The Child Abuse Prevention Program's goal is to insure that all children receive their basic right to safety so that they can have the opportunity to grow and thrive. Teaching children to recognize, resist and report physical and sexual abused helps to keep them safe and works to end the cycle of abuse. By giving children a chance to feel loved and valued, they can embrace their childhood and achieve their potential.

Child Safety Workshop
The cornerstone of CAPP's work is an award-winning program that utilizes life-sized Kids On The Block puppets to educate eight and nine year olds about physical and sexual abuse. This unique program provides third graders with the tools to decipher between safe and unsafe touch. The workshop offers the children the opportunity to speak privately with a CAPP-certified Prevention Specialist or a CAPP trained school guidance counselor directly following the workshop, which provides children who have experienced some type of abuse the chance to request help and begin the process of intervention immediately.

The Children's Clothes Closet Project
Being removed from an abusive environment can be very scary for a child. In response, CAPP created The Children's Clothes Closet Project to help ease the child through the change. The Closet is stocked with clothing, toiletries, toys, books, and other necessities to fill overnight bags for children being moved to safer situations.

CAPP has partnered with Safe Horizon Jane Barker Brooklyn Child Advocacy Center in downtown Brooklyn for more than 8 years. In 2008, CAPP opened Closets at the Safe Horizon Child Advocacy Center in Staten Island and the Hudson County Child Advocacy Center in Jersey City, NJ. A fourth Closet at the Safe Horizon Manhattan Child Advocacy Center opened in Spring 2009.

Professional Training
CAPP's Professional Training is a program used to train school guidance counselors and social workers about the dynamics of abuse. Participants are taught how to handle abuse disclosure statements from children and learn specific interviewing skills that are most effective when gathering information to make a report. The program is also appropriate for, and has been used to train law enforcement personnel, medical professionals, district attorneys, child protection workers and other community based professionals.

Adopt-A-Boro
The Child Abuse Prevention Program's newest initiative, Adopt-A-Boro, works towards increasing funding and support to educate every third grader in New York City about physical and sexual abuse through the organization's award-winning Child Safety Workshop. Individuals, corporations, and foundations who want to take a stand against child abuse in New York City can provide funding, which can be earmarked to support prevention efforts for children in a specific borough, boroughs or throughout the city.