Childsafe

Counseling services-children, adolescents, and their non-offending family members recovering from the effects of childhood abuse are traumatized long after the abuse has ended. Their victims know more than 97% of the alleged perpetrators involved in child abuse investigation, and often the abuser is someone the child or family members care about or trust. As a result, child abuse victims struggle to establish trust, respect, confidence and a sense of security and control in their lives, and families are often torn apart. Childsafe provides a continuum of care to child victims of abuse and neglect and their supportive family members through counseling services. This crisis and long-term therapy is available to the child victims, their siblings, and all supportive family members to help with healing. Counseling may also include play therapy or adventure therapy and is provided by counselors trained in trauma treatment. The children we work with come to us with low self-esteem, feeling isolated and different from other children. Counseling services allow us to provide the needed treatment and support to ensure the healing process can occur.

Education and outreach-because prevention and education are crucial to stopping the cycle of abuse, we work with professionals, caregivers and the community at large to empower change. Childsafe provides training to law enforcement and child protective services professionals, school districts, education and health care professionals, parents and caregivers on recognizing and reporting child abuse.