This website is for parents who are worried about their children's safety and well-being, for anyone worried about the children of relatives, neighbors or friends, and for social workers in child protection who are interested in effective safety planning with the children and families with whom they are assigned to work.
If you are a parent, you may be realizing that things aren't going as well for you and your children as you had hoped or dreamed. Of perhaps a relative or friend has told you they are worried that child protection might come knocking on your door. Maybe they even threatened to call child protection on you. Or maybe child protection has already knocked on your door and now you are worried they might come back and take your children. This site will help you explore some things you can do to keep your children safe and make sure their needs are being met in ways that should satisfy child protection.
If you are a relative, neighbor, or friend of children you worry are being abused or neglected you might be concerned about what will happen to your relationship with the child(ren)'s parents if you call child protection. Or maybe you even called child protection and it doesn't appear to you that the children are any safer. This site offers ideas you might be able to use to help the child(ren)'s parents better care for their children.
If you are a child protection social worker you might be realizing you can't tell if the services you're empowered to offer: including parent training, therapy, anger management, drug treatment, and sex offender treatment, among other services, are really changing the parents in any meaningful and lasting way. This site offers support and ideas for bringing a lasting network of caring people around at risk children to help insure their lasting safety and well-being.