Posted: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 9:16 pm
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Updated: 9:18 pm, Wed Apr 24, 2013.
Daily O'Collegian
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month, and the OSU Psychology Club partnered with Lana Beasley’s Child Trauma Lab to raise money and awareness for a significant cause.
Blue ribbons for $1 and a donation jar will be available in the psychology undergraduate advising office in 102 North Murray. Cookies and cupcakes will be provided on Monday and Wednesday of finals week for those who stop by.
All the money raised will go to a local, non-profit family crisis shelter.
“This is our first year to be participating in National Child Abuse Prevention Month, but hope to make it a tradition,” said Alexandria Mullins, a psychology junior from Haworth, Okla. Mullins is the current secretary and incoming president for OSU Psychology Club for the 2013-2014 academic year.
April was named the first child abuse prevention month in 1983.
“In 1989, the Blue Ribbon Campaign to Prevent Child Abuse began as a Virginia grandmother’s tribute to her grandson who died as a result of abuse,” Mullins said. “She tied a blue ribbon to the antenna of her car as a way to remember him and to alert her community to the tragedy of child abuse.”
The Blue Ribbon Campaign has expanded across the country since. Each April, blue ribbons are worn in memory of those who have died as a result of child abuse and in support of efforts to prevent abuse.
More than five children die every day from child abuse and approximate 80 percent of them are under the age of 4, according to www.childhelp.org.
For more information about Beasley’s Child Trauma Lab at OSU, contact Morgan Craft at craftm@ostatemail.okstate.edu. For more information about Psychology Club visit www.facebook.com/ostate.psycclub.
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