Ouray and San Miguel Counties Child Maltreatment Prevention
Bright Futures for Early Childhood and Families (Bright Futures) is a relatively new family resource center that serves both San Miguel and Ouray counties. To better understand the diverse communities it serves, and ultimately to better support the people within those communities, the organization applied for and received a Child Maltreatment Prevention Framework for Action (Framework) Community Planning Grant in October 2017. The award has helped Bright Futures make a swift and significant impact within the two counties it serves, putting them on the vanguard of planning efforts to prevent child abuse and neglect. In addition to financial assistance from the Colorado Office of Early Childhood, the grant package 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.
To give families in Adams County the additional support they need, ECPAC applied for and received a Child Maltreatment Prevention Framework for Action (Framework) Community Planning Grant in October 2017, putting the county on the front lines of planning efforts aimed at preventing child abuse and neglect, and strengthening families. In addition to financial assistance from the Colorado Office of Early Childhood, the grant included extensive support from Early Milestones Colorado, a nonprofit intermediary that serves as a statewide conduit for best practices and high-impact ideas that promote success for young children and families in Colorado.
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.
San Miguel Ouray counties plans to prevent child maltreatment
The Community Child Maltreatment Prevention planning for Ouray and San Miguel Counties resulted in six primary goals and corresponding objectives:
Build capacity for evidence-based education and prevention programs by increasing the number of effective, evidence-based child maltreatment prevention programs available for families in Ouray and San Miguel counties
- Increase the number of evidence-based parent education programs by 25% by June 2019
Public has access to options for domestic violence, substance abuse and mental health support services, ultimately assisting in the prevention of child maltreatment
- Advocate for organizations to follow through on delivering their indicated programs and services within Ouray County, as measured by pre- and post- organizational surveys documenting services delivered in Ouray County by January 2019
Improve and increase access to afterschool and no school day programming in San Miguel County to provide safe places for youth and ultimately prevent child maltreatment
- By March of 2019, expand existing programs to better serve families with afterschool activities and activities on no school days as measured by a 25% increase over baseline in both types of activities
Provide increased information about and access to family services, education and support that will assist in the prevention of child maltreatment
- Provide an easily accessible physically located resource hub to families in Ouray County by September 2019
Increase collaboration and communication between organizations and effectively communicate organization services/programs/events to public in order to better support caregivers and ultimately prevent child maltreatment
- By September 2019, 100% of parent-serving agencies in San Miguel County will utilize a united platform to coordinate and streamline services for families
Advocate for community childcare and child-safe play areas to be included in the Town of Ridgway Master Plan, in an effort to prevent child maltreatment and neglect in Ouray County
- To set a policy in Ouray County requiring childcare and child-safe play areas to be included in the Town of Ridgeway Master Plan by September 2019