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          Date of Hearing:   April 24, 2014

                             ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES
                              Richard S. Gordon, Chair
                 HR 38 (Quirk-Silva) - As Introduced:  April 21, 2014
           
          SUBJECT  :   Child Abuse Prevention Month.

           SUMMARY  :   Acknowledges the month of April 2014 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 the 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 
           
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           Opposition 
           
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          Analysis Prepared by  :    Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800