What We Do
The following efforts are included in PCALC’s ongoing work in the community:
- Giving Shaken Infant Syndrome Prevention Presentations to school classes and parent groups
- Sponsoring four billboards each month to share prevention messages throughout the region
- Presenting educational materials at community gatherings; assembling and distributing educational packets in English and Spanish to one local hospital and providing packets to at-risk parents in another area hospital
- Co-sponsoring an April Child Abuse Prevention Forum hosted at Indiana University Northwest, which provides an opportunity for individual education through a variety of speakers and topic breakout sessions
- Inviting area churches through e-mail and phone calls to join the April Faith Initiative for preventing child abuse
- Sponsoring a “CHAIRish the Children” chair decorating contest for Lake County middle and high schools during April
- Launching a professional media campaign designed to target parents and children with prevention messages and local resources for additional information and help