, we’re helping to shape a safer, brighter future for children everywhere. #IlluminatingHope #OurMissionIsKids #KeystoneCACs

We were honored to recently host more than 110 leaders from rural, remote, frontier and Indigenous CACs across 37 states for our Rural CAC Convening in Bozeman, Montana! We truly appreciated the great interactions from the panel discussions providing solution-based information for our rural CAC leaders to share and reflect upon how to best meet some of the unique challenges that CACs face in serving children and families in rural communities, such as access to resources, training and education, partnerships, hiring and staffing, community awareness and outreach, and Accreditation support and resources. Thank you so much to everyone for coming and providing great insights to help serve children and families in these communities! We're committed to continue connecting our rural communities and have already launched a Rural CAC Leaders community on our NCA Engage platform that our members can join to ask their peers questions, share ideas, resources and solutions specific to rural populations. If you're a member serving rural areas, please join the community with your Engage account: https://lnkd.in/g_hZZJC4

"If federal funding were to disappear, Indiana's 26 centers would be left struggling to employ staff who provide forensic interviews, victim advocacy, and more." Executive Director of Indiana Child Advocacy Centers Jan Lutz was featured in Indianapolis Business Journal to discusses the impact of Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) cuts to victim services, like Children's Advocacy Centers (CACs) in Indiana, at risk of cutting back resources. Read on to learn more, share this with your network, and tell Congress to pass the Crime Victims Fund Stabilization Act (CVFSA) in the House to protect CACs and provide access for victims to get the support they need: https://lnkd.in/gtkF5yGr

Last week, NCA Vice President of Programs Kimberly Day was in Reykjavik, Iceland to attend a workshop to help discuss international guidance for Barnahus, a child-friendly multidisciplinary and interagency response model for abused children. She was joined by representatives from UNICEF, the Council of Europe, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Europol, the International Standard Setting Organization (ISO) and 50 countries in the discussion. Kim was honored to represent NCA in this international workshop to help guide Barnahus!

👀🎃🎃👀NCA Quality Assurance Program Associate Susan Fogle is a master artist of pumpkin carving! We created this edited graphic of her carving of the NCA logo from a few years ago (right). Last year, she carved our Institute for Better Mental Health Outcomes logo (left), and this year, she expertly carved our NCAtrak logo (center)! Have a happy and safe Halloween!

In this episode of our One in Ten podcast, Klejdis Bilali, a doctoral researcher at the University of South Florida’s Trafficking in Persons (TiP) Risk to Resilience Lab joined us to explore the intricate connections between childhood abuse, substance abuse, and the commercial sex industry, as well as the intergenerational pathways leading to involvement in the sex trade, particularly focusing on the specific vulnerabilities faced by mothers. Listen to the full audio episode: https://lnkd.in/gE-sRj7X Watch the full video episode: https://lnkd.in/g5rUMsQ5

We want to thank Rep. Jim Costa (D-CA) for his continued fight for VOCA and child crime victims nationwide.   Deposits into the Crime Victims Fund (CVF) have dropped drastically for years, and now Children's Advocacy Centers (CACs) services across the nation are facing over $600 million in cuts. In order to stabilize the CVF and prevent further cuts, Rep. Costa introduced the bipartisan Crime Victims Fund Stabilization Act of 2024 to ensure CACs can continue to provide essential services child crime victims and their families need.   We also thank the members of the House who have joined him by supporting the Crime Victims Fund Stabilization Act of 2024. Now, we call on the rest of the members’ support to help us build toward a future where all child victims of crime can get back to being kids.

We thank Rep. Ann Wagner (R-MO) for her continued fight for VOCA and child crime victims across the country.   For years, deposits into the Crime Victims Fund (CVF) have dropped dramatically, and now services of Children's Advocacy Centers (CACs) nationwide are facing over $600 million in cuts. In order to stabilize the CVF and prevent further cuts, Rep. Wagner introduced the bipartisan Crime Victims Fund Stabilization Act of 2024 to ensure CACs can continue to provide essential services child crime victims and their families need.   We also thank the members of the House who have joined her by supporting the Crime Victims Fund Stabilization Act of 2024. Now, we call on the rest of the members’ support to help us build toward a future where all child victims of crime can get back to being kids.