The Crisis Shelter has developed many excellent awareness resources that we are beginning to market to other centers and anyone who wants to use them as an awareness/training resource.  To begin, we are sharing Believe Me When I Tell, a special regional initiative to abolish child abuse.

Child sexual abuse is a hidden, quiet crime. Believe Me When I Tell is a social engagement and public awareness project to combat child sexual abuse.    It is the goal of the Crisis Shelter to shine a light on this issue and rally communities together to take a stand and make a statement against abuse. The project makes a difference in the lives of children who are victims of abuse and engages communities in a way that begins to affect social transformation and encourage bystanders to intervene in this issue. The twofold objective of the Believe Me When I Tell campaign is to engage and empower citizens to take a stand against child sexual abuse and communicate to children and adolescents that it is not only safe to disclose abuse but they will also be believed when they do so. 

The Believe Me When I Tell campaign promotes prevention by increasing public awareness of child sexual assault through a social engagement marketing campaign and public education that promotes bystander intervention and the notion that it takes a community to raise a child.  It also promotes protection by encouraging adults to intervene where child sexual abuse is suspected and encourages community intervention by providing a coordinated response to sexual violence perpetrated against children. 

Click on the link to the left to order Believe Me When I Tell awareness resources and make a statement against child abuse in your community.

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