Categories: Other, Success Stories

Local Business Provides Funding for Prevention

Livingston County Radio WHMI is helping spread the word about prevention! 12/8/10 – The Child Abuse Prevention Council of Livingston County recently received a check for $2,000 from a local business owner to support a program designed to help prevent child sexual abuse. Steve Bloom, owner of the Verizon Wireless stores in Howell, Hartland and …

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Categories: Other, Success Stories

“Many times when a child discloses sexual abuse it will be to a teacher…”

A great article was published yesterday by the Lexington Clipper-Herald about a group of Nebraskans stepping up to protect the children in their community by educating adults how to prevent child sexual abuse using D2L’s Stewards of Children . On Nov. 1, Matt Fosket, advocate and volunteer coordinator for the Bridge of Hope Child Advocacy …

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Categories: Misc, Other

Berkeley County Schools Currently Training Staff

3000.  We have been buzzing about this number as it is the total number of Berkeley County school employees who will be trained in Stewards of Children. We reported a little while back about the fabulous Berkeley County and their commitment to training all of their administrative staff. Teachers were trained over the past two …

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Categories: Other, Success Stories

Asheville, NC Citizen’s Police Academy Taking on Prevention

Thirty three trainees of the Asheville Citizen’s Police Academy participated with great interest, sobriety and enthusiasm in the Darkness to Light Stewards of Children training this week. “It was quite possibly the most lively and interactive Stewards training I’ve conducted” said Facilitator Paula Sellars. Paula shared with us her observations from the session this week …

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Categories: Misc, Other, Our Perspective

Are we more concerned about being groped by aiport security than we are about protecting our children?

What does it say about us as a society that we get this riled up over the TSA screening procedures yet there is no overwhelming outrage over the sexual violation of our children.  “I feel dirty” said one woman on the news this morning after experiencing a pat down by the TSA. So imagine being …

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