President Ruby Andrew Website www.protect.org Revenue 164,097 USD Expenses 145,972 USD | Executive Director Grier Weeks Founded 24 June 2002 Number of employees 1 Number of volunteers 24 | |
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Legal status 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization Affiliations National Association to Protect Children Education Fund Mission A national bipartisan pro-child, anti-crime lobby whose sole focus is making the protection of children a top political and policy priority at the national, state, and local levels. Similar Childhelp, APLA Health, National Center for Missing, Bikers Against Child Abu | ||
Protect (officially incorporated as National Association to Protect Children - PROTECT, Inc.) is a political organization established in 2002 and dedicated to the protection of children from abuse, exploitation, and neglect. It is a nonprofit 501(c)(4) membership association with members in every U.S. state and 10 nations. Protect achieved great success in its first three years, winning legislative victories in eight state legislatures. It advocates a nonpartisan "pro-child, anti-crime" agenda, and works closely with both conservative and liberal constituencies and lawmakers.
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Pro-Child, Anti-Crime Agenda
Protect advocates a "pro-child, anti-crime" agenda, which combines traditionally liberal positions on child protection with traditionally conservative positions on crime. Protect's pro-child agenda includes legal advocacy for child victims and reform and adequate funding of child protective services. Its anti-crime agenda includes stronger criminal sentencing, surveillance and containment of released sex offenders and increased funding for law enforcement.
Protect Campaigns
Protect focuses its work on four principal campaigns:
Circle of Trust Campaign: Since its creation in 2002, Protect has led successful legislative battles to eliminate laws that award preferential treatment to criminals who sexually assault their own children. Protect's Circle of Trust campaign has successfully fought to reform and strengthen laws in North Carolina, Arkansas, Illinois, Virginia, California and New York.
Real Safety Campaign: Protect also advocates intensive community supervision—or "surveillance and containment"—of convicted sex offenders released into communities. The Real Safety campaign educates the public and lawmakers about the dangers of relying upon sex offender registries and residency restriction laws to keep children safe, calling for long-term and lifetime probation and parole.
Accountability Campaign: In 2006, Protect announced it was launching its Accountability Campaign to hold public servants accountable for their performance in combatting crimes against children.
Child Pornography Campaign: In 2006, Protect also launched a national anti-child pornography campaign.
Grassroots Support
In 2005, the punk rock record label, Fat Wreck Chords released a charity record for Protect, entitled Protect: A Benefit for the National Association to Protect Children.
NYDM, New York Death Militia, a worldwide metal music organization, sponsors metal music shows in support of Protect. These shows are happening nationwide across the United States. 2011
Former child actress Alison Arngrim, who was a victim of sexual abuse, lobbies for and speaks for Protect.