Our mission is to expose and
stop Child Sexual Abuse (CSA)
and to help survivors heal
worldwide.
Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a silent epidemic throughout the United States and the world, creating social havoc for the children, adult survivors, and society. It can be prevented and it can be treated with a conscious and sustained effort; Stop the Silence helps provide that effort. To donate through Global Giving, click here to help Stop the Silence. Click here to read our most recent Global Giving report.
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We are pleased to announce that the agency of Anni Dori PR has taken on the Stop the Silence PR campaign. Thank you Bobby Zouvelos for making this possible!
Current happenings at Stop the Silence (click):
- Here comes the eight annual Race to Stop the Silence! Click here for registration. For pics of the seventh annual 8K/5K Race, which had more than 1200 registrants, click here.
- Trainings for service providers are available. Contact us at info@stopcsa.org to provide training for your organization.
- Learn more about how your organization can access Stop the Silence's Art as Advocacy Program, which uses drama, film and still art to increase empathy, which then opens the doors for information provided: info@stopcsa.org.
Stop the Silence is helping establish and promote survivor groups in collaboration with The Lamplitghters. The Lamplighter Movement website is at http://www.thelamplighters.org. Please see the page on Chapter Locations and the page on Start A Group. If you are interested in starting a chapter, contact Marjorie Mckinnon -- her email address is on the home page -- and let her know you heard about the groups through Stop the Silence.
- Present and promote your company as the good corporate citizen it is by underwriting a PBS Special on Stop the Silence. Contact us at info@stopcsa.org.
- To Kill A Kelpie, a Stop the Silence inspired, Scottish born play about two brothers abused as children who never spoke about it until "now" went on tour in the U.S. in 2011 with support from HHS and Adam and Partners Investment Advisors. It's available now to others and its use is spreading nationally and internationally. Learn more at www.ToKillAKelpie.com and contact us: info@stopcsa.org.
- Information from the National Children's Bench Book Project (training for judges and other court-related personnel) is available from the "Our Work" tab above, see Training on the pull-down menu.
Stop the Silence, Inc., a non-profit, charitable 501(c)3 organization, works with individuals, community- and faith-based organizations, companies and governmental organizations in various communities - locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally - to raise awareness and funds to comprehensively support and conduct programming.
Watch Stop The Silence's Public Service Announcement (PSA).
Stop the Silence is pleased to be able to offer organizations a tested and available program to train various types of service providers about the realities of CSA, dealing sensitively with survivors, and CSA prevention. Contact us at info@stopcsa.org to inquire how your organization can benefit from this training.
- Pamela Pine, PhD, MPH, Founder, Stop the Silence, is available for speaking engagements. Contact Pam at ppine@stopcsa.org.
- Join me in welcoming Stop the Silence's new Board members -- thank you for answering the call!: Doralee Billins, Richard Gentles, Demetrios Kehagias, Sheri Rettew, John Seraicheck, Mark Williams, and Paul Zeitz. They bring invaluable expertise to this organization. Additionally, our esteemed Advisor, Stuart Adam, must also be called out -- he has provided and is providing invaluable insight and support. Most of the Board members' information is available on the About Us page above. We are still recruiting for Board members with corporate ties as well as Advisors with legal and counseling on CSA backgrounds. Contact Pam with interest at ppine@stopcsa.org.
My family -- without whom Stop the Silence would not have come to be