January 2024 - Special Edition

Each year, Prevent Child Abuse Indiana provides a significant professional development opportunity in order to share information, resources, and cutting-edge content. As you know, the work of child abuse prevention cannot effectively take place in silos or by select individuals in specific roles alone but must be a collective and collaborative effort by every citizen.

Please consider joining us for one, two or all three webinars for a great learning experience and ideas for implementation in your community. (You can click on the flyer below to visit our website.)

January is Human Trafficking Prevention Month, a presidentially designated observance designed to educate the public about human trafficking and the role they can play in preventing and responding to human trafficking. National Human Trafficking Prevention Month is an opportunity to raise awareness and provide education on how to prevent and respond to the issue of human trafficking. In addition, Human Trafficking Awareness Day/Wear Blue Day is Jan 11th.

Human trafficking is a public health issue and crime that affects individuals, families, and communities across generations, exploiting the most vulnerable among us and weakening our collective well-being. Human trafficking, as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, is a commercial sex act induced by force, fraud, or coercion or when a person induced to perform such an act is not yet 18 years old; or the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.

The 2022 Annual Report of Child Abuse & Neglect Fatalities in Indiana was recently released by the Department of Child Services.

While this is not a light read, it is important information for all Indiana child abuse preventionists to know. Please click here to access this sobering information.

Kids First Support of Prevent Child Abuse Indiana

We thank Kids First for continuing to support our charge in ensuring that our mission to "make Indiana a better, safer place for Indiana's most precious resources - our children" is achieved.

Help support statewide efforts to prevent child abuse and neglect by the continued use of the Kids First license plate, or when your plates are due again by purchasing the Kids First license plate. For more information, please visit their website. Funding from the Kids First plates helps us work with our Prevention Councils throughout Indiana.

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Prevent Child Abuse Indiana

A Division of The Villages of Indiana

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