Workers and volunteers with Safe and Sound — a San Francisco nonprofit focused on preventing and reducing the impact of childhood abuse, neglect and trauma throughout California — began the year with cause for celebration.

They’re ending the same way, too.

January marked the beginning of the 50th year since its 1973 founding, when Dr. Moses Grossman — UCSF’s pediatrics chief at the time — aimed to develop best practices and policies for responding to and preventing child abuse and neglect.

Pegah Faed, the CEO of Safe and Sound, said December is winding down on an equally strong note, thanks in part to the success of its annual holiday gift program.