S3.E10. Creating Positive Childhoods: Here’s What Works

Sharon Hirsch serves as the President and CEO of Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina, where she leads a team that focuses on making prevention a priority for NC and building capacity for communities to have the knowledge, support, and resources to prevent child abuse and neglect.  She has more than 35 years’ experience in nonprofit and government agency management, public relations, advocacy and child well-being. At PCANC she has led efforts to catalyze community prevention plans, has increased staff capacity to provide supports for evidence-based parenting programs and has secured more than $1 million in new investments in prevention programming.  She was recently named one of 25 Women in Business Award recipients by the Triangle Business Journal for 2024.

Links/Resources from Sharon:

https://preventchildabuse.org/theory-of-change/  Prevent Child Abuse America’s Theory of Change for creating a primary prevention ecosystem for our country.

https://www.preventchildabusenc.org/our-work/policy/  Our Policy Priorities for PCA North Carolina.  (I will try to remember to send you a note when our newly rebranded website is up and give you the direct link!)

https://www.preventchildabusenc.org/connections-matter-nc/ Connections Matter NC website