All Children Deserve #GreatChildhoods

Please click on the link below for an updated video message from Dr. Merrick, explaining how Prevent Child Abuse America has pivoted and adapted its programs (e.g., virtual home visits and new chapter-developed resources) to address the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on America’s children and families:

Published in the Child & Adolescent Social Work Journal, this study provides social work and other advocates with state-level estimates of the economic burden of child maltreatment and facilitates the interpretation of the findings to be used in advocacy efforts.

In 2008, we introduced the pinwheel as a national symbol of great childhoods, and our Pinwheels for Prevention® initiative has grown and flourished ever since. In these uncertain times, raising awareness for child abuse and neglect prevention is especially important, even if we can’t physically plant our signature pinwheel gardens together. That’s why we’ve made this year’s garden 100% virtual—and nationwide.

Thanks to everyone who participated in our nationwide Digital Advocacy Day, on April 28…because of you, nearly 1,200 messages were sent to 271 members of Congress. Stay tuned to our Policy Action Center for more opportunities to get involved and support children and families nationwide.