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.

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