Florida Department of Law Enforcement maintains databases you can use to look up registered child sexual offenders that may be living in your neighborhood.

Child Welfare League of America, a membership association of over 1,000 agencies dealing with children's issues, maintains an informational Web site. Organizations involved with CWLA focus on issues ranging from child protection and adoption to teen pregnancy prevention.

The ABA Center on Children and the Law Established in 1978, the ABA Center on Children and the Law's mission is to improve children's lives through advances in law, justice, knowledge, practice, and public policy.

The American Medical Association's (AMA) Department of Adolescent Health - A major AMA adolescent health initiative, funded in part by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Adolescent and School Health, is the proliferation of comprehensive clinical preventive services that primary care physicians and other health professionals can provide to young people.

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children - As the nation's resource center for child protection, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) spearheads national efforts to locate and recover missing children and raises public awareness about ways to prevent child abduction, molestation, and sexual exploitation.

- Florida Department of Children and Families

National Children's Alliance

  Darkness to Light - A Nationally recognized child abuse prevention program that places the responsibility of prevention child abuse on the adult.  Darkness to Light prevention training will be offered through the Emerald Coast Children's Advocacy Center starting the fall of 2007.  Call Joy Hudson at (850) 833-9237 ext. 256 for more information.

We are leaving out many other sites that may be of interest to you, but they are certainly accessible through the above sites, and the additional sites that they provide links to.