Honoring Child Abuse Prevention Month, Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and National Crime Victims’ Rights Week

Throughout April, the Washington County Child Abuse Multidisciplinary Team joins with Washington County leaders and community-based organizations to honor Child Abuse Prevention Month, Sexual Assault Awareness Month and National Crime Victims’ Rights Week. 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. Please review our calendar of events available in English and Spanish for information regarding Child Abuse Prevention Month, Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and National Crime Victims’ Rights Week.

Wear Blue Day: April 4, 2025

Collaborate with your workplace, classroom or your 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. Learn more here.

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

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 can also be made via our website. Click here for more information. 

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.