Standards for Children's Healthy Environments

🚨Trigger Warning🚨

The following are experiences to eliminate for our youth:

1. A parent or other adult in the household often or very often swearing, insulting, threatening and/or humiliating the child.

2. A parent or other adult in the household often or very often pushing, grabbing, slapping, throwing objects, and/or hitting the child with enough force to leave marks or injuries. 

3. An adult or person 5 or more years older than the child touching or fondling the child, or having the child touch them in a sexual way including any attempts to have oral, anal, or vaginal intercourse. 

4. The child often or very often feeling that no one in their family loves them or thought that they were important or special. The child feels the family doesn't look out for each other, feel close to each other, or supports each other.

5. The child often or very often feeling that they didn’t have enough to eat, has to wear dirty clothes, and/or has no one to protect them. The child often or very often feels their parents or caretakers are too drunk or high to take care of them or take them to the doctor if they needed it.

6. The child's parents separating or divorcing.

7. The child's mother or stepmother often or very often enduring being pushed, grabbed, slapped, or had something thrown at her. Or sometimes, often, or very often kicked, bitten, hit with a fist, hit with something hard, repeatedly hit for minutes at a time, or threatened with a gun or knife.

8. The child living with anyone who struggles with addiction to alcohol or other drugs, including but not limited to illegal street drugs and prescription drugs such as oxycodone.

9. The child living with a household member who struggles with depressed or mentally illness, or the child has a household member attempt suicide.

10. A member of the child's household going to prison.