Child Advocacy Center of Galveston County

Come out and support Yaga’s Wild Game Cook-off and the Advocacy Center! Wonderful Wagon of Fun raffle!!

HUGE thank you to Coastal Community Church and their fantastic volunteers! The Center is looking good! 10/16/22

Meet Emily Zhang with UTMB’s OBGYN Student Society. Emily has been a supporter and volunteer with us and we are so grateful for this beautiful human and the OBGYN Society for a very important donation of “period packs” tampons and pads for the girls that need our Rainbow Room!
Couldn’t say it better than what Emily said herself- “We’re happy to support the Galveston community and make sure women of all ages feel secure and comfortable with their periods!!”

It is with mixed emotion that I sign off on my last post with The Advocacy Center after six years with this amazing organization. I am so grateful for the beautiful relationships I had the honor of forming and the thousands of children and teachers, community members, partner agencies, organizations and parents got to share this wonderful journey with. I love you all.
Love, Candy Hattingh, Community Education Coordinator and Outreach

It's starting to get hot out there again! Some great tips if you have a lot going on or you don't normally take the baby, prevention is about making sure we take the steps and if it can save a life why not?

May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month! It’s a busy time of year, but if any young artists would like to take a break and create some art for our current contest, please send it our way! There are so many options for a theme, here’s just a few: cherry blossom, Chinese/Japanese fans, fireworks, Chinese folk art, Chinese dragons, Hawaiian theme…
Submissions will be displayed at ArtWalk on June 4!!
Galveston Independent School District

What a great time to teach kids about keeping their bodies safe during April Child Abuse Prevention Awareness Month, thank you to the faculty, staff, parents and especially the 5th and 6th graders at Dunbar Middle School. The school has such a passionate team who work together to keep these kids learning and safe.

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GSO Free Student Tickets Choose your concert and bring up to ten family members or friends. Check out more about the Galveston Symphony Orchestra at our website, https://galvestonsymphony.org/.

Child sexual abuse does not discriminate and crosses all socioeconomic, ethnic, and religious barriers. It is not a problem for "those people", it affects all of us and it's a silent endemic that can be stopped if we all believe that ALL children deserve love and safety and we can all do a part to ensure that.

Child sexual abuse is a significant but preventable public health problem. It is often
underreported and some child victims never disclose.

Children will often lie to protect the abuser! Having open and honest conversations with children about body safety is similar to fire safety, it has to happen early, before a fire. Hopefully the child will never experience a fire, but at least they will know what to do if they are in that situation! Telling them it's not their fault and it's never too late to tell are important parts. For more information, please email [email protected]

Just had this conversation with a grandma who told us that she makes sure to teach stranger danger to her grandkids. We love this, but had to inform her that statistically 90% of perpetrators are known to the children they abuse.
Remember it's important to let kids know that no matter who it is, no one has the right to touch or look at private parts for no good reason (like a parent or guarduan applying medicine, a doctor, bathing or changing a young child) or ask you to do it to them. If ANYONE does this, they should tell a trusted adult. Ask your child to identify their trusted adults including family, school personel and adults in extra curricular activities to keep them safe and talk to!

What a truly beautiful day “taking the wind out of child abuse” making pinwheels, spinning the wheel and talking to parents about keeping their little ones safe! Thank you to Galveston’s Own farmers market for hosting us and being part of a community that cares! Thank you to all the vendors and customers that showed up in blue to support the child abuse prevention awareness month, Thank you to our very own Shanda and her mom Allison who volunteered their precious time and Edna Townsend for being Happy Bear!

Encouraging and supporting
your child with open dialogue is a vital step in preventing child sexual abuse. Using proper names for private parts, letting your child know that no matter who it is, if that person is touching in an unsafe or confusing way, they have the right to say NO, move away and let your child make a list of trusted adults at home, in the family and at school that they can share it with! If you would like more info please email [email protected]

The response has been truly incredible, all these wonderful people in our community “going blue” or sending pictures of themselves in blue To show support for an incredibly important message for child-abuse prevention awareness month! Thank you for showing off in blue at Oppe with the , thank you Denise Walker with real food project cooking class for asking the class to wear blue and for your special scrubs of blue!
Thank you all for coming together for special message! We are so grateful to be part of a community that wants to protect all children💙

The beautiful humans at showing their love on Go Blue Day to show support for Child Abuse Prevention Awareness. It's organizations like this working together in our community which keep our kiddos safer!

WOWEEEE It's Go Blue Day at The Center for Child Abuse Prevention Awareness Month! Thanks for being such good sports!

OMG Look at these CUTIES! Going Blue Day for Child Abuse Prevention Awareness Lobit Middle School, thank you for being such beautiful humans inside and out

It's Go Blue Day TODAY and we can't wait to post all the community members in blue! Blue is the official color to show your support for child abuse prevention. and we encourage friends and family to wear blue to support child abuse prevention and tag us at or email them to [email protected]!
We do this because it shows how VITAL it is that communities work together to increase awareness to prevent child abuse and you are part of it!
THIS IS OUR TEAM DURING QUARANTINE

Blue is the official color to show your support for child abuse prevention. It's Go Blue Day tomorrow, and we encourage friends and family to wear blue to support child abuse prevention.
We do this because it shows how VITAL it is that communities work together to increase awareness to prevent child abuse!

Individuals, families, and
communities across Texas should have a sense of responsibility to prevent child sexual abuse. If you are part of a child serving organization, please contact [email protected] for more information on learning the signs and symptoms and what to do if you know or suspect abuse is happening to a child near you!

It's April! Child Abuse Prevention Awareness Month and there are things we can ALL do to help keep the kids around us safe

What a great community we have! Thank you for hosting us and partnering with us Wellby to kick off April Child Abuse Prevention Awareness Month with your beautiful branch and even more beautiful employees and also for creating a space for us and your wonderful customers to live life uninterupted!