It’s Pack2School time! Though summer is just beginning, at Safe Shores – The DC Children’s Advocacy Center, we’re working on making sure the children we serve have the learning tools they need for the 2024-25 school year. Together, with you and others in our community, we’ll make sure that at least 150 children whose lives have been ...
Child Abuse Prevention Month 2024: Video Introduction
Child abuse — two words that should never go together. Yet, child abuse is so prevalent in the United States that April has been marked as Child Abuse Prevention Month since 1983. This is Michele Booth Cole, Executive Director of Safe Shores - The DC Children’s Advocacy Center, home to the DC Chapter of Prevent Child Abuse America. When we talk ...
Make the Season Brighter for Child Victims
Every year, we invite our community to help make the holiday season brighter for child survivors and their families. For Holiday Giving 2023, we're excited to bring back two beloved elements of Holiday Giving: individual children's wish lists and wrapping parties!That means there are three different ways you can help make the holiday season ...
Get the Safe Shores Scoop on Summer!
Longer days and warmer temperatures are here, perfect for a big scoop on what’s been happening over the last few months at Safe Shores. From Pack2School drives to well-earned honors for our executive director, scroll down for a sprinkle-ing of news! It's time to drop off your filled backpacks for Pack2School! At Safe Shores, we are ...
Evaluation of the school-based Healthy Relationships Project
About the Healthy Relationships Project The Healthy Relationships Project©, developed by Prevent Child Abuse Vermont, is a primary prevention intervention deployed within school systems to prevent child sexual abuse. The curricula consist of training for school staff, six weeks of classroom lessons delivered by either teachers or external ...
Safe Shores Wishes You Rest, Joy, and More This Mother’s Day
Mothering requires labor—of the body, mind, and spirit. At its core, mothering is taking care of others. Even when done joyfully and willingly, caring for others requires time and energy. Care work is the most essential, valuable, and undervalued work there is. That’s why this Mother’s Day, we lovingly encourage mothers to take care so you can ...
What the World Needs Now: Intentional Parenting – A Conversation with Destiny Bennett and Dr. Stacey Patton
The terms "gentle parenting" and “intentional parenting” are trending these days. But what do these terms even mean? What does this kind of parenting look like IRL (in real life)? Does research support its effectiveness? And why does all this matter—especially for children and families of color? Join us for a powerful conversation with ...
Safe Shores’ Pack2School Drive is Back for 2022!
There is a lot happening in the world these days, and still one thing remains unchanged: kids are kids, and they need adults to protect and provide for them. Safe Shores plans to make sure that 150 children whose lives have been impacted by violence have one less worry when they head back to class this year, ready for a new start with their ...
This April, This Child Abuse Prevention Month, Do ONE THING For A Child
Para leer esta declaración en español, haga clic aquí. Given the current state of the world—and there’s no need to list all the things going on globally, nationally, in our communities, and let alone in people’s individual lives—some might suggest that commemorative months are the proverbial back-breaking straw. But Child Abuse Prevention Month ...
Resolve to Be Part of the Child Abuse Prevention Tipping Point
With the clock ticking ever closer to 2022, our thoughts are on the future: the future of children, protecting them, and how we as adults must stop child abuse before it happens. At Safe Shores, our Prevention and Outreach program works to do just that, every day. We know that safe and caring adults are the first lines of defense when protecting ...
