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The Movement to End Child Sexual Abuse — Are You Our Next Facilitator? 

July 13, 2017

SCAN has known for years that Darkness to Light’s Stewards of Children is an excellent curriculum for teaching all adults how to protect children from child sexual abuse.  We have trained close to 1,500 adults in Northern Virginia.  However, there is a wider network of Darkness to Light facilitators in Northern Virginia, DC, and Maryland that is reaching and training even more adults.

Through our Public Education efforts at SCAN, we convene these facilitators twice a year to share best practices, roadblocks, and skills to become stronger facilitators.  In June, I had the honor of training 18 more facilitators.  Some will join our efforts here in Northern Virginia (The Young Marines, Northern Virginia Family Services, We Support the Girls, Falls Church City Public Schools), and others will take the training back to their organizations (which included Prince George’s County DSS, Prince George’s County Public Schools, and The James House).

Darkness to Light facilitators know that they have been trained using a curriculum in which attendees are able to immediately implement things they have learned, whether that is reducing one-on-one situations between children and adults, creating policies in our organizations that protect children, or being empowered to intervene in situations where adults are crossing boundaries.

Being a facilitator is a rewarding experience.  If you would like to become one, we will be having another training on August 10 in Loudoun County.  Register for the training here.

You soon learn you are a part of something bigger – a movement to end child sexual abuse. It can be done.

– Tracy Leonard, Public Education Manager, tleonard(at)scanva.org