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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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Darkness to Light and Stop it Now!
Darkness to Light and Stop It Now! met to discuss ways to strengthen the message and mission of both organizations. A strategic alliance that recognizes multiple pathways to prevention emerged from the meeting. Both organizations are committed to creating and enhancing programming that supports one another and moves toward a holistic approach to preventing the … Read More
Darkness to Light is Coming to Nashville!
Hit Songwriters Perform to Raise Awarenessand Support Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Efforts Nashville, Tennessee, April 14, 2010 — On Thursday April 29th at 9PM, several of country music’s top songwriters will be performing at Nashville’s legendary Bluebird Café to raise money for child sexual abuse prevention. Featured songwriters include Tommy Lee James, Marv Green, Terry … Read More
Boy Scouts Say They Tried to Prevent Abuse
PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) – Grade-school visitors touring the Multnomah County Circuit Court were quickly shooed out of Judge John Wittmayer’s courtroom after chaperones realized their charges were listening to testimony in the $25 million punitive damages phase of a sex abuse trial against the Boy Scouts of America. Witnesses on Wednesday defended the Scouts’ efforts … Read More
S.C. Educator Project Get A+
In 2009 19,000 S.C. teachers completed child sexual abuse prevention training through a partnership between Darkness to Light, the S.C. Department of Education and a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The initial goal of this pilot project was to train 10,000 S.C. teachers, but interest was so high it was … Read More
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