October 29, 2014
Halloween is just around the corner! Check out these simple safety tricks to ensure your family’s holiday is a real treat… Adults should plan out a route in advance and check it during the daylight for obstacles like b… Read More »
News & Blog
What we’ve been up to lately…
September 12, 2014
Check out our September 2014 newsletter for updates on our Safer, Smarter Kids abuse prevention curriculum, a call for volunteers and information on our KIND grant to support the 2015 Walk in My Shoes! … Read More »
Category: Blog, News & Blog
Huffington Post: Beyond Beliefs: The International Fight to Protect Childhood
July 7, 2014
To protect our children, we need to have uncomfortable conversations. "The Bible says a girl is a woman once she can bear children. If it bleeds it breeds...if it's age 11, then so be it." "Age 12...because 12 is noon a… Read More »
Category: Blog, News & Blog
Spreading Awareness Across the Country…and the World
June 1, 2014
Lauren Book delivers keynote address at Dutch National Rapporteur Symposium on Sexual Violence Against Children in The Hague, Netherlands - Learn more! This May has been a big month for Lauren's Kids...and we… Read More »
Category: Blog, News & Blog
Huffington Post: Progress Isn’t Always Pretty
May 21, 2014
Greetings from 30,000 feet. I am writing to you from an airplane (half-asleep, but what else is new?) en route to Birmingham for a meeting with a publisher and with any luck, a Lauren's Kids children's picture book will be co… Read More »
Category: Blog, News & Blog
Lauren’s Kids brings SSK to P.S. 55 in the Bronx
May 15, 2014
This week, Lauren will be teaching lessons from our sexual abuse prevention and personal safety curriculum, Safer, Smarter Kids, to Pre-K and Kindergarten students at P.S. 55 in the Bronx this week thanks to a grant from the … Read More »
Category: Blog, News & Blog
Autism Speaks at the Met
May 13, 2014
#489883085 / gettyimages.com Lauren's Kids was proud to support our friends from Autism Speaks last night at the Met!Did you know that 90% of individuals with developmental delays or disabilities will be sexually abuse… Read More »
Category: Blog, News & Blog
#WhyIWalk: Sexual Abuse Survivors Walk 1,500 Miles Across Florida for Hope, Healing, Recovery
April 15, 2014
2014 marks the fifth anniversary of child sexual abuse survivor Lauren Book’s 1,500-mile Walk in My Shoes walk across the state of Florida. Over the past five years, tens of thousands of Floridians, including thousands of… Read More »
Category: Blog, News & Blog
Sawubona: We See You
April 14, 2014
True surviving doesn't really begin until the abuse is over, when you're left to pick up the pieces. To heal. To look at what has happened and to decide for yourself: What's next? I have spoken to this for years as a surv… Read More »
Category: Blog, News & Blog
Walk in My Shoes Day 14: Melbourne
March 30, 2014
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