Embrace Families launched the MANicure Movement locally in 2017 to spark conversation about the public health crisis in a visual way. Embrace Families asked community leaders’ to paint their index fingernails in “prevention blue” to raise awareness that child abuse.
“When I look down at my hand and see the blue on my fingernail, I know that it represents one in five children that is going to be abused before the age of 18. We have to say ENOUGH is ENOUGH and we as a community must come together to make a difference. We have to do everything we can to protect them and preserve them and their future.”
– Russ Gibson, Osceola County Sheriff
Joy Chuba, Executive Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center Osceola addressed the room to educate the community on how they can take direct action to support the well-being of children, and how the CAC Osceola program helps victims and their families from the beginning of a child abuse investigation through their journey towards healing after the investigation has closed.