Listed below are Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention Projects in progress during the period July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2008.

• The Alliance for Families and Children (Lynchburg) - Teen Parent Program ($42,813):
  The Alliance for Families and Children will provide comprehensive support services throughout Central Virginia to teen parents through bi-monthly curricula-focused home visitation, case management, and family support services. The Teen Parent program uses the Partners for a Healthy Baby, San Angelo and Parent Child Nurturing curricula. The Teen Parent program provides health and child development education, models daily living skills, connects the teens to community resources, and assists the teens in making a successful transition into parenthood and self-sufficiency.
  
  
• Chesapeake Health Investment Program- Hispanic Outreach Program ($50,000):
  Chesapeake Health Investment Program (operating as CHIP/Healthy Families) will enhance and expand the success of the Hispanic Outreach Program (HOP). HOP, established in 2004, has proven outcomes in reducing child abuse and neglect. Based on the growing Hispanic population and request for services, CHIP/Healthy Families will form "Madre," a support group for Hispanic mothers in the Chesapeake community; enhance the current parent education program; and add a part-time bilingual Case Manager to better serve Hispanic families in the program.
  
  
• Child and Family Services of Eastern Virginia (Norfolk) - Parents as Teachers ($50,000):
  Child and Family Services of Eastern Virginia will enhance the existing parent education services by offering Parents as Teachers, the nationally replicated, research based parent education and family support program. The program has been proven to prevent child abuse and neglect and increase children's school readiness and school success. The program increases parent knowledge of early childhood development, helps parents improve parenting practices, provides early detection of developmental delays and health issues, and links families to community resources. Services are delivered through both home visits and parent groups.
  
  
• Children, Youth and Family Services (Charlottesville) - Family Connections ($47,318):
  The Mobile Parenting Education Project (MPEP) will serve families with young children who are facing challenges in Charlottesville and surrounding counties. The centerpiece of the Project is a brightly colored van, retrofitted to accommodate parent video viewings, family consultations, and a parenting library. The Project operates on a neighborhood rotation to facilitate accessibility and utilization of the service. The Project has been developed by the Parent Education Workgroup, a consortium of parents and parent educators who meet monthly to plan workshops, share resources, and promote parent education.
  
  
• Children's Advocacy Center of the Roanoke Valley - Children First ($33,682):
  The mission of the Children's Advocacy Center's (CAC) is to prevent and reduce the incidence and trauma of child maltreatment, and to provide support to families through education. The CAC educates parents with children aged 0 - 12 and pregnant parents living in the greater Roanoke Valley. CAC uses one of two research-based curricula for each class: Practical Parent Education or Parenting Now: Birth to Three, depending on the age of the children whose parents are involved. Each class lasts 8 weeks and includes 12 hours of comprehensive parenting education.
  
  
• Mountain Empire Older Citizens, Inc. - Healthy Families for Southwest Virginia ($50,000):
  Healthy Families for Southwest Virginia provides a prenatal outreach project and parent education groups. Healthy Families is a strength-based, home visitation, prevention program. The Family Support Worker encourages appropriate prenatal care; provides information on child development; promotes positive parent-child interaction; provides parenting education; monitors immunizations and connections to healthcare; provides developmental screening and referral; and advocates for system change to reduce risk factors. The parent education classes are held bi-monthly. Pre and post tests are used to measure changes in knowledge and parenting skills.
  
  
• Petersburg Health Department - CHIP Of Petersburg ($29,967):
  CHIP of Petersburg is a home visitation program for children between the ages of 0 to 6 years of age. The goals of CHIP are healthier children in impoverished communities, higher functioning families, and the reduction of barriers to the delivery of comprehensive services. Each family is provided with a home visitor for support services and a nurse for care coordination and medical case management. CHIP families receive monthly parenting classes, home visits, and coordinated medical appointments and follows-ups. Monthly parent support groups are held for families to learn from each other, support each other, and improve parenting knowledge and practices.
  
  
• Quin Rivers Agency - Charles City/New Kent Healthy Families ($49,800):
  Charles City/New Kent Healthy Families (CC/NK HF) at Quin Rivers Agency provides a community system of support to strengthen families, create healthy parent-child bonds, increase safety, and enhance the development of children which will ultimately prevent child abuse and neglect. After completion of a family assessment, referrals and information are offered to parents about community resources and home visitation services. The home visiting services provide parents who are expecting a new child with training on healthy and appropriate child development; health, safety and parenting education; skill development; and goal setting.
  
  
• Rappahannock Area Community Services Board - Health Families Rappahannock Area($32,550):
  The mission of Healthy Families Rappahannock Area (HFRA) is to serve first-time parents in Fredericksburg City, and the counties of Caroline, King George, Spotsylvania, and Stafford with free home visitations. The program is designed to help parents provide a supportive home environment; gain better understanding of their child's development; access health care and other supportive services; use positive forms of discipline; and nurture the bond with their child, in order to ensure the reduction of child maltreatment in the community.
  
  
• Refugee and Immigration Services, Catholic Diocese of Richmond - Healthy Families Hispanic Outreach Project ($50,000):
  Refugee and Immigration Services (RIS), in coordination with the Newport News Department of Social Services, will continue and expand its Healthy Families project with Spanish-speaking new parents. The goal is to assure all children born in the city are healthy, grow up safe and well, and reach school age ready to learn. The program systematically identifies the needs of new families, enhances family functioning and self-responsibility, promotes positive parent/child interaction, and promotes healthy childhood development.
  
  
• Rockbridge Area Community Services Prevention Unit - PEPStart ($47,245):
  PEPStart, a comprehensive child abuse/neglect prevention program, supports families with children birth-5 years living in the rural Rockbridge Area. PEPStart includes prenatal education, home-visiting, father outreach programming, community-based education and parenting support, interagency collaboration, and a lending library of parenting and child development resources. Contacts are made through consultations, community events, parenting support groups and the distribution of PEPStart materials.
  
  
• Prevent Child Abuse Virginia - Statewide ($58,551):
  Prevent Child Abuse Virginia (PCAV) coordinates a number of statewide activities to enhance Virginia's child abuse and neglect prevention efforts. Activities that enhance these efforts are: Child Abuse Prevention Month activities; Family Resource Center resource material distribution; PCAV website; technical assistance and training for Circle of Parents and Nurturing Parenting programs; the identification of high-quality, evidence-based parent education programs for a resource directory; co-management and evaluation of Hugs and Kisses, the child sexual abuse prevention play performed by Theatre IV; coordination of training events for the PCAV Community Partner Network; and implementation of The Blue Ribbon Plan to Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect in Virginia with the Virginia Department of Social Services.
  
  
• Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) of Northern Virginia - Northern Virginia Prevention Campaign ($49,876):
  SCAN uses three programming components to reach prevention goals. The goals are to assist parents in building parenting skills and knowledge and to increase the Northern Virginia community's awareness of abuse and neglect issues. A public education coordinator manages a regional public education initiative; parent educators provide parent education classes; and parent support groups provide information within a self-help, mutual exchange framework.