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A place to be heard ~ how mentoring helps kids

Posted by: / Mar 4, 2014 / Tags: , ,

This is a guest post by Ellen Craine, Executive Director of the Rose Circle Mentoring Network. The Rose Circle Mentoring Network is excited to offer a weekly mentor circle to 4th, 5th and 6th grade girls at the Children’s Advocacy Center.  The Rose Circle has been providing circle mentoring to Rogue Valley youth since 2006. 

How Big is Your Brave?

Posted by: / Feb 11, 2014 / Tags: ,

“I wonder what would happen if you say what you want to say and let the words fall out honestly. I wanna see you be brave.”  Sara Bareilles This is from my new favorite song, by my one of my very favorite musical artists. “Brave” is a song about speaking up against those who push

The deafening silence surrounding abused children

Posted by: / Jan 23, 2014 / Tags: ,

By Tammi Pitzen I am the newly hired Executive Director at the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County.  I have spent the last twenty three years working to protect children from abuse.  One can imagine the stories that I have heard in what I refer to as “the small little room”.  The small little room

Why it Matters

Posted by: / Dec 21, 2013 / Tags: , , , , , ,

This is a post by Randy Ellison, author of the book — Boys Don’t Tell: Ending the Silence of Abuse. Randy is also Board President of  Oregon Abuse Advocates & Survivors in Service (OAASIS) Why does what happened to me matter? Why does telling my story matter? Why does your story matter? What difference does

You Matter!

Posted by: / Nov 16, 2013 / Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

This is a guest post by Children’s Advocacy Center Board Member, Mark Huddleston. You matter!  In fact, if it weren’t for you, and people like you, our Children’s Advocacy Center would not exist today.  Some people think that our CAC gets the majority of its funding from grants, foundations and government assistance.  The reality is

On the Cusp of Change

Posted by: / Oct 31, 2013 / Tags: , , , ,

This is a guest post by Jennifer Wolfe, a writer, middle school teacher and mother of two teens. Here she reflects upon the challenges of growth and metamorphosis for both children and their parents. “Her life now hovered on the cusp of change…at this precise intersection in time, contemplating both distant memories and the uncertainty of the future,

My dream for all girls

Posted by: / Sep 23, 2013

This is a guest post by Ginger Gough, a teacher and writer living in Medford, Oregon. It wasn’t so much the climb up the ancient oak, as the upright walk across its thick parallel branch that gave me the jitters. I wasn’t, however, about to show it. The boys on the ground looked puny, and

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