Earth Protect Blog

By Sydney McDonald

Broomfield Enterprise

This year, a well-known symbol for Child Abuse Awareness Prevention Month is going sustainable.

The Broomfield Early Childhood Council announced it is purchasing large metal blue pinwheels to plant in partner locations, as opposed to the normal smaller plastic ones as part of its Pinwheels for Prevention initiative. Some smaller plastic pinwheels will be reserved for children to take home.

There will be a public pinwheel planting at the Broomfield Public Library on at 10:15 a.m. Tuesday.

Since April is Child Abuse Awareness Prevention month, BECC hopes to “celebrate the whimsical, innocent nature of children and to promote accessible resources to our Broomfield families in supporting healthy, thriving children.”

Partners for this include the Broomfield Public Library, city and county of Broomfield, Court Appointed Special Advocates and the Ralston House.

“When seeing these large pinwheels in our county, we hope it evokes the foundation of our community, every child deserves to be valued, healthy and thrive,” a release from BECC states. “Child abuse is preventable and our county and county partners are here to support our families.”

According to the release, resources promoted during this month help to reach families with concrete support in times of need, help to understand parenting skills and the development of young children, create social connections with other families, build parental resilience and know the social and emotional competence of children.