Specialties
Certified Facilitator of Darkness to Light (www.darkness2light.org/) Stewards of Children® Child Sexual Abuse Education & Prevention Training.
90% of Abused Children Know their Abuser
Stewards of Children Prevention Training:
Real people and real stories to show you how to protect children from sexual abuse.
Our evidence-informed training influences community behavior change.
During our award-winning Stewards of Children® prevention training, you'll meet survivors who lived through child sexual abuse, experienced its immediate and long-term effects, and ultimately were able to find healing. You'll meet experts who work with children and families and confront abuse on a daily basis. Lastly, you'll find concrete steps that you can take to protect the children in your life.
We train parents, teachers, coaches, clergy, youth serving organizations, schools, and groups, on how to predict, prevent and react to sexual assault and child sexual abuse.
Victim Advocate and Consultant, working with attorneys and directly with parents. We help victims navigate the reporting, legal and personal processes involved with child abuse, sexual harassment, sexual assault, negligence, schools, passing the trash, special needs abuse, and Title IX compliance.
We work worth with attorneys, as a part of their team, as a resource for their clients throughout the entire civil trial process.
History
Established in 2015.
I have been advocating for parents to get educated on how to predict, prevent and react to child sexual abuse since my daughter was molested by her teacher in 2007. Since she was 2 years old I taught her how to speak up if touched inappropriately and she did just that, stopping a teacher who had been molesting his second and third graders for 7 years. Now I want to teach everyone so we can stop this epidemic.
Meet the Business Owner: Christy H.
My own child sexual abuse served as the catalyst for me to teach my daughter from the time she was born to speak up if she was touched inappropriately. However, I had not been educated on what grooming behaviors looked like. In 2007, my daughter was molested by her third-grade teacher and did exactly what I taught her. Knowing what I know now, all of the grooming signs were there.
In the eight years that followed, I became my daughter's best advocate and navigated a complex criminal case, a lengthy civil trial against the school district for negligence, and two subsequent appeals (at which we prevailed, and which resulted in a precedent-setting, published opinion by the California Court of Appeal). I emerged from the experience determined to make a measurable impact in reducing child abuse and sexual assault through training, speaking up, and taking action on behalf of victims and their families.
