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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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Recent Child Abuse Stories in the Media
You may have heard the recent news about the international child pornography ring which was busted, and Warren Jeffs’ conviction on child sexual abuse charges. As disturbing as these stories are, it’s easy to overlook them as something that just doesn’t affect us. Chris Newlin, Executive Director of the National Child Advocacy Center recently responded … Read More
Touching Safety
Do you work with children as part of your job? If so, you have probably been made aware of your organization’s policies with respect to child protection. Here are a few great reminders about appropriate touching when caring for children in a work setting. * Appropriate touch to arms, upper back, head and hands only. … Read More
The Baton Rouge Advocate runs a great feature on Stewards of Children
A recent article in the Baton Rouge Advocate profiled the Stewards of Children program and highlighted the work of one group working in the community to prevent child sexual abuse. Rob Carlisle, chief executive officer of Child Advocacy Services in Hammond Louisiana said, “We want to deny that anything like that could happen to our … Read More
One Woman’s Story: Conquering Her Abuse
Most of us excavate our secrets privately. And slowly. So did Kathryn Harrison — until, in 1997, she published “The Kiss,” an unsparing account of her predatory father and the sexual relationship he engineered with her when she was 20. “The Kiss” is an important book to many, and especially to Gretl Claggett (left, in photo), … Read More
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