National Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (NAPCAN)
02 9269 9200
This organization works in the crucial role of prevention and offers insight and information to people seeking guidance about raising children and parenting.  It also has definitions of all types and categories of abuse, neglect and sexual assault and information on what you can do to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Australian Institute of Family Studies
03 9214 7888
The AIFS site has links to research, resources and links about families, children, abuse and other like issues.

Defence for Children International
02 9385 9588
The Australian Section of Defence for Children International is the local link in a global chain of children’s rights agencies recognized by the United Nationals and are dedicated to a worldwide movement for children’s rights.

Association of Children’s Welfare Agencies
02 9281 8822
ACWA is the peak child welfare organization in NSW and works to promote quality care, protection and support for vulnerable children and young people.

The Leadership Council on Child Abuse and Interpersonal Violence
The Leadership Council is a nonprofit organization committed to providing the latest scientific information on issues that may affect the public’s health and safety.  They also seek to correct the misuse of psychological science to serve vested interests or justify victimizing vulnerable populations, especially abused and neglected children.

Australian Childhood Foundation
1800 176 453
The ACF provides programs and information for parents and children and aims to promote a while of community approach to child protection.

SMART Program – Strategies for Managing Abuse Related Trauma
1800 176 453
Excellent free online resources and training modules to enhance your capacity to effectively respond to the needs of children and young people who have experienced abuse and trauma.

Stop Child Abuse
Child abuse and neglect, ideas and steps you can take to stop child abuse.

Kidscount
1800 176 453
A website for parents that is all about childhood.  It has information that can help you to raise happy and confident children.  Information is available in 12 languages.

Standing Together Against Crimes Of Sexual Assault (STACSA)
Standing Together Against Crimes Of Sexual Assault (STACSA) Gunnedah Inc was formed in early 2002 and has continued to grow in membership since this time. STACSA is a support network for non-offending families and friends affected by sexual assault. STACSA became incorporated in 2004. Soon after STACSA Survivors was formed specifically for the victims of the abuse.

The NSW Commission for Children and Young People
02 9286 7276
The NSW Commission for Children and Young People is an independent organisation working with others to make NSW a better place for children and young people, they provide advice, information and make referrals.

National Council for Children Post-separation
The National Council for Children Post-Separation represents more than 3000 concerned parents, legal experts, academics, domestic violence workers, men’s anti-violence groups, health professionals, journalists, authors, counselors and members of the public from around Australia who are seeing consistent failures in the Family Law system to protect children and promote their well-being post-separation.

MAKO – Movement Against Kindred Offenders
MAKO is an Australian not for profit association dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and sex crimes. The site contains a public list of Australian convicted paedophiles/sex offenders/child killers.  The site also contains information about youth suicide prevention, services for victims of child sexual abuse and methods of reporting sexual assault.

Perverted Justice
Comprehensive site dedicated to combating predatory behaviour in chatrooms.  Perverted-Justice.com recruits volunteer contributors who pose as underage children in chatrooms.  Posing from a variety of ages (standard ages are 10-15), these contributors simply go into chatrooms with fake online screen names and wait for predators to instigate conversation with them.

Male Survivor
A site dedicated to overcoming sexual victimization of boys and men.  Contains links and useful resources.

ASCA – Advocates for Survivors of Child Abuse
1300 657 380
ASCA is a national not for profit organisation of survivors supporting others survivors abuse – physical, emotional, sexual or spiritual.

Bravehearts
1800 272 831
Bravehearts aims to gorge a ‘movement for change’ in how paedophilia is dealt with by the criminal justice sector, government and the community at large and to provide survivors with a voice.  Advocating for both healing and preventative strategies, Bravehearts provides comprehensive counselling for child and adult survivors of child sexual assault and it actively involved in education, prevention, early intervention and research programs.

Imaginif
Imaginif… child protection became serious business.  A voice for individuals, concerned parents, professionals and agencies interested in child sexual abuse prevention.  The site aims to become the largest on-line child protection conversation in the world and to put safety of children uppermost in people’s minds as a corporate social responsibility.

The Abused Child Trust
The Abused Child Trust is a registered charity which works to break the cycle of abuse and neglect in Australia.  The Abused Child Trust, help at risk families become the best source of care for their children, speaking up for kids through advocacy and conduct important research into child protection issues.  This site has many interesting fact sheets that help to understand what child abuse is.

Courageous Kids Network
A growing group of young people, whose childhood was shattered by biased and inhumane court rulings, which forced them to live with an abusive parent, while restricting or sometimes completely eliminating contact with the loving and protective parent.  Now they are telling the world how much they were hurt, first by their abusers and then by the court that refused to protect them.

Australian Child Protection Legislation
Lists the principal child protection Acts in each Australian state and territory and other relevant Acts of Parliament.  Provides links to websites for each state and territory.

familiesofsexoffenders@hotmail.com
Email address for online support group for innocent family members of sex offenders.  The people who often go un-noticed in relation to sex crimes are the offender’s family.  Unfortunately there is no support for families of sex offenders.  Families of offenders are:  not recognised as victims; not entitled to be informed of the offenders release dates or parole conditions; not entitled to submit victim impact statements; not easily represented to prevent a sex offender having access to children; stigmatised in society.