An often-overlooked tenet of the Six Pillars for Prevention is developing adequate and sustainable funding for prevention. Without funding, most efforts to advocate for the healthy development of children, strengthen youth serving organizations in the development of standards and policy or end the demand for children as sexual commodities are for naught. Developing sustainable funding is an important precursor to a viable program to prevent child sexual abuse.

 

In January and February, the Prevention Coalition is exploring this subject on social media. This campaign is being sponsored by Committee for Children. This organization is a leader in developing federal and state funding for the prevention of child sexual abuse. Many thanks to Melina Rozzisi and Jordan Posamentier of Committee for Children for their content and guidance, and to Nicole Epps and Zoe Persson of World Childhood Foundation for their work developing tweets around this subject.

 

Committee for Children is inviting Prevention Coalition members to a Congressional Briefing being held in Washington, DC on January 29^th.

 

Child Sexual Abuse Prevention &

the Need for Evidence Based Response 

 

Tuesday, January 29, 2019

1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

385 Senate Russell Office Building

 

Featured Presenters Include

Moderator, Joan Duffell

Executive Director, Committee for Children

 

Deborah Chosewood

Deputy Director, Prevention and Community Support Section

Georgia Division of Family and Children Services

 

Dr. Elizabeth Letourneau

Director, Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse

John’s Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

 

Dr. James Mercy

Director, Division of Violence Prevention

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

 

C.T. Wilson

Maryland State Delegate

 

RSVP by January 26^th to ahall@bpagdc.com