Shedding light on April Child Abuse Prevention Month

Shedding light on April Child Abuse Prevention Month
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Updated: 7:18 PM PDT Apr 7, 2021
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Updated: 7:18 PM PDT Apr 7, 2021
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I'M DAN GREEN. AND I'M ERIN CLAR K. WE ARE BEGINING TONIGHT WITH THE PANDEMIC SHEDDING LIGHT ON A GRIM SITUATION. .. ACROSS THE NATION AND THE STATE...CHILABD USE AND NEGLECT CONTINUES TO BE PREVELANT.. THE C-D-C IRES PORTING A SPIKE IN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT VISITS RELAD TO ABUSE OR NEGLECT ENDING IN HOSPITALIZAON TI INCREASED FROM 2 POINT 1 PERCENT IN 2019 TO 3 POINT TWO PERCENT IN 202 0. BUT...THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES AND THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH IS REPORTING A DECREASE IN REPORTS OF ABUSE OR NEGLECT. T HE STATEEP DARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES REPORTED ...FROM APRIL THUGH RO AUGUST 2020 COUNTIES IN CALIFORNIA RECEIVED MORE THAN 121-THOUSAND CALLS IN 2020...COMPARED TO ME OR THAN 167- THOUSAND FOR THE SAME MONTHS IN 2019. APRIL IS NATIONAL CHILD ABUSE EVPRENTION MONTH. LOCAL LEADERS FROM L AL THREE OF OUR COUNTIES ...INCLUDING REPRESENTATIVE JIMMY PANETTA....SPOKE TODAY ON THE IMPORTANCE OF SHINING A LIGHT ON THSI ISSUE. ACTION NEWS 8 REPORT ER ALANI LETANG IS LIVE IN SALINAS WITH OUR TOP STORY...### CASA ....THE COU RT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE FOR CHILDREN IS THE ONE WHO BROUGHT EVERYONE TOGETHER FOR THIS TOPIC.... WE HEARD FROM ONE OF THEIR FORMER YOUTHS...AND HER JOURNEY OF ABUSE AND NEGLECT THROUGH FOSTER CARE. YOU GET AN IDEA OF WHY LEADERS WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THIS MONTH. ...### > clip#001ó0520 00:20:22 "I lo my st childhood, I seriously thought I was born a bad person...and this is what happens to bad people," FROM THE AGE OF NINE...PRISCILLA REYNA HAD LIVED IN 50 DIFFERENT PLACES.... BOUNCING AROUND VARIOUS CITIES...AND FOSTER HOMES...TO GROUP HOMES...SOMETIMES WITH UP TO 30 GIRLS LIVING IN THEM. Priscilla Reyna-23 YEAR OLD FORMER CASA YOUTH cl#0ip01530 ó0 ááááá00:50:53 "some of the group homes I was placed in, we didn't even really have clothi angllowance. There was locks on the fridge. If we were leaving outse id house, we were tackled, man handled. Even if we were girls," REYNA'S MOTHER DIED OF CANCER...IT'S WHY SHE WAS PLACED IN THE FOSTER CARE SYST. EM DURING HER TIME IN AN EMERGENCY SHELTER SHE MET HER COURT APPOTED SPECIAL ADOVACTE...OR HER CASA. IT'S A PERSON WHO WOULD STICK WITH HER FOR THE RT ES OF HER LIFE Edna Chinn clip#001ó0520 00:22:11 "it was important to me that you had stability and consistency...BUTTO 00:22:27 "that you knew you you matterd and were important. And the things th at were important to you were heard," REYNA IS THE VOICE NEEDED DURING APRIL'S CLDHI ABUSE PREVENTION MONTH.. HER STORY ...EMOTIONALLY MOVING LOCAL LEADERS.... SUPERVISORS. .. POLICITICIANS...WHO WANT TO...PREVENT CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT. Jimmy Panetta-(D) CALIFORNIA clip#001ó0529 00:43:33 "we can support at the fed level, county level, city level. Ensuring that there is that stability, that rock in these childrens' lives atth they never had before," Priscilla Reyna-23 YEAR 00:50:27 "just the fact that this one persont ep k coming and kept giving me advice, and kept motivating me,eally r started to motivate myself into thinking about the person I want to be. I honestly want to be that for someone else," CASA OPERATES IN MONTEREY...SANTA CRUZ AND SAN BENITO COUNTIES. CONGRESSMAN PANETTA TELLS US THEY TALK ABOUT ABUSE A ND NEGLECT AS OFTEN AS THEY CAN...AMKING SURE THERE IS THRIGHE T PIECE OF LEGISTLATION ...AND THEY ARE DOING THA TTHROU GH CERTAIN MESSAGES LIKE THE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMENS ACT...WHICH HAS LANG

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