Friday, March 28, 2008
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month (CAP)
Perry Carnegie Library will help promote Child Abuse Prevention with storytimes focusing on playing, reading, and family. Children's Department will have a special table filled with coloring and activity sheets and craft items beginning the first of April, for parent/grandparent can do with you child/grandchild. This years CAP theme is "It only takes a Minute"
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Libraries can really help with storytelling sessions like these. In addition, we as a society need to do a better job of detecting and reporting child abuse. For example, many teachers who notice signs of child abuse do not know how to talk to the student about it. Thus, the abuse may go unreported. A new online role-playing course lets teachers practice a conversation with a possible child abuse victim, getting expert feedback after every choice. (It was written by a former Minnesota police detective.) There's a free version and a CEU-credit version. Tools like this will help all of us to become sharper at spotting -- and stopping -- this epidemic of child abuse.
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