YMCA of Kern County Tackles Sexual Abuse
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 AG Biden Seeks Funding Support for Stewards
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 not a child’s job to protect him or herself from abuse, that is our job as adults,” Biden said. “When 90 percent of abused kids are victimized by someone they …
Recent AP article highlights the D2L/YMCA community prevention efforts
The Associated Press published an article over the weekend about the child protection efforts by national youth serving organizations including the YMCA. The article specifically mentions the work local YMCAs are doing to increase awareness and educate adults in the community. Like Big Brothers Big Sisters, the YMCA of the USA relies on its locally run affiliates to implement and enforce child-protection policies, although the national office provides support and guidance. “Our Y’s have to be diligent on this issue every second of every day,” …
Partnering in Prevention Steering Committee
On December 8th and 9th YMCA CEOs, Darkness to Light, and The Redwoods Group Foundation came together to discuss child sexual abuse prevention. The Partnering in Prevention Steering committee was originally formed in August of this year, and the group continues to meet on a quarterly basis to further prevention efforts among YMCAs and their communities. During the meeting community leaders partnering with The Hockomock YMCA shared why this prevention initiative is so important. As one community member said, “As soon as I understood the …
D2L Announces new partnership and leadership changes to help prevent childhood sexual abuse
This month we finalized a dramatic leap forward in our mission in the form of partnership with a group of large YMCA’s up and down the eastern seaboard. As an organization this means we are moving out of start-up phase and into a true large-scale operating phase. To support this evolution in our organization’s life, we are making a transition of leadership from our entrepreneurial founder, Anne Lee, to second generation leadership focused on operationalizing and expanding our new partnership. Read the press release here.
