 You need a financial advisor with the freedom to focus on your specific needs. Whatever your goals, Reeve Potter can create a game plan tailored to you. Call Reeve at 4-3-2-0-7-7-7 at Pikeville, Kentucky to learn more. April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month, so on Thursday, social workers, advocates, police officers, public officials, and other interested parties gathered at Mr. Gatties in Pikeville for the Gatties Goes Blue event to raise awareness about the issue. The highlight of the ceremony was the planting of blue pinwheels around the business. This pinwheel, we use it every year to symbolize the happiness and well-being of a child. Our goal is to make sure that every child we work with, we leave that family doing better than when we found them. And so we use this pinwheel as a symbol to encourage the strength and growth of not only the kids but their families. We believe that ultimately the end of child abuse comes with prevention. And so Child Abuse Prevention Month brings awareness to the fact that this is a critical issue in our communities. Last year alone, we saw over 400 children at Judy's Place for Kids between our two locations in Pikeville and Pressensburg. And so the more education we can get out to parents and caregivers, the more apt we are to see the end of this child abuse statistics. Everybody's always harping on and the number of child abuse reports are up. You know, we've got more cases going on now than probably ever before. And everybody's like, oh, it's so bad, I'm like, great. So that means that people are reporting them and that they're being noticed and that we're able to investigate those and make sure that children and families in Pike County can get the services they need. The goal that we're trying to accomplish is to what I would call break the cycle. When you talk to a lot of the parents who are before the court, they've been there before when they were children and their parents. And our goal is not to separate children from families, but it's how do we break the cycle and how do we break the pattern that further abuses is obsolete in that family and the next generation will not have to deal with the same problems that the previous generation has done. Coming up next week, there will be a Kids Day in Pikeville City Park. A host of characters will be at the park for children while local advocates will be sharing information about child abuse prevention. The event takes place from 10 until 2, Saturday, April 9th.