(Paula Peterson, SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif)
While April is Child Abuse Prevention Awareness Month, being aware of what child abuse is, what to look for, and how to help is a year-round issue and the happiness of children depends on everyone.
The pinwheel has been the national symbol for child abuse prevention since 2008. The pinwheel connotes playfulness, joy, and childhood and has come to serve as a physical reminder of the great childhoods we want for children.
Live Violence Free (LVF), located at 2941 Lake Tahoe Blvd. in South Lake Tahoe, has pinwheels placed on its front lawn each April as a reminder that not all children are experiencing that joy, and instead are experiencing some form of abuse.
In El Dorado County there were 2,365 reports of child abuse and/or neglect made to El Dorado County Child Protective Services in 2021, of which 226 were investigated and found to be substantiated.
Those numbers could be low though because, […]