Prevent Child Abuse Fayette

Child abuse and neglect are preventable, yet each year in the United States, close to one million children are confirmed victims of child maltreatment. An extensive body of research provides promising and best practices on what works to improve child safety  and well-being outcomes and reduce the occurrence of child abuse and neglect. These efforts are essential as child abuse and neglect have pervasive and long-lasting effects on children, their families, and the society. Adverse consequences for children’s development often are evident immediately, encompassing multiple domains including physical, emotional, social, and cognitive. For many children, these effects extend far beyond childhood into adolescence and adulthood, potentially compromising the lifetime productivity of maltreatment victims (Daro, 1988).

Prevention is a SHARED responsibility.

Prevent Child Abuse Fayette is a proud Charter Council of PCA Georgia since October 2008

Council Members

Nancy Nebergall, CASA volunteer
Carole Foran, Oasis
Phyllis Richardson, Reach, Inc
Candace Robichaux, localkidsfun.com
Clarice Howard, Fayette County School System
Rev. Claudia Robinson, Pastor, Mercy Church
Jalene McCord, Fayette County DFCS
Katherine Hudson-Mae, CASA Volunteer
Luci Hough, Pregnancy Resource Center
Vanessa Motley, Promise Place

Prevent Child Abuse Fayette focuses on educating the community about the prevalence of child abuse and what they can do to prevent it. This group hosts seminars and other special events during the early part of the calendar year to bring attention to this issue. This is an increasing area of concern which is threatening our families in our communities.

Please join us at Christ Our Shepherd Lutheran Church, in Peachtree City, GA every third Thursday.  Our mission is to equip professionals and lay people with strategies for positive parenting opportunities, including giving parents age- appropriate positive parenting tools.  Click here for a map.

What is abuse and neglect?

“The term ‘child abuse and neglect’ means, at a minimum, any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker, which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse or exploitation, or an act or failure to act which presents an imminent risk of serious harm (42 U.S.C.A.§ 5106g (2) (West Supp. 1988).”

More children suffer from neglect in the United States than from physical and sexual abuse combined.

Neglect often is an act of omission, the absence of an action. But neglecting children’s needs can be just as injurious as striking out at them.

How Can You Help?

• Report abuse and neglect if you suspect that it is occurring
• Reach out to children and parents in your community.  Anything you can do to support children and parents helps to reduce child abuse
• Learn and remember the risk factors and how to recognize the warning signs
• Learn how to protect our children from sexual abuse
• Advertise Prevent Child Abuse Georgia Confidential Helpline to assist caregivers, family service providers, and children:  1800-CHILDREN (244-5373) - A Confidential HELPLINE
• Become a foster parent

Stakeholders of this initiative include:

Fayette County DFCS Dept.
Fayette County Board of Education
Grace Harbour Counseling
Promise Place
Fayette County Health
Fayette Youth Protection Home
Fayette Pregnancy Resource Center
Advo-Kids CASA
Fayette County DJJ
Oasis
Reach, Inc
Advo-Kids CASA
Localkidsfun.com
Fayette School System
Mercy Church
Fayette County DFCS