Child Abuse Prevention Month

Child Abuse Prevention Month

Every April, National Child Abuse Prevention Month, we come together to put the spotlight on child abuse, which impacts 1+ million children in the U.S. every year. But what we don’t talk about can still hurt them. It is the major precursors to Child Abuse that can...

Pueblo clinic taking new approach to primary medical care

Pueblo clinic taking new approach to primary medical care

"If it's something that you can prevent, then…you're learning from your past what not to do with your child," said Cindy Lau, Regional Violence Prevention Planner, St. Mary Corwin. The SCAN Program at Southern Colorado Family Medicine at the St. Mary-Corwin Medical...

A Daughter’s Perspective by Tre Wharton

A Daughter’s Perspective by Tre Wharton

Poet Tre Wharton used his talent to cope with CDV by expressing in verse what living with his stepfather’s violence was like. This poem is just one of about forty poems he wrote about CDV in his new book Grown Folk Business.  A Daughter’s Perspective The door shuts...

The Children Who Saw Too Much

The Children Who Saw Too Much

By Melissa Jeltsen This article shares the story of Ryan, a 17 year old boy at Camp HOPE America – a summer camp created specifically to help children who grew up living with domestic violence. It describes how spending a summer at the camp working with its founder,...