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The following proclamations declare April as Child Abuse Prevention Month in Contra Costa County.

Proclamations 2022
Proclamations 2019
Proclamations 2018
Proclamations 2017
Proclamations 2016
Proclamations 2015
Proclamations 2014
Proclamations 2013
Proclamations 2012
Proclamations 2011
Community Reports
Child Death Review Reports
Contra Costa Child Death 5yr Report 08-12
Contra Costa Child Death Report 2013
Contra Costa Child Death Report 2017
THE FINANCIAL IMPACT OF CHILD ABUSE
The cumulative financial impact to California for the 47,963 substantiated survivors of child abuse and neglect and 86 related fatalities in 2023. Though these costs are accrued over the course of the victim’s life, the ripple effect of costs to the community and society—both tangible and intangible—will continue until we begin to make the necessary preventive investments in child and family well-being to reduce and ultimately end child abuse and neglect.
Read more: [2024] [2023],[2022], [2021] ,[2020], [2019], [2018]