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Cornelia Visits Community Renewal Team in Hartford, CT to mark Child Abuse Prevention Month
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, and Your Body Belongs to You was read at early childhood classrooms 
In April, Cornelia traveled to Hartford, CT, to the Douglas Street Center of (CRT) Community Renewal Team, (http://www.crtct.org)to read her book Your Body Belongs to You to a number of classrooms of preschool children. CRT, a federally-desginated anti-poverty agency which helps people in Hartford and Middlesex Counties become successful and self-sufficient, was marking Child Abuse Prevention Month at all its early classroom centers, where dozens of volunteers were also reading the book to children. CRT enrolls more than 1400 preschool children in Head Start and Early Care and Education classrooms in the greater Hartford area, and also provides parent outrreach, nutrition programming, family case management, and health screenings.
CRT staff Kristen Pelletier, Ellen Welch, Cornelia, Bethanne Vergean, Paul Copes; Back Row, Norman Jones, Martha Ann Smith, Lena Rodriguez 