Categories: Featured Posts, General News, Honest Conversation

Honest Conversations: Navigating Peer-on-Peer Abuse

Peer-on-peer abuse is a difficult topic, and one we must address head on. Our team at Darkness to Light hosted an Honest Conversations webinar with three leading experts in prevention to unpack this complex issue, share insights, and empower adults with the tools they need to navigate it effectively.  We were joined by thought leaders …

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Categories: Featured Posts, General News, Guest Blog, News and Events, Other

Suicide Prevention Month: How We React and Respond Makes a Difference

How We React and Respond Makes a Difference - Adverse Childhood Experiences
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and trauma have become a definitive part in how we address healing, in both children and adults. Educators are tasked to consider the traumas their students have experienced and how that might influence how they teach and interact with students. Those in healthcare are opening their eyes to the correlation between …

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Categories: Education, Featured Posts, General News, News and Events, Our Perspective

The Future of Prevention: Our Envision Experience

For the last few years, Darkness to Light has had the honor of partnering with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse for Envision. This past June, we were able to be together in person in Washington, D.C. to discuss “The Future of Child Sexual …

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Categories: Featured Posts, General News, Other, School Safety

Navigating Peer-on-Peer Abuse: Creating Safe Environments this School Year

The rates of peer-on-peer child sexual abuse have increased over the last decade. What does this tell us? It tells us that when we are thinking about protecting children, we need to think about situations where children are left with other children, without direct supervision or in unsafe environments. Specifically, as adults we need to …

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