In this workshop, parents and guardians will understand their crucial role in creating a safer community for all girls.

As parents and guardians, we are tasked with protecting our children from harm. Unfortunately, more than half of sexual assault survivors are under the age of 12, and one in four girls experience sexual abuse. A “not my business, not my problem” culture of silence creates an environment where child molesters thrive and access vulnerable children. Together, we can stop them. This workshop will guide you in an awareness-raising discussion designed to make child sexual abuse “all of our business.” You will make sense of the facts and figures as well as learn ways to show up for our daughters and each other.

In this three-part workshop, girls gain skills to make healthy, empowered choices for themselves and their peers.

Our girls deserve to grow up and thrive in a community that is safe from the threat of sexual violence. At the Kerengende Foundation, we are on a mission to provide girls with resources, skills, and information. Our workshop supports teen girls in order to cultivate their power as they navigate life in a world where one in four girls experience sexual abuse before the age of 18. We will discuss the definition of sexual abuse, safety in situations with peers, healthy boundaries, consent, and ways to report harm or potential harm. Abuse thrives on silence, and you can push back by bringing this workshop to your community or sponsoring this resource, co-led by a licensed therapist.

In addition to workshops, the Kerengende Foundation offers some financial support for families seeking therapeutic services. 

Being preventive, responsive, and restorative in our care for our girls and their families, the Kerengende Foundation offers small grants to help families absorb the cost of therapy and or other therapeutic resources a family sees fit for their own healing and empowerment. Here at the Kerengende Foundation we serve to be advocates, allies, and ample support with and for our girls and their families. Funded by generous donations, the grants are needs-based and negotiable in terms of one-time or recurring provision.

Kerengende Foundation is an Authorized Facilitator for Darkness to Light’s Stewards of Children ® training. Stewards of Children ® is an evidence-informed, award-winning two-hour training that teaches adults to prevent, recognize, and react responsibly to child sexual abuse. Through interviews with child sexual abuse survivors, experts, and treatment providers, Stewards of Children ® teaches adults practical actions they can take to reduce instances of child sexual abuse in their organizations, families, and communities.

Stewards of Children ® is approved nationally for two hours of continuing education for nurses, social workers, dentists, and dental hygienists.

Research has indicated that support from a loving caregiver can significantly lessen the experience of trauma by the child. Moreover, a child’s family and community strengths can protect the child against the harmful impacts of trauma and loss. The right support for families impacted by sexual trauma is imperative.

The Kerengende Foundation in collaboration with Call for Help Rape Crisis Center is responding to the needs of families impacted by sexual abuse by offering Non-Offending Caregiver support groups, at our location in West Belleville. The purpose of the group is to support parents and caregivers to:

• Understand and process their own response to the sexual trauma.
• Manage the strong emotions or painful memories if they were abused
• Develop a support network with other families who have experienced sexual abuse.
• Have a safe environment where they can ask questions, share feelings, and feel understood.
• Gain access to resources and education
• Understand the dynamics of childhood sexual abuse
• Learn how to reduce the risk of abuse in the future
• Process feelings of guilt and shame

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