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Pilot program aims to curb child abuse in Black Hawk County [WCFCourier.com]

 

Often shouted in anger or groaned in disdain, the question “What’s wrong with you?!” rarely leads to an honest answer about a person’s life or experiences.

That’s because it’s the wrong question to ask and the answer is complicated.

A new pilot program in Black Hawk County hopes to change that interaction between two people, and in turn, create a stronger community and healthier children.

The community-based child abuse prevention response to ACEs, or adverse childhood experiences, project began a little more than a year ago in Black Hawk County, with a focus on the Church Row Historic Neighborhood.

It’s a bit of a mouthful, but the project is about to start a conversation.

“If we change our message from ‘What’s wrong with you?’ to ‘What happened to you?,’ it creates a completely different conversation,” said Missy Denning, program director of the Family & Children’s Council, one of five agencies involved in the project.

[For more of this story, written by Christina Crippes, go to http://wcfcourier.com/news/loc...f0-e90dd047823f.html]

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