http://facsafoundation.org/

We are providing safer environments for children, changing the social stigma of child sexual assault, changing public policies, and have created a paradigm shift for Shattering The Silence of rape, child sexual assault, and human trafficking. You can help a child through the resources we provide, by providing this service for communities, parents, and grandparents to use, by changing public policies, and educating communites on prevention of child sexual assault, by teaching people the most effective tools and resources to heal from truama, and how survivors can thrive, rather than merely exist. We can make a difference together! Please donate what you can.

We would like to invite you to the debut of “The Cries of Nations” performed by the Cahedral City High School Choir and Palm Desert High School Drama Team, for the Shattering The Silence Tour and Documentary Project (FACSAFoundation.org),Christophers Clubhouse.org, Bo Budinsky/Save One Survivor, and It Happens To Boys: Carol Teitlebaum, Randy Boyd, Scott Smith, Daniel Marquez. at the

Salvation Army, 30-400 Landau Blvd.,
Cathedral City, CA,
April 17, 2013, 10-2p.m.

Connie Lee/FACSA Foundation/Founder/President
318.540.4464
FACSAFoundation.org
facsasavethechildren@hotmail.com

Caminante, son tus huellas el camino, y nada más; caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Al andar se hace camino, y al volver la vista atrás se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. Caminante, no hay camino, sino estelas en la mar.”

Translation”

Traveler, the tracks you set down are the path, and nothing more; Seeker, there is no trail, the trail is made by walking. By walking you create the path, and upon glancing back you see a route that will never be trod upon again. Traveler, there is no path, only the ripples of the sea. ~~~ 20th century Spanish poet, Antonio Machado.

Bill Lackner is our GUEST this friday on BlogTalk 6pm (Click here).

… is a Six letter word for the Four letter word RAPE

I was listening to public radio this morning and discovered that in Oregon, once you have reached the age of thirty, you can no longer press charges against your abuser. The average age that anyone begins therapy is 35 and older. It then takes a little while to find the strength and fortitude to even confront them This is wrong. WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN OREGON…. This is barbaric!

I’ve been overwhelmed with request to fight this or that. Complain more. Talk about (fill in the blank) because afterall it is April and you have the ear of many. I am proud to say this is true. But, I can’t do it all.

Someone is offended because I don’t try to rally people againt Child Protective Services. I don’t. They are correct. I have zero experience to complain about. I have known people who were over worked, offices that have been understaffed and most recently saw two little children who should have been removed from their parents long before they were. The judge was attempting to keep the family, which was and is miserably broken, glued together. Which side are you on? Keeping the child in the home or removing them?

Then there is the teacher or day care worker whose background check was clean. This only means that they weren’t caught previously. Secrecy, shame and unacceptable conversation working to thier advantage.

Someone else is offended that I don’t take on the courts, trafficking, prostitution… I have no real experience here either. hoever, I kknow it is also mired in secrecy and shame.

I wish I had an answer for all this. I don’t. I only know in my heart that the best defense is open conversation. ALL of this must become acceptable to talk about. Take the weapon of secrecy out of the abusers hands.

We are all after all looking for the same end. Safe, happy, well adjusted children to go forward into the future with peaceful hearts to become loving productive adults.