FVPC
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month
To learn more about child abuse prevention,and what to do if you think a child is being abused please click here.
The Children's Home of Wyoming Conference is partnering with the Family Violence Prevention Council for April - Child Abuse Prevention Month to bring awareness to the issue of child abuse prevention. To learn more about what programs and services are available at the Children's Home of Wyoming Conference please click here.Family Violence Prevention Council of Broome County was formed by County Executive Order in December 1985. The original formation of the Council was in response to a cluster of serious child abuse incidences that highlighted the need for better coordination in addressing the problems of abuse and neglect. In 1999, the Council expanded to address all issues of family violence including elder mistreatment, intimate partner violence and child abuse.
The mission of the Council is to provide leadership to the community in its effort to reduce the incidence and severity of all forms of family violence. A largely professional volunteer organization with seven working subcommittees, it has devoted numerous hours to a wide variety of activities that focus coordination, advocacy, and education on the prevention and treatment of abuse and neglect and the corollary systems issues. The Council is supported by two staff.
Bylaws, guiding the direction of the Council, provide a detailed structure of membership to assure that those organizations which form the network of services for this population are represented in the decisions made by the Council. The forty-member Council is of an administrative nature that helps assure that decisions are made and the directions chosen for the Council are based on the strongest expertise in our community. Furthermore, the top-heavy membership helps assure that these decisions have the ready support of those organizations necessary to implement action.
