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It’s the Spookiest Time of the Year!

Halloween safety can be tricky (see what we did there?). You have to hold allowing children to build independence and resilience in tension with maintaining a protective environment for your child. Kids need to learn to be savvy and street smart, but...

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with Darkness to Light

At Darkness to Light, we are honored to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a series of impactful events that elevate the voices within Hispanic communities and empower adults to take action to protect children. These events not only raised...

Honest Conversations: Peer-on-Peer Abuse – Rates, Resources and Prevention

Peer-on-peer abuse is a difficult topic, and one we must address head on. Our team at Darkness to Light hosted an Honest Conversations webinar with three leading experts in prevention to unpack this complex issue, share insights, and empower adults...
How We React and Respond Makes a Difference - Adverse Childhood Experiences

Suicide Prevention Month: How We React and Respond Makes a Difference

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and trauma have become a definitive part in how we address healing, in both children and adults. Educators are tasked to consider the traumas their students have experienced and how that might influence how they...

The Future of Prevention: Our Envision Experience

For the last few years, Darkness to Light has had the honor of partnering with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse for Envision. This past June, we were able to be together in...

 

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$30K in 30Days Challenge!

$30K in 30Days Challenge!

We need your help! Darkness to Light needs to raise $30,000 in the next 30 Days. These funds are needed to provide scholarships to schools and youth-serving organizations that cannot otherwise afford Darkness to Light’s Stewards of Children Training. Organizations, especially schools, are lined up to take the training, but there is less money than … Read More
“Dogs with a Cause” featuring Darkness to Light

“Dogs with a Cause” featuring Darkness to Light

Darkness to Light is featured at Monday’s “Dogs with a Cause” and will raise money and awareness about the issue of Child Sexual Abuse. Monday’s event is presented by Palmetto Behavioral Health.
Ants to march down King Street

Ants to march down King Street

Giant ants will be taking over King Street in August, but it’s OK, they’re friendly. Designed by artist Jeffrey Kennedy, the enormous and colorful sculptures will be unveiled Sat. Aug. 1 down in the market, and then each week they will make a move until they reach their final destination of the Cannonborough-Elliotborough neighborhood. The … Read More
Sexual Trauma Services of the Midlands Working With D2L

Sexual Trauma Services of the Midlands Working With D2L

COLUMBIA, SC. June 15, 2009—Starting July 1, 2009, Sexual Trauma Services of the Midlands (STSM), a nonprofit providing services to survivors of sexual assault and education about sexual trauma issues to residents of Richland, Lexington, and Newberry Counties, will launch a new child sexual abuse prevention component to their Community Education Program. In December 2008, … Read More