PREVENTION EDUCATION
What is Prevention Education?
Prevention education services are provided for children, caregivers, and community members to prevent child sexual and physical abuse from occurring in our community. We provide primary prevention services to 1st and 3rd grade students in Clare, Gladwin, and Missaukee Counties. We also provide secondary prevention services to caregivers and community members.
Center for Hope and Healing
215 East Oak Street, Harrison, MI 48625
PREVENTION AND OUTREACH TEAM:
Zackary Soulliere
Email: zsoulliere@mikids.org Phone: (989) 859-1936
Ashley Vandersall
Email: avandersall@mikids.org Phone: (989) 859-0741
Catherine Brown
Email: brownc@mikids.org Phone: (989) 578-1706
PREVENTION INITIATIVES
Trauma Awareness Steering Committee
The Trauma Awareness Steering Committee (TASC) is a group of professionals in Clare and Gladwin Counties that was created to build a resilient, trauma-informed community with a zero-tolerance policy for violence to ensure our counties are a safe place to live, learn, and flourish. The team is made up of representatives from the local child advocacy center, local schools, mental health, law enforcement, and more. Our mission is to limit the long-term effects of trauma, to engage the community by spreading awareness, encouraging resilience, strengthening social support networks, as well as providing prevention education and intervention.
Handle With Care
The Handle With Care (HWC) program promotes safe and supportive homes, schools, and communities that protect children and help traumatized children heal and thrive. HWC promotes school-community partnerships aimed at ensuring that children receive appropriate interventions to help them achieve academically at their highest levels despite whatever traumatic circumstances they may have endured. HWC programs support children exposed to trauma and violence through improved communication and collaboration between law enforcement, schools, and mental health providers, and connects families, schools, and communities to mental health services.
PREVENTION EDUCATION PROGRAMS
Monique Burr Foundation - Child Safety Matters
MBF Child Safety Matters® is a comprehensive, research-based, primary prevention program, that educates and empowers students and all relevant adults with information and strategies to prevent, recognize, and respond appropriately to bullying, cyberbullying, digital dangers, trafficking, and all types of child abuse and exploitation. NMAC offers this program to 1st and 3rd Grade students of Clare, Gladwin, and Missaukee counties.
For more information on the curriculum, visit www.mbfpreventioneducation.org.
Stewards of Children® - Darkness to Light
Stewards of Children® is an evidence-informed, award-winning two and a half hour training that teaches adults to prevent, recognize, and react responsibly to child sexual abuse. Through interviews with a very diverse group of people with lived experience, experts, and treatment providers, Stewards of Children® teaches adults practical actions they can take to reduce instances of child sexual abuse in their organizations, families, and communities.
For more information on the curriculum, visit www.d2l.org
Strengthening Families Program
The Strengthening Families Program (SFP) is an evidence-based family skills training program for high-risk and general population families that is recognized both nationally and internationally. Parents and youth attend weekly SFP skills classes together, learning parenting skills and youth life and refusal skills. They have separate class training for parents and youth the first hour, followed by a joint family practice session the second hour.