Honoring Their Voices
Honoring Their Voices, a virtual series, amplifies the voices of survivors and others with lived experience of child sexual abuse through engaging and compelling conversations.
Each conversation is hosted live via Zoom and includes a Q&A session for attendees to chat with our special guests and experts.
Two-Part Series with Hispanic Survivors
In this special two-part series, we engaged in compelling and heartfelt conversations that highlight the unique challenges, cultural barriers, and personal journeys of survivors within the Hispanic community and those featured in Guardianes de los Niños®
Note: This conversation was hosted live in Spanish, with English captions.
Previous Events & Recordings
Honoring Their Voices with Stephen Mills (3-Part Series)
In this three-part series, our team sits down with author Stephen Mills to discuss his book, Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood. Learn more about Stephen and his journey with the event recordings, information, and resource guide below.
Recordings:
About Stephen:
Stephen Mills is the coauthor of Next of Kin, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. He has advised and written for an array of public interest organizations in the fields of human rights & environmental protection. Stephen is honored to serve as an Ambassador for CHILD USA, the leading nonprofit think tank fighting for the civil rights of children. He lives in California with his wife, Susan.
“The trauma of sexual abuse is shared by one out of every six men, yet very few have broken their silence. Unflinching and compulsively readable, CHOSEN eloquently speaks for those countless others and their families. It is a rare act of consummate courage and generosity—the indelible story of a man who faces his torment and his tormentor and, in the process, is made whole.”
Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood: At thirteen years old, Stephen Mills is chosen for special attention by the director of his Jewish summer camp, a charismatic social worker intent on becoming his friend. Stephen, whose father died when he was four, places his trust in this authority figure, who first grooms and then molests him for two years.
Stephen tells no one, but the aftershocks rip through his adult life, as intense as his denial: self-loathing, drug abuse, petty crime, and horrific nightmares, all made worse by the discovery that his abuser is moving from camp to camp, state to state, molesting other boys. Only physical and mental collapse bring Stephen to confront the truth of his boyhood and begin the painful process of recovery—as well as a decades-long crusade to stop a serial predator, find justice, and hold to account those who failed the children in their care.
The trauma of sexual abuse is shared by one out of every six men, yet very few have broken their silence. Unflinching and compulsively readable, CHOSEN eloquently speaks for those countless others and their families. It is a rare act of consummate courage and generosity—the indelible story of a man who faces his torment and his tormentor and, in the process, is made whole.
Visit Stephen’s website to learn more about Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood.
