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Silent promises to my friend, Wendy

Posted by: cacjc / Jan 23, 2019 / Tags: child abuse survivor, Healing from painful things, reporting child abuse, Tammi Pitzen, trauma

By Tammi Pitzen, Executive Director of The Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County I have been wanting to write this post for a long time. I asked the person who is at the heart of this story – twice — if it was okay. I have sat down hundreds of times trying to get started

A Bright Future

Posted by: cacjc / Jan 8, 2019 / Tags: ACEs, Dr. Amy Stoeber, Protect Our Children Project, Resilience, trauma

By Claudia Cervantes, Protect Our Children Project Bilingual Training Coordinator Recently I attended the Regional Meeting of Coordinators of the Protect Our Children Project that took place in Eugene. It was a full day of inspiration and learning, and I can certainly say that after the first conference, I was not the same person. Now

My secret.

Posted by: cacjc / Jan 17, 2018 / Tags: childhood trauma, secondary trauma, trauma

By Tammi Pitzen, Executive Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County January is here again. Halfway over and then on to February. I don’t typically get very personal on this blog. However it seems timely to talk about secondary trauma and what that might look like in a child. I say timely because

Helping children after the San Bernardino school shooting

Posted by: cacjc / Apr 11, 2017 / Tags: Domestic Violence, San Bernardino School Shooting, School Shootings, trauma

By Tammi Pitzen, Executive Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County Today, as I sit behind my desk, I am seeing sunshine out my windows and feeling gratitude for the spring weather that is soon to be here. I have learned to live in these sweet, private moments because they come too seldom.

Judge blames rape victim for not “keeping her knees together”

Posted by: cacjc / Sep 15, 2016 / Tags: Canadian Law, consent, just kept her knees together, offender behaviors, rape trauma, re-victimization, Robin Camp, trauma, victim blaming

By Tammi Pitzen, Executive Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County That day is not today. Remember in my last blog that I yearned for a tomorrow where people understood trauma and what consent is? Well, after reading a story in the news and doing a little research on that story…that day is

A chance for healing for boys who are victims of sexual abuse

Posted by: The Children's Advocacy Center of Jackson County / May 11, 2015 / Tags: alone, Big Brother/Big Sister, Boys Don't Tell: Ending the Silence of Abuse, boysdonttell.com, broken souls, control, nightmares, not good enough, Oregon Attorney General’s Sexual Assault Task Force, peer support group, secrets, sexual abuse of boys, sexual assault activist, sexual assault advocate, Sexual Assault Awareness Month, shame, strength, stuttering, suicide, Survivors, Ted Presentation, trauma

By Randy Ellison, Speaker, writer and author of the book Boys Don’t Tell: Ending the Silence of Abuse As I hear the many inspiring stories of healing that are told during Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), I’m reminded of an amazing experience I had a few years ago. I was invited to give a presentation

Why it Matters

Posted by: The Children's Advocacy Center of Jackson County / Dec 21, 2013 / Tags: Boys Don't Tell: Ending the Silence of Abuse, Child abuse, OAASIS, Randy Ellison, Sexual abuse, Survivors, trauma

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

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