Prevention Education
Child abuse impacts one out of every four children. It crosses every racial, gender, cultural, and socio-economic barrier. Help Prevent Child Abuse by knowing how to keep children in your community safe.
The Prevention Education Department of the CACHC offers the following programs. Schools are highly encouraged to schedule multiple programs that involve students, parents, and staff for an even greater impact in protecting their students from abuse.
- Body Safety – This program is designed for children Pre–K through 5th grade and teaches children how to recognize, resist, and report abusive situations.
- Keep Your Children Safe – Designed for parents, this program describes the facts surrounding child abuse and how to prevent, identify, and report it.
- Positive Discipline: Normal Behaviors of Children Birth to Age 10 – Designed for parents and professional childcare staff, this program describes the normal behaviors of children, why they behave in these ways, and how to address them in a positive manner. This is a professional in–service for professional childcare staff and certificates of completion are available upon request.
- Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse – This program is designed for teachers, daycare workers, counselors, youth leaders, principals – anyone working with children. Educators will learn basic child abuse dynamics, recognition indicators, Tennessee reporting laws, and how to help families dealing with stress and trauma. This is a professional in–service and certificates of completion are available upon request.
- Stewards of Children – The only nationally available program scientifically proven to increase knowledge, improve attitudes and change child-protective behaviors. This revolutionary program is for any responsible adult who cares about the welfare of children. It is also appropriate for youth–serving organizations (sports leagues, day care centers, after school programs, children’s clubs, church groups and more). It is also available to organizations wishing to develop or enhance their child protection policies and procedures. For more information about Stewards of Children, visit their website.
- Train the Trainer: Teach Body Safety to Your Students – This program is designed for guidance counselors and other school leaders working with pre–school through 5th grade students. Guidance counselors will learn how to present our “Body Safety” lesson to their students. Upon completion of the training, guidance counselors will receive their “kit” containing videos, classroom activity sheets, take home materials for each student, and statistic documentation forms. Guidance counselors are asked to return their kit after 30 days and submit the completed statistic documentation.
- General CACHC Overview – This program gives basic information on the services provided by the Children’s Advocacy Center of Hamilton County and how you can help make a difference in the life of a child.
- Public Awareness – This program is used to reach the entire community through billboards, radio and television advertisements, and newspaper and magazine articles and advertisements. These outreach opportunities will highlight the statistics of child abuse, reporting guidelines, myths & facts about child abuse, as well inform people about the CACHC and their prevention programs.
All presentations are provided as an outreach of the Children's Advocacy Center of Hamilton County and available without charge to community organizations, churches, and schools. These Prevention Education programs can enhance the educational tools that your school, organization, or church are already using.
Call now to schedule a presentation!
- Cathy Eldahan
- External Affairs Coordinator
- (423) 266–6918
- wceldahan@cachc.org
