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`iNJiEW�EAS the mission of the Family Court Awareness Month Committee (FCAMC)
is to increase awareness on the importance of a family coma system that prioritizes child safety
and acts in the best interest of children: and
UNET", the mission at the FCAMC is fueled by the desire to create awareness ant
change in the family court system for the conservatively estimated, 58,000 children a year
ordered into unsupervised contact with abusive parents, while honoring the hundreds of
children who have been reported as murdered during visitation with a dangerous parent; and
'W3F g", the mission of the FCAMC is to increase awareness on the importance of
empirically -based education and training on domestic violence and child abuse, including
emotional, psychological, physical, and sexual abuse, as well as childhood trauma, coercive
control, and post separation abuse for judges and all professionals working on cases within the
family court system; and
UWEOMU the mission of the FCAMC is to increase awareness on the importance of
using scientifically valid, evidence -based, treatment programs and services that are proven in
terms of safety, effectiveness, and therapeutic value, and;
`VJMT As, the mission at the FCAMC is to educate judges and other family court
professionals on evidence -based, peer -reviewed research. Such research is a critical component
to making decisions that are truly in the best interest of children. This research includes The
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) Study (co -principal investigator: Vincent Felitti,
Kaiser Permanente-CDC); Child Custody Evaluators' Beliefs About Domestic Abuse
Allegations (principal investigator: Daniel Saunders, University of Michigan, sponsored by the
National Institute of Justice); and Child Custody Outcomes in Cases Involving Parental
Alienation and Abuse Allegations (principal investigator: Joan S. Meier, GW Law School,
sponsored by the National Institute of Justice).
9VOW, rCfr7E4aTOWA I, April A. Verlato, Mayor of the City of Arcadia, do
hereby proclaim the month of November 2023 as: p
and encourage all residents to support their local communities' efforts to prevent the
harm of children in the hands of family members and to honor and value the lives of
children.
tDated this
7th (Day ofWmn6er, 2023
Apr" 'Verfato, Moor