The Eighteenth Annual Northern California Child Sexual Abuse Awareness Conference
on April 28th, 2012 was a great success. About 35-40 people were in attendence. A link to one of the presentations is posted below:
ACEs Too High Presentation by Jane StevensClick the link above to view a google docs powerpoint presentation by Jane Stevens. Jane explained the CDC's ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Studies, and how different communities are implementing ACE concepts to help children. The ACE studies prove that child sexual abuse as well as other types of traumatic childhood events prevent healthy development and have become a public health emergency.
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Child Rescue Emergency:
We have an opportunity to ask all 50 Governors and President Obama to declare a State of Emergency for the purpose of rescuing hundreds of thousands of American children that are being sexually abused, tortured and raped. Thanks to new internet technologies, their locations are known, and even plotted on maps. If you saw the child next door being raped, you'd call 911, and help would be sent. But no first responders have been sent to rescue these children. If a State of Emergency is declared, funding the rescue of these children can be made the priority of each state's government. Why should floods or hurricanes be more important than rescuing children from sexual slavery?
Please go to the Not One More Child website ASAP. You can watch a two minute video with Elizabeth Smart and Alicia Kozakiewicz first, or you can go straight to the action by scrolling down on the scroll bar in the center of the Not One More Child page. For more information on this urgent campaign, you can also go to PROTECT.org website. Please take action now!
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Video of 2011 Conference to be Posted!
Dr. Colin Ross and Rhonda Begos both gave permission for us to post video footage of the Seventeenth Annual Northern California Child Sexual Abuse Awareness Conference which took place
on April 30th, 2011, in Davis, CaliforniaTrauma Model therapy for Child Sexual Abuse
a full day workshop featuring Dr. Colin Ross, of the Ross Institute in Texas, http://www.rossinst.com/,
and Rhonda Begos of Rhonda Begos Speaks, http://www.rhondabegos.com
Volunteers are working on this, and we will post the video and or audio sometime in the near future.
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Our Mission:
By bearing witness to the sexual abuse crimes committed against us and our children, and/or speaking out as adult survivors, the Incest Survivors Speakers Bureau of California is a catalyst for change by:
- Bringing into focus the face of the child who still suffers sexual abuse,
- Carrying the message that all of us in society are damaged by this crime,
- Advocating for reform: partnering with supportive government, non-profit,
and corporate entities to achieve the common goal of protecting children from abuse,
- Serving as an information resource for our community,
- Encouraging and supporting other survivors,
- Facilitating our own healing, thus sending the message that healing is possible.
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Our Roots:
In 1993, several women in Yolo County, California, attended a workshop held in San Francisco at the Breaking the Silence/Breaking the Cycle conference on sexual abuse recovery. Speaker-playwright Libbe Halevy spoke about the need for survivors to become active in their communities by forming speakers bureaus to inform the public about the profound effects of incest.
A grassroots effort created the ISSB, whose members today speak publicly to raise awareness about the devastating emotional, physical, behavioral, medical, and societal aftereffects of child sex abuse.
From 1993-1994 we simply called ourselves The ISSB. From 1995-May 2009 we called ourselves ISSB of Yolo county. We began to have members in many other counties in California, so, finally, in May 2009, we changed our name to ISSB of California.
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ISSB California Officers
Andrea Ransdell, Executive Director
and Founding Member
Heather Markert, Legislative Director
Kathy Dreyer, Research Adviser
and Founding Member
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Sandy Dubois, Founding Member
Abby Hamilton, Social Worker
and Founding Member
Marla Stuart, Founding Member
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