PARSIPPANY — On Sunday, April 26, the children at First Baptist Community Church planted pinwheels for “April is Child Abuse Prevention Month.”
The Kiwnais Club of Greater Parsippany is participating in a town-wide campaign. They have displays at Parsippany Municipal Building, Veterans Park, Cerbo Lumber, Livingston Governor House, Empire Diner, Parsippany-Troy Hill Library as well as other locations.
April was first declared Child Abuse Prevention Month by presidential proclamation in 1983. Since then, April has been a time to acknowledge the importance of families and communities working together to prevent child abuse.
In Child Maltreatment 2013 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Children, Youth and Families Children’s Bureau, it was reported that in FFY 2013 in the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, an estimated 679,000 children were victims of child abuse; and 1,484 children died as a result of abuse or neglect. The majority of child abuse cases stemmed from situations and conditions that can be preventable when community programs and systems are engaged and supportive. A community that cares about early childhood development, parental support, and maternal mental health, for instance, is more likely to foster nurturing families and healthy children.
First Baptist Community Church is located at 800 Vail Road.
