Tag Archives: Virginia
Raising Richmond: Preventing the unthinkable
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 any child) becoming the victim of sexual abuse makes me…well… I can’t even label the feelings stirred up by such a notion. Fear? Panic? Blinding rage? Yes, to all of …
The Center for Alexandria’s Children and Alexandria Health Department Have Forged a New Partnership
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 from the divisions of nursing, environmental health and administration will begin Darkness to Light’s Stewards of Children child sexual abuse training program. Joanna Hemmat, AHD Public Health Nursing Supervisor, and …
