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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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YMCA of Kern County Tackles Sexual Abuse
The YMCA of Kern County in Bakersfield, CA is the newest Y to join a nationwide effort to prevent child sexual abuse. Y CEO, Clete Harper, recently was interviewed about bringing the Stewards program to his community: http://news.yahoo.com/video/bakersfieldkero-24115453/ymca-tackles-sexual-abuse-of-children-28028551.html#crsl=%252Fvideo%252Fbakersfieldkero-24115453%252Fymca-tackles-sexual-abuse-of-children-28028551.html
Delaware AG Biden Seeks Funding Support for Stewards
Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden asked the legislature’s budget-writing committee today to approve funding for training 10,000 adults to recognize the signs of child abuse and report it to authorities. Biden made his request for $60,000 for the Stewards of Children program during the Department of Justice’s annual Joint Finance Committee hearing. “It is … Read More
Going for Girl Scout Gold – Kentucky
BCHS student teams with Hope’s Place to train adults in child abuse prevention Katie Brandenburg Associated Press ASHLAND — Chrissy Moore pulled a cloth checkerboard from the table of one of the waiting rooms at Hope’s Place Children’s Advocacy Center revealing golden sand framing assorted seashells. “This is my favorite part,” she said. Moore and … Read More
Recent AP article highlights the D2L/YMCA community prevention efforts
The Associated Press published an article over the weekend about the child protection efforts by national youth serving organizations including the YMCA. The article specifically mentions the work local YMCAs are doing to increase awareness and educate adults in the community. Like Big Brothers Big Sisters, the YMCA of the USA relies on its locally … Read More
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