Memorandum
Date: April 1, 2025
To: The Honorable Lake County Board of Supervisors
From: Board of Supervisors
Subject: Adopt Proclamation Designating the Month of April 2025 as Child Abuse Prevention Month
Executive Summary:
WHEREAS, approximately three million children are reported abused and neglected in the United States each year; and its estimated that over 1,990 children died from abuse and neglect in a single year. Five children die every day from child abuse. 66.1% percent of all child fatalities were younger than 3 years old. 81.8% of child fatalities involve at least one parent and of the children who died, 76.4% suffered child neglect and 42.1% suffered physical abuse either exclusively or in combination with another maltreatment type; and
WHEREAS, child abuse prevention is a community problem, and all citizens should become more aware of the effects of child abuse and its prevention, and finding solutions depends on the involvement of people throughout the community; and
WHEREAS, effective child abuse prevention programs succeed because of partnerships created among social service agencies, schools, religious and civic organizations, law enforcement agencies, and the business community to support parents in raising their children in safe and nurturing environments; and
WHEREAS, current local initiatives to prevent child abuse include: a countywide collaboration between Lake County Children's Council and Building Resilient Lake County produced a Comprehensive Prevention Plan, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Overcomers education, the Nurturing Families Program, Abriendo Puertas, Positive Indian Parenting, Differential Response, Redwood Community Services and Lake County Office of Education Wrap Around Services, MotherWise, Lake County Tribal Health Home Visitation Program, County of Lake California Home Visiting Program, Lake Family Resource Center Family Empowerment, the Science of the Positive, and so many more; a...
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