This week on Helping Hand local nonprofit PARENTS INC. return: Providing Awareness Referrals Education Nurturing Therapy and Support. April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month, and they’ve got annual fundraising kickball tournaments to, as they say, kick child abuse & neglect out of Hawai‘i Saturday April 1st, in K?ne‘ohe and April 8th in Hilo. HPR All Things Considered Host Dave Lawrence speaks with Executive Director Lisa Groulx.

Helping Hand airs on All Things Considered Fridays and then appears here online. Each Friday, Helping Hand puts the spotlight on an organization, topic or event that offers assistance to the disabled and others among the most vulnerable.

Contact PARENTS Inc.:

Website: hawaiiparents.org

Email: lgroulx@hawaiiparents.org

Phone: (808) 235-0255 in the Honolulu area, (808) 934-9552 in the Hilo area.

Find them on Twitter, Youtube and Facebook.

Find all the previous Helping Hand segments here.