TEEI prevents Children from ABUSE

Summary

TEEI improves people’s lives through education with a focus on children, parents, educators, and community leaders for the creation of a more peaceful world

What is the issue, problem, or challenge?

TEEI will provide 50 workshops to children, parents, teachers, and nurses with tools to prevent, detect, & report abuse. -Almost five children die everyday as a result of child abuse. More than three out of four are under the age of 4. -A report of child abuse is made every ten seconds in the US -90% of child sexual abuse victims know the perpetrator in some way; 68% are abused by family members. -Child abuse occurs at every socio-economic level, across ethnic and cultural line

How will this project solve this problem?

Through a series of 50 interactive workshops, children,teens & adults will identify abuse, be able to protect themselves from abuse and report abuse. Parents will learn how to discipline in a healthy and nurturing manner, leading to a peaceful world.

Potential Long Term Impact

This project will directly train 400 children, youth, parents, and professionals with the potential to impact over 2,300 youth across the U.S

Project Message

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
- Frederick Douglass, Reformer & Supporter of Equal Rights

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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