LAC-FCCAC
LAC-FCCAC is one of 12 Community Child Abuse Prevention Councils in Los Angeles County. All 12 of the Community Child Abuse Prevention Councils are independently operated and supported by volunteers. However, each Community Councils’ yearly scope of work is approved by the Department of Children & Services (DCFS) and the Inter-Agency Council on Child Abuse & Neglect (ICAN). The Councils represent in Los Angeles County either a geographic area, cultural, or ethnic group. LACFCCAC represents the African American community in Los Angeles County. It was organized 1983 and incorporated as a non-profit in 1991.
LAC-FCCAC provides professionals with the education and skill sets to identify, assess, counsel, and prevent child abuse. It is our belief that every child should have the opportunity to reside in homes with knowledgeable, understanding, and loving parents or care-givers without any classification of child or family violence, which could interrupt their physical and emotional development. All LAC-FCCAAC’s conference trainings, community outreach, and collaborations are managed by volunteers.
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month in Los Angeles County. In April, LAC-FCCAC has sponsored conferences related to the protective and resiliency factors in the intervention and prevention of family violence and or child abuse. Each April LACFCCAC participates in Los Angeles County’s Blue-Ribbon Campaign by distributing Child Abuse Prevention materials to community agencies, churches, hospitals, schools, and professionals.
Important LA County Health Information
LA County-Department Public Health has these (more or less) new Health Stations that provide COVID-19 Antigen Tests, Overdose Prevention (Naloxone & Fentanyl Test Strips), and Sexual Health (External & Internal Condoms, Lubricant).
These kiosks can be a valuable resource to your vulnerable populations who prioritize privacy or are reticent to access healthcare/ seek help. Locate one here: Community Health Stations
QUOTES BY FAMOUS AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change we seek.”
— President Barack Obama
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“Now that I’m an adult, I realize that kids know at a very young age when they’re being devalued, when adults aren’t invested enough to help them learn. Their anger over it can manifest itself as unruliness. It’s hardly their fault. They aren’t ‘bad kids.’ They’re just trying to survive bad circumstances.”
— Michelle Obama from her book- Becoming
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Everybody can be great because everybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.
— Rev. Martin Luther King
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You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but like the dirt, still I rise.
— Maya Angelou
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The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody’s home.
— Rev. Al Sharpton
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When I fight about what is going on in the neighborhood, or when I fight about what is happening to other people's children, I'm doing that because I want to leave a community and a world that is better.
— Mariam Wright Edelman
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For there is always a light-if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we are brave enough to be it.” from The Hill WE Climb—Poet Laureate, spoken at President Biden’s Inauguration on January 21, 2021.
— Amanda Gorman
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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
— Jackie Robinson