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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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Sex abuse prevention is focus at the Childhood Trauma Treatment Program at Advocate Health Care
Congratulations to Heather Randazzo at the Childhood Trauma Treatment Program Advocate Family Care Network in Boilingbrook, Illinois! Their program is one of many to receive financial support from Chicago Tribune Holiday Giving. Heather has trained over 760 individual’s in Stewards of Children since she became an authorized facilitator. Their organization hopes to train over 1,000 next … Read More
WCBD TV: Legislators trying to make child sex abuse reporting mandatory for everyone
D2L supporter Beau Biden talks about the importance of mandatory reporting. Just think of all of the kids that would be better protected if mandatory reporting was required. Almost every case of child sexual abuse could be prevented if people acted on their suspicions. It’s about time we all stepped up to the plate and … Read More
Stewards of Children Online Training in Spanish
Today marks a milestone in Darkness to Light’s history. We have launched Stewards of Children Online training in Spanish! The cost is $10, the same as the English training. It can be purchased on our website. We are very excited about this announcement and hope that with this new training we will be able to … Read More
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