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Celebrating 25 Years of Championing Child Protection
Charleston, SC – January 23, 2025 – Darkness to Light, a global leader in child sexual abuse prevention, proudly announces its 25th anniversary, marking a quarter-century of empowering adults and communities to create safe environments for children...
Reflecting on Our Impact in 2024
“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.” ~Desmond Tutu We often share this quote at Darkness to Light Authorized Facilitator trainings because why...
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...
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The Darkness
You may have heard about a young man named Bill Zeller, a 5th year graduate student at Princeton University, who recently took his own life, leaving behind a heart wrenching suicide note describing how sexual abuse haunted him and kept him in endless darkness. Steve Collins, President of Adults Protecting Children, and a trained Darkness … Read More
Rates of Child Abuse on the Decline
Several new reports* are showing a downward trend in the rates of child abuse and neglect. Many advocates and professionals in the area are trying to make sense of the data. But, the news is good. It means our collective efforts at improving response and services to abused children combined with significant prevention efforts aimed … Read More
Walkin’ to End Child Sexual Abuse
Willie Nelson famously sang “Walkin’ is better than running away, and crawling ain’t no good at all.” Odd as it may sound, when I was sent this article about Louis Michael Figueroa, an Arizonian who has put over 7,500 miles on his New Balances to raise awareness about child abuse, it was Willie Nelson that … Read More
New Tool for Parents and Teachers Helping Teach Kids About Abuse
A new tool called The Body Safety Box is helping parents and educators teach children important information on the danger of sexual abuse. The program was developed by Dr. Missy Gryder, the President of H.E.L.P.S. project, an organization that teams up with elementary schools to bring sexual abuse prevention education to children in Kindergarten through … Read More
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