Exchange Club promotes Blue Mondays initiative in April to increase awareness of child abuse prevention

Media release: Exchange, America's Premier Service Club, is introducing a nationwide effort to increase awareness about the Prevention of Child Abuse, by inviting the public to join its "Blue Mondays" initiative and wear blue every Monday in April in observance of this critical issue.

 

The Blue Ribbon symbolizes more than 3 million children who are reported to Child Protective Services each year as being abused or neglected throughout the United States.

 

"We want everyone to stand with us and wear blue on Mondays in April to create greater public awareness of this tragic problem, and to do what they can to make a difference in the lives of children and families," said Sid Mobley, National Exchange Club President. Locally, the Exchange Club of Rome is participating in the Blue Mondays observance.

 

In addition, the Exchange Club of Rome will host a Believe in the Blue event on Saturday, April 21^st at 11 am at the Town Green.   Hundreds of blue balloons will be released that day at 11 am.  Each balloon will represent $1 raised for the Exchange Club Family Resource Center.  "One dollar tickets are for sale, just ask an Exchangite," says Child Abuse Prevention Month Chair, Robert Smyth. 

 

About the Exchange Club Family Resource Center:  opening for client services in November of 1991, the Exchange Club Family Resource Center strives to provide education and support services to families in Rome/Floyd County in order to strengthen the parenting and life skills of the parents and to prevent child abuse and neglect within these families.  To help accomplish this goal, the Center offers the following programs: Parent Aide Services, In-School Education,     Networking with other Community Agencies, Supervised / Monitored Transfers, Visitation Services, Parent Education through Community-based Parenting Classes, and Divorcing Parents Seminars.  For more information, please go to www.exchangeclubfrc.org.

 

Exchange, America's Service Club, is a group of men and women working together to make our communities better places to live through programs of service in Americanism, Community Service, Youth Activities, and its national project, the Prevention of Child Abuse.  The Exchange Club of Rome meets every Friday at noon at the Palladium on the Coosa Valley Fairgrounds.