Family Strengthening Month
April is designated as National Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Month, in Wisconsin we celebrate April as Family Strengthening Month. Each year the Prevention Board partners with the Department of Children and Families and Prevent Child Abuse Wisconsin (PCAW) to create a toolkit filled with ideas, activities, and resources to encourage community-based prevention efforts in April and throughout the year.
This toolkit provides information to communities, organizations, and individuals on how to promote Family Strengthening efforts in April and throughout the year.
Here you can find Five for Families promotional materials (and tips for using them) that you can share each day during the Family Strengthening month of April and throughout the year.
The Random Acts of Connection outreach toolkit provides a series of assets that can be used during Family Strengthening Month to help encourage families to do Random Acts of Connection.
Wear Blue Day Poster
This calendar offers posts and corresponding images for your use in spreading the word about family strengthening on
Facebook and Instagram. The calendar provides posts about family strengthening that you can post frequently
throughout the year.
Social Media Posts Calendar
Child Welfare Information Gateway resources - free graphics and sample social media posts to help you make a plan to raise awareness about child abuse prevention
Strengthening Families messaging
Strengthening Families is not contained to just April. In partnership with other state agencies and community-based agencies, the Prevention Board is committed to developing messages around other events to strengthen families.
Summertime in Wisconsin can be full of family
fun and adventure. Yet, filling the unstructured
days of summer can also be stressful and
overwhelming for both parents and kids. Here
are some tools that can help families reduce the
strain and increase the opportunities to create
happy memories together:
Sun, Fun and Family Strengthening