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Emerging with Hope and Resilience
WE ARE SO GRATEFUL TO EACH OF YOU AND TO OUR PARTNER PROFESSIONALS FOR A TRULY MEANINGFUL CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION MONTH. EMERGING WITH HOPE AND RESILIENCE Learning From Our Informative April Partner Talks Our April Partner Talks were a resounding success, thanks to our wonderful partners. We were joined by three knowledgeable professionals who generously answered the questions of our audience and shared their unique expertise with us. Dr. Suzanne Giraudo, psychologist and Clinical Director at the Kalmonovitz Child Development Center at CPMC, talked about children’s fears and mental health. Giraudo shared information about how the pandemic has impacted children’s […]
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April is national child abuse prevention month! Remember, it’s the responsibility of adults like us to keep children safe.
A YEAR OF RECKONING WITH EPIDEMICS When the Disease is Child Abuse, What is the Cure? Dear Partner, April is here once again. This time last year, we were just beginning to stay home to prevent Covid’s spread. We couldn’t yet know what a far-reaching impact this disease would have on our lives. A year later, over 500,000 American lives have been lost, and many more have been severely compromised by the pandemic’s effects on nearly every aspect of family and civic life. Among those most traumatically affected by Covid have been children. As we’ve detailed in numerous PiPSpeaks over […]
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Look for the Helpers: Now More than Ever! Follow our PIPSPEAK Briefings
Dear Partner, We hope this finds you and your loved ones safe and well. Although sheltering-in-place may help to flatten the curve when it comes to COVID-19, home isn’t always a safe place for everyone. Now more than ever, we all need to be helpers for the most vulnerable around us. As we all are social distancing it makes it all the more difficult to be there for children who now are behind walls everywhere. Our most vulnerable have had a social safety network of doctors, nurses, teachers, child care providers, clergy, and police who provided the eyes and ears […]
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Happy 2020: Partners In Prevention Annual Report is Here!
Happy 2020 and we hope this newsletter finds you well! Since 2010, Partners in Prevention has worked to increase awareness of the effects of child abuse and neglect while expanding opportunities to access prevention and support services within a wide range of communities in the Bay Area and beyond. Generous donations have empowered us with the confidence to reach further and imagine new paths in pursuing our mission to prevent abuse of children. Our prevention work focuses on innovative methods to engage and educate so that children and families can create a plan for intervention before abuse occurs. A PHASED […]
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Safety Awareness Materials Now Available in 19 Languages and More!
Partners in Prevention September Newsletter Safety Awareness Materials Now Available in 19 Languages School is in and we are happy to report that after translating our Safety Awareness Education Activity Pages and Speak Out! posters into a total of 11 languages last year, we have now added 8 additional languages to reach as many children as possible and, of critical importance, their home and family members. This was made possible by a generous grant from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. While our initial focus was the Greater Bay Area, we quickly became aware of additional language needs for the K-18 […]
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A Season of Thanks
Partners in Prevention December Newsletter “We are pleased to award Partners in Prevention a grant of $75,000 … The community foundation is proud to partner with your organization, in our shared mission to strengthen the common good, improve quality of life and address the most challenging problems. We appreciate the work of your organization and are pleased to support your efforts.” We are so honored to receive this recognition of our work with the expressed support to continue and develop our education materials for children and adults through multiple language translations, the Speak Out! poster project and a broader […]
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A SINGULAR FOCUS: PREVENTION
Our dear founder and inspiration, Dr. Moses (Misha) Grossman, passed away in January. We are deeply saddened to lose this gentle, intelligent, caring and very special man. Misha leaves behind a legacy that will continue to grow; educators, health professionals, law enforcement members, faith community …all adults who strive for a safer community for children.
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Wishes Do Come True
DEAR FRIENDS, We know you care about protecting children, that’s why you are taking time now to read this, and we thank you. It seems each day we wake up to another revelation of sexual abuse by someone we thought we “knew“.
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April Is National Child Abuse Prevention Month!
The Child Abuse Prevention Month of April is right around the corner and our Safety Awareness Education characters are traveling around the US and beyond to support efforts to end child abuse by empowering children, informing adults and educating communities.
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Gratitude This Holiday Season
As the year comes to a close, we would like to send out a warm THANK YOU to all our partners in prevention! Your interest and support is what fuels our work.
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