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We All Can Play a Part in Building Community, Building Hope

We All Can Play a Part in Building Community, Building Hope

April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. This month and throughout the year, Washburn County Health and Human Services Child Protection Unit encourages all individuals and organizations to play a role in making Washburn County, WI a better place for children and families. By ensuring that parents have the knowledge, skills, and resources they need to care for their children, we can help prevent child abuse and neglect by making meaningful connections with children, youth and families in our communities. Research shows that protective factors are present in healthy families. Promoting these factors is among the most effective ways to reduce the risk of child abuse and neglect. They are: 

  • Nurturing and attachment
  • Knowledge of parenting and of child and youth development
  • Parental resilience
  • Social connections
  • Concrete supports for parents
  • Social and emotional competence of children

April is a time to celebrate the important role that communities play in protecting children and strengthening families.  Everyone’s participation is critical. Focusing on ways to connect with families is the best thing our community can do to strengthen families and prevent child abuse and neglect.  Washburn County resources for families with children include, child protection and child welfare services, children’s long term support, Birth to 3 coordination, Coordinated Services Teaming,  juvenile justice and intake, foster home and kinship care coordination, WIC, Child Support, Economic Support and children’s mental health services. Information can be found on our website: http://www.co.washburn.wi.us/departments/ or call 715-468-4747.  Also, check out our Pinwheels for Prevention pinwheel garden planted on the front lawn of the Washburn County Health and Human Services Ed Elliot Building 110 4th Avenue, Shell Lake. 

April 2017 Child Abuse Prevention campaign slogan is “Say Something, Do Something.”

In support of these efforts, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Children’s Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, its Child Welfare Information Gateway, the FRIENDS National Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention and over 30 National Prevention Partners have created 2016/2017 Prevention Resource Guide: Building Community, Building Hope. The resource guide, designed for service providers who work throughout the community to strengthen families, is available online at https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubPDFs/guide_2017.pdf

Last Update: Apr 18, 2017 9:51 am CDT

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