<div><p><i>&quot;When we correct the factors that keep children at risk, we can make a difference in the lives of those children and the adults they'll grow up to be.&quot;</i>- Mary Frances Bowley</p><p>Children are meant to imagine bright futures and then chase them. But for the millions of at-risk children in America, this is nearly impossible, because trauma clouds their lives like a heavy fog, and in that fog they lose their hope.<i>Make it Zero </i>is a call to bring it back to them.</p><p>Tying shocking statistics to real stories, <i>Make it Zero </i>explores various forms of childhood vulnerability and offers specific ways for everyone to help end it-for good. It reveals the world of opportunity behind a single moment of compassion, and it teaches us that when we help the hopeless dream again, we ourselves come more alive.</p><p>This book is for everyone. It's for moms of children they love. It's for men who are protective of those they care about. It's for anyone who lives in a community where there are children. It's for college students and nurses and bus drivers and grandparents and aunts and uncles. The bottom line is this: if one child in America is unsafe and unprotected, then they're all at risk.</p><p>Each of us is only one person, but one person determined to act is powerful. Moments can multiply into movements and create groundswells of change.<i>Make it Zero </i>is your moment. To be inspired. To be empowered. To join the movement of restoring hope to every child.</p></div>