CAPP REACHES NYC MILESTONE
Milestone Celebrated through Pinwheels For Prevention Garden Planting
with 4th Grade Students at P.S. 140 Manhattan
New York, NY - March 31, 2008 - The Child Abuse Prevention Program (CAPP) celebrated a milestone - educating 320,000 NYC public school students since their inception through their award-winning Child Safety Workshop. To celebrate this milestone and kick-off April's National Child Abuse Prevention Month, CAPP hosted a Pinwheel for Prevention garden planting with students at P.S. 140 in Manhattan. At this special event, Ray Lucas, former NFL Quarterback and NFL Insider for SportsNet NY joined CAPP to present Joshua Marquez, Citywide Coordinator for Child Abuse and Neglect, New York City's Department of Education with CAPP's 2008 Community Hero Award.
"What makes our program unique is that we provide training to the guidance counselors before presenting the Child Safety Workshop to children in their school. This way, we ensure that they, along with our Prevention Specialists, are prepared to take abuse disclosures that might occur," said Marion White, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Child Abuse Prevention Program. "This support network created for children allows us to be advocates for those children who are dealing with unsafe environments and provides us with a platform to care for that child."
"It is a privilege and an honor to accept the Child Abuse Prevention Program 2008 Community Hero Award. This recognition has special meaning because it comes from one of the premier agencies in combating child abuse and maltreatment in New York City," said Joshua Marquez, Citywide Coordinator for Child Abuse and Neglect, New York City's Department of Education. "CAPP has been working collaboratively with the New York City Department of Education for more than two decades, and I am proud to accept this honor on behalf of our students and staff."
Time Warner Cable of New York and New Jersey, long time CAPP donor and 2007 Community Hero Award recipient, joined the celebration by presenting CAPP with a $36,000 cash grant to help underwrite CAPP's education program. The monies represent funds collected during Time Warner Cable's annual children's campaign held each holiday season.
Following the award presentation, CAPP unveiled the Pinwheel Garden, a collaborative project with 4th grade students and faculty at P.S. 140 to commence Child Abuse Prevention Month. CAPP is partnering with Prevent Child Abuse America and Prevent Child Abuse New York in support of their nationwide public awareness campaign; Pinwheels for Prevention. The campaign is built around the symbol of the pinwheel; a happy and uplifting symbol of childhood. As a campaign symbol, a pinwheel conveys the message that each child deserves the chance to be raised in a healthy, safe, and nurturing environment. 320 pinwheels are planted in a garden at the school representing the milestone number of children educated by CAPP since it's inception in 1986 (one pinwheel to represent 1,000 children). The garden is planted in a public space and will remain on display throughout April so that the many people who pass by the garden daily can be reminded of the importance of child abuse prevention and keeping the children in our community safe.
"The Pinwheels for Prevention movement is bringing the belief in prevention to life in a number of ways in communities around the state. The movement is based on the belief that we must do more than simply respond to cases of abuse through prosecution and intervention. We need to provide programs and policies that focus on child safety, engage communities, and create conditions that allow parents to be the kinds of parents they want to be - programs such as the Child Abuse Prevention Program," said Christine S. Deyss, Executive Director of Prevent Child Abuse New York.
Child Abuse Prevention Program (CAPP), a non-profit agency founded in 1986, is the only agency of its kind. Over the past 22 years, CAPP has reached over 320,000 New York City school children and made them aware of their right to be safe. CAPP's mission is to ensure that all of New York City's children enjoy this basic right. The cornerstone of CAPP's work is an award-winning Child Safety Workshop that uses life-sized puppets to teach school children to recognize, resist and report instances of abuse and neglect. Each year over 24,000 children participate in the workshop, approximately 200 families are referred for assistance and 100 abuse cases are reported to child protective services.
Prevent Child Abuse New York is the only statewide, nonprofit organization in New York dedicated to preventing child abuse and neglect. It does so by increasing public understanding of the problem and its solutions, serving as a resource for families, individuals and organizations, advocating for expanded and improved programs and policies to prevent child abuse, and fostering a statewide network committed to child abuse prevention. Prevent Child Abuse New York is the New York State chapter of Prevent Child Abuse America. For more information, visit www.preventchildabuseny.org.
Time Warner Cable of New York and New Jersey serves over 1.4 million customers in four NYC boroughs (Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island and western Brooklyn), Mt. Vernon, Hudson Valley (Orange, Sullivan, Ulster Counties and parts of Dutchess, Greene and Delaware Counties) and Bergen and Hudson Counties, New Jersey. Visit timewarnercable.com/nynj.
Time Warner Cable owns and manages cable systems passing approximately 26 million homes in 33 states. The Company has 14.6 million customers for its various products, including video, high-speed data and residential telephone. This includes approximately 13.4 million basic video subscribers and more than 6 million customers who purchase more than one product. Time Warner Cable includes some of the most technologically advanced and best-clustered cable systems in the country, with nearly 85 percent of the Company's customers located in five geographic regions: New York, Texas, Ohio, the Carolinas and southern California. It is the largest cable provider in the nation's two largest cities, Los Angeles and New York. Leveraging its leadership in innovation and quality customer care, Time Warner Cable delivers advanced products and services such as video-on-demand, high-definition television, digital video recorders, high-speed data and Digital Phone.
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