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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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7 Steps to Protecting our Children-Step 7
Step 7: Get Involved Adults have the power to lower the incidents of child sexual abuse happening in their community. Use your voice to get involved in the prevention efforts of your community. Speak to your local schools, clubs, faith centers, and youth organizations about the importance of prevention training and child protection policies. Insist on changes … Read More
7 Steps to Protecting our Children-Step 6
Step 6: Act on Suspicions Acting on suspicions can be scary but it has to be done in order to put a stop to child sexual abuse. Trust your instincts and know your local helplines to contact for guidance. Adults have the power to help children in an extraordinary way by reporting reasonable suspicions of … Read More
7 Steps to Protecting our Children-Step 5
Step 5: Make a plan. When a child discloses abuse, it is important to know how to react. Offer support to the child and praise them for coming forward. Remember to remain calm and know your local legal requirements for reporting. Want to learn more about the 7 steps? Stay tuned for step 6 tomorrow … Read More
7 Steps to Protecting our Children-step 4
Step 4: Stay Alert It is so important in the fight to end child sexual abuse that we know the signs that a child might have been or is being abused. Physical signs and emotional signs might be a strong indicator that abuse is present. It is critical to also remember that a child might … Read More
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