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  2016 Report to the Community Mayor’s Task on Child Abuse and Neglect Executive Summary Preventing the Abuse and Neglect of Young Children in Eastern Wayne County Child Abuse and Neglect is a Community Problem Abuse and neglect negatively affect not only the child victims but also their families and communities. Children’s physical (including brain development), intellectual, emotional and social development are all impacted by abuse and neglect. Adults who were abused or neglected as children are more likely as parents to abuse or neglect their children. The economic and social health of communities are impacted when abused and neglected children perform poorly in school and do not graduate from high school and who as adults have mental health problems and/or are unemployed and incarcerated. An informed, committed and engaged citizenry can create communities that enhance factors that protect children and that reduce factors that place children at risk of abuse and ne...

  Christopher Currie Detroit Dept. of Health and Wellness Promotion Detroit Healthy Start Initiative October 4, (2012) Feature Story   Grown-Ups Get Lessons in Eating, Exercise for Kids   Inside a church classroom on Detroit’s northwest side, a few dozen adults, mostly women, are walking in nondescript patterns around a set of colored plastic cones which lay on the floor.   Elvis Presley’s “All Shook Up” plays in the background on a nearby CD player.   The music pauses, and everyone scrambles to find the nearest person so that they can pair up.   One woman offers up a set of cards for each person in a group to pick from.   Each card has a photo of a food item:   a half-cup of low-fat yogurt; a cheeseburger; celery sticks.   The cards also come with a red, yellow, or green dot.   The woman who passed out the cards announces that each person in a team has to perform a set of jumping jacks based on the color of the food ...