2010 Pinwheels for Prevention Events
We had Pinwheels for Prevention activities and events happening around the state this Spring.
Thank you to our partners across the state who are helping to grow awareness by planting Pinwheel Gardens. In Summit County, we're grateful for the Family & Intercultural Resource Center (FIRC), Silvana's Community Gardens in Silverthorne, and the Father Dyer United Methodist Church.
It was a true community partnership that hosted three pinwheels for prevention events in Mesa County. In Mesa County, we're thankful for the Partnership for Children and Families, How are the Children?, Mesa County Department of Human Services, Strong Families Safe Kids, Mesa District Group, 
Western Colorado Center for Children, CASA, RotarACT, Western Colorado Alumnae Panhellinic, Alpine Bank, Mesa State College Foundation, Sigma Tau Delta, Little Sprouts Day Care, Mike Daniels-American Family Insurance, Wakefield Management/Real Estate, Western Colorado Family Insurance, Donna and Allyn Bennet, Gary and Cindy Younger, Sue Tuffin, Holly Jacobsen, Cheris Campbell, Stacey Mascarenas, and Janet Rowland.
In Logan County, we celebrated Child Abuse Prevention Month at the Sterling Children's Carnival. Thank you to the Early Childhood Council of Logan, Phillips, and Sedgewick Counties, the Sterling Fire Dertment, and Kathy Reinhardt. Thank you to Rural Solutions for distributing pinwheels throughout 10 counties in Northeast Colorado.
In Arapahoe County, we displayed pinwheels at the Best Practices Meet the Community - Establishing the Connections Conference attended by representatives from all 22 Judicial Districts in Colorado. Thank you to Jade Thomas and Colorado DEC.
In Denver County, we partnered with the Dandelion Project and planted 200 pinwheels in their therapeutic garden as part of the Conflict Center's 2010 Enchanted Garden Tour. Thank you to Ronnie Weiss, Carol LaRocque, and Karan Goldsberry for thier help.
Public Awareness Campaign
Prevent Child Abuse America developed the Pinwheels for Prevention public awareness campaign. In 2009, forty states ran Pinwheels for Prevention campaigns and more 1.3 million pinwheels were distributed to raise awareness about this issue. The pinwheel was chosen because it represents the hope and promise of a happy childhood. When people display the pinwheel, they make a statement about their belief that every child deserves to be raised in a healthy, stable, and nurturing environment and to have a bright future.
As an Individual You Can:
- Write to your elected offical about the importance of preventing the abuse and neglect of Colorado's children.
- Purchase pinwheels and plant your own pinwheel garden.
- Talk about prevention in your community.
- Organize a small fundraiser to raise awareness in your community.
- Serve on a committee or board.
- Organize your own Pinwheels for Prevention campaign by purchasing pinwheels and planting a garden.
- Join Child Abuse Prevention Month activities in April or organize activities in your community
- Consider how you can incorporate child abuse prevention into your work.
- Discuss child abuse prevention at your conferences and meetings
- Collaborate locally.
- Sell paper pinwheels at checkout or other special pinwheel-themed items in your stores.
- Sponsor pinwheel activies in Colorado.
- Print messages on your bags or insert bill-stuffers to bring attention to the issue of child abuse prevention.
- Invite your employees to show their support by purchasing and displaying pinwheels.
- Create a pinwheel garden on your company's presmises in April to show your support during Child Abuse Prevention Month.
- Contribute your company's professional expertise to help us advance this campaign and our organization's mission.
- Donate or support the purchase of advertising space to help continue getting the word out.
Ideas for implementing a Pinwheels for Prevention campaign include:
- Choose a highly visible location and “plant” a pinwheel “garden.” Equate pinwheels with the number of children served by your agency or the number of births in your community. Use your pinwheels to promote the good you are doing in your community. Pinwheels, however, do not stand for deaths from child abuse or reported cases of child abuse. Pinwheels for Prevention is a positive campaign focused on solutions.
- Offer people in your community the chance to make a personal statement in support of your work by purchasing pinwheels.
- Let the media know about your pinwheel garden and its significance.
- Ask your local radio stations to run public service announcements in support of your campaign.
Here are some materials to use with your campaign (all are PDF files) -
- 6 Great Things You Can Do for April in Your Community
- Pinwheels for Prevention Coloring Sheet
- Pinwheel Activity Sheet
If you or your organization is interested in taking part in the Pinwheels for Prevention Campaign please contact Kendra Dunn at 303-339-0780 or kdunn@preventchildabusecolorado.
If you need documents in a different format please email the same email address.
If your organization is not located in Colorado, please contact the Prevent Child Abuse Chapter in your state. To find contact information for your state go here.
We educate, connect, and mobilize Colorado communities and families so our children can grow and develop free from abuse and neglect.
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