One in 10 children will be the victim of sexual abuse before their 18th birthday. Despite this startling statistic, it's a silent epidemic that people are afraid to talk about.

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.

Join us for this 2-hour training teaches adults how to prevent, recognize, and react responsibly to child sexual abuse.

Register February 21 or February 22.

Stewards of Children® Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Training

Some secrets should be told. This traveling multi-sensory exhibit allows visitors to hear, see and experience the reality of child abuse.

A moving experience from start to finish. 

Visit February 21 or 22 at the Charles E. Lakin Human Services Campus- Salvation Army, Council Bluffs.

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Why is it that some children thrive in the worst circumstances while others are remarkably sensitive? Tom Boyce, a pediatrician and researcher at University of California San Francisco, has been asking that question for more than 40 years.

Starting in the 1970s, Boyce, like many pediatricians, observed that most kids were physically and mentally resilient-relatively immune to illness, injury, and disease. But a small group of kids seemed to accumulate a disproportionate number of health and behavior problems: from severe respiratory disease, injuries, and developmental delays, to more mental and behavioral issues, like anxiety, depression, and aggression. He could see these kids tended to come from families that faced a lot of stress or adversity, in the form of socioeconomic disadvantage or general misfortune.

..."This work is important because it highlights how individual differences in childrens' temperament can interact with their caregiving environments to give rise to very different developmental trajectories," said Charles Nelson, a pediatrics professor at Harvard Medical School, who has spent 20 years documenting what happens to infants in severe adversity. In caring and nurturing environments, orchids will thrive, he explained, whereas in others, characterized by neglect, abuse, violence and strife, they may suffer. "The context in which children are raised interacts powerfully with their inherent temperaments."

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