KIDS Center is committed to community change to prevent child abuse, which includes both preventing it from ever happening and stopping it when it is occurring or at risk of occurring. Our community prevention efforts include awareness building, outreach education (focused on behavior change), community collaboration and community mobilization.

Besides our core prevention outreach programs which include the  Blue Ribbon Campaign each April and Darkness to Light 'Stewards of Children' trainings, we also provide speakers and outreach materials to help educate community members on how they can respond to and prevent child abuse in Central Oregon. Contact the KIDS Center Prevention Program for more information at 541-383-5958.

Prevention of child sexual abuse is not only a passion of KIDS Center, it is also a community-defined gap in services in Central Oregon.Our Central Oregon Darkness to Light Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Initiative involves . collaboration from many  community partners.

Deschutes County Child Abuse System Task Force
The Task Force meets bimonthly and is made up of social services agencies in Deschutes County that focus on child abuse prevention, intervention and/or treatment. KIDS Center and the Deschutes Commission on Children and Families co-facilitate and support this group.

Deschutes County Child Abuse Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) and Fatality Review Team
KIDS Center is the coordinator for the Deschutes MDT. The MDT is a state mandated body that reviews cases of suspected child abuse.