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Missoula officials sign on to initiative to prevent child abuse nationwide

Missoula County Sheriff Carl Ibsen sounds self-deprecating when he talks about his decades in law enforcement, but he’s trying to make a point.

Over the course of 40 years, he’s seen three generations of families find their way into the legal system.

"I can think of a number of cases where I am now dealing with the grandchildren of people I started arresting when I was a young cop in 1972," he said Thursday. "I’m not far away from getting into dealing with their great-grandchildren."

That’s why Ibsen is one of the 80 sheriffs, police chiefs and officers, and county attorneys from Montana who are among 1,560 people nationwide signing a letter urging Congress to approve funds for home-visiting programs designed to prevent child abuse.

By GWEN FLORIO of the Missoulian

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/missoula-officials-sign-on-to-initiative-to-prevent-child-abuse/article_94bb08d2-ab9b-11e1-b6cd-001a4bcf887a.html

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"We can invest early (in childhood education) to close disparities and prevent achievement gaps, or we can remediate disparities when they are harder and more expensive to close. Investing early allows us to shape the future; investing later chains us to fixing the missed opportunities of the past."

James Heckman, economist and Nobel laureate, "The Economics of Inequality," American Educator, Spring 2011 http://www.aft.org/pdfs/americaneducator/spring2011/Heckman.pdf

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