Protecting children is EVERYONE’S Business!

How YOU can help protect children in OUR community

  • As a Parent—make sure your child’s basic needs are met on a daily basis; these basics are the start for protecting our children.
  • As a Family Member – help out where you can and encourage your family in positive parenting; help from close family can help decrease the stress level of parents.
  • As a Neighbor—get to know your neighbors; developing these relationships increases the strengths of families and supports.
  • As a Teacher—become more involved in the community to know your student’s families and/or cultures; increased awareness of families situations and cultures can increase communication and positive relationships.
  • As a Community Member—look for opportunities to donate to support child abuse prevention, coats to children, food to the local food pantries; all of these support child abuse prevention AND it DOES take a village to raise a child.


CPPC Four Strategies

1. Neighborhood Networking—Johnson County CPPC partners with many local agencies and organizations to provide opportunities for our local children and families. The idea of supporting events like family nights through Family to Family Partnership and the Juneteenth Celebration is to strengthen our families by providing community support and networking opportunities with resources and people in their neighborhood and overall community.

2. Family Team Meetings—Creating individual plans for our families to ensure the safety and care of their children is critical in many cases. By creating a support system around our families, we are fulfilling the idea of a “village raising a child.” CPPC supports family team meetings in
partnership with DHS, local service providers, family and friends. By looking at the strength of the families and building off of those, families are empowered to care and provide for their children.

3. Shared Decision Making—Our shared decision making team includes interested members from our community from the school district, city & county offices, local service agencies and concerned community members. We all take a responsible role in educating our community on child abuse prevention and determining gaps where there is an unmet need.

4. Policy and Practice Change—As our families grow and change, so do their needs and our capabilities, It is important to keep ourselves as up to date as possible on strategies, resources, research, and policies in order to best meet the needs of the families we serve.


Brief History of CPPC

JC CPPC became a part of the statewide initiative of the Department of Human Services in 2003. Every county in the state has a local CPPC coordinator. The community approach to protecting children makes keeping children safe everyone’s business! We embody the idea that it take a village to raise a child; and together, we can help establish that village.


CPPC Sponsored & Administered Events

  • Supports Family Team Meetings
  • Provides teen transitioning totes to teens exiting from the foster care system
  • Supports emotional and developmental healthy in young men and young women through the Brother 2 Brother event and My Beaut”I”Ful Self Program
  • Provides community Resource information and statistics
  • Administers after school and summer programming
  • Assists with planning and implementing of summer pre-employment program (YES! Program)
  • Provides community education on child abuse and prevention
  • Financially supports local agencies through the mini grant program

 

Contact

Laurie Nash, CPPC Coordinator
Address:
855 South Dubuque Street, Suite 202B
Iowa City, Iowa 52240
Phone: 319-356-6090
Email: [email protected]