Jeannette students have planted hope on their school grounds.
The students took part in the annual Pinwheel for Prevention program, planting 235 blue pinwheels to represent "children who deserve a happy, health and safe childhood," said school social worker Amy Chapman.
"The pinwheels the students made served as an important symbol of what we as a community can do to bring attention to this important issue," she said.
Each of Jeannette's Life Skills students and those from select other classes participated in the activity.
Chapman and social work intern Nicole Fobare spoke to the students about the campaign and why safe and secure home environments and important for student learning.
The ninth-grade Life Skills class includes a unit on parenting and students benefit from additional learning about what child abuse and neglect is, why it occurs and how it can be addressed.
The number of U.S. children who die from abuse or neglect has increased every year for the past 14 years as budget reductions have impacted services. Children who are abused or neglected have a higher dropout rate, suffer more mental illnesses, and are more likely to repeat the cycle
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