PA Family Support Alliance Trained 7,500 ‘Mandated Reporters’
HARRISBURG, Pa., Aug. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The nonprofit Pennsylvania Family Support Alliance (PFSA), the top organization in Pennsylvania for training “mandated reporters” to recognize and report child abuse and neglect, provided training to 7,540 individuals during its recently ended 2009-2010 program year.
“We train more mandated reporters by far than any other agency in the Commonwealth, and we’re constantly striving to expand the audience for our training because the mission is so vital,” said PFSA Executive Director Angela M. Liddle.
READ MORE HERE:
---------------------------------------------By the time you finish reading this, 15 children will have been abused; In the next five minutes, 30 more; Within the next hour, 360 more; And by tonight, close to 8,000+ children will have suffered from abuse, 5 of which will die. Child abuse has increased 134% since 1980 and is now considered a worldwide epidemic. The high jump in child abuse deaths and the shocking increase in statistics highlights the frightening lack of public knowledge.
Educate Yourself -- Learn the Facts
It May Just Save a Child's Life!!