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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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In Effort to Prevent Childhood Sexual Abuse, Stoughton Employees Taking Specialized Training
In partnership with the Old Colony YMCA, dozens of Stoughton, MA town employees and community members have been receiving training in the Darkness to Light Childhood Sexual Abuse Prevention Program. “Child sexual abuse is not a Y problem, or a school problem, or a church problem or a Penn State problem: it is a community problem, … Read More
Lessons from Sandusky – Lesson #5 – Education is Key
The past 4 blogs on lessons learned provided advice and tips for parents and youth serving organizations. We want everyone to know that there are positive, proactive steps that all adults can take starting now to better protect children. But we also get that responding to child sexual abuse is risky and scary. Let’s use … Read More
Stick with the Program People! – Lessons from Sandusky – Lesson #4
The verdict is in but that doesn’t mean it’s time to stop the conversations about what we can learn from this case. Today, let’s look at another valuable lesson to be learned. Abusers seek privacy in order to abuse children, and privacy is easier off-site, away from the facility, school, field, etc., outside regular program … Read More
NY Times Parenting Blog, Motherlode, mentions D2L
KJ Dell’Antonia is a lead blogger for the NY Times parenting blog called Motherlode, Adventures in Parenting. KJ’s blog post today, The Sandusky Verdict: Who Would Believe a Kid focuses on what parents can do to help prevent child sexual abuse. Jolie Logan of D2L says, “organizations must have policies requiring that anyone who sees something … Read More
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