Foundation community to gather for launch of prevention of child abuse documentary
September 23, 2008
The Board and Staff of the Rural Health Education Foundation will join together with key financial supporters on Monday October 13th 2008 to launch the Foundation’s new community-centred television program on the prevention of child abuse.
The launch of It Takes a Village, a 26-minute documentary about prevention of child abuse and neglect, will be the focus of the Foundation’s annual end of year gathering at its Canberra head office.
Proceedings will be led by Foundation Chair Dr Brian Bowring and Sean Ryan, Senior Financial Consultant at Perpetual Trustee Company Ltd, Canberra which contributed funding for It Takes a Village.
Other philanthropic groups that funded the program will also be represented at the launch, including The Ian Potter Foundation, Mary Potter Trust Foundation and The Milton Corporation Foundation.
Perpetual Trustee Company Ltd acts as trustees for The John Christopher Pascoe Memorial Charitable Trust, The Charles Bateman Charitable Trust, J S Love Trust, Baxter Charitable Foundation & Ernest Lonsdale Brown Trust. A five-minute selection of highlights from It Takes a Village will be shown at the launch.
About the program
It Takes a Village, which will screen on the Foundation’s satellite network on Tuesday October 14th at 8pm AEDT, is presented by Julie McCrossin, who also presented Drinking for Two?, the Foundation’s program about Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD).
The new program is a community-based version of It Takes a Community: Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect, which was aimed at health professionals and was first broadcast on the Foundation’s satellite network on July 29th 2008. It Takes a Village features three filmed case studies of interventions that aim to reduce isolation and build stronger networks and communities.
More information
For more information on It Takes a Village - including case study and presenter details, access instructions and associated educational resources – refer to the program summary or contact the Foundation.