In 2008, Prevent Child Abuse America introduced the pinwheel as the new national symbol for child abuse prevention. Why? Because by its very nature, the pinwheel connotes playfulness, joy, and childhood. It has come to serve as a physical reminder of the great childhoods we want for all children. And as a symbol, the cyclical nature of the pinwheel calls to mind the positive cycles of love and support we want to help families create.
It also represents Prevent Child Abuse America’s efforts to change the way our nation thinks about prevention by focusing on community activities and public policies that prioritize prevention to make sure child abuse and neglect never occur. Over a million pinwheels have been displayed since April 2008, and we hope you’ll join us by bringing Pinwheels for Prevention to your community, too.
How to Participate
As a campaign symbol, a pinwheel conveys the message that every child deserves the chance to be raised in a healthy, safe, and nurturing environment. To purchase pinwheels visit our shop. If you have questions about Pinwheels for Prevention contact our office.
Once you have your pinwheels, here are a few ideas for incorporating them into your child abuse prevention activities:
Choose a highly visible location and “plant” a pinwheel “garden.” Equate pinwheels with the number of children served by your agency or the number of births in your community. Use your pinwheels to promote the good you are doing in your community.
Please remember that pinwheels are never to be used to represent deaths from child maltreatment or reported cases of child maltreatment.
Offer people in your community the chance to make a personal statement in support of your work by purchasing pinwheels.
Let the media know about your pinwheel garden and its significance.
Ask your local radio stations to run public service announcements in support of Child Abuse Prevention Month.
Consider planting pinwheels at childcare centers, schools, nursing homes, hospitals, courthouses, health departments, libraries, places of worship, and other highly visible locations.
Decorate your home, office, classroom or business with pinwheels.
Make your own pinwheels as a group or class project. Prevent Child Abuse Indiana can provide a template to make the project easier. Pinwheel color sheets are also available.
Carry pinwheels in parades, give them as prizes, or sell them as a fundraiser
Scout Troops interested in planting pinwheel gardens so the youth can earn a Badge/Patch?
Click Here to visit our Scout Pinwheel Patch Project page.
A pinwheel is a childhood symbol – it represents a time when things were simple and natural. Its bright colors convey optimism and vitality; in use it demonstrates the ready transformation from inertia to energy.
Prevent Child Abuse America started the Pinwheels for Prevention campaign in 2008 to create a national effort to change the public's beliefs and behaviors regarding child abuse and neglect prevention.
The pinwheel was adopted as the national symbol of child abuse prevention by Prevent Child Abuse America. It a reflection of hope, health and safety. It represents the happy childhood that all children deserve.
A pinwheel is a simple child's toy made of a wheel of paper or plastic curls attached at its axle to a stick by a pin. It is designed to spin when blown upon by a person or by the wind. It is a predecessor to the more complex whirligigs.
By its very nature, the pinwheel connotes whimsy and childlike notions. The pinwheel is meant to represent healthy, happy childhoods and is the official symbol of child abuse prevention.
Pinwheels for Prevention is a national campaign used as a reminder of the uplifting and great childhood all children deserve. The blue and silver pinwheels are popping up all across Kentucky's to promote our Pinwheels for Prevention campaign – to educate communities on child abuse and neglect prevention.
As we mentioned earlier, the Wartenberg wheel is most used for sensory testing. Medical professionals roll it over specific areas of the skin to assess nerve function and response. This can help diagnose conditions such as neuropathy or carpal tunnel syndrome.
The air hits those curved surfaces, which are arranged almost like cogs and the force of the wind against the pinwheel adds up in those curves and causes the pin wheel to spin which is simply Newton's 3rd Law of Motion - action (or force) in one direction causes an equal and opposite reaction.
Group students any way you choose, but having strong students in the provocateur group can make early discussion more successful. 2. Assign each group an article, a role, a character, author, etc. Each student approaches the discussion from the standpoint of the text they received.
Pinwheels provided children with hours of enjoyment and amusem*nt, both in the making of and playing with them. Pinwheels have been around for a very long time. The first documented history of a “whirligig” was in China in 400 B.C.
Most pinwheels have the blades arranged so that when wind blows straight at them, they spin counterclockwise. This is because the blades' "cups" are made so that the oncoming air is captured and pushes the blades in this direction.
This medical device is designed to test nerve reactions/sensitivity as it is rolled across the skin. The Wartenberg Neurological Pinwheel is used by orthopedists, neurologists and neurosurgeons to evaluate their patients' ability to feel sharp or pointed contact with the skin.
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