Listed below are VFVPP Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention projects in progress during the period July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2008.

• Southside Community Services Board Healthy Families - Halifax ($50,000):
  Healthy Families Halifax serves first time parents residing in Halifax County. The program provides risk assessment, community resource referral, and an intensive in-home visitation program. Parenting education is provided using the nationally recognized Parents as Teachers curriculum. Parent support groups are also offered.
  
  
• City of Hopewell - Hopewell-Prince George Healthy Families ($43,486):
  Hopewell-Prince George Healthy Families (HPGHF) is expanding existing parent support services and developing a Healthy Community Partnership in Hopewell City and Prince George County. Expanded parent support services include the addition of a bi-lingual Family Support/Resource Specialist. The Healthy Community Partnership involves collaborating and partnering with agencies, corporations, companies, and local hospitals in order to implement a fully scaled Healthy Families Initiative.
  
  
• The Collins Center - Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Program ($50,000):
  The Collins Center (formerly Citizens Against Sexual Assault - CASA) continues its Childhood Sexual Assault Prevention Program implementing primary and secondary prevention strategies to support elementary and preschool age children, parents with children under six, teenage parents, parents with low incomes, and Spanish-speaking parents. The project uses Child Assault Prevention (CAP), an internationally recognized program; Care For Kids, an education and abuse prevention program for preschool age children; and the philosophies of the Stop It Now! Program.
  
  
• James Madison University Institute for Health and Human Services - Healthy Families of Page County ($50,000):
  Healthy Families of Page County is a program of the Institute for Innovation in Health and Human Services at James Madison University. The program has established services for new parents and young families of rural, remote, and medically underserved Page County. The project promotes positive parenting, maternal and child health, and optimal early development.
  
  
• Middle Peninsula-Northern Neck Community Services Board - Three Rivers Healthy Families ($45,000):
  Three Rivers Healthy Families (TRHF) expands prevention services to families of newborns and young children in Westmoreland County and Colonial Beach. The mission of TRHF is "to ensure that every child is born healthy, grows in a safe and nurturing environment, enters school ready to learn, and can develop into a healthy and productive adult."
  
  
• New River Community Action - Children's Health Improvement Partnership of New River Valley ($48,000):
  Children's Health Improvement Partnership (CHIP) of New River Valley (NRV) is initiating Making Parenting a Pleasure (MPAP). The prevention program is designed to enhance parenting skills of parents and pregnant women in Giles County. The program seeks to prevent abuse/neglect to children ages 0 to 7 years and their siblings through age 18. The program will integrate the curriculum into the CHIP Core Services delivery.
  
  
• Newport News Office on Youth Development - Parenting Education Project ($18,210):
  The Parenting Education Project (PEP) serves parents and children in the City of Newport News and focuses on increasing the capacity of families to provide safe, nurturing environments for their children. PEP serves parents of children age birth to 16 and uses Strengthening Families Program, the Nurturing Program and the Active Parenting of Teens curricula. PEP also provides facilitators' training to community members who conduct parenting skills workshops.
  
  
• Northhampton County Virginia Cooperative Extension - Parenting by Support ($42,927):
  The Northampton County Virginia Cooperative Extension Office operates the Comprehensive Prevention Center for children and families of the Eastern Shore. The Extension Office conducts parent education programs for families; implements community awareness campaigns; and organizes the regional interdisciplinary task force team which develops and has oversight of a prevention plan for the Eastern Shore.
  
  
• Prevent Child Abuse Virginia - Statewide ($52,377):
  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.
  
  
• Rappahannock Area Council for Parents and Children Fredericksburg, Virginia - Circle of Parents ($50,000):
  The Rappahannock Area Council for Children and Parents (RACCAP) offers Circle of Parents groups in the greater Fredericksburg area. Circle of Parents targets parents with children between the ages of birth and twelve and provides mutual self-help support groups with an additional parent education component. RACCAP operates seven program sites and will add an eighth Spanish-speaking program site.
  
  
• Winchester Medical Center - Healthy Families Northern Shenandoah Valley ($50,000):
  Healthy Families Northern Shenandoah Valley (HFNSV) provides family development services to the region's Spanish speaking population. The program serves the City of Winchester, Frederick County, and Clarke County. Bilingual program specialists deliver outreach, family development services, community referrals and family support services focusing on prevention of child abuse and neglect. The goal is that Spanish-speaking, first-time parents receive linguistic and culturally appropriate Healthy Families services.