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NCMEC
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, the USA's largest child-protection organisation, on the resources it creates for children and the people who keep them safe.
Help, guides and reports
Resources
Where to find help now, what families can read and do together, and our reports.
Resources
Something to read, something to do
Pick one: our reader turns the page to it.
Online safety for children
Lessons for young people on staying safe online, from our family programme in the USA.
Why child abuse?
90% of abused children know their abusers
Child abuse and neglect are serious public health problems with a long-term impact on health, opportunity and wellbeing. There are four common types.
Physical abuse
Using force on purpose in a way that can hurt or injure a child.
Sexual abuse
Pressuring or forcing a child to engage in sexual acts, or exposing a child to them.
Emotional abuse
Behaviour that harms a child's self-worth or emotional well-being: name-calling, shaming, rejection, threats.
Neglect
Failing to meet a child's basic needs: housing, food, clothing, education and medical care.
Why Mongolian children?
Many Mongolian children face abuse at home and at school, and those in child labour face it at work too. An alarming number are trafficked for labour and sexual exploitation. The harm lasts and spreads: children carry their anger and pain to siblings, peers and the next generation.
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children were sexually assaulted in 2015 and 2016, and about 48% of them by family members or relatives, according to Mongolia's General Prosecutor's Office. Mongolia has laws on domestic violence and child protection, but they are still not enforced well enough.
Sources: the CDC and Mongolia's General Prosecutor's Office, as cited on lantuundohio.org/why-child-abuse.
Get help now
If you or a child needs help
Survivors of abuse can ask for help at any time, no matter how long ago it happened, and in any language. These services are free.
We are not an emergency service
In danger now? Call 911 in the USA or 105 in Mongolia. For anything else, write to info@lantuundohio.org or call 1-844-678-0254 and we will help you find the right service.
In the USA
Doorways hotline (24/7)
Crisis support, safety planning and shelter for people affected by domestic or sexual violence, in any language.
Inova FACT (24/7)
Free medical care and forensic exams for survivors of physical or sexual violence. Ask to page the SANE nurse.
Report child sexual abuse material online
Report images, videos or groups that exploit children to NCMEC's CyberTipline. We report what we find there too.
Arlington County Police (non-emergency)
To report an assault when there is no immediate danger.
In Mongolia
Child Helpline 108 (24/7, free)
Хүүхдийн тусламжийн утас. Children, or anyone worried about a child, can call from any phone in Mongolia, day or night.
For families
Learn, talk, stay safe
Guides and people to talk to, for parents, children and the whole community.
Workshops for parents
Culturally specific workshops on parenting, healthy family life and preventing abuse, for the Mongolian community around Washington, DC.
Online safety for children and teens
Lessons on staying safe online and offline. NCMEC's NetSmartz has free videos and activities by age.
Free legal and community help
Organisations that help whatever your immigration status: Just Neighbors, the Domestic Violence Resource Project and Legal Services of Northern Virginia.
Our podcast
Conversations with Project PEACE, Inova FACT and others, in English and Mongolian.
Child online safety
A toolkit for parents
Online crimes against children rose after the COVID-19 lockdowns. With the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), we bring the guides and videos to Mongolian families, in their own language.
Start with a conversation
Watch an episode of our series with your child, then read the guide for the whole family. The series is in Mongolian.
Монгол · MongolianAdventures in the Digital Cloud · Season 1
"Цахим Үүлэн Дэх Адал Явдал" - Улирал 1, Анги 1
Download
Guides in Mongolian
Four tip sheets from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, officially translated into Mongolian at our request. Free to print and share.
Reports and financials
Our audit reports and IRS Form 990s since 2017, as published.
Watch
See the work for yourself
Films from the centres, our campaigns and the news, from our channels in the USA, Mongolia and Australia. Many are in Mongolian: each one is marked.
EnglishLantuun Dohio USA · 2017 · 4:27
Magic Mongolia project by Lantuun Dohio
Podcast
Conversations that keep children safe
We talk with child-protection groups, police, forensic nurses and community groups, in English and in Mongolian.
Listen
Find us where you listen
Conversations in English and Mongolian with the people who keep children and families safe: child-protection organisations, police, forensic nurses, community groups and Mongolians working in the USA. Hosted by Geser B., Bolormaa T., Enkh-Ochir B., Oyudari B., Nominsuren M.
Episodes
One conversation at a time
Each guest in English and in Mongolian, so the whole community can listen. Pick an episode below.
Give a child a safe place
$30 gives one basic kit of essentials for a child: soap, shampoo, sanitary goods, slippers, socks, underwear and towels. 100% of your gift goes to the programmes in Mongolia.
Secure checkout on our site. Psst: the stickers peel off.