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About Child Frontiers Voices
Overview
Child Frontiers VOICES aims to influence the child protection sector in positive ways to be more innovative, effective, and forward-thinking. Building on and supporting others’ endeavour, we aim to be a catalyst or spark for change. We seek to be bold, prepared to disrupt our assumptions and question ingrained ways of doing things. We believe that supporting the next generation of leaders, especially in the Global South and among historically underrepresented populations, is a key to effecting change. Child Frontiers VOICES seeks to bring about practical, tangible improvements in child protection around the world.
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Key tenets
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Exploring – we examine unanswered questions, imagine and propose fresh, innovative solutions.
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Thinking – we are convenors, advocates, synthesizers.
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Doing – we disseminate knowledge and establish practical initiatives and projects that include measurable goals and further steps for long-term sustainability.
Values and Principles
Child Frontiers VOICES is values-led, anchored in robust and current humanitarian and development principles. At a minimum, we commit to:
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Recognising our duty and responsibility to effect change and leave a positive legacy
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Building and generating localised, contextualised initiatives-led, wherever possible, by people whose lives will be impacted
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Ensuring that our work does not replicate colonial imbalance and power biases
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Minimizing our own echo chamber that reinforces prevailing norms and assumptions
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Demystifying our work, guaranteeing access to ideas and concepts and promoting genuine inclusion
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Finding cost-effective, fiscally responsible ways to work, ensuring resources are maximized, and go to the right people
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Working with integrity, openness, humility and humbleness.
CURRENT EVENTS
Webinar Series
19th March 2026
Responding to tens of millions of CyberTipline reports concerning offenders and child victims around the world, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) will share the current landscape of online child sexual exploitation.
Emerging threats include a staggering increase in online enticement, child sex trafficking, financial sexual extortion of children, sadistic and violent exploitation groups, and challenges ahead with the rise of generative artificial intelligence. NCMEC's response, support of survivors, and resources for child serving professionals will be highlighted.
Heather M. Girton has been with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) since 2015 and currently serves as a Program Specialist within the CyberTipline. In her role she is responsible for improving the process of the CyberTipline, law enforcement relations, and overseeing management staff responsible for specialized projects including ESP relations, records management, and analysis regarding ongoing and emerging trends. Additionally, Ms. Girton represents the ECD through presentations and trainings with international and domestic law enforcement and she contributes to projects that work to provide customized processing approaches. Ms. Girton has her master’s degree in Forensic Psychology and a B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Criminal Justice.
PAST EVENTS
Nairobi Dialogue
25-26 Nov 2025
Inaugural Event
Child Frontiers VOICES presented our first regional dialogue: The Next Chapter: Re-thinking children’s care and protection in East and Southern Africa
The dialogue took place in Nairobi on 25 & 26 November 2025.
This event, using Open Space Technology, brought together leaders, practitioners and innovators to explore the most pressing issues concerning children’s care and protection in East and Southern Africa, and reflect how our community can work collectively in the future.
Information on this can be found HERE