By CatholicPhilly Staff • Posted April 11, 2024

Approximately 150 students in grades Pre-K through 8 from Our Lady of Grace Catholic School in Penndel along with school faculty and administration partnered with the archdiocesan Office for Child and Youth Protection April 4 to kick off National Child Abuse Prevention Month. The planting of the blue pinwheel garden is part of a national movement, “Pinwheels for Prevention,” a grass roots initiative sponsored by Prevent Child Abuse America. (Photos: Joe Bradley/Bradley Digital)

  • Leslie Davila, Director of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia Office for Child and Youth Protection

  • Leslie Davila, Director of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia Office for Child and Youth Protection

  • Monsignor Joseph Prior, Pastor of Our Lady of Grace Parish

  • Monsignor Joseph Prior, Leslie Davila, and Eric Harper

  • Monsignor Joseph Prior, Eric Harper, and Leslie Davila

  • Leslie Davila (center), director of the archdiocesan Office for Child and Youth Protection, along with office staff plant a garden of blue pinwheels April 4 at Our Lady of Grace School in Penndel, Bucks County. The Pinwheel Garden is an initiative of the office during April, which is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. (Bradley Digital)

  • Monsignor Joseph Prior, Pastor of Our Lady of Grace Parish

  • Leslie Davila, Director of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia Office for Child and Youth Protection