Webinar to bring awareness to child abuse
Penn State’s Child Maltreatment Solutions Network is hosting a webinar on April 25, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m., via Zoom as part of National Child Abuse Prevention Month. The webinar will include three talks to engage agency-level leadership and workforce representatives from children and youth services,…
Pinwheels for Prevention events raise awareness
Penn State’s Child Maltreatment Solutions Network (CMSN) is sponsoring “Pinwheels for Prevention PSU” to engage the University community and foster awareness around child abuse during National Child Abuse Prevention Awareness Month in April. On April 11, 1-3 p.m., the CMSN, along with the…
Pinwheels for Prevention event held at the HUB
On April 12, at 12:30 p.m., the Child Maltreatment Solutions Network hosted their Pinwheel Planting in the HUB on the Penn State University Park campus. Given that April is child abuse prevention month, this event served as part of the national “Pinwheels for Prevention” campaign that…
Child Maltreatment Solutions Network hosts April 12 event to raise awareness
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month, and to draw attention to the issue, the Penn State Child Maltreatment Solutions Network is hosting an event on April 12, 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. via Zoom. The event, "Nurturing Healthy Futures: Promoting Effective Safe Care Plans for Substance-affected…
Penn State to celebrate “Pinwheels for Prevention”
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Awareness Month, and Penn State’s Child Maltreatment Solutions Network (CMSN) is spearheading a campaign, “Pinwheels for Prevention PSU” to engage the university community and foster awareness around child abuse prevention. On April 12, the CMSN…
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Trauma screening may improve mental health service recommendations for children
Each year between 200,000 and 270,000 children and youth enter foster care placements with child welfare services, and many more children receive child welfare services while remaining in their parent's care, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Although many of these…
Connell co-author of award-winning paper
Christian Connell, associate professor of human development and family studies and director of SSRI's Child Maltreatment Solutions Network was part of a group of international child maltreatment researchers who recently received honorable mention for paper of the year by the International Society…
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New grant will continue center’s work to prevent abuse and support children
Child maltreatment — which includes physical abuse, sexual abuse and neglect — affects at least 12% of children under 18 in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Each year, around two million children in the U.S. experience maltreatment, and the…