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Alameda County Child Abuse Prevention Council
M I S S I O N S T A T E M E N T
Child Abuse is Everybody's Business
Alameda County Child Abuse Prevention Council is dedicated to coordinating our community's efforts to prevent and respond to child abuse and neglect and to promote the physical and emotional health of children and families in Alameda County.
"The prevent of child abuse requires the involvement of the entire community"-
State of California Child Abuse Prevention
Coordinating Council Act (1985)
To carry out its mission, Alameda County Child Abuse Prevention Council has these goals:
- To provide a forum for interagency cooperation and coordination in protection, prevention, detection, treatment, and legal processing of child abuse cases.
- To promote public awareness of the abuse and neglect of children and the resources available for intervention and treatment.
- To encourage and facilitate training of professionals in the detection, treatment and prevention of child abuse and neglect.
- To recommend improvement in services to families and victims.
- To encourage and facilitate community support for child abuse programs.
The Council is an organization established in 1978 to foster cooperative child protection efforts in Alameda County and to encourage the development and coordination of county-wide children's services including child abuse and neglect identification, reporting, prevention, intervention, treatment, and public awareness.
The membership of the Council is composed of individuals, agencies and organizations concerned about the problem of child abuse and neglect. The Council is active in several activities which help prevent child abuse.
They include:
- Monthly Membership meetings to network and share information.
- Multi-Disciplinary team meetings to improve system responses.
- Monthly clinical training presented at no cost to members
- Annual training regarding emerging issues.
- Child Abuse Prevent activities including the Blue Ribbon Campaign.
- Annual report on child death fatalities reported to the coroner.
- Multi-Disciplinary team meetings to improve system responses.
- Resource/Video/Print library available at no cost to members.
- Directory of Community resources.
- Development and distribution of public awareness materials.
- Active coordination and advocacy for abused and neglected children.
- Annual funding to community agency's working in child abuse prevention.
The Council is funded through membership fees and donations. Memberships provides a unique opportunity to be involved in the process of advocating and initiating policies regarding children's issues. We invite you to become involved in the work of the Council.
Make the connections.
Help us keep kids safe!
Alameda County
Child Abuse Prevention Council
510-780-8989
Child Abuse Reporting Hotline
510-259-1800
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