Georgia Center for Child Advocacy

Loneliness affects all of us, regardless of where we live. This week, I met with Japan's Loneliness Minister 加藤鮎子＆サポーターズ about Japan’s legislation to address loneliness and isolation. By learning and collaborating across nations, we can create a world powered by connection.

👋🏽Meet our coalitions! Check out coalition leadership and events throughout Georgia. All 16 Resilient Georgia regional coalitions are deeply engaged in their work to prevent and heal childhood adversity, provide an emphasis on trauma-informed awareness and care, and promote resilience with the children and their families in their communities.

https://www.resilientga.org/regional-coalitions

Safety & Resilience Resilient Middle Georgia The Basics Chattahoochee Valley Vashti Center for Children and Families United Way of Southwest Georgia GCAPP Community Health Solutions Cobb Collaborative Greater Valdosta United Way Gwinnett Coalition United Way of Coastal Georgia Wellroot Family Services The Magnolia House - Shelter for the Abused

How big is the problem of child abuse? How does it affect kids? How can they get better after abuse?

Get the answers to these and other common questions about child abuse, justice, healing, and hope for kids on our all-new stats page, and share this with your network to raise their awareness:

https://www.nationalchildrensalliance.org/media-room/national-statistics-on-child-abuse/

Experience a Midnight in Paris at our 29th Annual Cheer for Children Ball on Friday, September 27th at the Foundry at Puritan Mill. All proceeds from this event help GCCA serve as a safe haven to over 900 children each year who have face unimaginable hardships. Help us further our mission by making a donation, purchasing a ticket, inviting your friends to join, giving to our auction, or becoming a sponsor at cheerforchildren.org.

We are excited about our Trust Based Relational Intervention Care Giver training series starting back up in August!
Please consider joining us for the Intro and Overview of Trust-Based Relational Intervention on August 23rd

Call 706-528-4033 if you have any questions!

Our Executive Director, Emily Anne Vall, and Regional Program Director, Audrey Idaikkadar, joined The Carter Center mental health team and colleagues from Georgia & Montana to identify barriers and solutions for greater access to access mental health care.

💚Thanks to Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation for supporting our expansion of mental health parity work and hosting us!

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Last Chance! Event is Tomorrow!
Sexual Abuse Speak Out (SASO) will be hosting their 8th Annual Poetry SLAM4SAAM next Saturday, June 29th from 6-8pm at the Georgia Center for Child Advocacy. Come listen to some great motivational speakers, artists, abuse survivors, and more! All proceeds from the event will help the Georgia Center for Child Advocacy provide critical services to children and families affected by abuse, witness to violence and trafficking. Purchase your online tickets today at https://bit.ly/saso2024.

𝗦𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱
𝘈𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘵 𝘎𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘢 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘈𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘕𝘦𝘨𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵

Prevent Child Abuse Georgia is seeking nominations for the 2024 Mark Chaffin Award. This award honors the life and legacy of Dr. Mark Chaffin and recognizes individuals who have made repeated, significant, and outstanding contributions and commitments to the prevention of child abuse and neglect in Georgia.

Dr. Chaffin was a leader in the field of child maltreatment research. His main areas of research focused on child abuse, neglect, and delinquency intervention and service systems, particularly the development and implementation of evidence-based prevention and treatment approaches within public sector service systems. He dedicated his career to helping at-risk children and families with a sense of fundamental ethics and the need to do the right thing.��

This award will be presented at the 2024 Georgia Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect: From Prevention to Intervention on Sept. 11. It is sponsored by PCA Georgia, the Georgia Center for Child Advocacy, and the Stephanie V. Blank Center for Safe and Healthy Children at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟮𝟲.

Nominate a hero for children and families here:
https://ow.ly/m30o50SfAzr

Sexual Abuse Speak Out (SASO) will be hosting their 8th Annual Poetry SLAM4SAAM next Saturday, June 29th from 6-8pm at the Georgia Center for Child Advocacy. Come listen to some great motivational speakers, artists, abuse survivors, and more! All proceeds from the event will help the Georgia Center for Child Advocacy provide critical services to children and families affected by abuse, witness to violence and trafficking. Purchase your online tickets today at https://bit.ly/saso2024.

On June 17, 2021, Juneteenth officially became a federal holiday.
GCCA recognizes this holiday by sharing information with staff members and providing various festivities to attend within the metro area. (Plan your festivities now with the link below!)
As referenced on the history.com website: Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed. The troops’ arrival came a full two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth honors the end to slavery in the United States and is considered the longest-running African American holiday.

Happy Pride Month from all of us at GA Hope!

Articles and FAQs:
- [ACLU - LGBTQ Rights](https://loom.ly/aI1J2ik)
- [National Center for Transgender Equality](https://loom.ly/e9MLmHU)
- [The Trevor Project Resources](https://loom.ly/ZA3QuVg)
- [GLAAD Transgender Resources](https://loom.ly/BGUICh8)
- [Human Rights Campaign Resources](https://loom.ly/dB3Mg50)
- [Su***de Prevention Lifeline for LGBTQ+](https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/help-yourself/lgbtq/)
- [Alana Faith Chen Foundation](https://loom.ly/EjNLk9c)

Lifelines:
- The National Su***de Prevention Lifeline: 800-273-TALK (8255)
- The Trevor Project 24/7/365 Lifeline: 866-4-U-TREVOR (866-488-7386) or TrevorChat, their online instant messaging option, or TrevorText, a text-based support option. If you are looking for peer support, you can visit TrevorSpace from anywhere in the world.
- Trans Lifeline:
- US: 877-565-8860
- Canada: 1-877-330-6366
- Available 24/7
- Crisis Text Line: Text START to 741-741. Crisis Text Line is free, 24/7 support for those in crisis. Text from anywhere in the USA to text with a trained Crisis Counselor.
- The Gay, Le***an, Bisexual and Transgender National Hotline: (888) 843-4564
- The GLBT National Youth Talkline (youth serving youth through age 25): (800) 246-7743

Both the National Hotline and Youth Talkline provide telephone, online private one-to-one chat, and email peer-support, as well as factual information and local resources for cities and towns across the United States.

Today marks the release of our 35th KIDS COUNT Data Book, a comprehensive report that uses national and state data across four domains to assess how each U.S. state is working to support kids. This year’s Data Book is focused on ensuring children have access to the resources and support they need both in and outside school so they can enter their classrooms ready to learn. Visit the link below to download the 2024 Data Book and learn more about the well-being of kids. https://bit.ly/3yOPrKr

Healthy Coping Strategies for Kids and Teens Coping is not something we’re born knowing how to do; it needs to be taught. It’s not too early or too late for kids to start developing skills to manage emotions and deal with stress in healthy ways.

In conjunction with our DEI Community Circles conversation around food insecurity throughout the month of April, the DEI Committee hosted our first GCCA Staff Food Drive Competition. Staff members across all departments collected non-perishable food items to support our family clients in need. Food is one of the most requested resources from clients seen by the Family Advocacy Team. We are proud to announce that GCCA was able to cumulatively collect over 520 items to support our families!

See what the employees of the Georgia Center for Child Advocacy have to say about Mental Health!

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See what employees of the Georgia Center for Child Advocacy have to say about the importance of Mental Health!