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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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Six Degrees of Separation
We’ve just implemented a new fundraising tool on our blog and we’re excited to share it with you! As you can see on the right, we’ve installed a new donation widget affiliated with Network for Good. Our new fudraising widget uses the six degrees concept which you may have heard of. According to the Six … Read More
Child Sexual Abuse Prevention in Michigan
By MEGAN SCHMIDT The Holland Sentinel Holland, MI — The GVSU Women’s Center will shift its focus from violence against women to sexual abuse against children in its noon lunch series this month. Staff from Ottawa County’s Children’s Advocacy Center will conduct a training on preventingchild sexual abuse on Friday at Grand Valley State University’s … Read More
Kisses From Dolce
Susan Hausman, author of the children’s book, “Kisses From Dolce: A Book for Children About Trusting and Telling”, has been a Darkness to Light Facilitator since 2006. Our Darkness to Light team was recently in Boston while Susan became a certified Instructor (she can now train Facilitators)! For years now Susan has dedicated her life … Read More
Jeffrey Kennedy – Ant Artist Extroidinaire
Jeffrey Kennedy has been making “ant art” to benefit Darkness to Light and child sexual abuse prevention for years now! In February, Jeffrey is moving from Charleston to Florida and we wish him all the best. Thank you Jeffrey for all that you’ve done! Check his online gallery out HERE
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