- There are nearly 500,000 reports of child abuse in California each year — that’s about one report every minute.
- The economic cost to California for the 71,289 victims in 2017 is $19.31 billion — that same amount could send more than 2 million children to preschool.
- Given significant underreporting, the estimated cost incurred because of one year of abuse could be as high as $284.4 billion.
- Community risk factors that make California children and families more vulnerable to abuse include socioeconomic inequality and poverty, lack of adequate and affordable housing, high unemployment rates, homelessness, community violence, substance abuse, social isolation and marginalization, and wildfires and natural disasters.
- Of the $19.31 billion, the cost to Child Welfare Services alone is $787 million. Learn more in the 2019 California Snapshot.
Early in 2019 a Child Abuse Prevention Summit was held in San Diego. Co-hosted by the Prevention Cabinet of the County Welfare Directors Association of California, the California Office of Child Abuse Prevention (OCAP), and Strategies 2.0., the Summit marked the first time that partners from the government, nonprofit, and child abuse prevention sectors came together in a statewide effort for shared prevention planning.
Knowing that child abuse prevention planning is a shared priority for many communities in the SoCal region we designed the 2019 - 2020 SoCal Learning Community series to build leadership capacity to improve outcomes for children and families across the region.
Please join us on Thursday October 3rd for the first convening of the series. We will learn an innovative approach to reducing community risk factors, improve our understanding of a framework for prevention, and discuss creating a shared vision for family well being.
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