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January 10, 2008

Preventing Child Abuse and Strengthening Families are Focus of National Parent Leadership Month

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February has been designated National Parent Leadership Month (NPLM) by Parents Anonymous(r) Inc., the nation's oldest child abuse prevention organization. Now in its fourth year, NPLM was created as a means of educating the public about the importance of Parent Leadership in preventing child abuse and neglect.

"Parent Leadership is an essential ingredient in all effective family strengthening and family support programs," says Dr. Lisa Pion-Berlin, president and CEO of Parents Anonymous Inc. "Better outcomes for families are achieved when parents have the opportunity to use their expertise through meaningful and active roles in the planning, implementation, oversight and evaluation of programs that affect families and children. Parents find themselves achieving things that seemed impossible before."

Headquartered in Claremont, Calif., Parents Anonymous Inc. is the nation's premier family-strengthening organization dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect. The organization has helped millions of parents and their children create positive long-term changes through its evidence-based Parents Anonymous Programs.

A new National Outcome Study, conducted by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, and funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, U.S. Department of Justice, demonstrates that Parents Anonymous is an evidence-based program that prevents child abuse and neglect. Read more from this post.