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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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Facebook Guide for Educators

Recognizing that social media plays a huge role in the lives of students as well as teachers, Facebook has created Facebook for Educators, a guide that explains how to properly use the social networking site and how it can be used as an educational resource.   The guide includes lots of helpful information for educators including … Read More

Oprah’s Proudest Moment

Oprah Winfrey, in her very last show which aired this afternoon,  proclaimed her greatest accomplishment in her 25 years to be the dedication of 217 shows on the topic of child sexual abuse. Winfrey added that her proudest moment in all those years, in speaking with over 30,000 people on her stage, was the show … Read More

Care and concern for our friends in storm-ravaged areas

With the devastation caused by the flooding and now the latest round of severe weather and tornadoes in so many areas of the country we give pause to pass along our thoughts and prayers to our friends and facilitators that have been affected.  A special prayer goes out to our good friends in Joplin, Missouri … Read More

Sugar Ray Leonard Says Coach Abused Him

“…Leonard delivers the book’s bombshell while indirectly addressing a growing concern in the sports industry at large. He reveals publicly for the first time that he was sexually abused as a young fighter by an unnamed “prominent Olympic boxing coach.”” See Harvey Araton’s full story from yesterday’s New York Times.