Throughout April, the Washington County Child Abuse Multidisciplinary Team joins with Washington County leaders and community-based organizations to honor National Child Abuse Prevention Month (NCAPM), Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), and National Crime Victims' Rights Week (NCVRW). To recognize these observances, our office coordinates and participates in various events with our partners to promote the help and resources available to victims while educating and informing our community on the significance of these valuable awareness efforts.
Our annual April calendar of events will be available in English and Spanish.
Donate to the Victim Emergency Fund
Upcoming Events
Wear Blue Day: April 4, 2025
Collaborate with your workplace, classroom, family, and friends to wear blue. Wearing blue on this day helps raise awareness of child abuse and neglect. Take a photo of yourself or your group and share on social media with the hashtag #WashCoWearsBlue!
Reclaim/Reclama Live! Featuring Voices of Hope Art Gallery: April 9, 2025
Location: Jackson Bottom Wetlands Preserve (2600 SW Hillsboro Hwy, Hillsboro)
The Sexual Assault Resource Center of Oregon invites you to Reclaim/Reclama Live: Joyful Resistance. Reclaim/Reclama is dedicated to empowering survivors, amplifying marginalized voices, and fostering healing through art and advocacy. A survivor panel followed by artistic performances will focus us all on supporting a collective future where everyone is free to pursue the joy that gives their life meaning. The event is FREE but requires ticketing to accommodate space. Learn more on SARC's website.
Voices of Hope Art Gallery: Sponsored by the Washington County Family Justice Center. Art from survivors of violence will be on display during the event.
Words of Hope & Healing and Pinwheels for Prevention: April 10, 2025
Words of Hope and Healing
Thursday, April 10, 2025
11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Washington County Sheriff’s Office Training Rooms
215 SW Adams Ave, Hillsboro
Join us at the Washington County Sheriff's Office training rooms from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. for poetry and light refreshments in honor of victims and survivors in our community in recognition of National Crime Victims' Rights Week. Donations for the DA’s Office Victim Emergency Fund will be accepted. Donations to the Victim Emergency Fund can also be made via our website.
Pinwheels for Prevention
Thursday, April 10, 2025
1:00-1:30 P.M.
Washington County Courthouse Lawn
145 NE 2nd Ave, Hillsboro
Following Words of Hope and Healing, please join the Washington County Child Abuse MDT as we walk to the Courthouse lawn to plant our annual pinwheel garden in honor of Child Abuse Prevention Month. The pinwheels used throughout the Pinwheels for Prevention™ campaign represent the health and happiness children deserve.
Our planting of the Pinwheels for Prevention garden in 2024.
A message from Washington County leaders in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month 2022 (Produced by Beaverton Police Department)
Honoring National Crime Victims' Rights Week