Pinwheels for Prevention

Prevent Child Abuse Oregon is proud to unveil its new campaign, Pinwheels for Prevention ™, introducing the pinwheel as a symbol for child abuse and neglect prevention nationwide.

The pinwheel represents PCA America's efforts to change the way our nation thinks about prevention, focusing on community activities and public policies that prioritize prevention right from the start to make sure child abuse and neglect never occur. It represents our efforts to ensure the healthy development of children nationwide, while recognizing that child development is a building block for community development and economic development.

The campaign is taking root as more than 400,000 blue and silver pinwheels were displayed in communities across the U.S. in 2008. Shining in the sun, the pinwheel is reflective of the bright future all children deserve and our belief that getting it right early is less costly than trying to fix it later.

April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, a time to focus public attention on the prevention of child abuse and neglect.  Please join us by distributing and using the enclosed public information materials throughout your community.

Get Involved!
As an individual, local organization or corporation, we'd invite you get involved.

As an Individual

How to Get Involved as an Individual

• Write your elected official that more attention needs to be paid to preventing the abuse and neglect of our nation's children.
• Help Prevent Child Abuse Oregon plant a pinwheel garden, or purchase pinwheels and plant your own to show your support!
• Donate professional expertise.
• Serve on a committee or board.
• Talk about prevention in your community.
• Offer to hold a small fundraiser for the chapter in your state.
  

As a Local Organization

How to Get Involved as a Local Organization

• Purchase pinwheels from your state chapter and plant a pinwheel garden.
• Join Child Abuse Prevention Month activities in April.
• Consider how you can incorporate child abuse prevention into your work.
• Discuss child abuse prevention at your conferences and meetings.
• Collaborate locally.
• Contact the Prevent Child Abuse Oregon to explore the possibilities.

As a Corporation

How to Get Involved as a Corporation

• Sell paper pinwheels at checkout or other special pinwheel-themed items in your stores.
• Sponsor pinwheel activities at the local or national level.
• Print messages on your bags or insert bill-stuffers to bring attention to this issue.
• Invite your employees to show their support by purchasing and displaying pinwheels.
• Reinforce teamwork and office morale by creating employee volunteer teams for PCA Oregon.
• Create a pinwheel garden on your company's premises in April to show your support during Child Abuse Prevention Month.
• Contribute your company's professional expertise to help us advance this campaign and our organization's mission.
• Donate or support the purchase of advertising space to help continue getting the word out.

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