COLORADO
Western Slope Now
Camila Barco
Apr 17, 2018
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. – Health care professionals around the Grand Valley are taking an extra step to help in the fight against child abuse and neglect.
In a single day Mesa County Department of Human Services answers an average of 30 phone calls.
“Locally we have four dedicated call takers that are on the phone,” said Nicci Surad, part of the Child Welfare Receiving & Outreach Team, picking up calls placed to the organizations Child Abuse Hotline –to help out children who are or have been victims of child abuse and neglect.
“Children are our smallest, most precious community members and they deserve to be protected. They don’t have voices of their own.”
The hotline is for someone to report when a child is being abused and is used as a guide to gather information about the parents or caretakers –whether it be positive or negative.
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