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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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Fred Neuville and Jimi Hatt Show Their Support for D2L!
Chef Fred Neuville of The Fat Hen and Jimmi Hatt from Guerrilla Cuisine came into the office to give us a generous donation last Tuesday; as we’re known to do we hijacked them and made them sit down for a video with us! *Youtube doesn’t seem to be running smoothly this morning so if your … Read More
Germany and Ireland call on Catholic church to hold child sex abuse inquiries
Pope Benedict XVI waves to faithful during his weekly general audience at The Vatican, where he addressed remarks to Irish followers on St Patrick’s Day The crisis gripping the Catholic church deepened today, with calls for national inquiries to be held in Germany and Ireland to fully disclose the detail and extent of sexual abuse … Read More
You should get to know … Shoshana Salowitz
DesMoinesRegister.com Job description: I co-facilitate our newest prevention initiative called Stewards of Children. We provide free community training throughout central Iowa encouraging adults to become informed, responsible and proactive about preventing child sexual abuse. Background: After completing my freshman year of college, I decided to take an indefinite hiatus from academia and focus on exploring … Read More
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