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 uses real people and real stories to show you how to protect children. The framework of the training is built off the foundation of The 5 Steps to Protecting Children™.

You’ll meet survivors who lived through child sexual abuse, experienced its immediate and long-term effects, and ultimately were able to find healing. You’ll meet experts who work with children and families, and confront abuse on a daily basis. Many of these survivors and experts are also parents themselves.

WHY DOES IT APPLY TO ME?

Child sexual abuse is likely the most prevalent health problem children face, with the most serious array of consequences. In fact, 1 in 10 children will experience sexual abuse before their 18th birthday.

This means that whether you work with youth, are a parent, or are simply a member of a community, it is highly likely that someone you know or care for has experienced, or is currently experiencing, child sexual abuse. It’s going to happen whether you are prepared to deal with it or not – unless you stop it from happening. And the good news, it can be stopped. (Excerpt taken from www.d2l.org)  Once completing the 2-hour training, participants will receive a certificate of completion and CEU credits if requested.

“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