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National
Child Labor Committee
NCLC Fact Sheet
The National Child Labor Committee (NCLC)
is a private, non-profit organization
founded in 1904 and incorporated by an
Act of Congress in 1907 with the mission
of "promoting the rights,
awareness, dignity, well-being and
education of children and youth as they
relate to work and working."
Even with years of enlightened laws and
public scrutiny, the work of NCLC’s
founding visionaries is still relevant
and necessary today. Now in its
tenth decade, NCLC dedicates its efforts
to:
* Educating children about the world of
work
* Preventing the exploitation of children
and youth in the labor market
* Improving the health and education
opportunities for the children of the
migrant farmworkers
* Increasing public awareness of the work
done day-in and day-out on behalf of the
nation’s children
As advocates, technical assistance
providers, researchers, and catalysts,
the National Child Labor Committee works
across the nation with corporations,
government agencies, and nonprofit
organizations. Under broad-based
funding from individual contributors,
foundations and corporations, NCLC
continues to be a leading force working
on behalf of this country’s young
people in the areas of child labor law,
youth occupational safety and health, and
education. Some of our current programs
include:
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 The Lewis Hine Awards honor
ten individuals for their unheralded
volunteer or professional work that
betters the lives of America’s
youth. The awards are the result of
hundreds of nominations from the
country’s governors, mayors,
CEO’s and nonprofit leaders.
In addition, Distinguished Service Awards
are presented to individuals in the
public eye who have shown unsurpassed
commitment to improving the lives of
children. Recent recipients include
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Michael Bolton
and Joan Ganz Cooney. At the ceremony,
NCLC also presents at the Ron Brown
award, memoralizing NCLC’s former
Board Chair, and honoring those like Mr.
Brown who overcame prejudice and
discrimination in their lifetime and used
their success to help others do the same.
* NCLC is a Certified Technical
Assistance Provider under the Federal
School to Work Act. Click here for a link
to our T.A. Provider Profile at the
National School-to-Work Learning and
Information Center, www.stw.ed.gov
* NCLC is a Member of the National
Mentoring Technical Assistance Corps www.mentoring.org,
a network of people and communities
providing assistance to youth serving
organizations towards the development of
mentoring opportunities for
America’s youth.
* NCLC works with companies and
other organizations in the areas of child labor law compliance and
transforming the workplace into a
learning environment. In one model
program, NCLC assisted the Burger King
Corporation in retooling those corporate
policies and training practices related
to its youth employees. NCLC conducts
research and evaluations of child labor
law, and health and safety compliance and
advises management as to how to
effectively implement its
recommendations. To ensure that
compliance changes are systemic and
sustainable over time, NCLC provides
supervisors and managers with training
and materials.
* The National Institute on Occupational
Safety and Health has contracted with
NCLC to analyze all youth worker
fatalities that have taken place in the
country over the past five years.
Based on this information, NCLC will make
recommendations for legislative and
practical worksite changes that will help
prevent such occurrences from happening
in the future.
* NCLC was a founding member of the
National Youth Employment Coalition and
continues to be a driving force in its
ongoing efforts. The coalition
brings together diverse groups who share
common concerns about youth and work.
* NCLC is a member of the National
Farmworker Health and Education
Coalition, helping expand opportunities
for the children of migrant farmworkers.
Highlights of NCLC’s work over
the last two decades include:
* From 1990-1998, NCLC has worked to
assure the presence of strong state and
federal child labor laws and to ensure
the health and safety of young people
entering the workforce.
* From 1980-89, NCLC played a pivotal
role in expanding and improving secondary
school cooperative education
programs. Through this effort, many
more high school students across the
country were given the opportunity to
participate in quality work experiences.
 In 1979, for the U.S.
Department of Labor, NCLC created
the first-ever compendium of labor laws
that exist in all fifty states. NCLC
gathered and analyzed the available data
to create the compendium and made
recommendations as to how states could
modernize their laws. Even today,
this compendium is the only one of its
kind.
* In 1979, NCLC assisted the
Federal government in improving its
Summer Youth Employment program, which
until that point was mostly comprised of
"make- work." NCLC
helped make the project a more positive
and useful experience for students and
employers.
Today, the National Child Labor Committee
continues to seek new ways to improve the
lives of young people as they grow and
develop. NCLC’s work with a
broad range of entities--small and large
businesses, private, public, and
nonprofit agencies--is indicative of the
widespread needs that exist for young
people today in relation to work and
working, and NCLC’s longstanding
commitment to meeting those needs.
 
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