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Prevent Child Abuse America
Ou r O rg a n i z a ti o n
Since its founding in 1972, Prevent Child Abuse America (PCA America) has led the way in the effort to prevent the abuse and neglect of our nations children. Headquartered in Chicago, PCA America works with chapters in 41 states to prevent child maltreatment at the national, state and local levels. Its programs, prevention initiatives, advocacy and research are integral to educating the public that prevention is possible.
Our Mission
To prevent the abuse and neglect of our nations children.
C o r e Va l u e s
Valuing Children Strengthening Families Engaging Communities
www.preventchildabuse.org
Winds of Change
PCA America is working to change public understanding of child abuse prevention so policies can be developed that provide better opportunities for families and improve the lives of our nations children. This is important because child abuse and neglect is a significant and preventable public health problem in the United States. It permeates societytouching communities of all sizes, schools, places of employment, houses of worship, medical facilities and neighborhoods. Child maltreatment can interfere with healthy brain development and cause a range of physical, mental and social problems. Neglect or abuse that occurs at a young age initiates a domino effect in the development of children that can lead to poor school performance, an increased need for special education services, juvenile delinquency and adult criminality. Prevention is the only long-term, comprehensive, effective solution to combat these issues. PCA America intends to change the manner in which Americans view, interpret and understand why the prevention of abuse and neglect of our nations children is so important to the social, political and economic development of our country. Explore the different divisions at PCA America to better understand how the organization and its prevention partners are working to support families and enact change in our communities.
PCA America
Chapter Services
Operating under the belief that prevention efforts are best implemented at the state and community level, PCA America provides a strategic framework for prevention planning to its 41 state chapters. All chapters offer a broad range of parent support programs, prevention education and public awareness activities. All share a common mission to prevent child abuse and neglect. PCA America provides chapters with information and materials for building and nurturing successful boards, raising awareness through media and marketing campaigns, fundraising, planning events, educating policymakers to support prevention efforts and offering evidenced-based prevention programs for local implementation.
Hosted an annual meeting for chapter executive directors to focus on leadership development and share best practices. Helped chapters revise their charters to become more outcome driven by offering evidence-based programs and services. Worked to establish chapters in states where they do not exist.
Additionally, the chapter services division gave special focus to the BECAUSE Kids Count! project. This projects purpose, funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is to build the capacity of the national networks of three organizations working to prevent child abuse and neglect: PCA America, Parents Anonymous and the National Alliance of Childrens Trust and Prevention Funds. In 2006, these organizations shared information about the kinds of prevention strategies and programs that are being implemented across their respective networks. In 2007, PCA America, as well as its fellow grantees, will focus on how to build a culture of evaluation across the networks to ensure all future prevention activities have evidence supporting their development. The new collaboration also will help the organizations better respond to emerging policy and program issues at the federal level.
Healthy Families America (HFA) is PCA Americas premier prevention program. It is a voluntary home visitation program for new and expectant parents which helps ensure children get a healthy start in life. Trained home visitors work with overburdened families in more than 400 communities in 35 states to support parents understanding of the importance of prenatal and well-baby care, including immunizations for their children. HFA home visitors also connect families to supportive social services and work with parents to help them understand their childs capabilities at each developmental stage and implement positive forms of discipline. Research shows HFA programs have increased the number of children with access to primary health care services; increased immunization rates; increased utilization of prenatal care; improved parent-child interaction and school readiness; decreased dependency on welfare; and most importantly reduced child maltreatment. In 2006, HFAs national office focused on a number of important initiatives:
For more than 130 years, Foresters has been providing life insurance protection to its members while dedicating itself to community initiatives that support children. Foresters is proud to be a long-standing partner of Prevent Child Abuse America having supported many of the organizations key programs that have helped raise awareness that prevention is possible. George Mohacsi, President and CEO, Foresters
The national office began updating the credentialing process to ensure the highest quality service provision throughout the program network. HFA assisted its two regional officesin the Midwest and Western regions of the United Statesto ensure comprehensive and timely services to all sites nationwide. With the support of the Pritzker Early Childhood Foundation, HFA offered new training to help home visitors better engage and assess families with challenging issues such as domestic violence, substance abuse and maternal depression.
www.healthyfamiliesamerica.org
Lastly, HFA continued to support the wide-ranging research efforts taking place at the state level. For example, Healthy Families New York finished its second year of a three-year study to evaluate the impact of its home visitation services. Compared to parents in a randomized control group, participants who received services from Healthy Families New York: reported fewer acts of abuse and neglect that were substantiated by Child Protective Services; were less likely to favor physical punishment as a discipline approach; were less likely to have inappropriate expectations for their children; had a greater knowledge of child development; delivered significantly fewer low-birth weight babies; and were more likely to have health insurance for their children. Strong outcomes such as these led HFA to be rated as a proven program by the RAND Corporation and an effective program by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Department of Justice.
Comments from a few of the 50,000 families who have received support from HFA:
Healthy Families has been a wonderful asset in my life. I now have confidence in my parenting skills and I have learned how to ask questions about my needs and my childs needs. Healthy Families is very important to me because before I joined, I had no idea how a baby should be raised and how it would develop. The program has taught me so much about my babys needs.
PCA America
Child abuse has long range effects.
90% of imprisoned male felons were abused as children. 70% of teenage drug abusers report abuse in his or her childhood. More than 50% of violent female criminals were sexually or physically abused as children. 95% of teenage prostitutes have child abuse histories. Abused children often become adults who repeat the violent, abusive acts they experienced.
Research
Established in 1986, the National Center on Child Abuse Prevention Research, an arm of PCA America, conducts research to better understand the complex causes of child abuse and neglect and how and when prevention strategies are effective. The research is disseminated to organizations and individuals across the nation contributing to a growing body of research about child maltreatment. One area of focus for the research arm of PCA America is evaluating the effectiveness of various prevention programs in community settings.
Advocacy
Due to the long-term emotional, physical and economic effects of child maltreatment, PCA America believes preventing child abuse and neglect should be a top public policy priority. PCA America collaborates with state chapters and Healthy Families America sites across the nation to promote legislation, policies and programs that help prevent child maltreatment, support healthy childhood development and strengthen families. Highlights from 2006 included: PCA America played a leading role in advancing the Education Begins at Home Act, legislation that would provide home visitation services such as Healthy Families America to more families. Home visitation services give parents access to resources that help get children off to a healthy start. PCA America helped organize two Congressional briefings to help policymakers understand how quality early childhood home visitation programs lead to proven, positive outcomes for children and families, including improved school readiness, better child health and development, improved parenting practices and reductions in child maltreatment. PCA Americas advocacy efforts, in partnership with the national Home Visiting Coalition, resulted in the first ever Congressional hearing on early childhood home visitation. PCA America supported many federal policies and appropriations for child abuse prevention initiatives and launched an online action center to keep individuals and organizations informed. These communications allowed advocates to share prevention information with their elected officials in an effort to enact positive change in their communities.
PCA America hosts the only national prevention conference in the country and it is held every other year. This conference serves to mobilize and align the prevention efforts of hundreds of individuals and organizations working to support families. In May 2006, more than 1,200 people gathered for a four-day conference to learn the latest in prevention strategies, research and best practices. Attendees included professionals in social work, human services, health care, home visitation, research, child care, advocacy and more.
PCA America honored families by welcoming attendees children to the conference. Special learning and leisure activities were designed with families in mind. Both families and individuals were invited to participate in several community outreach initiatives in the conference host city, San Diego, California. PCA America organized volunteers to distribute more than 10,000 blue ribbons, symbolizing child abuse prevention, and positive parenting literature to attendees at a Padres baseball game. Dr. Harvey Karp, a nationally renowned pediatrician and child development specialist, also offered a free public lecture on his Happiest Baby on the Block techniques for calming crying infants. PCA America wishes to thank its conference sponsors Foresters, Verizon Wireless, Conversations that Count, My Family Farm and Georgia State University for their generous financial support, giving child advocates across the nation the opportunity to assemble and learn more about the promise of prevention.
Dozens of workshops focused on the physical, psychological and economic impact of child abuse and neglect. Some sessions focused on non-profit management, fundraising, volunteer recruitment and mobilizing communities to support prevention initiatives. Other workshops helped participants better understand how to effectively raise public awareness of child abuse and neglect and how to advocate and garner legislative support for prevention programs. The 2006 conference, Americas Families: We All Play a Supporting Role, also recognized the contributions of individuals who have provided exemplary leadership in both their professional and volunteer efforts as child advocates.
PCA America
Factors that help prevent child abuse include:
Supportive family and friends Strong bonds between parents and children Education of good parenting skills and knowledge of age-appropriate development and behaviors of children Access to health care and social services Employment and adequate housing
Education
PCA America distributed thousands of publications and brochures aimed at understanding healthy childhood development. Subjects addressed numerous issues such as understanding the importance of prenatal care, how to comfort crying infants and understanding age-appropriate behaviors of children.
PCA America kicked off a national awareness campaign in April 2006. For the 23rd year, the President of the United States proclaimed April as National Child Abuse Prevention Month. PCA America chapters organized numerous initiatives to help others understand how their choices can support families and prevent child abuse and neglect. Chapters engaged in such activities as offering parenting classes to the community, engaging the media to cover positive parenting stories and organizing public awareness events.
Since selecting PCA America as our national philanthropy in 1982, our collegiate chapters and alumnae members have passionately embraced the mission of preventing child abuse in our country. Our members have produced creative educational initiatives and established remarkable annual campus-wide fundraising programs to support healthy childhood development. Thank you PCA America for a quarter century of outstanding resources, leadership and inspiration! Ann Braly, Executive Director, Sigma Delta Tau National Sorority
It is not enough to simply say that all children deserve an upbringing free of abuse and neglectactions must be taken to ensure parents, policymakers and the community have the knowledge to make choices that will provide environments where children can thrive. To enable this, PCA America develops and implements numerous initiatives aimed at helping parents, the community and policymakers understand how child abuse and neglect can be prevented.
Winds of Change
The prevention of child abuse and neglect is possible but it will take more than the efforts of one organization. Your help is paramount to change how America supports its families. Here are specific ways you can help.
Praise and encourage children. Support their emotional development so they can reach their full potential. Reach out to families. Provide your time and support to families and children in your neighborhood. Talk to your neighbors about looking out for one anothers children. Support parents to help reduce the stress than can lead to abuse. Listen and reassure them that parenting is difficult and that all parents need help from time to time. Pay special attention to those who have economic, anger or addiction problems. Donate your time and/or money with groups dedicated to supporting families. Link families to services and opportunities in your community such as job training, education, health care, mental health services and support groups. Check on new parents to see how they and the baby are doing. Offer to baby sit to give parents a break. Donate items such as clothing, toys and food to families in need. This can help relieve the financial stress that some parents take out on their children. Advocate for services that support the well-being of families and children. Use your voice and vote to put family-friendly issues and programs on the local, state and federal political agenda.
Donors
PCA America wishes to extend a huge THANK YOU to its partners in prevention for their generous contributions.
$250,000+ Donors $100,000+ Donors
PCA America Chicago Boards Leadership of the Blue Ribbon Ball Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Independent Order of Foresters Child Abuse Prevention Fund Kappa Delta Sorority and Foundation Pritzker Early Childhood Foundation Target Community Fund Verizon Wireless Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company Foundation National Basketball Association Pajeau Childrens Foundation Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation Shell Vacations Club TJX Foundation, Inc. W. Clement and Jessie V. Stone Foundation Wells Fargo Housing Foundation Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon LLP Channing Bete Co., Inc. Chicago Bulls Chicago Fire ChoicePoint Cintas Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Cirillo Communifax Corporation Community Trust Mr. Dave Danzig Deloitte & Touche USA LLP LP Mr. Randy Dippell and Ms. Diane Faunda Ms. Jo-Ann Dishey Early Cochran and Olson Mr. Byron Egeland, Ph.D. SuEllen and Harvey Fried Family Fund Gameloft, Inc. Getty Images Ms. Marlene T. Goldfarb and Mr. Jeffrey M. Goldfarb Good Cause Greetings, Inc. Mr. Jason Greschler Ms. Rachelle Hardy Heartfelt Charity Cards Hewitt Associates Mr. James M. Hmurovich Ms. Cara Houck HSA Commercial Real Estate InfoCision Management Corporation International Language Services Dr. Lakshmi Iyer and Dr. Balasubramaniam Iyer The John Buck Company Mr. James Karmin Mr. and Mrs. Mark Karmin Karmin Family Charitable Foundation Trust Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Keeley Ms. Susan J. Kelley, RN, Ph.D. The Kesher Fund of the Cohen-Fruchtman-Krieger Family, Inc.
$5,000+ Donors
$50,000+ Donors
Anonymous Donor Mrs. Helen A. Brown Ms. Linda Post and Mr. Robert Glavin Sigma Delta Tau Sororities United Recycling Industries, Inc.
$25,000+ Donors
American Airlines Grant and Tamia Hill Foundation Zurich North America
$10,000+ Donors
Acordia The Lillie and Michael Axelrod Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Carhart DraftFCB Mr. and Mrs. Paul Harvey F.M. Kirby Foundation Kohls The Leibowitz and Greenway Family Foundation Ms. Marian F. Meier Michael Bolton Charities
A.G. Cox Charity Trust Autohaus on Edens City of Chicago DDB Chicago, Inc. DLA Piper Mr. Robert Dughi and Mrs. Maura Somers Dughi Illinois Institute of Technology Latham & Watkins LLP Motorola Foundation My Family Farm National City Bank O2 Ideas, Inc. Seyfarth Shaw Fairweather & Geraldson The Marcus Foundation, Inc. The Shamrock Companies Weber Shandwick Worldwide Workflow One Zenithmedia
$1,000+ Donors
111 South Wacker, LLC AXA-Advisors, LLC Background Information Services, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Alan Baer The Berner Charitable and Scholarship Foundation Bloomingdales Ms. Charlotte Brandon Dr. Gregory Brynuska
Partners in Prevention
Donors
Kronlund Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Gary Kubo Lanuguage Leaders, LLC Ms. Bridget A. Maguire Marketing Werks Mr. Michael L. McCluggage Mr. and Mrs. Gerald McDonnell McGuire Woods Mr. and Mrs. Mark McNabola Mercantile-Safe Deposit and Trust Company Merchandise Mart Properties, Inc. Mrs. Constance Mitchell National Analysts, Inc. Nexum Mr. and Mrs. Jack W. Nicklaus The Penn Traffic Company Mr. and Mrs. Christopher J. Perille Mr. Matthew Pfeffer and Ms. Jenai Taylor Ms. Melissa Pielet PMH Caramanning Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Duane Ragsdale Mr. and Mrs. Scott Renwick Research in Motion Limited The Response Center Mr. and Mrs. Michael Ritter Mr. John H. Roberts Mr. and Mrs. Michael Rosengarden Mr. Charles Rubner Mrs. Edith Saemann Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence W. Schawk The Mendon F. Schutt Foundation Shelle Jewelers, Inc. Mr. Matthew Steinmetz Mr. Brad Strader Mr. and Mrs. Paul W, Sweeney, Jr. Toyota Motor Sales USA, Inc. Ms. Myle Turpen Universal Certificate Group, LLC Urban 8 Development Company Urban Innovations Ms. Terri Verag The Weinstein Organization Zeller Realty Mr. and Mrs. Scott Zettek
$500+ Donors
A D Medical Supply, Inc. Alpha Xi Delta Fraternity, Epsilon Pi Chapter Mr. David L. Applegate and Ms. Dorceen J. Boyle BL Broadcasting Ms. Valerie Austin-Alexander Ms. Casey Carter Chapel Hill Training Outreach Project, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Austin Chavez Childrens Healthcare is a Legal Duty Ms. Corinne Cochran Cogan and McNabola Mr. and Mrs. Tom Comfort Concrete Constructors, Inc. Contemporary Services, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Ronald DeBruin Mr. and Mrs. Peter Delman Mr. Guy L. De Veaux and Ms. Sania Metzger Mr. and Mrs. Michael DiCocco Mr. Louis Disanto Dorel Juvenile Group and Affiliates, Inc. Ms. Darianne Farley Mr. and Mrs. Nick Fishman Dr. Christopher Greeley, FAAP Mr. Shawn Gross and Mrs. Leslie Sacks Gross Ms. Florence M. Hallum Mrs. Suzanne Halperin-McIntsoh The Holborn Corporation IFC Credit Corporation Indiana University Interpublic Group Mr. and Mrs. David Johnson Dr. Steven Kairys Ms. Donna Kmetz Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Knoerzer
KPFF Mr. Matthew Krecun and Ms. Megy Karydes Legacy Learning, LLC Mr. John R. Lutzker, Ph.D. Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. McDonnell Mr. and Mrs. Donald McGarrah Ms. Mary Kay McMahon Dr. Albert Mensah Mr. Lawrence Moews Ms. Megan Morgan Ms. Katherine Nee Ms. Lisa Pauls Mr. Steven Pedian Mr. and Mrs. Steve J. Pierce Mr. Douglas L. Prochnow Ms. Pamela Quigley Devata Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Reiniger Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Rosengarden Mr. Anthony Rossi Mr. Florindo Rozante Mr. David Russell and Ms. Jamie M. Brownlee Mr. and Mrs. Dale Schlinsog Mr. and Mrs. Michael Schwartz Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Specht Mr. and Mrs. Steven M. Stone Mr. and Mrs. John Suk Mr. Sean Sullivan Surgical Operational Services, Inc. The Active Network The Gabriel Foundation Inc. Time Inc. United Way Special Distribution Account Mr. and Mrs. William Valiquette Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Vaughan Voices for America's Children Mr. and Mrs. John Weber Mr. Andrew Woosley Ms. Elizabeth Zanarini
Partners in Prevention
Financial Statements
Statement of activities for the year ending December 31, 2006
Unrestricted Temporary Restricted Permanently Restricted Public support and other revenue Public Support - contributions Individuals, family foundations Corporations, foundations, associations Special activities, events Total public support Total
Other revenue Literature sales Grants from government agencies Investment return designated for current operations Other Total other revenue and support Net assets released from restrictions Total public support and other revenue Expenses Program services Prevention education Prevention research Prevention programs Prevention advocacy Chapter activities Total program services
162,776 125,360 415,094 615,080 3,545,207 281,068 620,873 1,454,718 302,274 531,032 3,189,965 96,361 677,094 773,455 3,963,420 (418,213)
3,462,509 281,068 620,873 1,454,718 302,274 531,032 3,189,965 96,361 677,094 773,455 3,963,420
Supporting services Management and general Advancement Total supporting services Total expenses
Change in net assets from operations Other changes: Investment return in excess of amounts designated for current operations Change in net assets Net assets, beginning of period Net assets, end of period $
(500,911)
Financial statements of Prevent Child Abuse America are audited by certified public accountants at Scanlon & Mathews LLP. The full annual audited financial statements are available upon request by writing to Prevent Child Abuse America. Prevent Child Abuse America is designated by the Internal Revenue Service as a not-for-profit corporation, 501(c)(3), and has been granted status as a public charity, 509(a)(1).
Founder
Donna J. Stone
National Staff
James M. Hmurovich President & CEO Robert Allen Jane Ascroft Nooruddin (Dean) Bhaidani Javier Diaz Matthew Feldman Lori Friedman Bridget Gavaghan Kathryn Harding-Cortright John Holton Ann Johnson Brett Laduzinsky Elizabeth Lenzi Marny McCaughan Phyllis Medrano
Paul W. Sweeney, Jr. Vice Chair Partner Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis, LLC Los Angeles, CA William Valiquette Treasurer Thornhill, ON, Canada Myle Turpen Secretary Best Buy Stores Rockford, MI Michael E. Axelrod Past Board Chair Trinova Partners LLC Atlanta, GA Tom Carhart Principal South Street Advisors New York City, NY
We have partnered with PCA America for more than 10 years because of the important work the organization is doing to create a better future for children todayand in the generations to come. Michael Rosengarden, President, Autohaus on Edens
Leslie Sacks Gross Attorney-at-Law Arlington, VA James M. Hmurovich President & CEO Prevent Child Abuse America Chicago, IL Julie L. Johnson Immediate Past National President Kappa Delta Sorority Matthews, NC Steven Kairys, M.D. Chairman, Department of Pediatrics Clinical Professor Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Holmdel, NJ Susan J. Kelley, RN, Ph.D Dean and Professor College of Health and Human Services Georgia State University Atlanta, GA John R. Lutzker, Ph.D. Executive Director Marcus Institute Atlanta, GA
We are proud to support an organization that supports children and families across the U.S. Best Buy encourages local volunteerism by providing charitable gifts to organizations where employees volunteer. Myle Turpen, Market Manager, Best Buy Stores
Babette Nyka Tiffany Parker Jennifer Plakut Barbara Rawn Robert Reid Helen Reif Lisa Schreiber Barbara Shaffer Eric Stepien Ben Tanzer Greer Thornton Gloria Varona-Williams Ching Tung Wang Cydney Wessel
Jo-Ann Dishey Vice President, Organizational Development & Training Zurich North America Schaumburg, IL Byron Egeland, Ph.D Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Development Institute of Child Development University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN
Winds of Change is a campaign developed by PCA Florida and the Ounce of Prevention Fund of Florida.
No one can do everything No one parent. No one grandparent. No one teacher. No one neighbor. No one elected official. No one agency. No one individual. But everyone can do something.