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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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Local Pastor Fights for Sexual Abuse Prevention
Darkness to Light is getting increased response for workshops on preventing childhood sexual abuse since the Penn State scandal. A local pastor has spoken out about his experience. By Adrianne Murchison January 12, 2012 Darwin Hobbs, who is training to become a Darkness to Light facilitator, said he was sexually abused by his stepfather from … Read More
Congratulations to the Merrimack Valley YMCA!
Merrimack Valley YMCA has already trained 413 individual’s in 2012 and they have 2 more trainings to go this month! What a way to start the new year! They have also just received a $4,000 donation from their local Rotary Club to support their Darkness to Light initiative! This will go a long way in … Read More
Teddies Never Tell (Click Here to see PSA)
This video was sent to us from a film student in South Africa. We were blown away with the PSA, and we want to thank David for telling this story.
YMCA of Delaware will receive $300,000 to support “Stewards of Children Sexual Child Abuse Prevention.”
The Delaware Community Foundation has awarded grants totaling $220,000 to three statewide, multi-agency initiatives to expand mentoring, reduce child sexual abuse and empower financially vulnerable Delawareans. The DCF’s collaborative grant program seeks to fund initiatives in which multiple nonprofit agencies work together to maximize their collective capabilities and provide powerful services to Delawareans statewide. Every … Read More
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