Our Children This Month, March 2023

April is Child Abuse Prevention Month

We are entering the month of April which was declared to be National Child Abuse Prevention Month in 1983 by then President Ronald Reagan to be observed annually to rally communities into collective action. This annual focus is important for giving visibility to the virtually incalculable costs of child abuse and neglect in every part of our communities. Early maltreatment of children is a key factor in ALL of our most intransigent social problems—school failure and high school dropouts, welfare dependency, homelessness, crime, and chronic illnesses.