We are the victims of exploitation and abuse... you call us the future, but we are also the present... we are children whose voices are not being heard: it is time we are taken into account... —Youth Delegates to U.N. Special Session on Children, May 2002
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If you are a survivor of CSA and you want to tell some of your story and share your photo on this Web site, please
contact Pamela Pine at . Photos are being taken by
Jan Lafontaine (www.janlafontaine.com),
a professional photographer dedicated to bringing awareness and healing through art.
She will be at the Race to Stop the Silence and available to do your portrait.
Invisible Girls, by Dr. Patti Feuereisen, is an incredibly important and one-of-a-kind resource
specifically for girls and young women who have suffered sexual abuse. Invisible Girls weaves together powerful
first-person narratives with gentle guidance and seasoned insights to help girls through the maze of feelings
that swirl around the abuse experience — giving every young woman who struggles withh the scars of sexual abuse
the courage that comes from knowing that she is not alone and other girls have come out from behind the veil
of secrecy to become vibrant, healthy, and whole. Get it today!
Christina Lux's Coming Home at Last, Sequoia Records first folk alblum, supports the work of Stop the Silence
Get it at www.sequoiarecords.com
Anastasia and The Ghostly Owl (The Choice Was Hers!) is a moving story about a young girl overcoming adversity. It is a story about hope, overcoming obstacles, and making choices in the face of adversity. More concretely, it is about child abuse and how the protagonist, a young girl named Anastasia, comes to terms with it. For more information, please visit
www.ghostlyowl.com
Interested in becoming an adoptive or foster parent in Washington, DC? Click here.
Child Sexual Abuse Quilt
Safe Girls Strong Girls will be at the Race to display the start of the CSA Quilt,
which will provide advocacy about CSA in the same way the AIDS Quilt does with
regard to HIV/AIDS. Safe Girls Strong Girls is committed to promoting public
awareness of the enormity of CSA and supporting girls by offering healing through the Arts:
www.safegirlsstronggirls.org
In Searching for Angela Shelton, filmmaker Angela Shelton sets out on a journey to meet every other Angela Shelton in America. In the process, she discovered that, like her, 24 out of 40 Angela Sheltons had been raped, beaten, or molested. This movie has started an epidemic of healing in answer to the epidemic of abuse that it uncovers. Order a copy on DVD through our registration form.
We are the victims of exploitation and abuse... you call us the future, but we are also the present... we are children whose voices are not being heard: it is time we are taken into account...
Invisible Girls
Child Sexual Abuse Quilt
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