News Archive By Year

PFSA Releases Fall Newsletter
9/07/10 - The newest edition of PFSA’s quarterly newsletter, “Alliance” was released on September 3. It includes articles on helping parents in recovery from chemical addiction, preventing sexual abuse of children, and much more.
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National Parent Survey Results
9/07/10 - A new survey of 1,615 parents of children birth to three years old has been conducted for Zero to Three. It looks at questions and challenges facing parents of young children, sources of information and support to which parents turn, and factors that influence their approaches to parenting.
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PFSA Releases Annual Report for 2009-2010
8/13/10 - “The past year has been a time of returning to the basics of life as a lean economy continues to challenge our way of doing business and going about our lives.
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PFSA Publishes New Booklet for Parents
7/15/10 - A new publication, a booklet of tips for parents of children ages 6 - 12 has been published by PFSA. Print copies will be available soon, but you can download the booklet here.
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New Publications Catalog Available
5/25/10 - Information for parents and mandated reporters is available from PFSA.
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PFSA Observes Foster Care Month
5/25/10 - When children must be placed in foster care, the child welfare system tries to reunite children with their birth parents when it is safe to do so.
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PFSA To Attend York Counts Forum
5/18/10 - A community forum will focus on solutions to child abuse in the wake of the Darisabel Baez murder, a two year old who was murdered by her mother’s boyfriend in York. Read about it in the York Daily Record/Sunday News.
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PFSA Wins PANO Standards for Excellence Award.
4/26/10 - PFSA has recently been recertified by the Pennsylvania Association of Nonprofit Organizations in Standards for Excellence.
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Child Abuse Costs $3.5 Billion per year
4/16/10 - According to a new report by PFSA, child abuse and neglect costs $3.5 billion each year. Learn more from an ABC 27 News Report.
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PACTF Joins PFSA Child Abuse Prevention Month Efforts
4/16/10 - The Pennsylvania Children’s Trust Fund (PA CTF) is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. CTF seeks to continually raise public awareness of child abuse and neglect and educate Pennsylvanians on the importance of prevention efforts.
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New Findings on the Cost of Child Abuse
4/13/10 - PFSA has completed research on the cost of child abuse. Child abuse and neglect cost Pennsylvania $3.55 billion annually—$2.11 billion a year in direct costs and $1.44 billion a year in indirect costs—according to the Pennsylvania Family Support Alliance (PFSA).
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PFSA Contributes to Article on Child Abuse Prevention Month
4/05/10 - PFSA Executive Director Angela Liddle and PFSA Affiliate The Lehman Center talk about child abuse prevention and a crisis nursery program in the Patriot-News (Harrisburg).
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Spring Conference Scheduled
3/31/10 - PFSA will hold its Spring Conference on April 28, 2010 in Summerdale (near Harrisburg). Participants can choose three workshop sessions and continuing education credits are available.
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PFSA provided testimony at a recent Senate Public Hearing
3/19/10 - PFSA provided testimony at a recent Senate public hearing on SB 1137, requiring training for mandated reporters. Read about the hearing in the Pittsburgh Tribune
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Spring Issue of PFSA Newsletter Released
3/10/10 - Our quarterly newsletter, “The Alliance” is now available! This issue features information on Child Abuse Prevention Month, online training for mandated reporters, upcoming Senate public hearings and more.
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New Online Resource for Madated Reporter
2/18/10 - In addition to the many training resources that Pennsylvania Family Support Alliance (PFSA) makes available to mandated reporters in Pennsylvania, a Web-based training program is now available. The program is self-paced and includes lessons on “Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse for Mandated Reporters of Child Abuse.” For a fee (credit card required), professionals may take the program and, pending a passing grade of 70 or higher, receive credit for two training hours in child abuse and neglect.
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Three new members named to board of PA Family Support Alliance
2/09/10 - The Pennsylvania Family Support Alliance has added three new members to its board of directors.
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Child Protection Agencies Rely on Trained 'Mandated Reporters' to Identify Abuse
1/20/10 - Information supplied by "mandated reporters" trained to recognize the signs of child abuse and neglect give child protection agencies a better shot at helping endangered or abused children, according to Lori Lower, long-time administrator of the Perry County Children & Youth Office.
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‘Paint for Prevention’ events to create child abuse awareness across Pennsylvania
1/12/10 - Parents and children, children’s advocates, and state, county, and local officials will join with members of the general public at three locations around the state during April to paint murals as a way of building awareness about preventing child abuse and neglect.
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