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SAVING BABIES: Sharon Rohrbach, founder of Nurses for Newborns Foundation in St. Louis, a Children's Trust Fund prevention partner organization, is among 15 finalists for Civic Ventures' Purpose Prize. The group will award $100,000 to each of five winners who will be announced in September, and at least $10,000 to each of the finalists. Rohrbach made the cut to 15 from more than 1,000 nominees. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
Police investigating the death of an infant in an unlicensed day care center in a Nixa home say the 4-month-old died accidentally. However, with 16 children in the home supervised by only one adult, police say they are investigating whether neglect was a factor in the death. [Springfield News-Leader]
The State Technical Assistance Team (STAT) will be providing four regional training workshops on Understanding and Investigating the Sexual Abuse of Children in August and September, 2007. The training is free for those in the child protection community who deal with child victims and various types of sexual offenders. This training is being underwritten through a grant by the Children's Trust Fund. Click here for online registration.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Division of Violence Prevention has published "Preventing Child Sexual Abuse Within Youth-serving Organizations: Getting Started on Policies and Procedures."
Designed to assist youth service organizations in adopting strategies to prevent child sexual abuse, the guide identifies key components of child abuse prevention and describes goals and strategies for each. The report includes discussion of screening and selecting employees and volunteers, monitoring behavior, ensuring safe environments, responding to allegations and suspicions of child sexual abuse, and training for sexual abuse prevention.
Due to the increased physical, emotional, economic, and social challenges their parents face, children with disabilities face a higher risk for abuse than children without disabilities. Compounding the problem is the fact that children with certain types of disabilities may be unable to verbalize their abuse or may not realize that what they are experiencing is not normal. The revised American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) clinical report "Maltreatment of Children with Disabilities" urges pediatricians to be alert for signs of abuse in their patients who have disabilities. Read the full article at: http://www.aap.org/advocacy/releases/may07abuse.htm
