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                                                                  ACR 125
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          Date of Hearing:   March 29, 2012

                             ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES
                                Nancy Skinner, Chair
                   ACR 125 (Beall) - As Introduced:  March 12, 2012
           
          SUBJECT  :   Child Abuse Prevention Month.

           SUMMARY  :   Acknowledges the month of April 2012 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 continue 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 
           
          California Protective Parents Association

           Opposition 
           
          None on file.

           
          Analysis Prepared by  :    Anna McCabe / RLS. / (916) 319-2800