Children's Home plants pinwheels for Child Abuse Prevention Month
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — One Peoria organization planted pinwheels on their lawn to raise awareness for child abuse.
Children's Home Association of Illinois had an event with several people in attendance where remarks were made and pinwheels were planted for Child Abuse Prevention Month.
Anni Reinking, vice president of prevention services for the Children's Home, shared what her department's goal is and why the home's services are important.
'Really our goal at the prevention services is to get into the homes before any sort of abuse or neglect may occur,' Reinking said. 'We really want to build those positive experiences with families.'
Reinking spoke about home visits, a vital program that helps victims of child abuse trust themselves to be good parents.
'We're going in and we're making sure that the parents understand what it means to have really good pro-social engagement with their child,' she said. 'What does it mean to have early literacy? What kind of games can you play? Those types of things. Just really building parents' confidence so that they know and they feel confident that they can parent.'
Children's Home offers services like Good Beginnings, a prenatal and postpartum home visit program including classes and doulas, igrow Coordinated Intake, another home visit program, Family Connects, which include postpartum mother and baby checks and Perinatal Connects which are monthly home visits during pregnancy all the way up to a year after birth.
Explaining how they are more than just a place kids can call home, Children's Home educated guests on all of the different programs they offer to new mothers to make sure each family is happy and healthy.
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