Prevent Child Abuse Rowan Committees

Executive, Board Development, and Personnel Committee
This committee provides oversight for all Prevent Child Abuse Rowan activities and is comprised of current officers: President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Secretary, and all Subcommittee Chairs. 

Finance Committee
This committee monitors all aspects of the organizations financial operations inlcuding ensuring the Prevent Child Abuse Rowan is excellent stewards of the community's financial investments.  

Public Relations, Event Planning, & Fundraising Committee
This committee maintains responsibility for enhancing collaboration between key community agencies to ensure a coordinated response to child abuse prevention and education activities. Additionally, this committee identifies fund-raising and grant opportunities to expand the services Prevent Child Abuse Rowan is able to offer to the local community.  

Program Development Committee
The program development committee is responsible for providing and promoting high-quality prevention education programs to diverse populations within our community at virtually little to no cost.  Examples of programs offered during the past few years include: Never Shake a Baby; Baby Think it Over; & Child Abuse Recognition Training. 

Domestic Violence Task Force
This committee is a broad-based group of individuals and organizations in Rowan County working for a safe and peaceful community.  The mission is to establish a coordinated response to reduce domestic violence through public awareness, education, networking, and prevention. 

Child Advocacy Center Steering Committee
From its inception in 1997, Prevent Child Abuse Rowan has been working to create a fully functioning child advocacy center in Rowan County.  Child advocacy centers (CACs) exist to address the needs of child sexual assault victims and their non-offending family members. CACs offer a multi-disciplinary team approach to investigations that minimize additional trauma for the child victims, by reducing duplication of service, maximizing existing resources, and promoting increased communication exchange among investigating agencies.  Rowan Regional Medical Center agreed to partner with PCAR in 2004 by leasing property at 130 Woodson Street in Salisbury as Rowan County’s first child advocacy center.  The center, known as Terrie Hess House, memorializes one of Rowan County’s tireless child advocates and the first President of PCAR.