You’ve probably noticed the many silver/blue pinwheels throughout the agency main campus. They’re to raise awareness that April is Child Abuse Prevention Month in Washington State (and across the USA). If you want to help spread the word, download the attached media toolkit from the Department of Early Learning Strengthening Families. It gives some good information on the outreach and how to get involved.

The following excerpt is from page 3:

Working to Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect
There’s no one solution to keeping kids safe. There’s no one agency, no one organization and no one person that can protect all our children. It takes a village to raise a child. It takes all of us to prevent child abuse and neglect.
Here at Strengthening Families Washington, we work at the family level to find solutions and support families. Families come in an array of shapes and sizes. There is no one right way of being a family. There are, however, best practices to support all families. We want to find the programs that support families, help them grow and realize their full potential, just like the children we endeavor to help.
Each year, in April, we highlight our prevention work with the national Child Abuse Prevention Month. The pinwheel represents the happy, healthy childhood every child deserves. We will join with organizations across the country to highlight happy childhoods and our ongoing prevention work.
We work closely with our partners because we cannot do this alone. No one can do this alone. From our family to yours, thanks for your support,
-The Strengthening Families Washington Program