In observance of Child Abuse Prevention Month, a pinwheel garden sits at the base of the statue in front of Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital. The 197 pinwheels represent the number of children who were evaluated by the Child Protection Team of the Penn State Hershey Center for the Protection of Children in 2014.
The center was created in 2011 and also includes the Transforming the Lives of Children (TLC) Clinic.
The Child Protection team sees children in both the Medical Center and the outpatient clinic sites for suspected physical abuse, neglect or sexual abuse. Referrals come from community agencies such as Children and Youth Services and from physicians in the community as well as the Children’s Hospital network.
Read more about this year’s pinwheel garden – and the work of the Center for the Protection of Children – in this Penn State Medicine article.