San Gabriel Valley students fight child abuse with art
Posted: 05/20/2010 Highlander
Hollingworth Elementary sixth-graders, from left, Alex Maldonado, Mardy Diaz, Courtney Wong, and Merced Elementary fifth-grader Daniel Aviles on May 15 visit HOWS Market in Pasadena. All were finalists in the ICAN Associates Child Abuse Prevention Month Poster Contest. Diaz was one of the winners. (Sarah Reingewirtz / Staff Photographer)
Hollingworth Elementary School sixth-grade student Mardy Diaz was a winner in the 25th Annual ICAN Child Abuse Prevention Month Poster Contest. The West Covina school also had five finalists. (Photo provided to Highlander)
Trying to help fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grade students understand what child abuse is and how to prevent it can be a difficult task.
But for the past 12 years, Hollingworth Elementary School teacher Karoll Joson has been providing her students with guidance and enlightenment on how to be safe in their communities.
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