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New awareness campaign targets child abuse
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
THE Inscape Foundation has embarked on a public awareness drive aimed at helping to stem the life-altering practice of child abuse. Yesterday, the non-governmental group — which provides mental health care for inner-city youth islandwide — launched a two-minute-long video on child abuse at the Hillel Academy in upper St Andrew.
A 60-second version of the video is to be distributed to media houses for airing. Aside from being broadcast, Inscape will be pushing for the video to be distributed in schools across the island through the Ministry of Education.
Inscape Foundation’s Max Earle addressing students at Hillel Academy in St Andrew during yesterday’s launch of the organisation’s public service announcement on child abuse. Sharing in the moment is Clinical Psychologist Dr Tamika Haynes, who is also a member of Inscape. (Photo: Tiffany Lue-Yen)
Additionally, Inscape members will also be making themselves available for fora in schools.
"We are doing it in the hope that if you are abused you know that you have the right to defend yourself against that abuse; or if you know someone who is being abused you need to get them help," Inscape's Max Earle told the Observer following the launch.
"It may be difficult... but if you don't do something your silence will allow the situation to continue," Earle added.
The group said the idea came about while working with children from Tivoli Gardens following the bloody May 2010 police/military incursion into the community to capture then wanted don Christopher 'Dudus' Coke. More than 70 persons were killed in the operation.
Speaking at the launch yesterday, Jamaicans For Justice Executive Director Carolyn Gomes said that children needed to know their rights and be informed about the various forms of abuse.
"Children need to know that it occurs and that they have a responsibility to report it," she said after.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz1p5nzKY5I
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
THE Inscape Foundation has embarked on a public awareness drive aimed at helping to stem the life-altering practice of child abuse. Yesterday, the non-governmental group — which provides mental health care for inner-city youth islandwide — launched a two-minute-long video on child abuse at the Hillel Academy in upper St Andrew.
A 60-second version of the video is to be distributed to media houses for airing. Aside from being broadcast, Inscape will be pushing for the video to be distributed in schools across the island through the Ministry of Education.
Inscape Foundation’s Max Earle addressing students at Hillel Academy in St Andrew during yesterday’s launch of the organisation’s public service announcement on child abuse. Sharing in the moment is Clinical Psychologist Dr Tamika Haynes, who is also a member of Inscape. (Photo: Tiffany Lue-Yen)
Additionally, Inscape members will also be making themselves available for fora in schools.
"We are doing it in the hope that if you are abused you know that you have the right to defend yourself against that abuse; or if you know someone who is being abused you need to get them help," Inscape's Max Earle told the Observer following the launch.
"It may be difficult... but if you don't do something your silence will allow the situation to continue," Earle added.
The group said the idea came about while working with children from Tivoli Gardens following the bloody May 2010 police/military incursion into the community to capture then wanted don Christopher 'Dudus' Coke. More than 70 persons were killed in the operation.
Speaking at the launch yesterday, Jamaicans For Justice Executive Director Carolyn Gomes said that children needed to know their rights and be informed about the various forms of abuse.
"Children need to know that it occurs and that they have a responsibility to report it," she said after.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz1p5nzKY5I
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