The International Centre For Missing And Exploited Children

Programs: Icmec's core program areas are: global initiative for child health & well-being: we are improving the recognition, identification and treatment of victims and survivors of child sexual exploitation and abuse (csea) through research, advocacy and training. Through this initiative, we are working to: promote changes to international medical codes to include specific codes for sexual exploitation; provide training to increase the number of healthcare professionals who understand the issue of csea and who are prepared to adequately intervene; curate an online education portal to provide resources for school staff on how to prevent and respond to csea wherever they are in the world; and deliver training to educators and school personnel on how to combat csea. Through our affiliation with the international task force of child protection, we have access to more than 1,135 schools across 109 countries. Global missing children's center: we provide resources for policy and decision makers to protect children around the world from going missing or being abducted. The resource platform and network focus on prevention as well as the appropriate actions to take in the event a child does go missing. Our global missing childrenfs network now includes 27 member countries that actively collaborate, share best practices, tools, and research related to missing children and child abduction. Global training academy: we provide first responders with the training, tools, technical skills, and technology resources they need to help keep children safe. Our customized training programs reach a broad base of child-serving professionals: from educators, parents and students, to law enforcement, healthcare providers, and other child-serving professionals. In 2003, we began offering tools and training to law enforcement to help prepare the frontline to combat csea. Our training work has expanded vastly over the years. We offer nearly 40 different training programs tailored to capacity building of various child-serving professionals. We have trained approximately 15,000 child protection specialists from approximately 120 countries on issues related to csea crimes facilitated by information and communication technologies (icts). The koons family institute on international law & policy: we conduct and commission original research into the status of child protection laws around the world, create replicable legal tools, promote best practices, build international coalitions, and collaborate with partners to identify and measure threats to children. In 2016, we released the 8th edition of child pornography: model legislation & global review; and earlier this year we released the supplemental framing implementation report to assess the steps countries are taking to support national legislation, as well as online grooming of children for sexual purposes: model legislation & global review. Since the report was first published 11 years ago, 125+ countries have updated their laws.