BILL ANALYSIS �
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Date of Hearing: April 15, 2013
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES
Nancy Skinner, Chair
ACR 34 (Cooley) - As Introduced: March 18, 2013
SUBJECT : Child Abuse Prevention Month.
SUMMARY : Acknowledges the month of April 2013 as Child Abuse
Prevention Month and encourages the people of California to work
together to support youth-serving child abuse prevention
activities in their communities and schools during that month
and throughout the year. Specifically, this resolution makes
the following legislative findings:
1)Child abuse and neglect continues to pose serious threats to
our children; and, according to the United States Department
of Health and Human Services, 120 children in California died
as a result of child abuse and neglect in 2010.
2)Prevention of child abuse and neglect depends on the
involvement of people throughout the community; and, providing
community-based prevention services to families is less costly
than addressing the emotional and physical damage that can
result from child abuse and neglect, including the costs of
protective services, law enforcement, the judicial system,
foster care, and the treatment of adults recovering from abuse
as children.
3)California's children deserve to grow up in a safe and
nurturing environment free from fear, abuse, and neglect; and,
victims of child abuse, whether the abuse is physical, sexual,
or emotional, or any combination of these, should have access
to a safe place to live, appropriate medical care, and
counseling or mental health services.
4)In recent years, child abuse prevention groups have organized
Blue Ribbon Campaigns to increase public awareness and promote
ways to prevent child abuse and neglect by displaying blue
ribbons during Child Abuse Prevention Month.
FISCAL EFFECT : None.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
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Support
None on file
Opposition
None on file
Analysis Prepared by : Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800