World Childhood Foundation

To create a world where all children are free from violence, sexual abuse and exploitation. World Childhood Foundation's mission is to inspire, promote and develop solutions to end sexual abuse, exploitation, and violence against children.

Program support - Safe HorizonSafe Horizon will leverage nearly 30 years of experience providing evidence-based, trauma-informed treatment for child victims of crime and abuse at its Brooklyn-based mental health Counseling Center to provide an improved approach to children who replicate the sexual abuse that was perpetrated on them with other children. Safe Horizon will adapt Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TFCBT), a widely-disseminated evidence-based model for treating children with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), for use with children who re-enact sexual abuse. Safe Horizons Counseling Center (SHCC) provides an ideal laboratory in which expert clinicians can develop and pilot this adaptation. The principal objective for the project is to create access to evidence-informed outpatient trauma treatment for child victims in New York City who re-enact sexual abuse, thereby supporting a shift in treatment approach with implications for the broader field.

Economist Index Program - shedding light on child sexual violence projectThe Economist Intelligence Unit proposes a research program that will develop first of its kind benchmark to assess the state of sexual violence against children around the world, as well as an outlook for the future. The core component of the research program is an assessment of the current state of sexual violence against children and the legal and institutional underpinnings to combat it. Childhood USA with partners (other funders, experts and policymakers) will collaborate closely with the EIU on this program. The benchmarking tool will allow for comparisons across countries against a set of relevant and actionable metrics. The research program will empower World Childhood Foundation to engage key stakeholders on the topic, to amplify its core message, and to leverage research and evidence to propose policy and programmatic initiatives to prevent sexual violence against children. This is of utmost importance for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, especially SDG 16.2. The EIU report will help to generate greater awareness among a wider audience about the scale of Child Sexual Abuse and put the topic on the global agenda.