About Us

The Canadian Centre for Child Protection is a charitable organization dedicated to the personal safety of all children. The Canadian Centre’s goal is to reduce child victimization by providing programs and services to Canadians. We do this through public awareness activities, our personal safety education program (Kids in the Know), our national tipline to report online sexual abuse of children (Cybertip.ca), our program to help organizations prevent child sexual abuse (Commit to Kids), and our new national missing children services program (MissingKids.ca).

We were incorporated in April 1985 as Child Find Manitoba following the disappearance and murder of 13-year-old Candace Derksen. Candace’s mother, Wilma, and a group of dedicated volunteers created the organization to provide the essential services that Wilma’s family didn’t have access to throughout and following her daughter’s disappearance. Over the past 25 years, Child Find Manitoba grew to provide national intervention, education, and prevention programs. To more accurately reflect its national role in the protection of children, on May 25, 2006, International Missing Children’s Day, the organization was renamed the Canadian Centre for Child Protection.