How to Report

• Child Abuse and Neglect has been sited by the Center for Disease Control as a priority health problem.
• The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has called violence toward children a public health crisis.
• The U.S. General Accounting Office issued a report emphasizing the need for child abuse prevention programs.
• In the words of Dr. Bruce Perry, a nationally renowned researcher on child abuse, 
  "If 20 million people were infected by a virus that caused anxiety, impulsivity, aggression, sleep problems, depression, respiratory and heart problems, vulnerability to substance abuse, antisocial and criminal behavior, retardation and school failure, we would consider it an urgent public health crisis. Yet, in the United States alone, there are more than 20 million abused, neglected and traumatized children vulnerable to these problems. Our society has yet to recognize this epidemic, let alone develop an immunization strategy".