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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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Tuesday Talking Point: A New Year, A New Direction

As we move into a new year, and indeed a new decade, we at Darkness to Light want to make sure that we’re not just working hard, but that we’re working intelligently. That is why, as Anne Says, we’ve undergone an organizational shift from an individual “training only model” to a “community wide training model.” … Read More
Make 2010 a Safe Place For Kids!

Make 2010 a Safe Place For Kids!

By: Laura HuntNew Year’s resolutions can make a person nervous about whether they can achieve their goal? Why do I have the same goals each year? How about making a new resolution for 2010? Resolve to do your part to end child sexual abuse. Resolve to support prevention programs that help to educate and provide … Read More
Thank You

Thank You

As today is the last day of 2009, we wanted to say THANK YOU to all of our friends, followers, members, supporters and social media readers! This is Darkness to Light’s first year in social media, and thanks to you guys it has been a magnificent success. With your help, we’ve built a Facebook Cause … Read More

Precious and Prevention Consciousness

Despite the fact that 20% of American children will be sexually abused by the age of 18, childhood sexual abuse remains a topic that’s swept under the rug. Precious, a new film starring Gabourey Sidibie and Mo’nique, gives people a inside glimpse of the devastating effects of sexual abuse. Set in Harlem in 1987, it … Read More