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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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Join the Movement Mondays!
Today kicks off Darkness to Light’s first “Join the Movement Monday!” Each Monday night this August, participating restaurants will be donating 10% of their proceeds to Darkness to Light. This Monday five great Charleston restaurants are participating! Be sure and grab dinner from one of these restaurants, and have a great meal while supporting D2L.
Mary J. Blige Reveals Abuse
A few weeks ago we blogged about Missy Elliott, and her revelation on VH-1’s Behind the Music about the abuse she suffered as a child. This week on Behind the Music, Mary J. Blige revealed her own abuse perpetrated by close family friend. Blige said of the abuse, “When I was five years old I … Read More
Memphis Child Advocacy Making Prevention Happen
Virginia Stallworth, Associate Director of Memphis Child Advocacy along with her team, are on a mission to teach Memphis adults how to keep children safe. They recently launched a new initiative in Memphis/Shelby County with a goal of training 35,000 adults in 5 years. Virginia was recently quoted in The Commercial Appeal of Memphis, “If … Read More
Missy Elliott Discusses her Abuse
Music mogul Missy Elliott revealed the extent of the sexual abuse she suffered as a child on VH1’s Behind the Music. Elliott said she was abused by her 16 year old cousin when she was 8. “Each day he wanted me to come to the house after school. It became sexual, which, for me at … Read More
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