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Canee.net is an interactive center for professionals working in the field of child abuse and neglect prevention and intervention in Eastern Europe... Canee.net was created in 2001 thanks to the financial support of Open Society Institute. The website was designed to build upon and promote the professional networks established by the Eastern European Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Program, created in 1995 by collaborative project of Open Society Institute, Soros Foundations Network and Children's Mental Health Alliance... The webpage canee.net is run by the Empowering Children Foundation (formerly Nobody's Children Foundation), based in Poland, with financial support of the OAK Foundation. It is dedicated to the problem of abused and neglected children in Central and Eastern Europe. It includes information on the scale and various dimensions of this negative phenomenon in Central and Eastern Europe - results of research, statistics and legislation in force concerning situation..