Action for Child Protection (Action) is a private non-profit organization with its headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina and its executive office in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Action is dedicated to the innovative and assertive strengthening and improvement of child protection efforts on behalf of children and families through a multi-disciplinary approach that encourages public and private partnerships. Action creates sensible solutions which increase the competence of professionals in child welfare (child abuse and neglect, foster care, adoptions, youth services), provides the tools needed to enhance the effectiveness of agencies and organizations involved in child protection, and increases community awareness and understanding of child abuse and neglect and child protection. Through expert services in technical assistance, training, and evaluation, Action provides the resources that individuals, groups, and planning and decision-making bodies need to improve the response to maltreated children and their families. Action provides a wide range of practical, realistic professional services in all aspects of child welfare services. These activities are strengthened by a national network of professionals who share the mission for which Action stands. Action approaches the difficult, often complex, challenges faced in CPS by finding answers that can be used in the real world within which child welfare agencies exist and work.