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- The County of Santa Clara
- April 10, 2020
- Live Stream - Live with the County of Santa Clara
- 10am PT
- Hi, good morning, thank you for joining us. It's an honor to be here today. My name is Daniel Little, I'm the Acting Director with the Department of Family and Children Services with Santa Clara County, here for a very important message regarding child abuse prevention.
- As many of you may have seen, the Board recently passed a proclamation declaring April as Child Abuse Prevention Month. And I think during this very critical public health emergency it, becomes even more vital to discuss the impacts and implications of child abuse prevention as a countywide measure.
- DFCS is proud to partner with agencies such as First 5 and the Child Abuse Prevention Council as we
- develop ongoing and further interventions and strategies to prevent child abuse within the County of Santa Clara. With this current public health emergency, we know that there's additional burdens and stressors placed upon children and placed upon families and we want to make sure that as a community that each and every one of us understands our part in ensuring the safety and well-being of all the vulnerable populations within our county. We are working towards developing further interventions in the prevention landscape. We are developing strategies within early intervention developing strategies to engage families earlier on. And we really want to make sure that everybody has the information available that if you're seeing anything where you feel like a child is in danger, that you feel a child needs somebody additional to kind of look at well-being, that you're able to contact the Department of Family Children Services.
- Our Child Abuse and Neglect Call Center is still available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 1-833-SCC-KIDS, that's 1-833-SCC-KIDS.
- Our emergency response social workers are still on duty to respond to all allegations of abuse and neglect. And we really want to make sure that as a community, that we stand together, that we look out for one another, and that again while we're looking at for the health and well-being of all citizens that were putting a special focus and emphasis on the most vulnerable populations that we serve. For those that need any additional resources, you're welcome to look at the Child Abuse Prevention Councils website they list numerous phone numbers and websites for people to access additional services such as First 5.
- If you have any additional questions about accessing services through the county you can always go through the main Santa Clara County website. You can also access services the Social Services Agency on the on the Santa Clara County website.
- And again, I want to thank everyone especially the social workers that continue to put in the long hours to ensure the safety and well-being of the children that we're serving. I thank the foster parents and caregivers. I thank our service providers that still stand that are ready to meet the needs of children and families throughout this time. And most of all thank you to everybody in the public that recognizes this important topic and how it aligns with what's going going on within the current public health crisis.
- So with that I want to thank you all for joining us. Any additional questions again you can go to our website and once again for the report any concerns of child abuse and neglect please go to 1-833-SCC-KIDS.
- Thank you all very much.
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