The Children’s Advocacy Project helps to create a more efficient response to child abuse. Through coordinating services with a team of committed agencies and individual professionals, we create a more effective community response to child maltreatment.
We are committed to improving the lives of victims of child abuse and neglect in our community.
Child abuse is happening all of the time, every month of the year, at all hours of the day. In April alone, an estimated 150 children in the United States will die due to abuse of neglect. In reality that number is likely much greater. Now just image that number every month for a year. Those children and the children who live through abuse every day is why we must continue to work as a community to prevent child abuse beyond the month of April.
We’ve all heard the term “stranger danger” and have probably even told our children to look out for it. The truth surrounding child sexual abuse is that 90% of child victims will be abused by someone they know, someone they probably trusted, and someone they even love.
Though for Wyoming, it is a little early to plant a garden, the Children’s Advocacy Project uses this month to plant a different type of garden. This garden is made of blue pinwheels to help bring awareness to Child Abuse Prevention Month. The month of April is nationally designated to acknowledge the importance of communities working together to prevent child abuse and neglect.
Last year an estimated 678,000 children were found to be victims of child abuse or neglect nationwide. Child abuse and neglect happens across every socioeconomic level. Child abuse can happen anywhere, to any child regardless of race, culture, or education level. The overall wellbeing of our community is contingent on everyone in our community doing well, but child abuse is happening in our community, to our children.