What is Darkness to Light Training?

The Shelter Home of Caldwell County is committed to championing the needs
of physically and sexually abused children through prevention, intervention, therapy and collaboration.  We at the Shelter believe that child abuse prevention is the responsibility of the adult, but know that many adults are unable to protect children from sexual abuse simply because they do not know enough about the problem.

In light of this, The Shelter Home of Caldwell County has committed to training
100 thousand adults by the year 2020 using the Darkness to Light child sexual abuse
prevention training.  This training is a three hour, facilitator-led workshop, which
includes a video that shares the stories of survivors as well as reports from professionals that deal with the issue of child sexual abuse regularly, group discussion, and an interactive workbook.  Participants in the workshop consistently rave about the efficacy of the course and how it has caused them to change their behaviors and mindsets about child sexual abuse.

In conjunction with The Shelter Home of Caldwell County and a generous grantor The Shelter Home of Caldwell County is thrilled to offer this special training at your location.  Participants in the training will be recognized with a certificate as “Stewards of Children” for joining in the movement to end child sexual abuse.

Adults Resolving Child Sexual Abuse in the  Community

Contact:

prevention@shelterhomecc.org

Facilitators: Lily Moody & Jan Nash

Join the Movement!

Darkness to Light launched a new initiative and wants you to be among the first to take part and Join the Movement.

This week, visitors to our website were greeted with a new way to get involved with D2L by “Joining the Movement”. When a person Joins the Movement, they sign a prevention pledge and have the option to receive regular e-mails from D2L with valuable prevention tips. A parent and organization series are available.

While many people  first get involved with D2L by taking Stewards of Children, not everyone is immediately ready to commit two and half hours to the training. We do however hope that this group will take action by Joining the Movement. In return they will receive some tangible, fulfilling information and hopefully begin to understand the importance of taking Stewards. The Movement will engage people at a level they are comfortable with. It’s just one more way to educate and raise awareness.

You can promote the movement if you would like, by adding the Join the Movement button to your website.  You can find the info you need at www.D2L.org/linktoD2L.