Prevent Child Abuse joins Family & Children's Center

Tribune Staff Report

MISHAWAKA — The nonprofit Prevent Child Abuse St. Joseph County has become an affiliate of the Family & Children's Center.

Prevent Child Abuse offers prevention classes to schools, parent groups, civic organizations and professional groups. Its representatives cover topics like shaken baby syndrome and the connection between domestic violence and child abuse. The group also leads local events in April for National Child Abuse Prevention Month.

It has been roughly a year since the group's last director left, and during that time, the board decided to save money by coordinating its activities itself, President Ellen Kyes said. That was tough, and it could be the group wasn't able to do as much outreach, she said.

Now that Prevent Child Abuse is part of a larger agency, it has help with fundraising, writing grants and running the programs – offering the potential to grow – Kyes said.

From June 22 to 26, the group will run Roofsit, the annual fundraiser for child-abuse prevention.

Other affiliates of the Family & Children's Center are The Children's Campus, the Boys & Girls Clubs of St. Joseph County, and Family & Children's Center Counseling and Development Services.
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