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CPCM Receives $1 Million Grant to Reach More Families Through Innovative WIC Outreach Efforts
The Center for the Prevention of Child Maltreatment (CPCM), a center of the University of South Dakota, has been awarded a $1 million grant to implement a WIC Community Innovation and Outreach Project (WIC CIAO). WIC CIAO is supported [...]
May 2023 Newsletter
In this issue: Resilient Communities: Celebration, Events, and New Communities Community Response to Child Abuse Conference Retiring Board Members CAASt Recognition Court Improvement Program May Training Resilient Communities: Celebration, Events, and New Communities A nearly two-year process culminated April [...]
Codington County Community Celebrates Resilient Community Designation
A nearly two-year process culminated April 18 as Codington County was designated as a Resilient Community by Center for the Prevention of Child Maltreatment. The ceremony included remarks from Darla Biel of CPCM and Dean Haifa Samra, University of [...]
April 2023 Newsletter
In this issue: Updated SDCPCM.com Child Abuse Prevention Month Learning Opportunities Conference: Call for Presenters Court Improvement Program April Training SANE Opportunities Visit the new SDCPCM.com Our website has been updated! You'll easily be able to find information about [...]
Courtroom Modifications Addressed for Child Victims
The signing of SB 70 was the end of a journey that began in 2021. Tifanie Petro, Advocacy and Prevention Director for Children’s Home Society and Advisory Board Member for CPCM, began working on legislative language to create trauma-informed [...]
Resilient Communities: Call for Communities
Community Application for Resilient Communities: Complete the application: https://tally.so/r/3Nq1GO About the Center for the Prevention of Child Maltreatment Established by the South Dakota Legislature in 2017, CPCM aims to align local, tribal, state and federal efforts to protect children. [...]
Grant Funding Available for Community-Led Efforts to Prevent Child Adversity
South Dakota Resilient Communities is investing in community-led efforts to prevent childhood adversity and increase family resiliency. With support from South Dakota Community Foundation’s BIG Grant, six communities in Eastern South Dakota will be selected in 2023 to receiving [...]
March 2023 Newsletter
In this issue: You're invited: Ray of Hope breakfast event Conference: Call for Presenters Legislative Updates 2nd Annual Legal Workshop Court Improvement Program March Training SANE Opportunities Join the effort to end child maltreatment at the Ray of Hope [...]
February 2023 Newsletter
In this issue: Resilient Communities: Call for Communities Legislative Updates 2nd Annual Legal Workshop SANE-A Clinical Skills Lab Save the Date: Child Abuse Prevention Month and Breakfast Event Resilient Communities: Call for Communities South Dakota Resilient Communities is [...]
January 2023 Newsletter
In this issue: Join us for the West River MDT Conference 2023 Legislative Session 2nd Annual Legal Workshop Scheduled Court Improvement Program January Training SANE-A Clinical Skills Lab CAASt Certificate Enrollment Now Available West River MDT Conference Make plans [...]