Main Message:
- As a health care provider, you are a trusted advisor to families, and you can play an active role in strengthening families and preventing child and abuse and neglect.
Supporting Messages:
- You can provide information about local services and facilitate connections for families with appropriate organizations that can help them meet their basic needs and support their children’s learning and development.
- Research shows that connecting families to available local resources minimizes stress, improves physical and mental health, and prevents child abuse and neglect.
- Supports like {insert as appropriate to the audience: mental health services, food pantries, childcare as well as Colorado’s child abuse & neglect hotline (1-844-CO-4-KIDS)} strengthen families and creates a pathway for families to thrive.