What YOUR ORGANIZATION Can Do To Help Abused Children
- Promote parental nurturing and attachment
- Sponsor workshops on playing with infants and young children.
- Adopt family-friendly policies and recognize organizations that provide parents time to bond with and care for infants.
- Enhance knowledge of appropriate parenting skills and of child and youth development.
- Provide parents with factsheets about child development.
- Sponsor classes and support programs for new parents.
- Offer training for child care providers and teachers about child development and the relationship between effective parenting and brain development.
- Disseminate information to parents about how to deal with normal child crying and about normal activity levels of children at different ages.
- Strengthen parental resilience
- Develop methods for the larger community to support new parents and families under stress.
- Offer stress-management classes.
- Sponsor communication and conflict resolution classes for parents.
- Provide parents with factsheets about how to effectively deal with stress.
- Help parents build social connections
- Sponsor multigenerational activities.
- Recruit members to volunteer for mentoring programs (i.e.-Big Brothers Big Sisters).
- Provide safe, accessible venues for young families to meet and socialize.
- Help ensure adequate concrete support for families
- Distribute information to and act as a clearinghouse for young families to access community services so that their needs do not fall through the cracks.
- Work with other organizations to provide concrete services that are not readily available in our community.
- Educate candidates and elected officials about the need for concrete services that support healthy and safe children and families and the long-term benefit of health families to our community.
