Residents of Appanoose County and surrounding Wapello County in southern Iowa, and Black Hawk County in northeast Iowa will share the benefits of a federal grant to bring experts in the house residents to help families become safer and healthier.
News comes following a grant from Des Moines Register report showing Appanoose County had the highest rate of child abuse in the state in 2010.The decision to funnel federal money to the areas was based on an assessment of the data associated with 15 risk factors, Horras said. Among them: the child abuse and poverty, premature birth and infant mortality, unemployment, dropout, and substance abuse.
Nancy Sayres, who works with families to new areas of consulting services in Centerville, said she hoped that the infusion of federal money to help.
Analysis of the Register found 4.2 children for every 100 in Centerville, the town about 5300, exposed to violence, mainly because of neglect due to poverty. Findings were discussed last week, Centerville City Council, the police chief and others.
Sayres said that some of the finger was followed by many in the city, expressed a desire to do more to help families.
"Question: We are going to be able to get to the family we need?" Sayres said. "It's kind of like when I was a teacher. Those who do not need to come to the conference have always been those who came."
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