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Our Guide to Modeling Healthy Boundaries this Holiday Season
One of the most important gifts we can give our children during the holiday season is the ability to understand and respect healthy boundaries. Boundaries are essential for creating healthy relationships and ensuring everyone feels respected and...
Darkness to Light Awards Scholarships to Organizations Advancing Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Efforts
Eight Organizations Receive $6,000 in Scholarships to Strengthen Child Protection Initiatives. We’re proud to honor our commitment to empowering adults to prevent, recognize, and respond to child sexual abuse by announcing the recipients of our...
Becoming an Advocate: Steps You Can Take to End Child Sexual Abuse
Becoming an advocate is a powerful commitment to protect children and create safer communities. It’s a role that calls for courage, empathy, and determination—and the impact can be truly life-changing. Child sexual abuse is far more common than most...
Safety in Seconds: Healthy Sexual Development
As children grow, they naturally become curious about their bodies and begin to explore what feels good and safe. This curiosity is a normal part of healthy development, and understanding it can empower adults to foster open, supportive conversations...
It’s the Spookiest Time of the Year!
Halloween safety can be tricky (see what we did there?). You have to hold allowing children to build independence and resilience in tension with maintaining a protective environment for your child. Kids need to learn to be savvy and street smart, but...
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Southern Oregon Public Television Interviews Cindy McElhinney
Recently I had the privilege to participate via Skype in a recorded interview for Immense Possibilities, a weekly program on Southern Oregon Public Television. This innovative program shines the light on people and groups solving challenges to create healthier more vibrant communities. Jeff Golden, the host of the program, put forth the following questions about … Read More
The Ricki Lake Show – Tips to child sexual abuse prevention
Our very own Svava Brooks, Certified Instructor / Authorized Facilitator of Darkness to Light’s Stewards of Children child sexual abuse prevention training was featured on The Ricki Lake Show Blog! We are so very proud of your hard work and dedication to educating adults on child sexual abuse prevention Svava. Nov 27 5:50 PM posted by Team Ricki … Read More
Empowered & Empowering. I’m a Darkness to Light Trained Facilitator.
Today’s guest blogger is Karen Holmes, a Virginia parent and prevention professional. Karen attended one of our Stewards of Children training’s earlier this fall through SCAN’s partnership with Darkness to Light. Then in November she made the commitment to become a trained facilitator for the program. We asked her to share her thoughts on prevention, her experiences and how … Read More
An Evening in Paris: The Chefs
A huge thanks to our 2012 Gala Chefs for their contributions to a hugely successful Circle of Light Gala. We also want to thank Justin Nathanson, our videographer/producer extraordinaire for this wonderful video. An Evening in Paris : The Chefs from Darkness to Light on Vimeo.
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