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Sex abuse prevention is focus at the Childhood Trauma Treatment Program at Advocate Health Care

Congratulations to Heather Randazzo at the Childhood Trauma Treatment Program Advocate Family Care Network in Boilingbrook, Illinois!  Their program is one of many to receive financial support from Chicago Tribune Holiday Giving.  Heather has trained over 760 individual’s in Stewards of Children since she became an authorized facilitator.  Their organization hopes to train over 1,000 next year!  Read more here.

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Stewards of Children Online Training in Spanish

Today marks a milestone in Darkness to Light’s history.  We have launched Stewards of Children Online training in Spanish!   The cost is $10, the same as the English training.  It can be purchased on our website or directly at the training website. We are very excited about this announcement and hope that with this new training we will be able to empower more individual’s to prevent child sexual abuse.

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A Letter to Jerry Sandusky, Coward

“I don’t believe you’re a monster, Jerry. But I do believe a part of you really wanted to make a difference in these boys’ lives. You still can: tell the truth.” ~ Gretl Claggett

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Sex-abuse victims urged to seek help

Sex-abuse victims urged to seek help By Glenn Smith With the sexual molestation case against coach Louis “Skip” ReVille likely to grow, a local youth treatment center wants parents to know that help is available and hope is not lost. The Dee Norton Lowcountry Children’s Center in Charleston has reached out to the many places where ReVille worked and volunteered over the past decade, offering advice and assistance in treating potential victims. The agency offers medical exams, counseling and other help free of charge, said …

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D2L Op-Ed, Charleston SC

Reducing sex abuse of children BY JOLIE LOGAN Sunday, November 6, 2011 Last week’s allegations of child sexual abuse against a local assistant principal and coach have brought shock, dismay and outrage. The accused was in a position of trust, and our tri-county community is in search of answers. There may be a rush to question the motives of anyone who works with children. We ask how crimes like these could go unnoticed. And, for many parents, a pressing concern is “what do we say …

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New Jersey YMCA State Alliance takes a bold stand against child sexual abuse

Last Friday, September 23, 2011 the New Jersey YMCA State Alliance came together to discuss child protection. Thirty-nine Ys were present at the meeting, and all approved taking D2L’s Stewards of Children program to scale and moving ahead with implementing the training program in their communities. Rick Gorab, CEO of the Metro YMCAs of the Oranges, stated “We all look forward to our important work together as we begin to lay the groundwork to deliver the program statewide and take the 7 steps to protect …

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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.

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AG Biden, DE Community Leaders Launch Prevention Initiative

Attorney General Beau Biden, child advocates, and community leaders in Delaware are on a mission to protect the children of the state from sexual abuse.  On Wednesday, AG Biden unveiled the plan to train 35,000 Delaware adults using D2L’s Stewards of Children in a joint press conference with Rev. Ruth Lawson Kirk of Christ Church in Delaware City, YMCA of Delaware President Michael Graves, and Prevent Child Abuse Delaware Executive Director Karen DeRasmo. “It is not a child’s job to protect him or herself from …

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D2L Friend and Author Laura Fogarty’s New Children’s Book – I’m the Boss of Me

D2L volunteer, good friend, and author Laura Fogarty just published her newest book, I’m the Boss of Me! which empowers young readers to be the boss of their bodies.  The book is wonderfully written in rhyme and beautifully illustrated by Remi Bryant and includes a message to parents by Anne Lee, the Founder and CEO of Darkness to Light.  “The message you are teaching your child is to rely on his/her intuition about whom to trust and whom not to trust.  All children should be …

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Darkness to Light a hit at National Exchange

Ralph Mellard: President of Charleston Exchange Club, Anne Lee: Founder & CEO of D2L, Margie Miller: President of National Exchange – putting pen to paper and making Stewards of Children a program project for all Exchange Clubs throughout the USA.

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