The Kempe Foundation

The Kempe Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1976, provides the education, advocacy and fundraising support for the work of The Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect. http://www.kempe.org/ Kempe is partnering with policy makers, human service agencies, child advocacy groups and nonprofits locally and around the nation and globe to prevent child abuse and neglect and to treat victims of abuse and neglect. Dr. C. Henry Kempe a field pioneer who first identified child abuse founded the C. Henry Kempe National Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect in 1972, which is known today as The Kempe Center. Since then, The Kempe Foundation has provided the education, advocacy and fundraising to support the outstanding programs at The Kempe Center. Through the work we do today under our four CARE pillars clinical care, advocacy, research and education we are a part of a game-changing, paradigm shift i...