American Public Human Services Association. Policy & Practice. Special Issue. Take Two.

Picking-up on our previous blog post regarding the American Public Human Services Association's special issue of Policy & Practice focused on child abuse prevention, the second article we want to share with you is by our colleague Heather Larkin, an assistant professor in the School of Social Welfare, the State University of New York at Albany. This article is titled Adverse Childhood Experience Linked to Health Risk Behaviors. We hope you will take a look and we wanted to share a brief description below:

"Children's development involves the negotiation of numerous developmental tasks across distinct lines of development. Each developmental stage involves challenges that must be mastered in order for children to move on to the next developmental stage."

American Public Human Services Association. Policy & Prevention. Special Issue. Take One.

We wanted to let you know that Prevent Child Abuse America had the chance to steer and/or write several articles for Policy & Practice's special edition focused on child abuse prevention. Policy & Practice is the magazine of the American Public Human Services Association and we are very appreciative to have been given this opportunity. We also want to be sure to share these articles with you and so we thought we would spend the next several days rolling out the individual pieces. The first article we want to share with you is by Prevent Child Abuse America's President & CEO James M. Hmurovich and it is titled Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention is More Than a Funding Stream. We hope you will take a look and we wanted to share a brief description below:

"Child abuse and neglect prevention often invokes the notion of children’s trust funds, Community Based Child Abuse Prevention, the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, and other funding streams that support the critical work of preventing the abuse and neglect of our nation’s children."

Calling all iPhone users. There's a new iPhone app called CauseWorld that wants to support the work of Prevent Child Abuse America.

So, check it out, there's a new iPhone app called CauseWorld. It lets you help the world while you shop. And the kicker? It's completely free!

Here's how it works:

1) You walk into a store, pull out your phone, and check-in. No purchase required

2) By checking-in, you earn points from CauseWorld sponsors

3) You then donate those points for specific actions to improve the world. For Prevent Child Abuse America, you can help prevent child abuse in America!

CauseWorld is available in the iPhone App Store now, with an Android version coming soon. To download the app, visit www.causeworld.com.

Join the CauseWorld today - and make a difference with the causes you care about!

Healthy Children. A new website for parents from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

The American Academy of Pediatrics has a new website for parents called Healthy Children and we encourage you to take a look.