Main Message:
- Community-based organizations and programs create pathways and opportunities that empower parents and caregivers to meet their family’s basic needs now and in the future.
Supporting Messages:
- Just as a house’s strength may be threatened by unpredictable weather, a family’s well-being may be threatened by unexpected challenges such as a job loss or serious illness. Community-based resources and programs give families the tools and skills they need to successfully weather life’s storms.
- Research has shown timely access to services prevents child abuse and neglect. These services include things like {insert as appropriate to the audience: utility assistance, mental health services, food assistance and pantries, Colorado’s child abuse & neglect hotline (1-844-CO-4-KIDS), among many others.}