Building a positive well-being for

Proposal for Families and Schools

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Introduction:
One of the major difficulties in combating child abuse and neglect is
keeping not only children healthy but also observing the well-being of the
parents and/or care takers. One of the most pervasive claims in scholarly
and popular literature is for the cycle of violence: that abused children
become abusers, and victims of violence become violent victimizers
(Widom).
The purpose of this proposal is to help persuade New Mexico to
become better role models and to help influence our next generation about
love and compassion towards one another. The most promising approach
toward building an ethical organization for our generation is founded on the
concept of avoiding harm to any other living lives. (DAmato)
We have been arguing for lifetimes about resources for widespread
early childhood intervention, but visualize the cost of savings for the next
generation of children who grow up knowing how to get a job and keep a job,
how to handle rage and frustration, and how to understand the difference
between managing self-control and malicious violence. At the end of this
proposal I want decide the best way to bring awareness of child abuse and
funding for families in need of help.

Current Situation:

As we have observed in many cases in the past year we have

witnessed children murdered by a parent and/or step parents; or children
being victimized by someone who is in close relation to them. Recently, a 10year-old girl in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Victoria Martens, was raped by
her mother's boyfriend and then killed while her mother watched. (CNN).
Omaree Varela, a young boy was also violently murdered by his parents.
In many households children are either bullied, kidnapped, or
murdered. These horrific tales captured and made our hearts bleed, but what
are we doing to prevent such events, what are we doing to influence
children? The acts of adults are our greatest teacher, whether its our
parents, step parents, teachers, celebrities, politicians, we all hold a sight of
what we want to be portrayed as and as the saying goes monkey see
monkey do. Neglecting young children is neglecting the foundations of a
healthy next generation. A society faces a huge problem later on in the
future. Whether it be in economic productivity, educational achievements,
good citizenship, and the ability to parent the next generation. (Shonkoff)
Because of neglect our kids feel the effects and want to push away
pain when we should be showing out children how to deal with pain, how to
overcome what we as human being can do and pursue anything. Adults who
are the role models of the future need to show our children compassion, love,
and integrity. We have children who have been murdered from their own

parents one to many times. Kids being bullied at school that turns into school
shootings. Teenagers killing other teenagers because of gang related activity.
Children being kidnapped and raped. Now instead of our kids being able to
play in our front yard we cant trust the babysitter being around our own
children.

Step by step solution:

1. Provide more funding: Bringing together an event that brings all the
programs for children and families. A fair that shows families the
support our community can help in so many ways. This will include a
donation of school supplies and food, games to play for donation, and
guest speakers. A fair full of public awareness for our children and how
our future depends solely on how we bring up our offspring in this day
in age. I would hope to have this happen
every year.
2. Inform the Community. After we get
the fair going I want most of those
contributions to go to the programs that
help families that need help in domestic
living situations.

Qualifications:
I hope to have seminars at schools about these kinds of situations.
These seminars I think would be beneficial to parents, teachers and kids. It
could help bring a better understanding of where the community stands as a
whole. The seminars would be about different subjects that surround the
effect of child abuse and neglect and what it all stems from. This would be
only to talk about these issues to let it be known and persuade society the
concept of love and what it means to have compassion and an
understanding of each other as human beings.
Id hope to see pediatrics and universities discuss the trauma kids go
through not only in this day in age but also how past experiences can effect
kids of behaviors. Just talking to our future generation about how we as
people need to know what it is to love is better than teaching the community
how to hate and condone violence.

Cost and Benefit:

Cost

Guest Speakers

Student Interns

Cost of Location

Employees

Hopefully well have donations present itself to us to give schools or

programs to help counseling for adults and children. I really want to see the
next generation understand what it is to be successful and understand love
is. It seems like there are too many instances that we all have to feel the
need to be better that the next person. Or have to hurt people to satisfy our
own indulgence. So in order for us to get ahead we have to hurt others. I
want to change that and show people that our community wants to help.
That we not only understand the scene behind the distress but that we can
show our future kids to help other when they are in need and to not push
down other people we dont like, or do malicious acts to get what they have.
I would hope that this could benefits students who are also interested
in a kind of internship for this kind of epidemic we will be facing later in

history. With great forces behind any movement we can always prevail what
will help the greater human.

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raped, killed. CNN. www.cnn.com.

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