| NEW YARD SIGN CAMPAIGN | The National Board of Directors of Prevent Child Abuse America recently approved two resolutions that have a direct consequence for Prevent Child Abuse Minnesota, our state chapter. These two resolutions include:
- An affirmation of the pinwheel as the symbol of Prevent Child Abuse America and its chapter network; and,
- An affirmation that a strategic priority for Prevent Child Abuse America and its chapter network is to create, lead, and advance a nationwide movement for the prevention of child abuse and neglect.
Order Your Yard Signs Now
Part of creating and advancing this new movement included the work we accomplished in 2010 in reframing our prevention messages. These new messages will be available as yard signs so that you can use them in your Child Abuse Prevention Month Campaigns. The yard signs will be two-sided (as shown below), and you can order yard signs at this link. Posters Accompany Yard Signs. Give Your Input!
The brief message of the yard signs makes people wonder how do we help children and how does helping children help us all? AND what can we do? To answer these questions, we are also creating printable posters (sample shown here) available for April that our partners throughout the state can post everywhere. We want your ideas for printable posters! Send them to Priscilla Bennett at pbennett@pcamn.org. What would you like your poster to say? |
| PCAMN Videoconference 02/08/11 |
It Takes All of Us: Making, Marketing, and Managing a Movement Videoconference on February 8, 2011
Planning for April 2011
Learn more about the prevention movement in progress direct from Prevent Child Abuse America at our videoconference on February 8, 2011. You can also get ideas from this workshop on planning your April events for Child Abuse Prevention Month. Click on this link to register for the videoconference. |
| Fatherhood Conference |
Minnesota Fatherhood & Family Services Summit
Join MFFN at their annual conference, the 2011 Fatherhood & Family Services Summit, January 24-25, 2011 at the St. Cloud Kelly Inn, Minnesota.
Presenters will address topics of co-parenting, family relationships, parenting and paternity education, child wellbeing, and much more. This conference is ideal for professionals working in areas of corrections, child support, child welfare, early education, early childhood programming, fatherhood programs, family law, teen pregnancy prevention, maternal/child health, family relations, social work, violence prevention, and related fields.
Keynote Presentations
Making it Work: Co-parenting, a Key Factor in Father Involvement: Carolyn and Phil Cowan, Professors of Psychology Emeriti at the University of California, Berkeley
Marriage on the Edge: Implications for Co-parenting: Bill Doherty, Marriage and Family Therapist, Professor in the Family Social Science Department at the University of Minnesota
Revolutionary, but Not a Renegade: Taking a Family Centered Approach to Child Support in Texas: Michael Hayes, Deputy for Family Initiatives in the Child Support Division of the Texas Office of the Attorney General
Register now at this link: www.mnfathers.org/summit.html |
| Upcoming Webinars from JWRC |
Starting in 2011, the Jacob Wetterling Resource Center and the Center for Effective Discipline (CED) will be offering webinars every second Tuesday of the month. Not only that, but the first two webinars of 2011 will be totally and completely F-R-E-E! After that, the webinar fee will be $15 per household. This is the perfect opportunity for parents, teachers or anyone who works closely with kids to learn more about the issues facing today's youth. Webinars will be from 6:00 to 7:30 CST. Each presenter will have time for a question and answer portion after the webinar. Click here for more information. |
| Silly Bands for Sale |
 Prevent Child Abuse Illinois is selling two different versions of Silly Bands right now. They have Blue Ribbon silly bands and Pinwheel silly bands. Check them out at this link! |
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| Circle of ParentsŪ | |
We offer free community-based support groups for parents and children. Click here for more information. |
| PCAMN Links |
PreventionWorks: Fall/Winter 2010 Newsletter from PCAMN on Understanding Neglect
ParentPower: November 2010 Newsletter from the Parent Leadership Team on Parental Resilience
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