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Article: A PUBLIC HEALTH APPROACH FOR PREVENTING CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE
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- Community Practitioner
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
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Stop it Now! Black Country is the fifth local project developed in the UK. In 2005, a baseline evaluation demonstrated the important role health has to play in this campaign to prevent child sexual abuse
'...Abuse breaks something sacred inside us ... the most important harm I have wrestled with is one that complicates how we solve the problem of sexual abuse. It is the problem of a broken heart. Adults can better bear a broken heart... but it doesn't work that way for children. When children are betrayed and they get no help for the wound, they develop a pinched outlook on love and on life'
Fran Henry, Stop it Now!
Stop it Now! UK & Ireland sees child sexual abuse as a public health ...