It’s Pack2School time! Though summer is just beginning, at Safe Shores – The DC Children’s Advocacy Center, we’re already working on making sure the children we serve have the learning tools they need for the 2025-26 school year. Together, with you and others in our community, we’ll make sure that at least 150 children whose lives have been ...
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April is Child Abuse Prevention Month
Child Abuse Prevention Month - 2025 For three decades, Safe Shores has been a beacon of hope, healing, and justice for children and families affected by abuse. While many things have changed – staff members, location, programs, and services offered – one thing has remained steadfast through the years: Safe Shores’ dedication to the children ...
Welcome to our new board members for 2025!
We’re pleased to announce the election of Safe Shores’ newest board members, who both bring incredible skills and knowledge and are ready to help advance Safe Shores' mission. Please join us in welcoming: 🎊 Sunny Patel🎊 Lindsay Nichols🎊 Nancy Withbroe Sunny, Lindsay and Nancy, we are delighted to have you on board (see what we did there?) ...
Help Make the Season Brighter for Child Victims – Holiday Giving 2024
As the holidays approach, we’re reminded of the simple joys of the season—moments of warmth, laughter, and love. But for the child victims Safe Shores serves, these moments can often feel out of reach. Together, we can change that. We invite you to join us in bringing joy, comfort, and light to children and families impacted by abuse and ...
Let’s get Pack2It! Pack2School Drive 2024
It’s Pack2School time! Though summer is just beginning, at Safe Shores – The DC Children’s Advocacy Center, we’re working on making sure the children we serve have the learning tools they need for the 2024-25 school year. Together, with you and others in our community, we’ll make sure that at least 150 children whose lives have been ...
Child Abuse Prevention Month 2024: Video Introduction
Child abuse — two words that should never go together. Yet, child abuse is so prevalent in the United States that April has been marked as Child Abuse Prevention Month since 1983. This is Michele Booth Cole, Executive Director of Safe Shores - The DC Children’s Advocacy Center, home to the DC Chapter of Prevent Child Abuse America. When we talk ...
Building Blocks of Childhood: Key Lessons for Grownups
Protecting and caring about children means knowing the facts – the building blocks – about childhood and child development. The more that adults know and understand children, their behaviors, and their essential needs, the better we can stand on business for children to help them thrive. Children don’t come with instruction manuals (wouldn’t ...
Resolve to Make the World Better for Children – A Letter from our Executive Director
Back in 2003 — 2003! — when I accepted the offer to serve as the Executive Director of Safe Shores – The DC Children’s Advocacy Center, I knew very little about the Child Advocacy Center model and had no idea all that was to come. What I did know was that it was easy for me to say "yes!" to the offer to lead a fledgling nonprofit dedicated to ...
Donate to Help Kids like Sidney this Year
Meet Sidney. Sidney is 12 and loves to read, hang out with her friends, and draw. She dreams of being an art teacher and exploring new places. One day at school, Sidney worked up the courage to tell a teacher about something scary that happened. Sidney disclosed that her uncle had sexually abused her. Her teacher, a mandated reporter, contacted ...
12 Ways to Support Safe Shores this Season and Beyond
There are so many ways to #ProtectKids365. During this season of giving, will you support Safe Shores and show up for child abuse victims? Here are 12 ways you can support our work, all year round! Start a fundraiser Have a birthday, anniversary, or other special event coming up, and want to turn that special occasion into a reason ...
