Child Abuse Prevention Council Of Contra Costa County Inc

The nurturing parenting center based program is an evidence-based, primary prevention program providing parent education to at-risk, low-income families of vulnerable populations in contra costa county. This 20-week course provides culturally and linguistically appropriate education to parents in a direct service approach to prevent child abuse and neglect. During the fiscal year ended 6/30/24, capc graduated 265 parents and 134 children.

The baby bag program distributes essential information on child safety, child development and child abuse prevention to parents at hospitals, clinics and birthing centers in contra costa county. Each bag also contains capc's "surviving parenthood, a resource directory for contra costa county". During the fiscal year ended 6/30/24, capc distributed approximately 8,855 baby bags in english and spanish to new parents. Capc distributed an additional 10,558 surviving parenthood resource directory booklets to the community.

The mandated reporter training program provides community and professional groups with presentations and trainings on the problem of child abuse and strategies for prevention. Our community educators train child-serving professionals (mandated reporters) in the health, law enforcement, education and social service fields to recognize, identify and respond to suspected child abuse and neglect. In the fiscal year 2023-2024, capc provided 49 mandated reporter trainings to 1,954 participants. The child safety awareness program is designed to keep kids safe at school, at home and in the community. Capc is working with 1st through 6th grade students through the "speak up be safe" program: a unique bullying, child abuse and sexual harassment prevention curriculum. In the fiscal year 2023 -2024, the child safety program reached 11,733 children. The bay area coalition is a collaboration between ten county child abuse prevention councils providing education, resources and advocacy to the bay area community.