City of Statesville Proclaims April (2025) as Child Abuse Prevention Month

On Wednesday, March 26, 2025, Statesville Mayor Costi Kutteh joined members of the Statesville Police Department and five incredible community agencies to raise awareness for Child Abuse Prevention Month (April). Together, we gathered to honor the importance of protecting children and preventing abuse in our community.

The “Tie-A-Tree Blue” event was led by:

🔹Department of Social Services

🔹Dove House Children's Advocacy Center

🔹NC Guardian ad Litem

🔹Iredell County Partnership for Young Children

🔹Pharos Parenting

Blue ribbons were placed on a tree to serve as symbols of hope—and to share vital information on how to report abuse and neglect.

📜 Mayor Kutteh also presented a proclamation officially declaring April as Child Abuse Prevention Month in Statesville. 📜 

Look for the tree wrapped in blue at the corner of Tradd and Water Streets. Let it remind us of our collective responsibility to keep children safe.

The City of Statesville NC is proud to stand with our partners in prevention—through education, awareness, and advocacy. Let’s continue to protect, uplift, and support the children in our community. 💙

Proclamation: April 2025 Child Abuse Prevention Month

City of Statesville, North Carolina

Office of the Mayor

Proclamation

April 2025 Child Abuse Prevention Month

WHEREAS, children are vital to our City's future success, prosperity and quality of life as well as being our most vulnerable assets;

WHEREAS, all children deserve to have the safe, stable, nurturing homes and communities they need to foster their healthy growth and development; 

WHEREAS, child abuse and neglect is a community responsibility affecting both the current and future quality of life of a community;

WHEREAS, communities that provide parents with the social support, knowledge of parenting and child development and concrete resources they need to cope with stress and nurture their children ensure all children grow to their full potential;

WHEREAS, effective child abuse prevention strategies success because of partnerships created among citizens, human service agencies, schools, faith communities, health care providers, civic organizations, law enforcement agencies, and the business community. 

THEREFORE, I, Constantine H. Kutteh, Mayor of Statesville, proclaim April 2025, as Child Abuse Prevention Month in the City of Statesville, urging all citizens to call upon the community agencies, faith groups, medical facilities, elected leaders and businesses to increase their participation in the efforts to support families, thereby preventing child abuse and strengthening the communities in which we live. 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have set my Hand and caused the Great Seal of the City of Statesville to be affixed this 26th day of March 2025. 

Constantine H. Kutteh, Mayor