Preventing sexual abuse of children and raising awareness of the problem were the main focus of a meeting this week in Durham and Chapel Hill at the downtown Durham YMCA. The Durham Center and The Chapel Hill YMCA have partnered with other groups in Durham, Chapel Hill, and Orange and Chatham counties to raise awareness …
On the heels of Penn State child sexual abuse allegations, leaders from several Centre County organizations-including the United Way, YMCA, and Women’s Resource Center-have created the Child Safety and Protection Collaborative and are pushing several initiatives to make children safer. Dennis Ditmer, CEO of Centre County Y, says of this collaborative, “It just made sense …
Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden and leaders from four of Delaware’s largest institutions of higher education came together on February 16th to announce a significant expansion of statewide program to train adults to recognize and respond to the signs of child sexual abuse. The presidents of the University of Delaware, Delaware State University, Delaware Technical …
The YMCA of Kern County in Bakersfield, CA is the newest Y to join a nationwide effort to prevent child sexual abuse. Y CEO, Clete Harper, recently was interviewed about bringing the Stewards program to his community: http://news.yahoo.com/video/bakersfieldkero-24115453/ymca-tackles-sexual-abuse-of-children-28028551.html#crsl=%252Fvideo%252Fbakersfieldkero-24115453%252Fymca-tackles-sexual-abuse-of-children-28028551.html
Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden asked the legislature’s budget-writing committee today to approve funding for training 10,000 adults to recognize the signs of child abuse and report it to authorities. Biden made his request for $60,000 for the Stewards of Children program during the Department of Justice’s annual Joint Finance Committee hearing. “It is …
