Shielding Our Innocents: A Prevention Plan on Child Sexual Abuse

by Helene Andorre Hinson Staley

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0965749606
• ISBN13: 9780965749602
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Metallo House Publishers
• Length: 196 Pages

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Informative, approachable, sensitive, needed, a must read.

"Shielding Our Innocents" tells us -- people with and without children, how to stop sexual offenders and prevent child sexual assault. If you care about the fates of children in our society today and in the future, you should read this book even if you are single and without children. This book speaks to responsible adults -- parents, teachers, physicians, nurses, social workers, ministers, priests, attorneys, bus and taxi cab drivers, single parents, singles without children, grandparents. "Shielding Our Innocents, A Prevention Plan On Child Sexual Abuse" by Hélène Hinson Staley contains true interviews with adult survivors of abuse and with convicted sex offenders. It also contains strategies and information to eliminate opportunities offenders use to hurt children. It includes very helpful sections on warning signs to look for in suspected cases of sexual abuse. It contains insightful and useful prevention checklists and offers ways responsible adults can empower children in self-protection. The book's foreword is written by Roland C. Summit, M.D., former Head Physician, Community Consultation Service and former Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. In his foreword he says: "...This book is about knowing. It reasserts the now quaint appeal to understand the importance of sexual abuse by listening to voices of experience. This is a book of anecdotes and reflections. It is thoughtful, thought-provoking and moving..." Roy Parker, Jr., a book reviewer with The Fayetteville Observer-Times, Fayetteville, N.C., says: "...a riveting book...The perspective is not one you might expect from a book that is full of much positive information and insight into the prevention of child abuse...So, it is interesting that much of this book's very good advice is aimed at professionals who deal with child-abuse cases, especially court and law-enforcement personnel, as well as at parents and caregivers." Lisa Amaya-Jackson, M.D., M.P.H., Director, Child & Adolescent Trauma Evaluation, Treatment & Research Program, Duke University Medical Center, endorsed "Shielding Our Innocents" as being an important book for responsible adults to read and use to protect this world's most innocent of occupants. "One woman's impassioned plea on behalf of child victims of sexual assault to waken societal awareness, understanding and action. Hélène Staley targets parents, professionals and the media to conscientiously listen to accounts of victims and offenders, to push aside naiveté and denial, and use resources and strategies she has researched hoping to make a difference in preventing child sexual abuse." Faye M. Dasen, a reviewer with The Pilot in Southern Pines, N.C. emphasizes: "Educators and social service workers will benefit from this work." This book is approachable. It speaks to our hearts and minds. "Shielding Our Innocents" provides real solutions that will stop sexual abuse and abuses associate