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  2. St. Thomas–St. Vincent Orphanage - Wikipedia

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    St. Vincent Orphanage, for girls, was opened in 1832 in Louisville, Kentucky, by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth. [1] It was first located at 443 South 5th Street until 1836, then moved to the corner of Wenzel and Jefferson Streets from 1836 to 1892, the present site of Bellarmine University from 1892 to 1901, [2] and 2120 Payne Street to 1955, the year of the merger with St. Thomas Orphanage.

  3. Kentucky Child Now - Wikipedia

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    Kentucky Child Now (KCN), founded in 2000, is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the welfare of children throughout the state of Kentucky. [1] It is the Kentucky affiliate of America's Promise , [ 2 ] an organization started by Colin Powell in 1997 for child welfare. [ 3 ]

  4. Child abuse - Wikipedia

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    [22]: 11 The United States federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act defines child abuse and neglect as, at minimum, "any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse or exploitation" or "an act or failure to act which presents an imminent risk ...

  5. Home of the Innocents - Wikipedia

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    In 1975, the Home of the Innocents assumed the pediatric nursing services formerly provided by the old Louisville Jewish Convalescent Children's Home. On March 5, 1999, the Home purchased the 20.5-acre (83,000 m 2) Bourbon Stockyards site for $3.4 million, located east of Downtown Louisville in the Butchertown neighborhood.

  6. United States Children's Bureau - Wikipedia

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    Passage of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) of 1974 created a National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (NCCAN) within the Children's Bureau. NCCAN centralized and coordinated the Bureau's growing focus on more effective child abuse prevention, research, state reporting laws, and systems. [57]

  7. Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act - Wikipedia

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    The key federal legislation addressing child abuse and neglect is the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA), originally enacted in 1974 (Public Law 93-247). It was amended several times and was most recently amended and reauthorized by the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016.

  8. Child Maltreatment (journal) - Wikipedia

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    Child Maltreatment aims to report current and at-issue scientific information and technical innovations in a form immediately useful to practitioners and researchers from fields such as mental health, child protection, medicine and law. The multidisciplinary journal provides a forum for the discussion on dissemination of research and findings.

  9. Category:Violence against children - Wikipedia

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    Violence against children (under the age of 18) such as individual cases of murder, kidnapping or sexual abuse and broader coverage of violent behaviour towards children, many topics within this remit are best suited to the more specific sub categories for boys or girls.