[Archived] Alexandria Child Welfare Partnership Celebrates Prevent Child Abuse Month

City Press Release


	City of Alexandria, Virginia Office of the City Manager Alexandria City Hall 301 King Street, Suite 3500 Alexandria, Virginia 22314-3211 www.alexandriava.gov Telephone: 703.838.4300 Fax : 703.838.6343

Alexandria Child Welfare Partnership Celebrates
Prevent Child Abuse Month

The Alexandria Child Welfare Partnership and SCAN of Northern Virginia celebrated National Child Abuse Prevention Month by hosting an awards ceremony, reception to recognize and honor the everyday heroes who make a difference in the lives of children in the Alexandria community. The ceremony, “Honoring Our Heroes,” was held Tuesday, April 9, 2002 at 6 pm in the Vola Lawson Lobby of City Hall. A proclamation was presented at the City Council meeting on that evening to highlight April as Child Abuse Prevention Month.

Awards were presented to the following Alexandria Heroes:

Linda App for bringing the energy and vision to create the OK Our Kids- Our Business Campaign to educate the public about preventing child abuse and to recruit foster parents to the Child Welfare Partnership.

Doris Gazin for her contributions to SCAN’s child abuse prevention awareness program by distributing over 20,000 blue ribbons throughout Northern Virginia to social service agencies, businesses, libraries, schools, metro stops and numerous other public entities to raise awareness about child abuse and neglect.

Madalyn Pollitt for rejuvenation of the Advisory Council for The Fund for Alexandria’s Child. Her vision produced a creative, collegial group to support the work of social workers in protecting and enriching our children through events like KONES 4 KIDS and An Evening at the Little Theatre. The money bought karate lessons, art lessons, birthday presents, rewards for straight A’s, summer camp and all kinds of other things that help to normalize the lives of kids in crisis.

Carter Flemming for her advocate work for child abuse prevention. She serves on the Healthy Alexandria Advisory Committee and where she is active raising awareness about the importance of abuse prevention and starting early and helping raise private funds to do it. She serves on the Campagna Center board, is a CASA volunteer with SCAN of Northern Virginia.

Phil Cohen and Ann Donohue for volunteering their technological talents with the city's child welfare partnership since its inception. They are the creators of the logo for the Our Kids - Our Business Campaign - an image of a small child in the protective embrace of caring adult. This logo appears on all of the promotional material for the campaign.

David Mankin for his volunteer work in designing the OK campaign website. His creativity and expertise have resulted in a user-friendly, inviting, and informative web site to help us spread the word about child protection, foster care, adoption, and services available to families in need

For more information about the event or the OK: Our Kids - Our Business campaign, contact Diane Cabe at 703.838.0700.

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Media Note: Photos from the event are available upon request.