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the sign up packet now
Project Pinwheel 2015 Brought to you by: Child Abuse Prevention impacts us all: Often seen as a private matter, research shows the impact of abuse and neglect extends far beyond the home. The ripple effect of abuse and trauma impacts everyone from the faith community to our health care system but has a particular impact on our schools. In fact, 56% of children who tested “not ready” on 3rd grade standardized tests were victims of documented abuse or neglect. Those children are likely to fall behind, to drop out of school, to be unable to support their families, and to abuse children of their own--creating a cycle of poverty and abuse that is preventable. What is Project Pinwheel? Project Pinwheel is a collaborative community project to promote the protective factors every family can adopt to help keep children safe and secure. The purpose of Project Pinwheel is to help spread the good news of work being done in our community, and to promote the little things every family can do to help keep children safe and secure. Project Pinwheel features a broad coalition of over 300 partners across the upstate including childcare providers, nonprofits, businesses, and our incredibly engaged faith community. The project is coordinated with leadership provided by Greenville First Steps. Project Pinwheel Features Pinwheel Gardens—Over 45,000 pinwheels planted across the upstate symbolizing healthy, happy childhoods Walk for Prevention—Annual gathering to walk together in support of prevention efforts and plant South Carolina’s largest pinwheel garden Pinwheel Tales—A children’s compilation CD featuring stories and songs told by local artists and community leaders Week Of the Young Child—National celebration of children 0-5 years of old featuring family events and childcare staff trainings Resource Guide—Provide print and online information to the community about what everyone can do to protect children Celebration Sunday—Area churches take time to celebrate families and talk about child abuse prevention to their congregation Protective Factors Protective Factors are conditions in families and communities that, when present, increase the health and well-‐being of children and families. Parental Resilience No one can eliminate stress from parenting, but building parental resilience can affect how a parent deals with stress. Parental resilience is the ability to constructively cope with and bounce back from all types of challenges. It is about creatively solving problems, building trusting relationships, maintaining a positive attitude, and seeking help when it is needed. Social Connections Friends, family members, neighbors, and other members of a community provide emotional support and concrete assistance to parents. Social connections help parents build networks of support that serve multiple purposes: they can reinforce positive norms around childrearing, provide assistance in times of need, and serve as a resource for parenting information or help solving problems. Concrete Support for Parents and Access to Services Parents need access to the types of concrete supports and services that can minimize the stress of difAicult situations, such as a family crisis, a condition such as substance abuse, or stress associated with lack of resources. Building this Protective Factor is about helping to ensure the basic needs of a family are met in times of crisis. Knowledge of Parenting and Child Development Having accurate information about raising children and appropriate expectations for their behavior help parents better understand and care for children. It is important that information is available when parents need it and that it is relevant to their life and their child. Nurturing and Attachment A child’s early experience of being nurtured and developing a bond with a caring adult affects all aspects of behavior and development. When parents and children have strong, warm feelings for one another, children develop trust that their parents will provide what they need to thrive, including love, acceptance, positive guidance, and protection. Pinwheel Gardens During the month of April, Greenville takes it’s turn to prevent child abuse. Nonprofits, churches, schools, and businesses come together as Pinwheel Partners and plant 45,000 pinwheels in over 250 Pinwheel Gardens across the upstate. The national symbol of prevention of child abuse is a blue and silver pinwheel. The pinwheel stands for the chance at the healthy, happy and full lives all children deserve. In 2015, the 45,000 pinwheels will be planted across the upstate of South Carolina in Greenville, Pickens, and Spartanburg Counties. Garden Information Pinwheel gardens are available for $1/pinwheel in increments of 25 (standard size ~ 100 pinwheels). Thanks to sponsors and our generous business community, churches, nonprofits, and schools will be given 100 pinwheels at no cost to these organizations. Additional pinwheels can be purchased. How you can help? • Sign up to have a Pinwheel Garden (form included in packet) • Recruit other partners and organizations to become garden sites • Volunteer to help distribute and plant pinwheels at other locations (youth and family friendly activity) Walk for Prevention On April 12th, the 2nd Annual Project Pinwheel Walk for Prevention will take place. Last year, 500 participants took a stand to support prevention efforts in our community. We will meet at First Baptist Church of Greenville and walk down the Swamp Rabbit Trail to the Julie Valentine Memorial in Cleveland Park. Once the walkers arrive, everyone will plant a pinwheel in the largest pinwheel garden in South Carolina. Registration Information April 12th, 2:00pm First Baptist Church of Greenville Register as an individual or team at www.ProjectPinwheel.com. A minimum donation of $10 is requested as a registration fee. All donations support prevention efforts in the upstate. Pre-registration is now open and will close April 10th at noon. Walk-up registration will be available. Every participant will receive two pinwheels to plant and pre-registrants will receive a Project Pinwheel t-shirt. How you can help? • • • • Register yourself or a team to walk Recruit walkers/organizations to participate Provide volunteers for the event Spread the word about the walk to your contacts Pinwheel Tales CD Think about the countless hours you spend in the car riding with your family. Pinwheel Tales CDs Volume III can help turn these hours of monotony into learning opportunities. The Pinwheel Tales CD project features recorded stories, songs, nursery rhymes and parenting tips recorded by community leaders and pinwheel partner representatives. 10,000 CDs will be distributed throughout the community through Project Pinwheel Partners. This year’s CD cover will feature space for informational content for families including parenting, health, safety, activities, and literacy tips. Past volumes have featured artists such as Doug Jones of Cravin’ Melon, Traysie Amick of the SC Children’s Theater, and Furman University’s a cappella group, the FUTones. Again this year, Project Pinwheel will feature the audio tracks and even some bonus material online for families to be able to access the files at any time. Sample Songs & Stories • Disney Mashup performed by Furman University’s a cappella group FUTones • The Ugly Duckling performed by Dr Desmond Kelly of Greenville Health System • B-I-N-G-O by 11 year old Anna Knobel • Hush Little Baby performed by Dawn Van Lew of Greenville Health System • The Ants Go Marching by Nancy Halverson of the Children’s Museum of the Upstate • Three Little Kittens performed by Megan Heidlberg of Your Carolina • This Little Light of Mine performed by the Christ Church Episcopal Children’s Choir How you can help? • Provide suggestions for artists and story tellers to be featured on future volumes • Agree to distribute an allocation to families your organization serves • Identify local businesses willing to sell CDs for a donation to Project Pinwheel • Share links to online stories and songs Week of the Young Child Nationally, childcare advocates celebrate April 11-18 as “The Week of the Young Child.” Statewide partners like Childcare Resource and Referral, the South Carolina Association for Educators of Young Children, and First Steps have planned a variety of events aimed at raising awareness about our youngest learners. In Greenville County, Week of the Young Child includes: • Kids’ Fest at Heritage Green • Family Nights at local restaurants • Childcare staff trainings • Picnic in the Park Kids’ Fest at Heritage Green When: April 11th, 10:00am-1:00pm Where: Heritage Green downtown Kids’ Fest at Heritage Green is a wonderful family oriented event hosted by the organizations on Heritage Green. This free event will feature activities, games, and learning all geared to the youngest members of our community and their families. How you can help? • Identify and promote partners and sponsors • Participate in the events throughout the week • Promote WOYC to families served in your community Other Components Project Pinwheel Resource Guide Project Pinwheel 2015 will feature a 20 page weekly journal insert to be published on April 10th. This publication will serve as a resource guide that includes prevention awareness, partner spotlights, and events for families. The Project Pinwheel Guide will be published in the Greenville Journal distributed to 38,000 homes as well as to 8,000 families served by community partners. Ad space for the Guide is available. Celebration Sunday Faith Organizations are taking their turn to help prevent child abuse. Again this year will be a “Celebration Sunday” on April 12th to kick off Child Abuse Prevention Month that will allow faith based organizations the opportunity to spread the word about child abuse prevention to their congregation. Awareness There will be a celebration packet provided to local faith-based organizations with valuable resources to assist in educating members. Included will be sermon ideas, devotions, bulletin inserts, and sample prayers. We ask organizations and individuals to help us spread the word about what each of us can do to prevent child abuse. Be sure to “Like” Project Pinwheel on Facebook, on social media use #SCPinwheels, and send us pictures of your pinwheels. Share our posts so more people can know how to protect the upstate’s children. To get your church involved, please email us at [email protected] Social media provides a great way for getting the message out about preventing child abuse and promoting well being. Project Pinwheel will provide organizations with ready made social media posts, pictures and links to websites and content. Important Dates January 29 Project Pinwheel Unveiling Mee2ng (Augusta Heights Bap5st Church @ 10:00am) January 29 Walk for Preven2on Registra2on Opens January 29 Pinwheel Garden Recruitment begins February 20 ALL JOURNAL CONTENT DUE -‐ All partners, sponsors, and garden loca2ons due *Materials, content, logos and info due for resource guide March 26-‐27 Pinwheel and Material Distribu2on (Greenville Chamber @ 9:00am-‐3:00pm) *Pinwheels, brochures, resource guides, CDs April 10 All pinwheel gardens planted! April 10 Project Pinwheel Resource Guide published in Greenville Journal April 11-‐18 Week of the Young Child April 11 WOYC Event -‐ Kids’ Fest at Heritage Green (10:00am-‐1:00pm) April 10 Walk for Preven2on Registra2on closes at 12pm April 12 Celebra2on Sunday April 12 2nd Annual Walk for Preven2on (First Bap5st Greenville, 2:00pm) April 25 Pancakes for Preven2on (Pelham Road Bap5st Church, 8:30am) April 30 Pinwheel Gardens unplanted For more informa2on, visit www.projectpinwheel.com or contact Anne Lee at annelee@greenvillefirststeps.org. Company/Organization: __________________________________________________________________ Contact Name: __________________________________________________________________________ Address: _______________________________________________________________________________ City: ___________________________________________________ State: ___________ Zip: ___________ Phone: ________________________ Email: ___________________________________________________ Company Website: ______________________________________________________________________ We want a Pinwheel Garden! Sign us up to have a Pinwheel Garden! Please indicate the garden size you would like: q q q q Small (~25 pinwheels) Standard (~100 pinwheels) Large (~250 pinwheels) Other ___________# of pinwheels *Pinwheels are available for $1/pinwheel in increments of 25 (standard size is ~100 pinwheels), and additional pinwheels may be purchased for $1/pinwheel. Schools, churches, and nonprofits will receive 100 pinwheels at no cost. * We encourage every organization to make planting pinwheels an event celebrating your commitment to the prevention of child abuse. If your organization is unable to plant pinwheels, we may have some volunteers who could assist. Please contact us at [email protected] if you may need this service. We want to advertise! We would like to purchase an advertisement in the 2015 Project Pinwheel Resource Guide q q q q Full Page ad ½ Page ad ¼ Page ad 1/8 Page ad $2,000 $1,000 $500 $250 Donations to Project Pinwheel Pinwheel Garden* $_____________________ Advertisement $________________________ Total*: $________________________________ We would like to learn more about being a Superhero Sponsor Contact Me Please submit completed forms to [email protected] by February 20th and payments 1 can be mailed to Greenville First Steps, 24 Cleveland Street, Greenville, SC 29601 We have an event! The Project Pinwheel Resource Guide will include a comprehensive list of events and activities that promote the protective factors of prevention and highlight local events geared towards families. Please provide us with information on any events, classes, meetings, trainings, and family friendly activities your organization is offering in April 2015. Name of Event: __________________________________________________________________________ Date of Event: ____________________________________________________________________________ Brief Description of Event: _________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ Website for more information (if applicable): _______________________________________________ Name of Event: __________________________________________________________________________ Date of Event: ____________________________________________________________________________ Brief Description of Event: _________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ Website for more information (if applicable): ______________________________________________ We want to get more involved! We would also like to help with: q q q q q q q 2 Awareness Project Pinwheel Walk Week of the Young Child Project Pinwheel CD Pinwheel Garden Recruitment Faith-Based Engagement Other ideas: ____________________ Please submit completed forms to [email protected] by February 20th and payments can be mailed to Greenville First Steps, 24 Cleveland Street, Greenville, SC 29601