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We have a single purpose at NAASCA, to address issues related to childhood abuse and trauma including sexual assault, violent or physical abuse, emotional traumas and neglect .. and we do so from two specific perspectives:
1) educating the public, especially as related to getting society over the taboo of discussing childhood sexual abuse, presenting the facts that show child abuse to be a pandemic, worldwide problem that affects everyone
2) offering hope for healing through numerous paths, providing many services to adult survivors of child abuse and information for anyone interested in the many issues involving prevention, intervention and recovery
We're building a survivor community, because together we can do what we cannot do alone.
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Welcome to our Newsletter
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Welcome to the inaugural edition of the NAASCA family’s new Newsletter. As our now global membership increases we'll use this vehicle more often, perhaps monthly or perhaps quarterly, and we'll always make it easy to add or remove oneself to the NAASCA Newsletter. Please encourage others to stay in touch with us by suggesting they join this list, too.
Many of you will already be aware of our 6 night a week, 90 minute “Stop Child Abuse Now” talk radio shows (all but Saturday nights at 8pm EST, 7 CEN, 6 MTM and 5 PAC), and the every growing library of over 2,200 ‘on-demand’ recorded shows (see the current schedule). Hundreds of these episodes feature survivors telling their story!
You may also know of our significant social media presence (like our Facebook groups and BLOG) where NAASCA family members share with and support each other about issues related to child abuse and trauma. Among other things, this is a great place for each of us to share NAASCA’s web site and projects.
But the hub for all we do, the NAASCA.org web site, is updated daily, and carries hundreds of pages of information and articles where you'll find thousands of links to resources and services we recommend in the fight against child abuse. While we belong to no other group, we freely co-operate and promote all efforts we believe are legitimately useful to the community.
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We're all responsible for Outreach / Awareness
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A simple way to gain an overview of what NAASCA's about is to visit our web site’s HIGHLIGHTS page. All our International services / tools / projects are FREE and run by non-paid NAASCA family member volunteers. Please consider how you might become involved, too. Become a NAASCA volunteer!!
Some of our efforts are truly unique. We’re excited to announce our
Calendar of Events
, tool, where you’ll find we now carry non-recurring calendar event listings for everything we know of from around the world. This is where we list child abuse and trauma related gatherings like workshops, conferences, rallies, marches and so on. We have calendars for every state and province in North America and for virtually every country on earth.
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One of our most popular tools is our global listings for
Recovery Groups & Services
(we've got "on-line" groups, too). As far as we can tell, no other organization has ever attempted to do this, but we have listings for all 50 US states, all the Canadian provinces, and now include groups and services for everywhere English is spoken, world-wide!! You may be surprised at what’s available to you in your area.
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These two tools are interactive. We encourage you update, correct or add listings for both our non-recurring calendar events and our recovery groups and services tool. We'll quickly improve our projects for you. All you need do is write to us through the email address we provide inside each of these tools.
At this point we’re particularly interested in any / all events for April, Child Abuse Awareness month in the United States. Go to your state to see what’s listed now, and please send us any additional seminars, talks, marches, rallies and so on that are related to events taking part in your area of the country in April.
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You might want to consider participating in our
Blue Ribbon Campaign
in April (and all year round, too). Wearing a Blue Ribbon is a sign of child abuse awareness. NAASCA hopes you’ll wear one every day, and to pass them out to others. We giving away FREE Blue Ribbons and "info cards" (4 or 5 per person) to anyone who writes for them, and we'll continue to provide them in
larger quantities
at our cost, perfect for family, friends, neighbors or community event.
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The NAASCA web site’s HOME PAGE offers a lot more, including links for those who are interested in getting more info on:
1. News related to issues of child abuse and trauma
2. Help related to child abuse trauma recovery
3. NAASCA's many tools and services for adult survivors
4. Learning about protecting and supporting children
5. More info about how NAASCA works and how it started
6. Volunteering and supporting this effort
Finally, after operating as a grassroots effort for nearly a decade, we became an official tax-deductible charity last year. We’re all non-paid volunteers and receive no funding from outside sources. To date we’ve depended entirely on being self-supporting through our own contributions. But we wish to do more, and we wish to do some of what we already do better. If you value the NAASCA effort, won’t you please consider a donation? Join us in the fight against child abuse and trauma!
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Thanking you in advance and welcoming you to the NAASCA family, I remain, as always,
Yours in service,
Bill Murray, founder and CEO
National Association of Adult Survivors of Child Abuse.
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NAASCA | a 501(c3 | 323 / 552-6150 | Bmurray3d@aol.coml | NAASCA.org
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