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Upcoming 2023 Protect Our Children Prevention Trainings

Posted by: cacjc / Apr 10, 2020

Stewards of Children Stewards of Children is an evidence-informed, award-winning two-hour training that teaches adults to prevent, recognize, and react responsibly to child sexual abuse. Through interviews with child sexual abuse survivors, experts, and treatment providers, Stewards of Children® teaches adults practical actions they can take to reduce instances of child sexual abuse in

Which do you choose? Action or Silence

Posted by: cacjc / Mar 13, 2019 / Tags: PROTECT OUR CHILDREN Child Abuse Prevention Training, R Kelly

By Tammi Pitzen, Executive Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County Have any of you been following the R Kelly sexual abuse scandal? I have to say that even though I have heard a lot of things in my career some of this is just down right unbelievable. But I somehow believe

Today. Right Now. I Am Hopeful.

Posted by: cacjc / Oct 22, 2018 / Tags: consent, hope, sexual assault, Women's Suffrage Movement

By Tammi Pitzen, Executive Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County As I sat down to write this blog, I sort of hit a mental block about what I wanted to talk about. Not something that happens to me frequently. Ask my husband and he will tell you I am a woman of

The 872 abused children in Jackson County are “Our People”

Posted by: cacjc / Apr 22, 2018 / Tags: 2016 Child Welfare Data Book, April Child Abuse Prevention Month, Jackson County Oregon Child Abuse Statistics, Sexual Assault Awareness Month

By Tammi Pitzen, Executive Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County I am sitting in my office this morning blasting music before everyone gets here. This is not unusual. I tend to get here before staff and before things get too hectic to plan out my day and to get as much

Finding a Voice: Vince Gill

Posted by: cacjc / Feb 19, 2018 / Tags: Finding our voice, Hollywood, Leah Howell, Nashville, PROTECT OUR CHILDREN Child Abuse Prevention Training, Ryman Auditorium, Variety Magazine, Vince Gill

By Leah Howell, Training Coordinator for the Protect Our Children Project of the Children’s Advocacy Center I’m not much of a country music fan, though I lived 30 minutes from Nashville throughout my college years, and for sometime afterward. Even now, 20 years later, I will read about a country musician, that will bring

USA Women Gymnasts Show Our Daughters That You Can Tell

Posted by: cacjc / Feb 2, 2018 / Tags: 2018 Winter Olympics, Curling, Larry Nassar, USA Gymnastics Program, women athletes

By Tammi Pitzen, Executive Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County This is an Olympic year. I mean that quite literally. This year athletes will compete in the Winter Olympics. The very best of the best in just about every sporting event you can think of. Recently my son and I were learning

What Will Be YOUR One Thing?

Posted by: cacjc / Nov 19, 2017 / Tags: ACEs, Adverse Childhood Experiences Study, Corey Haim, Cory Feldman, Michael Jackson, Taylor Swift

By Tammi Pitzen, Executive Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County Have you picked up a paper lately and there not be a story about someone coming out and stepping forward to tell about their abuse history? Almost daily there is a breaking news story about a child actor or actress being sexually

Taylor Swift changed the conversation (and maybe the world)

Posted by: cacjc / Sep 19, 2017 / Tags: d, David Mueller, Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift Lawsuit

By Tammi Pitzen, Executive Director of The Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County Last month Taylor Swift was awarded one dollar in a law suit against D.J. David Mueller. If you do not know the story, here is the short version. A few years ago, Taylor Swift was in Denver at a Meet ‘N Greet

“Jayden” benefits from the Caring for Kids Campaign

Posted by: cacjc / Jun 22, 2017 / Tags: CAC Medical Department, Caring for Kids Campaign, Child-Focused Center, Community, Rogue Valley Oregon

By Theresa Hart, Development Director for the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County In March, we created three stories of children who have received services in our Medical Department for our Caring for Kids Campaign. These stories were based on real life experiences of children who had received services in our Medical Department. The details

What the Bill Cosby Mistrial Means for Us

Posted by: cacjc / Jun 21, 2017 / Tags: Andrea Constand, Bill Cosby, Cosby Mistrial, Drugs, Judge Steven O'Neil, Katie Wilson

Recently we all watched as the Bill Cosby trial came to an end in a mistrial. It seems so hard to understand how this could happen when he admitted to giving drugs to the victim so that he could have sex with her. For those of us immersed in this work, that admission is a

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