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Archived Community Resource Packets
The following community resource packets were developed to support individuals, organizations, and communities in their efforts to promote safe children and healthy families. Within each packet are many resources and parenting tip sheets that organizations and individuals can use to help keep children safe in their communities and get the word out about the need to support families.
Promoting Healthy Families in Your Community : 2008 Resource Packet
This Resource Guide was written to support service providers in their work with parents, caregivers, and their children to strengthen families and prevent child abuse and neglect. The guide includes information about protective factors that help reduce the risk of child maltreatment, strategies for changing how communities support families, and evidence-informed practices. It also offers suggestions for enhancing protective factors in families, tools to build awareness and develop community partnerships, information about child abuse and neglect, a directory of national organizations that work to strengthen families, and tip sheets in English and Spanish on specific parenting topics.
Safe Children and Healthy Families are a Shared Responsibility: 2006 Community Resource Packet [includes poster] = Los Niños Fuera de Peligro y las Familias Saludables son una Responsabilidad Compartida: Sea un HÉROE en su Comunidad (2006)
Written in both English and Spanish, this information packet contains resources designed to help communities, organizations, and individuals raise public awareness about supporting families and preventing child abuse and neglect. The packet includes the following: an overview of family support and how it can help prevent abuse and neglect; what organizations can do to promote safe children and healthy families, including building on family strengths; tips for building successful collaborations; ways organizations can develop and deliver effective messages to promote family support; examples of community awareness activities including a sample article written for the Opinion/Editorial (OpEd) section of a local ...
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Gateways to Prevention: What Everyone Can Do to Prevent Child Abuse. Child Abuse Prevention Community Resource Packet, Second Edition.
This information packet contains resources designed to help communities, organizations, and individuals raise public awareness about the prevention of child abuse and neglect. These materials were originally collected and presented by the Office on Child Abuse and Neglect (OCAN) and the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information, in partnership with Prevent Child Abuse America, for Child Abuse Prevention Month (April) 2003. The packet, now updated for 2004, includes the following: an overview of child abuse prevention (national scope of the problem, what is child abuse, and what is child abuse prevention); what organizations can do (leading your community ...
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