Excerpt from Progress-Index.com The Prince George/Hopewell Domestic Violence Taskforce, in collaboration with James House, hosted a Stewards of Children training event on Sept. 24. The program, developed by the Darkness to Light organization, provides parents and other adults who care for or come into contact with children, with the tools to recognize and respond appropriately …
Today’s guest blogger is Karen Holmes, a Virginia parent and prevention professional. Karen attended one of our Stewards of Children training’s earlier this fall through SCAN’s partnership with Darkness to Light. Then in November she made the commitment to become a trained facilitator for the program. We asked her to share her thoughts on prevention, her experiences and how …
SCAN is proud to be an official PARTNER in PREVENTION with Darkness to Light. As part of that work, we provide trainings across Northern Virginia to empower professionals and private citizens to prevent child sexual abuse in our community. This video shares thoughts from just two of the more than two hundred individuals we’ve educated …
BY VALERIE CATROW Originally published on the RVANews Ever since the news of Jerry Sandusky’s deplorable acts of child sexual abuse broke late last year, I’ve wanted to write about it. But whenever I tried to piece together my thoughts, I froze. My fingers, my breathing, my brain, everything. The prospect of my child (or …
The Center for Alexandria’s Children and Alexandria Health Department have forged a partnership to expand a nationally acclaimed child sexual abuse public awareness and education training program that will train Alexandria healthcare workers to recognize and react responsibly to the signs of child sexual abuse. Beginning this week, more than 120 Department of Health staff …
