Child Abuse Prevention Month - 2025 For three decades, Safe Shores has been a beacon of hope, healing, and justice for children and families affected by abuse. While many things have changed – staff members, location, programs, and services offered – one thing has remained steadfast through the years: Safe Shores’ dedication to the children ...
Child Abuse Prevention Month
From A.I. to Gen Z and Beyond: Protecting Kids in the Digital Age with CyberFareedah
In today’s hyper-connected world, keeping children safe online is one of the most pressing challenges of our time. For Gen Alpha and Gen Z, the internet is where they learn, play, and connect—but it’s also where threats can lurk in every swipe, scroll, and click. As a caregiver, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. The dangers are real—but so are the ...
Writing to Wellness™: A Workshop with Chris Thomas (Private Event)
An inspiring creative writing workshop led by writer and activist, Chris Thomas, of Christopher Thomas Works, LLC. This workshop is designed to support child abuse professionals in processing secondary traumatic stress and burnout. ...
Earth Day Spruce-Up (Private Event)
An Earth Day spruce-up event for the Bundy Building! Volunteers and Safe Shores Board Members will be planting plants, pulling weeds, and replacing the planters outside of the Bundy building with new versions in bright, child-friendly colors! ...
Multi-Disciplinary Team Award Ceremony (Private Event)
A special gathering of DC’s Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) to celebrate the dedication, resilience, and impact of professionals responding to child abuse. This event honors the hard work of law enforcement, child welfare, forensic interviewers, medical providers, victim advocates, and more. ...
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 ...
Building Blocks of Childhood: Key Lessons for Grownups
Protecting and caring about children means knowing the facts – the building blocks – about childhood and child development. The more that adults know and understand children, their behaviors, and their essential needs, the better we can stand on business for children to help them thrive. Children don’t come with instruction manuals (wouldn’t ...
