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Abuse Prevention Information |
| The Greater Lakes Child Advocacy Center believes that a child’s safety is an adult responsibility. We can give our children important information about safety, but more importantly, we need to be constantly alert ourselves to any potential danger in our children’s environment. We plan for danger posed by cars, fire and poisonous chemicals, but we seldom plan for the physical danger posed to our children by someone they know.
The incidence of child abuse, especially child sexual abuse, is higher than any of us would like to believe. Child abuse is in every community. It does not recognize geography, or socio-economic status, or race, or gender. It is here in our community. We can’t ignore it, minimize it, or believe that it only happens to someone else’s children. As adults every one of us has a duty to protect children, whether they are our children, the neighbor’s children, or children in the next town over. The Greater Lakes Child Advocacy Center hopes to be a resource for child abuse prevention information, and a community partner in trying to ensure the safety of all our children. We have copies of a free pamphlet, “Talking with your child about BODY SAFETY,” produced by the New Hampshire Network of Child Advocacy Centers. For copies, please contact the Center (603)524-5497, or the Network office, at (603)422-8253. The Greater Lakes Child Advocacy Center is a proud to partner with Darkness to Light, in Stewards of Children, a child sexual abuse prevention training program. Darkness to Light is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to reduce the incidence of child sexual abuse by shifting the responsibility from children to adults. Darkness to Light has an award winning media campaign which raises public awareness and directs adults to educational tools which teach them to prevent, recognize and react responsibly. The Greater Lakes Child Advocacy Center has trained, authorized facilitators of the Darkness to Light’s Stewards of Children prevention training available to train members of organizations and community groups in Belknap County. Learn the 7 Steps to Protecting Our Children. For more information about Stewards of Children training, click here. (Insert SOC program description). For more information on child abuse prevention, visit the following websites:
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