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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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STOP PERFECT CRIME OF PEDOPHILIA
By Lisa Monaco Gonzales Originally published June 23, 2012 at 12:01 a.m., updated June 22, 2012 at 3:06 p.m. What if you found the perfect crime, one that you could commit repeatedly and never get caught? This crime enables your addiction, allowing you to do exactly what you prefer most. You spend your whole life … Read More
Protecting children from sexual abuse is a community responsibility
Written by: Deanna Norris and Robin L. O’Grady A recent column published in the Livingston County Daily Press & Argus, “How to help abused children,” reflected upon the Penn State scandal and focused on the lack of adequate federal funding for programs that protect and rescue children from sexual abuse. The authors, R.A. Dickey and … Read More
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New D2L Tees are now available in our D2L Store. For $20 you can have your very own D2L shirt. Get a tee and help us spread the message that we can “End Child Sexual Abuse!”
SCAN & Darkness to Light: What training attendees are saying about child sexual abuse prevention
SCAN is proud to be an official PARTNER in PREVENTION with Darkness to Light. As part of that work, we provide trainings across Northern Virginia to empower professionals and private citizens to prevent child sexual abuse in our community. This video shares thoughts from just two of the more than two hundred individuals we’ve educated … Read More
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