Jolie, Liz, Erika and I traveled to Aiken South Carolina yesterday to hear Marilyn Van DeBur, former Miss America and incest survivor, speak at a luncheon in support of The Child Advocacy Center of Aiken County. Marilyn is a featured survivor in D2L’s Stewards of Children training video so we feel like we already know …
Let’s talk about sexual abuse of children. You’d rather not, you say? It’s too sensitive an issue, too hard to talk about. How about when you talked with your own children about it. Was it difficult then? You never did talk to the kids about it? Oh… April is Child Sexual Abuse Protection Month. Newspapers …
It’s a painful secret carried by millions of people, but one Surf City, NC couple, Patricia & Edwin Boelte have commited to break the silence in their community. Patricia and Edwin travel throughout the state giving presentations and holding workshops to bring awareness to the problem of child sexual abuse. To read more please click here. …
Chaucie’s Place, and other prevention organizations in Central Indiana, offer Darkness to Light’s Stewards of Children child sexual abuse prevention program. Since they have started conducting this training just 18 months ago they have already trained more than 400 adults, including the after-school and early childhood staff at the Jewish Community Center; the after-school staff …
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. This is a time to recognize that all of us must be involved in promoting the safety and emotional well-being of children and families in our community. As I provide presentations throughout Northern Colorado about child abuse and child sexual abuse in particular, I am always struck by …
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