09 Oct TEN 4 Week 2025 Recap – Kentucky and Beyond
This October 4th, the Kosair For Kids Face It Movement once again raised awareness to the critically important TEN-4-FACESp Bruising Rule and emphasized the importance of adults knowing the signs and symptoms of child abuse and how to report it. The Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute at Lurie Children’s is the pioneer of this clinical rule. It is based on two decades of children presenting in the ER with injuries. They saw a common set of injuries in those children who were diagnosed with non-accidental trauma.
In addition to the TEN-4-FACESp Bruising Rule and Pediatric Abusive Head Trauma trainings hosted last week and the many elected leaders across Kentucky who proclaimed Saturday, October 4 as TEN-4 Day 2025, efforts have spread across the nation through the Face It Movement’s partnership with Lurie Children’s, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the University of Wisconsin.
We are celebrating as the Governors in Massachusetts, Michigan, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Vermont, and Wisconsin recognize TEN-4 Day 2025!
In Michigan, the TEN-4-FACESp bruising rule is being used outside of medicine to help investigators of child abuse recognize injuries and to give them common language when speaking with medical professionals. View and share the Office of the Child Advocates’s (OCA) TEN-4 video with professionals that interact with children. In addition, OCA liaised with Michigan’s Department of Education and the video was disseminated to all of Michigan’s school districts, teachers and school administrators.
Drs. Auerbach and Goodman from Yale School of Medicine and with the Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) Innovation and Improvement Center produced this resource, which provides emergency care professionals with key facts and recommendations for identifying and managing suspected physical abuse in children.
Dr. Erin Wade, Child Abuse Pediatrcian at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and UTHSC in Memphis, the Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth, and the Memphis Mayor made formal acknowledgements on Saturday, October 4. All Nashville PD Officers are receiving a brief training on TEN-4-FACESp and a wallet-size card about when bruising is a red flag for abuse.
TEN-4 Day and awareness of the bruising rule were also recognized through many efforts in Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma including a TEN-4-FACESp video from The Care Center, a TEN-4 Community Resource Fair in Nashville, TN, Texas, Utah, and Puerto Rico.
Thank you to all who participated in TEN-4 Day (and events throughout the week!) by making child abuse prevention a priority. Together, we can end child abuse across the nation. Learn more about the TEN-4- FACEsp Bruising Rule and how you can stay involved throughout the year in our newest website at TEN4Day.com.
If you or your team hosted a community event or training, obtained a proclamation, posted on social media, or acknowledged TEN-4 Day in any other ways, please take 1-2 minutes to complete this form so that we can spotlight your efforts and continue to grow this national movement.