A few weeks ago I sat in a training room prepared to watch a video about child safety, typically a routine orientation procedure for new hires in youth-related fields.
What I didn’t expect was a series of touching interviews of sexual abuse survivors, brave individuals who for years have coped with the trauma of molestation, rape or prostitution that they faced as children.
The “Stewards of Children” program, presented by Heather Wildrick-Holman, the Early Intervention Training and Education Coordinator for Children’s Bureau, Inc., brought to my mind the realities of child sexual abuse.