Darkness to Light Training Charleston and Mt Pleasant SC

Will You Attend a Stewards of Children™ Training? Darkness to Light™ is an International, non-profit based in Charleston, SC whose mission is to reduce the incidence of child sexual abuse by shifting the responsibility from children to adults. Their award-winning program, Stewards of Children™, is a 2.5 hour training that teaches adults how to prevent, recognize and react responsibly to child sexual abuse. To bring Stewards of Children to the Tri-County area, Darkness to Light is hosting its 3rd annual Prevent-a-thon 2008 so that trainings can be provided to thousands of local parents, youth-serving organizations, faith centers, schools, law enforcement and military personnel. Held in August in conjunction with “Back to School”, Prevent-a-thon™ provides daily Stewards of Children™ child sexual abuse prevention workshops. The goal is to provide our community with the skills necessary to better protect children against child sexual abuse. The more than 50 scheduled trainings are sponsored in partnership with local businesses, so they can be offered to the public at no charge. For a listing of local trainings check our website http://www.preventathon.org and click on the calendar of events links. We will officially launch Prevent-a-thon 2008 on Thursday, August 7, at 8:00 PM, through a partnership with ABC 4/WCIV who will air our award winning documentary Childhood Stories during a Town Hall meeting being hosted by Community and State leaders at the Mount Pleasant Municipal Center. This is a great opportunity for people to learn why all adults need to get trained to prevent child sexual abuse and I hope you will join us. 1 in 5 children will be sexually abused before they are 18 and it’s usually by someone they know and someone who the parents trust. This is a problem of epidemic proportions and it’s happening right here in your community as you read this. It can only go away by making people aware of just how prevalent it is and by teaching people how to prevent it from happening in the first place. Here are the ways you can help: Email this to anyone your children come in contact with - they should be trained - your daycare, teachers, sports teams, friends, etc Request that they, their staff, and their families attend one of the free local trainings this month Email people you know and ask them to watch the documentary this Thursday evening, Aug 7 at 8:00 on ABC 4/WCIV Publicize the training calendar in your neighborhood newsletters, church newsletters, web pages, Facebook! Put together an audience of people and we’ll hold a free training just for you sometime after August! Our goal during Prevent-a-thon is simply to train as many adults as possible so that we can work together to better protect the children in our community. Our children need our help! Will you learn to prevent child sexual abuse?