Child & Family Service | April is Sexual Assault Awareness & Child Abuse and Prevention Month

April is Sexual Assault Awareness & Child Abuse and Prevention Month

April is national Sexual Assault Awareness Month as well as Prevent Child Abuse Month. Preventing child abuse before it occurs is our community’s best opportunity to help our children to develop to their full potential mentally, physically and socially. Our CFS Healthy Families program is a national model that started in our state to prevent child abuse and neglect by helping at-risk families in the first three years of children’s lives. For families already dealing with the trauma of abuse and neglect, early intervention can still have life changing impact for children and give them hope for healthy brain and emotional development.

As nonprofit and community organizations come together with month-long activities to raise awareness of these serious family issues, keeping a focus on preventing abuse, and addressing abuse and neglect as soon as possible if it is already evident, can have lifelong impact on our children and their future.

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