Family & Children's Council

Of Black Hawk County

Links

Prevention Information:
Education is often the best method for child abuse prevention.
The blue ribbon is the symbol for child abuse prevention. April is Child Abuse Prevention Month and blue ribbons will appear everywhere in Black Hawk County. The Blue Ribbon Campaign began in 1989, when a Virginia grandmother tied a blue ribbon on her van as a memorial for her three-year-old grandson, who had been murdered by his mother's boyfriend.

Today, people working to prevent child abuse use the blue ribbon as a reminder of the positive steps that can be taken to prevent child abuse.

Prevention and Community Resource Links:
Black Hawk County YMCA

Black Hawk County YWCA 

Black Hawk Gaming Association

Cedar Valley’s Promise

Child Care Resource & Referral

Child Support Recovery

Community Foundation 

Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Iowa 

Department of Human Services

Exchange Foundation

Hawkeye Community College   

Iowa Legal Aid

Leave A Legacy Iowa  

Leighty Foundation

Lutheran Service of Iowa 

Mid-Iowa Family Therapy

Prevent Child Abuse Iowa 

Public Schools of Black Hawk County, Iowa 

RJ McElroy Trust 

Seeds of Hope 

Sovern Mediation

Target Foundation

Tri-County Child & Family Development Council (Head Start) 

UNI-CUE  

As a small not-for-profit Family & Children’s Council is often challenged in keeping up with today’s technological world. It has been a dream of ours to make parenting information and community resources easily accessible to all families through web capabilities, while increasing our outreach in providing child abuse prevention information. We thank the Black Hawk County Gaming Association for making our dream a reality. Thanks to the financial support of the Gaming Association, Family & Children’s Council has been able to work with ME&V to create this Web site filled with parenting information and resources. Now families can access information from the computer in their very own home. What a great gift to all parents and their children!”

 

The Family & Children’s Council would like to thank the following organizations for their continued support, through their financial contributions, toward child abuse prevention efforts in Black Hawk County:

 Cedar Valley United Way

 Cedar Valley's Promise

    Cedar Valley's Promise

 Leave a Legacy Iowa
 Prevent Child Abuse Iowa      National Exchange Club  Community Foundation of Northeast Iowa