A Brighter Future Starts Here!
American Society for the Positive Care of Children (American SPCC) is a national 501 (c)(3) nonprofit that is centered on improving the lives of children in the United States.
As America’s Voice for Children, we bring individuals and organizations together to improve the way children are represented, protected, and treated.
We’ve brought positive change to over 5,000,000 individuals and counting!
Together we’re planting the seeds for a brighter future.
Child Abuse Will Take The Lives Of 1,800 Children in America This Year…Unless We Act Now!
Through our Learning Center, we have provided over 5 million parents and caregivers with the tools needed to build healthy children and help save lives.
Join the community focused on nurturing, protecting and saving the future leaders of tomorrow.
A Better Future Starts Here!
Million
child abuse cases reported annually.
Children
die per day from cases of child abuse.
%
Child Fatalities
suffered from some form of neglect.
%
of cases
parents are the abuser.
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
Frederick Douglass
HOW YOU CAN HELP
69% of parents say that if they knew more positive parenting strategies they would use them.
Through our Learning Center, American SPCC provides valuable resource kits to mitigate and prevent childhood toxic stress while empowering children’s infinite potential.
To support more families and expand this program, we need your help.
Your gift will provide immediate and proven life-changing resources to caregivers in your community and across the nation. This expansion is important, because there are families who need this right now.
Your support means we are one step closer to ensuring the wellbeing of every child, in every home.
Our Impact
Since 2011, American SPCC has provided over 5 million caregivers with the tools needed to build healthy children and a brighter future.
Every cent gifted goes directly toward impacting millions more. Find out more about how your contribution helps the cause.
A better future starts here!
Our Impact
Since 2011, American SPCC has provided over 5 million caregivers with the tools needed to build healthy children and a brighter future.
Every cent gifted goes directly toward impacting millions more. Find out more about how your contribution helps the cause.
A better future starts here!
Learning Center
Through our Learning Center, we offer the largest and most comprehensive collection of online parenting resources. Together we can ensure that every child has the chance to become an outstanding adult.
The Happy Child Parenting App
Backed by cutting-edge research from top parenting experts in the field, The Happy Child is a new kind of parenting app to help families forge deeper bonds with their children.
THE HAPPY CHILD PARENTING APP
Backed by cutting-edge research from top parenting experts in the field, The Happy Child is a new kind of parenting app to help families forge deeper bonds with their children.
Brain Story
The Brain Story explains the experiences that affect a child’s developing brain from birth into adulthood. Find out more about how the positive and negative experiences of a child’s life impact and shape their development.
IN THE WORKS
Whether we’re working on cutting-edge resources to help save lives, distributing impactful tools to child-facing individuals and establishments, or raising our collective voices for children…we’re always up to something new!
IN THE WORKS
Whether we’re working on cutting-edge resources to help save lives, distributing impactful tools to child-facing individuals and establishments, or raising our collective voices for children…we’re always up to something new!
Blog & News
We strive to bring you the information needed to ensure that children experience the happy childhoods they deserve.
Is it safe for my baby to travel in a car seat a few hours at a time?
With vaccines easing the COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of families are planning trips again. But since younger children can't get the vaccines yet, many parents are opting for longer car rides rather than traveling on crowded planes or other public transportation. If...
Dads Can Get Depression During and After Pregnancy, Too
Depression in dads is, in fact, a relatively common phenomenon―affecting anywhere between 2% and 25% of them during their partner's pregnancy or in the first year postpartum. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), this rate can increase to 50% when...
Preparing Your Child for the New School Year
"We know how to protect children from COVID-19 at school. If you look at the data, when you have kids going back to school appropriately -- that is, with masks, distancing and ventilation -- and you have vaccinated adults who work in the school, you are going to see...