Child Sexual Abuse Prevention/Education

What does it mean to have an attitude of gratitude?

It means making it a habit to express thankfulness and appreciation in all parts of your life, on a regular basis, for both the big and small things alike.

Gratitude is a warm feeling of thankfulness towards the world, or towards specific individuals. The person who feels gratitude is thankful for what they have.

My heart overflows with gratitude!

Thankful for partners like you, that see the value in prevention and hope for a future, free from sexual violence. This mission takes more than just a team of people doing the work. It takes support in various forms; volunteers, creativity, technology, talent, time, money, resources, connections, prayers, laws, relationships, passion, righteous indignation, compassion, and so much more. 

Every time that I think, "we are not going to be able to do this program this school year," I am proven wrong. Naturally, 2020 had a lot of complications, primarily a huge shift to end most in-person gatherings. The majority of our child abuse prevention education happens IN-PERSON. Yet, it wasn't the end, just the beginning of virtual presentations. Schools were in a mad scramble to figuring out how to implement the mandated core-40 curriculum virtually, therefore no outsider presentations were scheduled. Yet, it wasn't the end, just the beginning of restructuring format to build capacity opportunities. The virtual presentations are helping us implement the program to the same number of students in a shorter amount of time. This helps immensely due to a late start in our presentation calendar schedule. Lastly, we used our budgeted allowance for materials, have used it all, and now we have an influx of presentations needing materials. Yet, it wasn't the end, just the beginning of Fair Haven, Inc. having the best Giving Tuesday campaign and receiving end of year donations- to date! Gratefully empowered, I just placed a large order for materials that will supply the rest of the 2020-2021 school year! Your generosity made it happen and is so inspirational to me!

I have hope and will adopt an 'attitude of gratitude' that this school year will continue to be a successful year for implementing this vital prevention education. August 2019- January 2020 had reached 12,074 students and August 2020- January 2021 we have reached 10,318 students with this education and already have another estimated 2,000 students scheduled. Regardless of the circumstances this program faces, it continues to persevere because it must... until every child knows they have the right to live free from abuse.