Pinwheels for Prevention
Pinwheels for Prevention® campaigns provide a unique opportunity for individuals and organizations to take action. Discover how you can get involved.
412 results found for Child Abuse Prevention Month
Pinwheels for Prevention® campaigns provide a unique opportunity for individuals and organizations to take action. Discover how you can get involved.
To thrive, children require relationships and contexts that support their healthy development in safe, consistent, and age-appropriate ways. Daily headlines remind us that all too many children, at the hands of those responsible for their care—be it family, friends, coaches, and/or faith leaders—have their rights violated through acts of violence. A recent series of articles in the New York Times highlighted the enormity of the problem of child sexual abuse victimization. Last year alone, 45 million images and videos of child sexual abuse were identified online, double the number from the previous year. Despite having done this work for decades, statistics like this continue to unsettle me. We have such a long way to go in our prevention efforts because we know that for every existing image there are multiple other children and youth being victimized in similar ways.
Prevent Child Abuse America® (PCA America) advocates for policies and services that strengthen families and communities, promote healthy child development, and prevent child abuse and neglect before it occurs.
Watch the selection from Oprah Winfrey’s statements at our 50th Anniversary gala.
Together, Prevent Child Abuse America and Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago hosted a virtual Child Tax Credit (CTC) Convening in May 2023. The convening was a two-day collaboration of caregivers with lived experience, leading researchers, and policy experts to discuss the role, importance and impact of the CTC, and other economic supports for families. Facilitated conversations took place on the impact that the CTC, particularly the expanded CTC as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, had in supporting families and reducing familial stress – a risk factor for child abuse and neglect.
The goal of the May Convening was to better understand the role that the CTC has in strengthening family financial stability and thereby preventing crises that could lead to unnecessary involvement with child protective services and other costly interventions. Additionally, we sought to learn more about the research, evidence, current policy landscape, and the opportunities for considerations relative to the CTC to inform future research and policy efforts.
The insights from these discussions were used to shape this Information Brief and will be used as a guide to influence our current and future CTC policy and research efforts. Download the Brief below:
For many of us, music is a key part of life, helping us pass time, increasing our productivity, or simply making us smile. But did you know that music can also have a major impact on your child’s development? Research has shown that music can have many positive effects on a growing child.
Recent reports have made clear that children continue to be separated from their parents and caregivers at the southern U.S. border, despite an official end to the Administration’s zero-tolerance policy. By our government’s own definition, these actions constitute undeniable child abuse. Prevent Child Abuse America’s mission is to prevent the abuse and neglect of every child. As such, we implore the President and legislators to work together to change this practice now.
Angelo P. Giardino is the Wilma T. Gibson Presidential Professor and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Utah’s School of Medicine and Chief Medical Officer at Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital, in Salt Lake City, Utah. He received his medical degree and doctorate in education from the University of Pennsylvania, completed his residency and fellowship training at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), and earned a master’s degree in public health from the University of Massachusetts.
On our Paper Tigers resource page, you’ll find links to download and print the handouts you saw as samples while attending a screening of Paper Tigers sponsored by the Prevent Child Abuse America chapter in your state.