Upcoming Conferences & Congresses
XVII International Congress
XVII International Congress:

7-10 September 2008, Hong Kong, China

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By becoming a sponsor, you have the opportunity to be part of our 30th Anniversary celebration, by helping provide necessary funding for guests attending the event; which may include assistance with supporting registration, travel, and accommodation of delegates from developing countries around the world.

Find out how you can benefit as an event sponsor. Please click HERE for more information on the range of alternative sponsorship opportunities.
What's Going on at ISPCAN
Listen to ISPCAN's radio broadcast on World Day forPrevention of Child Abuse
Worldview radio program talks to ISPCAN about child trafficking

Learn about child trafficking in Belarus, Latvia, Ecuador, Mexico, the U.S, and elsewhere. Worldview radio host Jerome McDonnell (far right) interviews ISPCAN experts: (from left) Andrey Makhanko, Executive Director, Ponimanie, Belarus; Salvador Cicero-Dominguez, attorney and advisor to the Organization of American States, USA; and Mark Rodgers, PhD, Dean and Professor of the Graduate School of Social Work, Dominican University, USA.
ISPCAN 2006 Annual Report
Latest Publications
Special Projects
ICAST
ISPCAN Develops Research Tools for UN Study on Violence Against Children: Questionnaires and guides available for professionals.

ISPCAN Working Group on Child Maltreatment Data
Resources
ISPCAN 30th Anniversary Poster Campaign

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30th Anniversary Dinner
and International Expert
Panel and Reception

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30th Anniversary Poster

On July 7, 2007, ISPCAN celebrated its 30th Anniversary. Thirty years ago, Colorado pediatrician C. Henry Kempe assembled a group of child abuse professionals from around the world to found an international organization that would support and advance their work. The organization’s first initiatives were to publish an international journal and hold an international conference on child abuse and neglect. ISPCAN’s monthly, peer-reviewed journal, Child Abuse and Neglect, is now the preeminent publication in the field of CAN, and its biennial International Congress has become the most prestigious international conference on CAN worldwide. In the past 30 years, this International Congress has been held in 16 cities around the world, including Geneva, London, Amsterdam, Paris, Montreal, Sydney, Rio de Janeiro, Hamburg, Chicago, Kuala Lumpur, Dublin, Auckland, Durban, Denver, and Brisbane. At the last Congress, in 2006, in York, England, 1000 professionals from 88 countries heard 691 papers on CAN.
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Conversations with Ruth and Annie Kempe
ISPCAN Councillor Jon Conte talks to Ruth and Annie Kempe

Ruth and Annie Kempe
Dr. Ruth Kempe (left) and her daughter Annie Kempe (right) recollect the man who founded ISPCAN 30 years ago: Ruth’s husband and Annie’s father, C. Henry Kempe.
On ISPCAN’s 30th Anniversary, Dr. Jon Conte, an ISPCAN Councillor and Professor at the School of Social Work, University of Washington, Seattle, had a conversation about ISPCAN’s founder, C. Henry Kempe, with Kempe’s wife, Dr. Ruth Kempe, and one of his five daughters, Annie Kempe. A child psychiatrist and co-editor of the book, The Battered Child, Ruth Kempe was a full partner in Henry Kempe’s work to prevent and treat child abuse and neglect. Annie Kempe, an occupational therapist, has just published a biography about her father: A Good Knight for Children: C. Henry Kempe’s Quest to Protect the Abused Child. To purchase a copy of this book or read the fascinating first chapter online, go to http://www.booklocker.com/books/2923.html. But first listen to the lessons that Henry Kempe still has to teach those who strive to protect children from violence, through the recollections of Ruth and Annie Kempe. Click here for full story.

Seven ISPCAN Founders,
Seven Regions of the World

founders
Clockwise from top left: Philista Onyango (Africa), Mohammed Sham Kasim (Asia), Hani Jahshan (Arab World), Richard Krugman (North America), Kim Oates (Australia), Isabel Cuadros (Latin America), Jaap Doek (Europe)

In the coming days, ISPCAN will profile seven founders who helped establish ISPCAN internationally and regionally around the world. And during our Anniversary Year, we will profile past presidents and professionals who have been ISPCAN members since Henry Kempe first gathered them together 30 years ago to establish this new society.

Click below to read about:

So check our Calendar of Anniversary Events, and check back here often to learn more about the vast strides ISPCAN has taken over the last 30 years to prevent child abuse and neglect around the world, and to meet some of the key professionals who have made ISPCAN the global leader that it is today.

Anniversary Year Calendar

2008

September 7-10, 2008
XVII International Congress,
Hong Kong, China

June 10, 2008
Early Registration Deadline for ISPCAN’s XVII International Congress, Hong Kong SAR, China

May 15, 2008
2011 Regional Conferences
ISPCAN invites applications from groups and organizations interested in hosting the Society's 2011 Regional Conferences worldwide.

19TH ISPCAN International Congress on Child Abuse and Neglect (2012)
ISPCAN invites applications from groups and organizations interested in hosting the Society's 2012 International Congress

May 01, 2008
Election of ISPCAN
Executive Councillors

DEADLINE - 01 MAY, 2008

April 10, 2008
ISPCAN's 30th Anniversary Dinner and International Expert Panel and Reception, Chicago

April 8-10, 2008
2008 ISPCAN Global Summit on Protecting Children from Violence, Abuse and Neglect

February 15, 2008
Abstract Submission Deadline for ISPCAN’s XVII International Congress, Hong Kong SAR, China

January 29, 2008
Combating global child trafficking
Listen to Chicago Public Radio’s Worldview program interview three ISPCAN experts.

January 28, 2008
ISPCAN Global Institute

2007

December 12, 2007
7 Founders from 7 Regions:
Hani Jahshan, an ISPCAN founder, the Arab region

December 7, 2007
7 Founders from 7 Regions:
Philista Onyango, an ISPCAN founder, Africa

December 1, 2007
Online Registration Begins for ISPCAN’s XVII International Congress, Hong Kong SAR, China. Abstract Submission also available online.

November 29, 2007
7 Founders from 7 Regions:
Isabel Cuadros, an ISPCAN founder, Latin America

November 19, 2007
World Day for Prevention of
Child Abuse

Listen to ISPCAN's radio broadcast on World Day forPrevention of Child Abuse
Listen to ISPCAN’s radio broadcast on World Day for Prevention of Child Abuse

ISPCAN European National Partners & European Network Meetings, Lisbon, Portugal

November 18-21, 2007
XII European Regional Conference, Lisbon, Portugal

October 29, 2007
7 Founders from 7 Regions:
Jaap Doek , an ISPCAN founder, Europe

October 24, 2007
7 Founders from 7 Regions:
Mohd Sham Bin Kasim, an ISPCAN founder, Asia

September 24, 2007
ISPCAN Asian National Partners & Asian Regional Network Meetings, Manila, Philippines

September 23-26, 2007
VII Asian Regional Conference, Manila, Philippines

August 2007
The Chicago Arabic newspaper Al-Offok Al-Arabi reports on ISPCAN’s work in Saudi Arabia and the Arab region. (PDF)

August 6 , 2007

Making great strides to prevent child abuse and neglect in Saudi Arabia: Listen to a radio interview of Dr. Maha al Muneef, Executive Director, Saudi Arabia National Family Safety Program, and Kimberly Svevo, Executive Director, ISPCAN, on Chicago Public Radio’s Worldview.

July 17-19, 2007
IX Latin American Regional
Conference, Bogotá, Colombia
Franklin Farinati, M.D.
Kimberly Svevo, ISPCAN’s Executive Director, pays tribute to Dr. Franklin Farinatti, a former President of ISPCAN, and a leader in Brazil on child abuse and neglect prevention. The Conference was dedicated to Farinatti, who died in 2004.

July 12, 2007
7 Founders from 7 Regions:
Kim Oates, an ISPCAN founder, Australia

July 11, 2007
Read about ISPCAN’s origins, in an excerpt of Chapter 1, from The Story of ISPCAN

July 10, 2007

ISPCAN Member Lucia Williams, PhD, Brazil, speaks to Positive Parenting DuPage and its partners.

July 7, 2007

ISPCAN celebrates 30th Anniversary

Henry Kempe (front) with Richard Krugman (right)
Remembering Henry Kempe:
A letter from Dr. Richard D. Krugman

7 Founders from 7 Regions:
Richard Krugman, an ISPCAN founder, North America

ISPCAN invites National Partners to participate in Global Quiz to raise public awareness on child abuse and neglect

May 1, 2007
Combating Global Child Abuse and Neglect:
Combating Global Child Abuse and Neglect: Jerome McDonnell of Chicago Public Radio’s World View interviews ISPCAN Executive Director Kimberly Svevo and Joan van Niekerk, Coordinator for SASPCAN, ISPCAN’s National Partner in South Africa.

April 12, 2007
Jaap Doek visits ISPCAN
Jaap Doek visits ISPCAN
“In the field of child abuse and neglect, no other organization has the expertise to do training that ISPCAN does,” said Jaap Doek, outgoing Chairperson of the UN Committee on the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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Combating Child Trafficking
January 29, 2008

Andrey Makhanko, Executive Director, Ponimanie, Belarus; Mark Rodgers, PhD, Dean and Professor of the Graduate School of Social Work, Dominican University, USA; and Salvador Cicero-Dominguez, attorney and advisor to the Organization of American States, USA.

World Day for the
Prevention of Child Abuse
November 19, 2007

James Garbarino, PhD, Director of The Center for the Human Rights of Children, Loyola University, USA, and Barbara Bonner, PhD, ISPCAN’s Past President and Director of the Center on Child Abuse and Neglect at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, USA.

Taking Strides to Prevent
Child Abuse in Saudi Arabia

August 6, 2007

Dr. Maha al Muneef, Executive Director, Saudi Arabia National Family Safety Program, Saudi Arabia, and Kimberly Svevo, Executive Director, ISPCAN, USA.

Combating Global Child Abuse and Neglect, particularly
in South Africa

May 1, 2007

Joan van Niekerk, Coordinator, South African Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (SASPCAN), South Africa, and Kimberly Svevo, Executive Director, ISPCAN, USA.
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