This week, the YMCA of Metropolitan Washington and Prince George’s County State Attorney Angela Alsobrooks announced a new partnership for prevention using Darkness to Light’s Stewards of Children to educate 43,000 residents in MD. This partnership is a vital step towards building a safer community. “For too long, our children have been told not to …
In partnership with the Old Colony YMCA, dozens of Stoughton, MA town employees and community members have been receiving training in the Darkness to Light Childhood Sexual Abuse Prevention Program. “Child sexual abuse is not a Y problem, or a school problem, or a church problem or a Penn State problem: it is a community problem, …
Last week 18 YMCA CEOs, The Redwoods Group Foundation fellows, and Darkness to Light staff members came together for our quarterly Partnering in Prevention Steering Committee meeting. The group spent a full day discussing the D2L and YMCAs partnership, and there was a lot of excitement around the growth of this important work. There are …
If you read our blog on a regular basis you surely have seen all of the amazing prevention work happening with the different YMCAs across the country. Recently we had the opportunity to speak with the South Carolina Y Alliance during their retreat. What a great group of people! Soon after our time with them, we received word that …
April is National Child Abuse Prevention month, and this month as well as throughout the year, the YMCA of Greater Tri-Valley encourages all individuals and organizations to play a role in making our communities safe. “April is a time to celebrate the important role that communities play in protecting children,” said Maryalice Golden, Marketing Manager. …
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