Montezuma & Dolores Counties’ Community Child Maltreatment Prevention
In order to better support families in Montezuma and Dolores counties, the Piñon Project applied for and received a Child Maltreatment Prevention Framework for Action (Framework) Community Planning Grant in October 2017, putting the county on the leading edge of planning efforts to prevent child abuse and neglect. In addition to financial assistance, the grant included extensive support from Early Milestones Colorado, a nonprofit intermediary that advances success for young children across the state by accelerating innovation, use of best practices and systemic change.
Coalition Partners
Child Maltreatment Prevention
Framework for Action
This framework is designed as a tool to guide strategic thinking at the state and local level, about resource investments to prevent child maltreatment and promote child well-being. As this tool is used collectively across the state, the resulting alignment of strategies will maximize the impact on shared outcomes.
Montezuma and Dolores Counties plans to prevent child maltreatment
Montezuma and Dolores Counties’ Community Child Maltreatment Prevention planning resulted in the following primary goals and corresponding objectives:
Provide children a safe and supportive environment
- Increase the number of families engaged in programs that focus on building protective factors that promote positive outcomes, parental resilience, social connections, knowledge of parenting and child development, concrete supports and social/emotional competence among children in Montezuma and Dolores Counties by June 30, 2021
Provide children a safe and supportive environment by increasing the number of effective evidence-based child maltreatment prevention programs and strategies available in Montezuma and Dolores counties
- Increase these programs by June 30, 2021
Provide children a safe and supportive environment by increasing the number of families participating in child maltreatment prevention strategies, programs and services in Montezuma and Dolores counties as measured by the number of community-based, evidence-based and promising practices being implemented
- Increase these programs by June 30, 2021
Provide children a safe and supportive environment by improving community child maltreatment prevention policies and practices in Montezuma and Dolores counties
- Review local child abuse prevention policy by June 30, 2021