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Recent News Articles About the Children's Center for Hope & Healing
Local Non-Profits Collaborate to Raise Funds for Child Abuse Access North Georgia, December 7, 2011. "Children's Center Honors 3 Key Volunteers," Gainesville Times October 23, 2011. Hope and Healing Gala to Honor 3 Top Volunteers, Gainesville Times, October 20, 2011 "Kroger named as Top United Way Contributorl," Dawson News, March 16, 2011. "United Way exceeds $540,000 goal," Northeast Georgian, March 1, 2011. "Small Changes Change Lives," Sawnee EMC Highliner "Child Sex Abuse Declines, Still a Concern," AccessNorthGa.com, April 3, 2010. "Children's Center Officially Opens in Downtown Site," Access NorthGA.Com, February 18, 2010. "Center Expands Room, Services in New Location" "Gala Benefits Local Child Abuse Programs," Gainesville Times, Oct 14, 2009. "Conference Aims to Help Those Who Aid Kids" - Gainesville Times, Aug 21, 2009. "Abused Teens Learn Self-Care At Belle Avance Salon," Dahlonega Nugget, Aug 12, 2009.
Our Mission: To restore dignity, trust, and hope to individuals and families traumatized by child sexual abuse through accessible and effective therapy, advocacy, and education.
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Self Defense: Equip Your Child to Better Defend HimselfJanuary is Personal Self Defense Awareness Month. As parents, we would all like to believe that our children don't need to be able to defend themselves because we will be there with them to protect them. The reality is that we aren't with our children all the time. There are things that even the youngest children should know in case they are separated from an adult or in case the adults responsible for caring for them turn out not to be trustworthy. Lauren Book, author of "It's OK to Tell," and founder of Lauren's Kids, a non-profit organization in Florida to prevent sexual abuse, how put together an online presentation for parents to do together with their young children to teach a child what she or he can do. The video does a great job of teaching kids skills without scarring them. It's designed for children 11 and younger and teaches children to honor their instincts and use their "I Mean Business Voice," to tell people to stop. Finally, it helps children identify people who are trustworthy and safe that they can go to if they need help.
If you have teenagers, the Teen Section of the Kids Health Web Site is a great place to start. You and your teen can read together strategies to avoid danger. The best defense strategies are actually to avoid potentially dangerous situations. If you'd like to take your teens safety education one step further, you can watch the "Just Yell Fire" training online. Just Yell Fire is a teen-driven education effort designed to protect teens--especially young girls--from falling prey to predators and date rape. Just Yell Fire was founded by a thirteen year-old girl who studies martial arts and the video teaches the use of self defense techniques. All parents wish that we could protect our children 100% of the time. Unfortunately, our children--especially our teens--aren't with us all the time. These online tools help us teach them ways to protect themselves when we aren't with them. Wise Mental Health Consumer MonthFebruary is Wise Mental Health Consumer Month. Mental health care can be very beneficial. Yet, people often misunderstand what counseling and other mental healtlh services are about. The Children's Center for Hope & Healing specializes primarily in care for children and adolescents. Here is a great article, published on military.com about whether or not your child can benefit from counseling: Can Your Child Benefit From Counseling? >>Purchase Pictures from this Year's Gala<<4th Annual Gala for Hope and Healingpresented by
Honoring 3 Women of Distinction
Evanda Moore was one of the organization’s founding board members when the organization, then known as The Family Relations Program, formally incorporated in January of 1987. She worked with greater dedication than any employee would have and was instrumental in helping the organization to raise some of the first funds that helped it get started. Lyn Orr and Madge Burch also served on the board of directors—Lyn Orr serving as President—more recently in the organization’s history. Both Lyn and Madge’s terms ended in 2002. In the late 1990s, the organization held monthly meetings in people’s homes where they would gather children and their families, feed them dinner, have activities, and conduct therapeutic sessions. Both Madge Burch and Lyn Orr repeatedly opened their homes and their hearts to the agency’s children.
The funds raised at the event will help the hundreds of abused children the agency serves each year. Since 1984, the agency has provided free therapeutic services for children who are the survivors of sexual abuse. Without treatment, children who have been sexually abused are at higher risk for alcohol or drug problems, teen pregnancy, academic failure, eating disorders, depression, health problems, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or suicide. Because so few people in society talk about sexual abuse, most do not realize how common it is: 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys will be sexually abused before their 18th birthday. In the U.S., it is estimated that there are 39 million adult survivors of sexual abuse.
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If you are like many, recent news about allegations of sexual abuse at Penn State have you concerned. If you would like to know more about what you can do to better protect your own child, your grandchild, or other children in the community, read this brief article, outlining 7 tips, written by the Children's Center for Hope & Healing's Executive Director, Rebecca H. Davis, PhD, and learn what you can do. If you would like to know more, call us and we'll be happy to talk to your group.
Want to Protect the Children in Your Community?We'll Present A Special Training Called Stewards of Children: Invite Us!We know that 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys under 18 are sexually abused.
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