Advocacy.
U.S. Alliance to End the Hitting of Children.
The U.S. Alliance to End the Hitting of Children is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2011 that brings together individuals, groups, and organizations to create a unified voice calling for, and working toward, an end to corporal punishment - an antiquated and dangerous form of disciplining a child - especially in schools and homes.
The Alliance, through education and legal means, seeks to end all social justifications and legal authorizations of corporal punishment. Achieving these goals will give children the same protection from this sort of physical violence that is already enjoyed by adults under state and federal law.
StopSpanking.org.
To that end, StopSpanking, a nonprofit organization, is dedicated to ending corporal punishment of children. Our mission is to raise awareness of both parents and educators that spanking is violence and harms children. Spanking violates a child’s human right to be free from violence. There are strong Biblical arguments against the hitting of children. The research supports what we already know morally to be true, we should never hit children. The avalanche of research correlates spanking to a cascade of negative outcomes including increased aggression, mental illness, drug & alcohol abuse, and suicide, to name only a few.
We are seeking to advance a national campaign against spanking. As a professional community, many of us are unaware of the research and are failing to protect the public around this fundamental health concern. We know that spanking is the most prevalent risk factor for overt child abuse. Hitting children is on a continuum of violence against children, and is a gateway to criminal child abuse.
No Hit Zone.
A community where healthy child development is supported through safe and effective interpersonal interactions that do not involve hitting.
NO HIT ZONE is a public awareness campaign that discourages the use of physical punishment with children. Across the nation children’s hospitals, a district attorney’s office, whole communities, and a wide variety of public health agencies have become “No Hit Zone” sites.
The American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC).
The mission of APSAC is to improve society’s response to the abuse and neglect of its children.
APSAC envisions a world where all maltreated or at-risk children and their families have access to the highest level of professional commitment and service.