Building Together: Prevention in Partnership is this year’s prevention theme for Child Abuse Prevention Month in Virginia. It highlights that we all have a role in disrupting the cycles of child abuse, neglect and poverty by strengthening Virginia’s families and communities.

This year’s toolkit includes resources on:

• How home visiting helps

• Facts on Opioid overdoses

• Using a trauma-informed approach

• Tips on preventing youth bullying, including cyberbullying

• How to talk with and help youth who may identify as LGBTQ

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This year’s packet is now digital to make it easier for you to grab and share what you want, when you want.  We’ve also developed a series of social media posts that you can use for Child Abuse Prevention Month and throughout the year to reinforce #GreatChildhoods and #GreatChildhoodsVA! Just be sure to tag @FamiliesForwardVirginia on Facebook, @FamiliesForwardVa on Instagram and @Families4wardVa on Twitter so we can share your posts too!

 

Funding for developing our child abuse prevention toolkit was provided by the Virginia Department of Social Services with a Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention Grant from the Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.