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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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One woman on a mission in Carroll County GA
Emily Cole of Carrollton Presbyterian Church is on a personal mission to protect the children of Carroll County Georgia from child sexual abuse. Emily is an authorized facilitator of Stewards of Children and along with fellow facilitator, Jill Hesterlee, the two have trained almost 700 adults in Carroll County in the past year! Targeting educators, … Read More
D2L Friend and Author Laura Fogarty’s New Children’s Book – I’m the Boss of Me
D2L volunteer, good friend, and author Laura Fogarty just published her newest book, I’m the Boss of Me! which empowers young readers to be the boss of their bodies. The book is wonderfully written in rhyme and beautifully illustrated by Remi Bryant and includes a message to parents by Anne Lee, the Founder and CEO … Read More
Join the Movement Mondays – August 15
We’re so grateful to the eight Charleston restaurants who have already participated in our inaugural Join the Movement Mondays! This week we’re excited to invite Charlestonians to four more restaurants. Five Loaves Cafe (Downtown), Triangle Char & Bar (West Ashley and Mt. Pleasant locations), and Sweetwater Grill (Summerville) are our participating restaurants this week! Be … Read More
Second Sunday with D2L!
The Ants are marching again!Come out and stroll down King Street to the D2L booth in front of Brooks Brothers this Sunday August 14th for Charleston’s Second Sunday Celebration. Author Laura Fogarty will be signing her new children’s book “I’m The Boss of Me,” and we’ll be giving away D2L t-shirts for donations.
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