Internet Coping Resources Collection

The Congressionally-mandated CyberTipline is a reporting mechanism for cases of child sexual exploitation including pornographic images of children, online enticement of children for sex acts, molestation of children outside the family, sex tourism of children, child victims of prostitution, and unsolicited obscene material sent to a child. Reports may be made 24-hours per day, 7 days per week online at www.cybertipline.com or by calling 1-800-843-5678.

If you know about a child who is in immediate risk or danger, call local law enforcement. If you have any information about a missing child, call 1-800-THE-LOST (1-800-843-5678).

The Virtual Global Taskforce (VGT) was created in 2003 as a direct response to lessons learned from investigations into on-line child abuse around the world. It is an international alliance of law enforcement agencies working together to make the Internet a safer place.

The mission of the Virtual Global Taskforce is:

to make the Internet a safer place;
to identify, locate and help children at risk; and
to hold perpetrators appropriately to account.
The Virtual Global Taskforce comprises the Australian High Tech Crime Centre, the National Crime Squad for England and Wales, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the US Department of Homeland Security and Interpol. Jim Gamble, Deputy Director General of the National Crime Squad, is the current Chair.

The Virtual Global Taskforce delivers innovative crime prevention and crime reduction initiatives to prevent and deter individuals from committing on-line child abuse. On-line child abuse includes searching for, sharing and downloading images of children being physically and sexually abused and “grooming” children in, for example, chat rooms with the intention of committing sexual abuse both on and off-line. Details of current and future initiatives are published on this website.

The mission of SAVE is to prevent suicide through public awareness and education, eliminate stigma and serve as a resource to those touched by suicide.

SAVE was started in 1989 when six suicide survivors (people who have experienced the loss of a loved one to suicide) met and agreed on the need for an organization. The organization is comprised mostly of suicide survivors, and people that have suffered from depression. The major event for the organization is SAVE’s Suicide Awareness and Memorial Day held every spring in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which draws nearly 500 people annually.

Over the years, the organization’s Board of Directors has grown to include survivors who bring a special affinity for the issue and individuals with other skills to ensure successful organizational growth, development and management. Until early 1998, the organization operated solely on the efforts of volunteers. A strategic planning process yielded a decision to hire staff, including an Executive Director, who was hired in May 1999.

How SAVE Works

SAVE is a 501.C3 non-profit agency governed by a volunteer Board of Directors.

Mission, Goals and Objectives: The #1 cause of suicide is untreated depression. SAVE is committed to the education of the general public about the depressive brain diseases (such as clinical depression and bipolar illness) that can result in suicide if left untreated medically and psychologically. By educating the general public about such brain diseases, SAVE strives to remove the stigma associated with these diseases. SAVE’s prevention and education programs are designed to:

Increase knowledge about depression and suicide prevention.
Increase knowledge about symptoms of depression and the warning signs of suicidal thinking and behavior.
Increase the confidence and competence of participants to make interventions and referrals.
Increase understanding and the use of intervention skills that can help avert the tragedy of suicide.
Increase knowledge about community resources, how to access and use them.
SAVE’s Current Programs, Activities and Statistics

For ten years, SAVE has developed and implemented its prevention and awareness programs mainly in the state of Minnesota. All SAVE programs seek to educate both the general public and more specific audiences about and clinical depression and suicide prevention.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), with more than a million members and supporters, is the largest animal rights organization in the world. Founded in 1980, PETA is dedicated to establishing and protecting the rights of all animals. PETA operates under the simple principle that animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment.

PETA focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: on factory farms, in laboratories, in the clothing trade, and in the entertainment industry. We also work on a variety of other issues, including the cruel killing of beavers, birds and other "pests," and the abuse of backyard dogs.

PETA works through public education, cruelty investigations, research, animal rescue, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement, and protest campaigns.

What is Modest Needs?
Modest Needs is a non-profit organization reaching out to hard-working individuals and families who suddenly find themselves faced with small, emergency expenses that they have no way to afford on their own.

Most persons living paycheck to paycheck earn just barely too much to qualify for any type of conventional assistance. This means they can't receive the help they need to overcome a short-term crisis - until they've already lost everything.

Modest Needs exists because we think there's a better way to do things. As far as we're concerned, no hard-working person should ever have to choose between taking a child to the doctor and putting food on the table.

How Modest Needs Works
At Modest Needs, compassionate persons whose lives have been touched by kindness pass that kindness on to hard-working individuals and families struggling with the burden of an unexpected emergency expense.

We do this by helping these persons to afford small, emergency expenses like those we've all encountered before: the unexpected car repair, the unanticipated visit to the doctor, the unusually large winter heating bill.

Operating this way since 2002, Modest Needs' donors - regular people just like you - have kept 2116 individuals and families from entering the cycle of poverty over a small, emergency expense. And in keeping with our philosophy, we never ask for anything in return.

How You Can Help
By choice, the work we do at Modest Needs is funded exclusively by the generosity of private citizens, with gifts typically ranging from $5 to $100 at a time.

If your life has been touched by kindness, and you're looking for a meaningful way to pass that kindness on, we hope you'll contribute to this work. At Modest Needs, EVERY person has the power to change a life.

And if you need help to afford a small, emergency expense, please apply for assistance. We'll do our best to find a way to help you.

Thank you for visiting Modest Needs. We're glad to have you with us!

Helpguide is a project of the Rotary Club of Santa Monica and Center for Healthy Aging. The 170+ members of the The Rotary Club of Santa Monica carry out Rotary's motto of "Service above Self" in their personal, business and community life. Helpguide.org is one of several service projects of the Club which promotes that motto. The Center for Healthy Aging focuses on preventing disease, educating for a healthy lifestyle and assisting with the special emotional and physical changes that come with aging.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international independent medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural or man-made disasters, or exclusion from health care in more than 70 countries.

Each year, MSF volunteer doctors, nurses, logisticians, water-and-sanitation experts, administrators, and other medical and non-medical professionals depart on more than 3,800 aid missions. They work alongside more than 22,500 locally hired staff to provide medical care.

In emergencies and their aftermath, MSF provides health care, rehabilitates and runs hospitals and clinics, performs surgery, battles epidemics, carries out vaccination campaigns, operates feeding centers for malnourished children, and offers mental health care. When needed, MSF also constructs wells and dispenses clean drinking water, and provides shelter materials like blankets and plastic sheeting.

Through longer-term programs, MSF treats patients with infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, sleeping sickness, and HIV/AIDS, and provides medical and psychological care to marginalized groups such as street children.

MSF was founded in 1971 as a nongovernmental organization to both provide emergency medical assistance and bear witness publicly to the plight of the people it assists. A private nonprofit association, MSF is an international network with sections in 19 countries.

Bullying Online was founded in April 1999 by Liz Carnell and her son John, as a direct result of their experience of dealing with school bullying, which included taking successful legal action against North Yorkshire County Council.

They decided to share their knowledge with other parents and pupils and identified the Internet as the most cost effective medium. Bullying Online became a UK-registered charity in May 2000 and has four trustees. In the last four years we have answered more than 21,700 emails. This workload was only possible by using voice-activated software and by having a number of experts on call to help with specific difficulties.

Bullying Online was the winner of the national BT eWell-Being Award 2003 and regional winner of the National E-Commerce Awards in 2002 and 2003. The charity was highly commended in the New Statesman/BT New Media Awards 2001.

The Nation's Food Bank Network

Find your local food bank or food rescue organization

The Salvation Army International Home Page