Children’s Bureau: A Leader in Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment

The Children’s Bureau works to prevent child abuse and neglect, to protect and nurture abused children, to enhance families to meet the needs of their children, and to advance foster care, adoption, child development, parent education, and research. Their goal it to give vulnerable children the foundation to become productive adults.

Children’s Bureau started in 1904 and since then has worked to provide shelters, foster homes, and refuges for abused children and their families. Their advanced child abuse prevention and treatment services works in the positive direction to give a voice and a helping hand to children who are in at-risk positions.

Child Abuse Statistics

• 1 child abuse report is made every 10 seconds.
• 5 children die every day from child abuse. 75% are under age 4.
• 60-85% of child fatalities are due to maltreatment that is not recorded on death certificates.
• 90% of child sexual abuse victims know the perpetrator; 68% are family members.
• 31% of women in prison were abused as children.
• 60% of people in drug rehabilitation centers were abused as a child.
• 80% of 21 year olds that were abused as children classify with at least one psychological disorder.
• The annual cost of child abuse is $104 billion (2007).

(Source: www.childhelp.org)

Help a Child in Need

You can donate your time and money to Children’s Bureau by volunteering, donating, or adopting a foster child.

Donate now to Children’s Bureau. Gifts of $1000 or more are recognized in their annual giving program, Century Circle for Children.

You can also adopt or foster a child in need. There are currently 63,000 children in foster care and over 12,000 waiting for adoptive families. You can click here to fill out a form that will keep you up to date about scheduling upcoming meetings or call 800-730-3933. For an application, click here or you can visit their website at all4kids.org. You can complete the application and mail it to them at:

Children’s Bureau
Foster Care & Adoptions
1910 Magnolia Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90007

or fax it to them at 213-342-0253.

You can also become a volunteer. For more information, click here or contact them at 213-342-0100.

For upcoming events and news, visit their event calendar.