Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week
The entire month of May is dedicated to National Mental Health Awareness, but May 3-9 is the National Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health’s yearly event, which is dedicated…
National Sexual Assault Awareness Month
History In the late 1970s, women in England held protests against the violence they encountered as they walked the streets at night. They called them Take Back the Night marches.…
National Child Abuse Prevention Month
In 1983, President Reagan proclaimed April to be the first National Child Abuse Prevention Month, a tradition that continues to this day. Since then, National Child Abuse Prevention Month has…
The Scourge of Human Trafficking Hits Close to Home
President Obama has proclaimed January as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. This month serves to increase public awareness of this unrecognized and misunderstood problem occurring in our own…