“Awaken to Change - The National Conference for America’s Children” is coming to Jacksonville!

Prevent Child Abuse America’s national conference is scheduled for October 12 - 15 at the Jacksonville, Florida Hyatt Riverside 

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CHICAGO, IL,OCTOBER 2, 2012 – Prevent Child Abuse America is bringing its national conference to Jacksonville, Florida Hyatt Riverside October 12 - 15 - here. The conference will be a unique experience for the participants with its focus on healthy childhood development, advancing public policy, what’s working in child abuse and neglect prevention, messaging, corporate responsibility, and innovative prevention services such as home visiting and the Healthy Families America program. 

Conference tracks will focus on Advancing Public Policy; Child Sexual Abuse Prevention; Healthy Child and Family Development; Managing, Marketing, and Corporate Responsibility; Moving the Movement: The National Movement for America's Children; and What's Working and What We Are Learning. Plenary speakers include a series of national prevention experts: 

• Cordelia Anderson - Demand the Change for Children; 
• Reverend Darell L. Armstrong - Shiloh Baptist Church of Trenton, NJ; 
• Dr. Linda C. Degutis - National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and 
• Betsy McAlister Groves - Child Witness to Violence Project. 

“This is not going to be like any other conference people have been to before,” says James M. Hmurovich, President & CEO of Prevent Child Abuse America. “We believe that when we focus on healthy child development and supporting families and citizens in the communities they live in as we plan to do at the conference, great things can happen for children and for the nation.” 

Prevent Child Abuse America is also pleased to be holding the conference in the state of Florida, which has widely embraced home visiting and other innovative prevention programming, and Jacksonville specifically, the inaugural city selected as a Pinwheels City, USA for its integrated and forward thinking around supporting families and the prevention of child and abuse and neglect before it ever occurs. 

“We are extremely pleased Prevent Child Abuse America is hosting this national conference in Jacksonville,” says Anita Odom, Director of Prevent Child Abuse Florida. “We hope this conference will strengthen existing infrastructure and advance efforts on behalf of children and families not only in Jacksonville, but throughout Florida and across the country as well.” 

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ABOUT PREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA 
Prevent Child Abuse America, founded in 1972 in Chicago, works to ensure the healthy development of children nationwide. The organization promotes that vision through a network of chapters in 50 states and 530 Healthy Families America home visitation sites in 39 states, Washington, DC, and all 5 U.S. territories. A major organizational focus is to advocate for the existence of a national policy framework and strategy for children and families while promoting evidence-based practices that prevent abuse and neglect from ever occurring. To learn more about what we’re doing to prevent child abuse and neglect and how you can help, please visit our websites, here and here.

Prevent Child Abuse America adds five new national board members

Seeks to expand its impact on the lives of all children and the future of the country

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Chicago, IL, (October 20, 2011) — Prevent Child Abuse America is pleased to announce that it has added five new members to its national board, expanding the knowledge, experience and reach of the organization in its efforts to impact the lives of all children. 

 
“We are really excited about these new additions to the board,” said Dr. Christopher Greeley, Board Chair, Prevent Child Abuse America. “While, we are doing great things as a board and as an organization, we can always do more and be smarter about what we do. Our focus is to continue to think 5, 10, and 20 years ahead. To accomplish our goals, we need to continue to bring big thinkers into the fold. We need people who understand that a healthy family remains the focus of a healthy child, and that we all play a role in the prevention of child abuse and neglect. Our new board members will come not only with great ideas, but an ability to translate these ideas into action.”

The five new board members, who represent a dynamic array of background and experiences, are:

Reverend Darrell L. Armstrong, Pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church in Trenton, NJ. He is the former Director of the Division of Prevention & Community Partnerships for the State of New Jersey.

Thomas A. Curatolo, Treasurer at Hometown America Holdings. He is a member of Financial Executives International, Finance Leadership Exchange and AICPA.

Yolanda Harris, President and Founder of the Keynote Group. She is a board member for the Young Entrepreneurs Council at the Wayne Huizenga School of Business, Nova Southeastern University.       

Andrea Robertson, former Group Executive, Corporate Treasurer at MasterCard Worldwide. She is a current board member for Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc.

David Rudd, Vice President at The Axis Agency/Weber Shandwick. He is a former Press Secretary for the Illinois Senate Democratic Caucus and Education Writer for the Chicago Tribune.

“These new board members bring a wealth of experience to the organization,” added James M. Hmurovich, President & CEO, Prevent Child Abuse America. “As we continue to play a role in implementing the National Movement for America’s Children, they also bring a significant corporate presence. These new members will allow Prevent Child Abuse America  to further engage the business community in the healthy growth and development of all children.”  

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ABOUT PREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA

Prevent Child Abuse America, founded in 1972, works to ensure the healthy development of children nationwide while recognizing that child development is a building block for community development and economic development. We believe that communities across the country are doing innovative things with great results to prevent abuse and neglect from ever occurring, and what we need to do as a nation is commit to bringing this kind of ingenuity to communities everywhere. Based in Chicago, Prevent Child Abuse America has chapters in 47 states and 387 HealthyFamilies America sites in 36 states.