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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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Broken trust, hidden pain
Chaucie’s Place, and other prevention organizations in Central Indiana, offer Darkness to Light’s Stewards of Children child sexual abuse prevention program. Since they have started conducting this training just 18 months ago they have already trained more than 400 adults, including the after-school and early childhood staff at the Jewish Community Center; the after-school staff … Read More
It’s up to all of us to protect children from sexual abuse
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. This is a time to recognize that all of us must be involved in promoting the safety and emotional well-being of children and families in our community. As I provide presentations throughout Northern Colorado about child abuse and child sexual abuse in particular, I am always struck by … Read More
Free Webinar from Stop It Now!
How Understanding and Responding to Children’s Sexual Behaviors Can Prevent Child Sexual Abuse This workshop covers how to determine whether sexual behaviors in children are age-appropriate and how to respond to behaviors that are outside of what you would expect to see in children of various ages. This workshop is particularly appropriate for professionals who … Read More
Chicks with Sticks
Facilitators from Carroll, Heard, and Haralson Counties in Georgia are now a part of the newly named West Georgia Partners to Prevent. During a recent Stewards training a Carrollton knitting group, Chicks with Sticks, knitted these facilitators (pictured below) green scarves to show their appreciation for the unified group. West Georgia Partners to Prevent have … Read More
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