"Since 1985, NJ CAP has offered the parents, teachers and children in New Jersey empowering information around issues of child safety. Through the efforts of CAP trained facilitators in all 21 counties, more then two and a half million children have learned they have the right to be 'safe, strong & free'. I salute their efforts on behalf of New Jersey's children." - The Honorable Jon S. Corzine, Governor of New Jersey

The NJ Child Assault Prevention Project, known as CAP is a statewide prevention program with its central headquarters located at the Educational Information Resource Center(www.eirc.org) in Sewell, New Jersey. NJ CAP is supported by the New Jersey Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect and funded through the NJ Department of Human Services. It has 21 county offices with an additional office in the city of Newark and over 200 program facilitators.

Since its inception in 1985, CAP has trained over two million children, parents and teachers to prevent peer assault, stranger abduction and known adult assault. CAP seeks to integrate the best resources of a community in an effort to reduce a child or young person's vulnerability to verbal, physical and sexual assault. New Jersey's CAP projects work closely with the local school districts, parent/teacher associations and home school groups, and other community groups. CAP has a threefold educational approach to prevention which includes trainings in the following areas: Staff In service, Parent Program and Individual Classroom Workshops for children and teens. Workshops are provided for children, parents and teachers in the following programs: