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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The National Commission on Crime Prevention 1st Floor Cruise Ship Terminal Tel.

457-2194 nccpsvg@gmail.com “HEAR THE CHILDREN!” Child Abuse Awareness Symposium The National Commission on Crime Prevention (NCCP) will host a child abuse awareness programme with three days of activities under the theme “HEAR THE CHILDREN!” The first activity will be a symposium which will be held at the Methodist Church Conference Hall, Kingstown, on 23rd April 2014.

The Symposium begins at 9:00 a.m.


The Keynote speaker will be Dr. Johnnetta McSwain-Clay from Georgia, U.S.A. Dr. McSwain-Clay is an author, Emmy Award winning documentarian, life/speaker development coach, facilitator and International empowerment speaker extraordinaire.

The NCCP is hosting this conference in its quest to end all forms of violence against children.
Dr. McSwain-Clay has developed a book entitled ‘Breaking the Cycle, Beating the Odds’, a 12-Step Self Awareness Model (SAM)™ as an intervention/prevention tool empowering children and youth from all backgrounds to become self-aware of breaking their negative cycles and beating the odds that they may face in their daily lives.
The goal is to empower children and youth regardless of race, culture, ethnicity, and background with the necessary steps to overcome barriers of victimization, uncertainty, poverty, violence, hate, sexual, mental and physical abuse, substance abuse, low self-esteem, and self-destructive behaviours.
She tells it like it is with wit and wisdom to empower, inspire and ignite children and youth to move from hopelessness to hope; by becoming aware of their life cycles that impede them from taking action to reach their fullest potential.

At the end of the symposium there will be a book signing.

The second activity will take place on 24th April 2014 at 10:00 a.m. on the LIME Promenade with the launch of the National Child Abuse Hot Line - “Vincy Voice”.
This hotline seeks to provide a helpline for children and families.

The third and final leg takes place on 25th April 2014 this event is a March & Rally to provide public education and to help end violence against children.
The rally will be held at Heritage Square; the assembly point is at the Cruise Ship Terminal at 1:00 p.m. 1 Additionally, the NCCP is hereby requesting the support of the media in hosting a Press Conference with Dr. Johnetta McSwain-Clay on Tuesday 21st April at 1:30 p.m. at the office of NCCP, to highlight the upcoming events and to hand-over copies of Dr. McSwain-Clay’s book for use in School Libraries.

The media is hereby invited to cover all the above-mentioned events.

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