Healthy Families America Conference
to Convene in March 1997

The 1997 Healthy Families America (HFA) Conference, sponsored by The National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse (NCPCA) will convene March 2-4 at the Westin Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. Featured speakers will include Lisbeth B. Schorr, Lecturer, Harvard University; Bruce D. Perry, Baylor College of Medicine; and Evelyn K. Moore, Executive Director, Child Development Institute. The conference will bring together professionals, paraprofessionals and volunteers, working to support children and families.

For the past five years, the HFA initiative, in partnership with Ronald McDonald House Charities and the Freddie Mac Foundation, has worked to lay the foundation for nationwide, voluntary home visitor services for all new parents through a network of statewide systems. In the past, and still today, NCPCA Chapters and HFA state leaders successfully advocate for home visitation services, researchers participate in the HFA Research Network, and trainers continue to train more HFA sites.

This conference will offer workshops designed for state leaders and advocates, researchers, program managers, supervisors, family assessment workers, family support workers, and more.

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NCPCA Welcomes New Members to National Board of Directors

Vic Anderson Store Manager, Target Greatland; Bolingbrook, IL
Martha Farrell Erickson Director of the Children, Youth and Family Consortium
at the University of Minnesota; Minneapolis, MN
Diane Keller Kessler Past President, NCPCA - Illinois Chapter; Flossmoor, IL
Robert McGee President, Occidental International Corporation; Washington, DC
Margaret Paticelli Consultant to Connecticare; Simsbury, CT.
William M. Piet President, Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company Foundation; V.P. Corporate Affairs;
Secretary and Assistant to the President, Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company; Chicago, IL
Anne Reiniger, MSW, JD Executive Director, NY Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children; Brooklyn, NY
Michael Rosengarden Head of Toyota / Mercedes dealership in Chicago Suburb;
Chicago, IL
Haim Saban Chairman and C.E.O., Saban Entertainment; Los Angeles, CA
Ginger Salazar Co-founder of TMSI; Newton Upper Falls, MA
Clarice Walker Professor, Howard University School of Social Work; Washington, DC

Just Briefly....

The C. Henry Kempe National Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect will sponsor the 25th Annual Child Abuse and Neglect Symposium May 13-16, 1997 in Keystone, Colorado. For registration information, call (303) 321-3963.

The American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children will sponsor its Fifth National Colloquium June 18-21, 1997 in Miami Beach, Florida. For more information call (312) 554-0166 or fax (312) 554-0919.

Focus on Prevention: National Committee to
Prevent Child Abuse Adopts Long Range Plan

The National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse (NCPCA) adopts the following plan to guide its activities for the years 1997 - 2001.

MISSION: A NATIONWIDE COMMITMENT TO PREVENT
CHILD ABUSE IN ALL ITS FORMS

Vision: NCPCA's vision is one in which every child is free from abuse and neglect, safely nurtured by a loving family. This vision is one in which every child lives in a community committed to preventing child abuse; to providing supports for parents, particularly new parents, which enable them to be effective parents; and to promoting the participation of all sectors of the community in a variety of efforts to prevent child abuse. In this vision, NCPCA will offer the leadership and support necessary to prevent child abuse in all its forms.

Goal 1: OUR MESSAGE: To serve as the catalyst in effectively informing and influencing the public's attitudes and behaviors about child abuse prevention nationwide through public awareness, advocacy, and public policy initiatives

To ensure that the primary focus of our message is on prevention, with a special emphasis on the early years of a child's life
To develop and aggressively market a variety of empirically-sound prevention messages through a variety of media and methods
To continually keep child abuse publicly visible and to promote our organization and its efforts to prevent child abuse
To develop and advocate for a prevention-focused policy agenda at the state and national levels
To actively engage the public in efforts to advocate for children and to prevent child abuse

Goal 2: OUR PROGRAMS: To create the availability to all families nationwide of a full range of high quality, empirically-based, effective child abuse prevention services and strategies, including but not limited to Healthy Families America

To implement a quality assurance strategy to credential HFA programs that adhere to empirically established critical elements for effective home visiting
To establish state strategies and cultivate state and local leadership to assure the viability and sustainability of HFA efforts
To establish full HFA community planning and training capacities within all states
To establish diverse, long term financing strategies for HFA programs, including identifying the potential of managed health care plans
To develop and maintain partnerships that will allow HFA to expand and to institutionalize HFA services nationwide
To make information readily available on a wide array of promising strategies and programs to prevent child abuse
To disseminate information on a variety of effective and appropriate roles in preventing child abuse for multiple sectors of society, including business, religious institutions, schools, children's services agencies, youth athletic organizations, libraries, neighborhood family resource centers, and individual citizens

Goal 3: OUR DELIVERY SYSTEM: To expand and enhance our capacity to effectively pursue our mission at the state and community levels by strengthening and supporting a network of state chapters

To provide the training, technical assistance, and other support necessary to enable chartered chapters to effectively play a significant statewide leadership role in child abuse prevention
To support our chapters and collaborate with other partners in advocating for the commitment of fiscal and other resources to implement child abuse prevention strategies at the national, state, and local levels
To expand NCPCA's reach through collaborations, partnerships, and networks with business, government, religious institutions, schools, and associations or organizations who share our interest in the prevention of child abuse
To increase our formalized relationships with other child abuse prevention programs and organizations, such as HFA sites

Goal 4: OUR KNOWLEDGE: To contribute to and disseminate the growing body of research-based information needed for designing effective child abuse prevention strategies, programs, and policies

To provide empirically sound guidance for the ongoing development and institutionalization of HFA
To gather evaluative data on a range of prevention strategies to craft new service delivery systems in addition to home visitation
To provide an objective and critical assessment of NCPCA program initiatives

Goal 5: OUR ORGANIZATION: To assure the resources, volunteers, staff, and partnerships needed to effectively pursue the mission of NCPCA, to promote growth and secure the future of NCPCA's programs, and to make NCPCA the premier child abuse prevention organization nationwide

To maintain an active, volunteer national Board of Directors with the variety of leadership skills, capacity, and resources necessary to effectively pursue NCPCA's mission
To maintain the highest quality staff to effectively pursue NCPCA's mission
To maintain a technological capacity consistent with national practices
To maintain strong partnerships between the National Board and the boards of chartered state chapters, and between the national office staff and chapter staff
To implement a five year financial plan to complement this long range plan that addresses financial goals and fund development and marketing strategies to accomplish them
To maximize the marketing of our activities, including developing and implementing strategies to more extensively market NCPCA and our chapters
To maintain a stable, diversified, and growing funding base
To evaluate our progress in achieving the goals of this plan


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