Stewards of Children

Family Nurturing Center is pleased to offer the Stewards of Children curriculum in partnership with Darkness to Light.  Stewards of Children is a revolutionary prevention program designed to teach adults to prevent, recognize and react responsibly to child sexual abuse.   It was developed to meet the needs of youth-serving organizations, public agencies, schools, law enforcement agencies and parents.

Education provided  directly to adults is essential in order to increase parents’ knowledge so that they will be better able to discuss child sexual abuse with their children, detect those children who have become victims, and improve their reaction to children’s disclosures of abuse.  Parent-focused child sexual abuse preventive programs have been shown to increase parental knowledge about child sexual abuse, as well as increase the likelihood that parents will discuss child sexual abuse with their children.

“Thank YOU!  This training should be a requirement for ALL parents and caregivers of children. We all know about “stranger danger”, but the monsters whose faces we know and trust are a million times worse.  It’s unbelievable to me that if a stranger came up to our child we would know how to protect them, yet millions of families unknowingly deliver their children right into the hands of an abuser.  I know this because I was one of those mothers who thought “this wouldn’t happen to us”.   Please note that I said “wouldn’t” and not “couldn’t”.  I believed I knew the people in my children’s lives.  I believed I had these superhuman mothering abilities that would magically uncover the truth if anyone ever touched or hurt my children.  I had no idea I was living in a dream world.  When I “woke up” and realized something was wrong, I didn’t hesitate to do the right thing and tell the authorities.  It was just 4 years too late.  My children are safe now, and their abuser will stand on trial for what he did to them.”  – Parent after attending Stewards of Children training

The Stewards of Children program has been empirically evaluated and is shown to increase knowledge, improve attitudes and change participants’ child protective behaviors over the long term.  In 2007, the Stewards of Children Program was awarded the National Crime Prevention Program of the Year by the National Crime Prevention Council.

To schedule a Stewards of Children training, contact Stewards of Children Prevention Specialist at 859-538-1620.

For additional information, visit Darkness to Light – National

Funding support for Stewards of Children made possible by the Child Victims’ Trust Fund