People steadily gathered after 5:00 p.m. Monday at the Bibb County Courthouse. Pink shirts, smiling faces, and a box of blue and silver pinwheels shined in the setting sun as adults and children alike placed pinwheels in a memorial flowerbed to help raise awareness about child abuse.
524 pinwheels. 524 children associated with abuse investigations by the Alabama Department of Human Resources (DHR) in 2018. Stop by the Bibb County Courthouse front lawn and see the display. Think about how many are there…how clustered and jammed together they are…and realize they each represent an abused child.
Those 524 are safe now. How many are out there now, needing help? “If we don’t know there’s a problem, we can’t do anything about it.” Speak out. Say something.
The Central Alabama Regional Child Advocacy Center (CAC) services five counties: Bibb, Dallas, Wilcox, Perry, and Hale. The CAC coordinates abuse investigations with a “Multidisciplinary Team” of local agents from City, County, District Attorney, School Systems, Police and Sheriff’s Departments, juvenile probation, DHR and Mental Health. The CAC not only helps children who are stuck in bad situations, they also help to stop the abusers.
Central Alabama Child Advocacy Center: 334-875-0890
To donate to the CAC, visit their Mighty Cause website here: https://www.mightycause.com/organization/Central-Alabama-Regional-Child-Advocacy-Center
