SB 507

Under current law, the Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board (CANPB)

conducts various activities relating to the prevention of child abuse and neglect.

Those activities include all of the following:

1. Awarding grants for child abuse and neglect prevention programs that

promote public awareness of the need for child abuse and neglect prevention and that

provide community-based education and services for parents, children, and

families.

2. Awarding grants to family resource centers that provide parenting education

and referrals to other social services programs.

3. Administering statewide projects for the prevention of child abuse and

neglect.

4. In cooperation with the Department of Children and Families and the

Department of Public Instruction, promoting statewide educational and public

awareness campaigns and materials for the purpose of developing public awareness

of the problems of child abuse and neglect and disseminating information about the

problems of, and methods of preventing, child abuse and neglect to the public and to

organizations concerned with those problems.

5. Providing, for use in its statewide projects and for use by organizations that

receive grants from the CANPB, educational and public awareness materials and

programming that emphasize the role of fathers in the primary prevention of child

abuse and neglect.

This bill requires the CANPB, in conducting those activities, to emphasize

nonmarital parenthood as a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect.