Yes Folks! Tomorrow begins...
National Child Abuse Propaganda Month
Where all month long, CPS Agents and System Sucks of all shapes and sizes get together to glorify themselves, raise awareness, and blow the issue of child abuse and neglect out of proportion with their one size fits all labels.
National Child Abuse Propaganda Month
Where all month long, CPS Agents and System Sucks of all shapes and sizes get together to glorify themselves, raise awareness, and blow the issue of child abuse and neglect out of proportion with their one size fits all labels.
In North Texas...
Volunteers for Patsy's House Children's Advocacy Center hope to remind the public of that everyday reality by placing more than 1,300 pinwheels — one for every report of child abuse in the organization's service area
In Indiana...
The Indiana Child Abuse and Neglect Hotline received over 151,000 reports of child abuse just last year. The Agency responded to almost 95,000 of these reports to assess the allegations.
However, National Data shows that 38.3% of these reports don't even rise to the level where an investigation is warranted, and of those that are investigated, only 24.1% are substantiated...
How many children were reported and received an investigation or assessment for abuse and neglect?
During Federal fiscal year 2007, an estimated 3.2 million referrals, involving the alleged maltreatment of approximately 5.8 million children, were referred to CPS agencies.
- Approximately 62 percent (61.7%) of referrals were screened in for investigation or assessment by CPS agencies.
- Approximately 25 (25.2%) percent of the investigations or assessments determined at least one child who was found to be a victim of abuse or neglect with the following report dispositions: 24.1 percent substantiated, 0.6 percent indicated, and 0.5 percent alternative response victim.
- More than 74 percent of the investigations or assessments determined that the child was not a victim of maltreatment with the following dispositions: 61.3 percent unsubstantiated, 6.1 percent alternative response nonvictim, 5.7 percent "other," 1.6 percent closed with no finding, and 0.0 percent intentionally false.
In ONALASKA, Wisconsin they used to base the number of pinwheels on the number of reports, substantiated or not, but now they have some other means of choosing a number.
In years past, each pinwheel has represented a reported child abused case. This year, organizers are hoping to send a different message.
"We wanted to make it a positive message to let everybody know the difference they can make in the life of a child, so we wanted them to represent 3000 things that adults can do in the community to make it a better place for children," said Stepping Stones Program Director Jeanne Meyer.
In Utah the number of pinwheels apparently means nothing...
During the month of April, 50,000 pinwheels will be on display across the state as a visual reminder of the children who face abuse.
The purpose of the pinwheels is to stand as a visual reminder for children who are abused an neglected, and should be one for every abused or neglected child. However the smaller number's such as the number of substantiated cases don't have as big of an impact on the influential minds of the sheep. Therefore it is important to make it look worse than it actually is.
Of course there are a few who get it right. Here's one example.
Child abuse continues to be a problem in Wyoming. In 2011, there were 718 child victims and 448 substantiated cases of child abuse and neglect in Wyoming, according to the Wyoming National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System report.
And there is one hell of a big difference in Kentucky.
According to state child protective services, more than 17,000 Kentucky children were victims of abuse or neglect in 2011. But, we know that that number is actually higher. Not all incidences of abuse or neglect get reported so the authorities can investigate.
http://www.kykidsinfocus.org/?p=784
All month long, symbols from blue clothes to cardboard cut outs will be used as visual representations of abused and neglected children. There will even be cookies with CASA!
Not only is April a month for raising awareness of child abuse...
In Tennessee, for example...
Kappa Delta Sorority is hosting its annual Shamrock Golf Tournament at Eagle Bluff Golf Course on Saturday, March 31. Proceeds benefit the Children’s Advocacy Center of Hamilton County. Cost for entering the tournament is $400 per team. Tee-off begins at 8 a.m.
In Michigan, there will be an event...
It is free to attend but a donation for Furneaux’s organization “Justice for Lily” will be collected.
Light of Hope run/walk for CASA will take place in Riverbend Park in the Old Mill District. Proceeds will benefit the nonprofit, which advocates for children in the court system.
Last year's wishing well campaign at the mall raised about $1,300 for Bridge of Hope Child Advocacy Center
So as you can see there is another motive for Child Abuse Propaganda month, it's a time for raising money as well.
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