{"id":4260,"date":"2013-10-04T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/?p=4260"},"modified":"2013-08-27T14:58:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T18:58:03","slug":"bcbsnc-invests-in-safechild-to-help-protect-wake-county%e2%80%99s-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/2013\/10\/bcbsnc-invests-in-safechild-to-help-protect-wake-county%e2%80%99s-children\/","title":{"rendered":"BCBSNC Invests in SAFEchild to Help Protect Wake County\u2019s Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/bigstockphoto_happy_kids_199866411.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1054\" title=\"bigstockphoto_happy_kids_199866411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/bigstockphoto_happy_kids_199866411-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/bigstockphoto_happy_kids_199866411-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/bigstockphoto_happy_kids_199866411.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \><\/a>CHAPEL HILL, N.C.<\/strong> \u2013 From July 2011 to June 2012,  Wake County officials documented more than 2,000 incidents of child  abuse or neglect. As a step to help end this problem, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Cross and  Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC<\/a>) will provide the SAFEchild  Advocacy Center with an investment to help provide comprehensive medical  evaluations to children who have been physically or sexually abused.  SAFEchild is a nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating child  abuse in Wake County.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy supporting the SAFEchild Advocacy Center, we\u2019re investing in  North Carolina\u2019s most important resource, our children,\u201d said Kathy  Higgins, BCBSNC vice president of corporate affairs. \u201cThe fantastic team  at the Advocacy Center goes above and beyond to create a healing  environment, and each staff member plays an important role in the health  of our kids and our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->BCBSNC\u2019s contribution will be used to fund salaries for medical staff members at the SAFEchild Advocacy Center, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Family nurse practitioner<\/strong> \u2013 This position supports  the medical evaluation of 300 mistreated Wake County children,  including individual, comprehensive medical assessments and treatment  recommendations for each child.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Medical director <\/strong>\u2013 A medical director works side  by side with the nurse family practitioner and two volunteer pediatric  specialists to provide clinical supervision and oversight during the  treatment of Triangle youth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These positions provide medical findings to Wake County Child  Protective Services social workers and law enforcement officers who are  assigned to investigate child abuse cases. These findings play an  instrumental role in reducing the risk of future incidents of abuse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur funding partners are critical to the success of meeting the  needs of sexually and physically abused children,\u201d said Marjorie  Menestres, SAFEchild executive director. \u201cWe are honored that Blue Cross  and Blue Shield of North Carolina has invested in us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleDate\">15 Aug 2013 BCBSNC Media Center<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">About Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North  Carolina is a leader in delivering innovative health care products,  services and information to more than 3.74 million members, including  approximately 1 million served on behalf of other Blue Plans. For  generations, the company has served its customers by offering health  insurance at a competitive price and has served the people of North  Carolina through support of community organizations, programs and events  that promote good health. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina  was recognized as one of the World\u2019s Most Ethical Companies by the  Ethisphere Institute in 2012 and 2013. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of  North Carolina is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue  Shield Association.<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">All other marks are the property of their respective owners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">About SAFEchild:<\/span><\/strong><br \>\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">SAFEchild, an acronym for Stop Abuse  For Every child, is Wake County\u2019s only non-profit child abuse prevention  agency providing direct services to children and families. SAFEchild  builds strong families and stops abuse by implementing four primary  strategies: group parenting programs serving parents and children (group  based services), new mother mentoring (home based), the SAFEchild  Advocacy Center (Center based), and Funny Tummy Feelings (school based),  which is presented primarily in first and second grade classrooms. Most  programs are provided at no cost to the family in need of support.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Founded in 1992, SAFEchild has  worked with thousands of parents and has reached more than 100,000  children. By leveraging hundreds of dedicated volunteers and a core of  highly skilled staff, SAFEchild touches traditional and non-traditional  families with children of all ages and parents and caregivers of all  backgrounds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For more information on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">health insurance coverage in North Carolina<\/a>, please visit our website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/\">www.nchealthplans.com<\/a> or call our toll free number 888-765-5400 and speak with one of our                    professional agents. Our agency provides coverage for    health           insurance       in North Carolina through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC).<\/a> Call us for details.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\"><br \>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPEL HILL, N.C. \u2013 From July 2011 to June 2012, Wake County officials documented more than 2,000 incidents of child abuse or neglect. As a step to help end this problem, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) will provide the SAFEchild Advocacy Center with an investment to help provide comprehensive medical evaluations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[419,581,582],"class_list":["post-4260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bcbsnc-insurance","tag-blue-cross-blue-shield","tag-community-involvement","tag-giving-back"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4262,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions\/4262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}