Each year, April is designated as National Child Abuse Prevention Month, and the SOSD Discovery Center's Families Strengthening Families program provides special programming to encourage our community to #StandUpforChildren: See Something. Say Something. This theme reflects a simple truth about the realities of child abuse... If a child is being abused, change will only happen through the intervention of an adult.
The Starkville Oktibbeha School District Child Abuse Prevention Month seeks to raise awareness, provide tools and promote action that will prevent the abuse or exploitation of children in our greater community.
HOW TO REPORT CHILD ABUSE
To reporting abuse, neglect, and exploitation in the State of Mississippi
Call 1-800-222-8000 | (601) 432-4570 or 911
You may also call your local Child Protection Services Office
To report abuse online, visit www.msabusehotline.com
Click to find out more about reporting child abuse.
UPCOMING EVENTS
The SOSD Discovery Center will host a variety of public awareness events and community engagement activites during the month of April to raise awareness about child abuse prevention. For a full slate of activities, click to visit our Child Abuse Prevention Month Events.
Please save the date for these two featured community events:
APRIL 13
Community Engagement Event
"APPS & Cybercrimes: Preventing Predators from Entering your Backdoor"
Guest Speaker: Lee McDivitt, Mississippi Attorney General’s Office
Location: Greensboro Center, 401 Greensboro Street, Starkville, MS
Click here to register
4:30pm - Food Truck, Greensboro Parking lot
5:00pm - Expo with Family-centered Organizations, Greensboro Mezzanine
6:00pm - Speaker Presentation, Greensboro Auditorium
APRIL 20
Statewide Vitality Cafe
6:00pm via ZOOM
“Me, Myself, & I: Taking Care of My Mind”
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