Stop it Now! - The Campaign to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse
Helpline: 1-888-PREVENT (1-888-773-8368)
Tel: (413) 587-3500  email: info@stopitnow.org

A national nonprofit organization, created a ground-breaking public health approach to prevent the perpetration of child sexual abuse. Since 1992, Stop It Now!'s public policy, public education, and research programs have protected our children by emphasizing adult and community responsibility. These programs reach out to adults who are concerned about inappropriate sexualized behavior in another adult, adolescent, or child, and to adults who are concerned about their own thoughts or behaviors.

Stop It Now! established the first helpline (1-888-PREVENT) available for individuals and families to call for support and access to resources in a confidential setting.

SATA (Sexual Abuse Treatment Alliance)
Wayne Bowers, Director
P.O. Box 1191, Okemos, MI 48805-1191
(517) 482-2085

Mission...
Dedicated to preventing sexual abuse through education, outreach, and community reconciliation of sexual abusers.

We are...
Professionals, therapists, victims, those who have offended, families of those affected, and other community representatives.

We Believe...
* (In agreement with the Center for Disease Control), that sexual abuse is a public health issue – not solely a criminal justice issue -- and that prevention is best served when public policy makers, the justice system, educators and therapists approach sexual abuse from this perspective.
* Through treatment, community support, and personal commitment, most persons who have sexually abused can become responsible members of society, and those at risk to sexually act out can successfully learn ways not to abuse.
* Open and fair public discussions with an emphasis on understanding the current significant scientific research can lead to greater understanding of how those who abuse can control their behavior.
* Resources for compassionate intervention can be provided for those victimized, those who have victimized others, or those at risk to be victimized or to sexually act out.
* Promoting restorative justice is a positive way to heal the harm done to the victim, bring healing for those who abuse, those at risk to abuse, and for their community.
* Care for the abuser includes support for and nurture of the abuser's family.

Goals...
We promote our beliefs through education about successful ways to control abuse and positive approaches to the issue of sexual abuse such as therapy and restorative justice. We also lend support through referrals, networking, sharing and promoting positive information for those at risk as victims or offenders, those victimized, those who have offended, therapists, the justice system, policy makers, and the public.

Stop the Silence: Stop Child Sexual Abuse

Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a silent epidemic throughout the United States and the world, creating social havoc - for the children, adult survivors, and society. It can be prevented and it can be treated, but a conscious and sustained effort is both missing and essential.

Stop the Silence is a non-profit organization working with individuals, companies, and community- and faith-based organizations in various states to raise awareness and funds to support programming, and provide technical assistance in the area of CSA prevention and treatment.

The Mission of Stop the Silence is two-fold: 1) to increase awareness about and conduct programming to address the prevention and treatment of CSA, and 2) to address the relationships between this issue and the broader issues of overall family and community violence, and, further, violence within and between communities. The Mission underlines the importance of a shift in focus on positive development within our overall social complexes (e.g., the relationships between men and women, adults and children, cultural groups) to support peaceful - and to hinder violence-prone - relationships. Our goal is to stop CSA and related forms of violence by changing the societal relationships within and between groups.

SEE: Race to Stop the Silence

3rd Annual National Race to Stop the Silence
About the Event
The 3rd Annual National Race to Stop the Silence: Stop CSA 8K Race, 5K Fun Run/Walk, Kids' Fun Run will be held at 8:00am Saturday, April 15, 2006. Safe Shores-The D.C. Children's Advocacy Center is the local beneficiary of funds raised through this event.

Florida Justice Alliance - Nancy Morais
727-545-9268 OR 727-424-7249 (No collect calls accepted)

We are dedicated to reducing recidivism by educating and assisting individuals by providing information and guidance from the incarceration period through the transition of one's re-entry into society.

Arizona Coalition for Effective Government
Phone: 602-234-9004 email: AzCEG@cox.net

Briefly stated, the mission of our group is to have a positive influence in the lives of men and women currently incarcerated in Arizona's prison system by providing them with the information they need to resolve their immediate issues in prison, and to help them successfully transition into society when they leave prison. We also try to help families and friends of prisoners and educate the public about Arizona incarceration issues.

The group is made-up of various committees: the Going Home Services Committee (preparing and sending out to prisoners a package of information on housing, work information, etc., helping them transition to the outside world), the Human Rights Committee (following up on human rights abuses claims, inside prisons), and others. AzCEG presents educational events, which aim to educate lawmakers, families of the imprisoned, and the wider public on issues related to imprisonment in Arizona.

Texas Save Our Sons -"Our kids don't realize what can happen. Don't let this happen to your son!" (email)

Petition for Amendment to Texas Penal Codes 21.11 and 22.011
Under current Texas law, what used to be called "Statutory Rape" is now "Sexual Assault of a Child" and is punishable by 2 to 20 years in prison and a lifetime as a Registered Sex Offender. Even when Deferred Adjudication is offered and accepted the lifetime registration requirement remains in effect after the probationary period has been successfully completed. This is, effectively, an automatic life sentence that can have devastating effects, not only on the life of the young man who must register, but on his friends and family as well.

Our goals are threefold. First, and foremost, it is our goal that any young man accused of a sex crime be allowed to offer a defense. The way the laws are written today, if the "child" is more than 36 months younger than the "perpetrator," there is no defense, conviction is automatic. The law does not care that there may be mitigating circumstances such as the alleged victim's past sexual history, her willingness to participate or, as in many cases, her misrepresentation of her age.

Secondly, it is our contention that lifetime registration as a sex offender for a consensual teenage encounter is punishment far beyond the scope of the offense. It is our goal to see lifetime registration eliminated in the case of consensual teenage sex.

Finally, we want these changes grandfathered to include all those young men who have been required to register as sex offenders because of consensual teenage encounters. We want the law to undo the injustice it has done.

Colorado-CURE - Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants
303.758.3390  email: curecolo@coloradocure.org

Colorado-CURE, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) Colorado corporation, works diligently to provide information and support to 17,000 prisoners in Colorado, as well as to their families and loved ones. That support extends to prisoners paroled, discharged or integrated through community corrections programs, as well as thousands in county jails throughout the state. Through a close association with the Colorado Department of Corrections, Adult Division of Parole and Community Corrections, as well as the Colorado legislature and Parole Board, Colorado-CURE provides input on all levels on behalf of prisoners. This includes working to reform sentencing laws, advocating for more and better job training and education for prisoners, improvement of reintegration of prisoners to society and working to eliminate racial profiling and employment discrimination of convicted felons. Colorado-CURE continues the effort to reduce crime through criminal justice reform.

Ethical Treatment for All Youth [ETAY] Geoff Birky

"Deemed abnormal and dangerous to society, these children are considered unworthy of accepted therapeutic and ethical principles.

Treating an illness using extreme, unestablished methods involving emotional pain, stigma, and humiliation......violating principles of informed consent......reports of self-hatred, violent behavior, and suicidal tendencies among children and adolescents after receiving treatment..."