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Suzanne Greenberg, President/CEO of CAN (Council of Saginaw County), kicked of Day Two of the 2007 Children's Trust Fund Conference in Jefferson City.
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What does it mean to live in poverty? What are the challenges? How do you cope? What does it do to a family? While there's no way to really "simulate" poverty, Angela K. Hirsch, Community Services Directory, explains how the Central Missouri Community Action organization approximates poverty.
The two hour exercise opens the 2007 Children's Trust Fund Conference [Photos] underway in Jefferson City, Missouri.
The Junior League of Springfield is expected to open the doors of Isabel's House, the Crisis Nursery of the Ozarks, by the end of May. Winter storms delayed construction for the $1.6 million facility being built in the 2700 block of West Bennett Street.
Dana Carroll, administrator of early childhood services at Community Partnership of the Ozarks, said a crisis nursery will reduce southwest Missouri's child abuse and neglect rates -- a region with consistently high rates of documented child abuse.
Southwest Missouri placed 12,440 calls to the state's child abuse and neglect hotline in 2005 from a total of 54,108 calls logged statewide. It was the highest regional call volume, exceeding St. Louis' 11,614 and Kansas City's 8,680. [News-Leader]
Gov. Matt Blunt has joined U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway in the official launch of the "I Know Better" (INOBTR) campaign to help stop Internet predators from targeting children. INOBTR is a new not-for-profit campaign that will provide Missourians with information about online predators with the use of innovative strategies to communicate with children about the dangers that can be found on the Internet. Parents will also be given the opportunity to attend workshops and seminars about the Internet, its related dangers, and effective parenting techniques.
Last year, Blunt signed legislation to create the Cyber Crime Grant Program. This year the governor is asking the General Assembly to double funding for this program and set aside an additional $250,000 for local law enforcement so that they can purchase the equipment they need to apprehend criminals who are using the Internet to prey on Missouri’s children. [UPI Photo/Bill Greenblatt]
