Introduction

Child Abuse Help, Love, and Understanding

A resource page with links to organizations,crisis
line phone numbers, information, and messages
to children, adult survivors, their supporters, and
concerned parents

You are here because you are:

* An adult survivor of childhood abuse
* A concerned parent, professional, or supporter
* An abused child

Child Abuse includes all forms of corporal punishment, ritual abuse, sexual abuse and neglect. There is support and help available. This site is intended as a resource for finding the type of help that interests you.
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This Weeks News Clip
CHICAGO In 1994, Michael, was one of 19 children taken from what police called "a living hell" at 219 Keystone Avenue in Chicago. The children were living amidst filth and cockroaches, fighting the dog for food. They became known as the Keystone Kids. When Darryl and Madlyn Calhoun first saw the little boy in the news reports, they claimed him for their own. "We were looking for a child to put into the Calhoun home, and the Keystone story broke, and Madlyn said 'I'll take him sight unseen,'" said Ed Farmer of Aunt Martha's Youth Service Center. Ten days later, Michael was in the Calhouns' foster home. Michael has cerebral palsy. When he was first rescued, he was a 4-year-old who couldn't walk, talk or even eat. He drank only from a bottle and had to be carried everywhere. But nearly five years of love and attention later, he can walk, talk and even run. "The first time he fed himself, we called everyone we knew. It was such an accomplishment for him. It was something he had never done before," Darryl Calhoun said. Since the story broke in 1994, there have been 14,000 more cases of child abuse or neglect reported in Cook County. Of the 19 children taken from the apartment on Keystone Avenue, all obtained assistance and are doing well.