Bermuda Health-Abets
This is a podcast where we discuss everything from A to Z on healthy living. With a mission of empowering, informing and motivating Bermuda residents to live well. Our guests will be experts, community partners and residents with lived experience who focus on, work with or live with all aspects of health, including social determinants of health.
Bermuda Health-Abets
Darkness to Light" with SCARS: Child Sexual Abuse Awareness and Prevention
Dear Listeners,
April is Child Sexual Abuse Awareness & Prevention Month. Last week on Bermuda Health-Abets we talked about how the children are our future and this continues to resonate through this weeks episode. The protection of our children is imperative. It is the responsibility of our community as those responsible for their safety to aim to prevent child sexual abuse and speak up for them. Bermuda, let's learn more about how we can prevent child sexual abuse and advocate for the protection of our children.
This episode of Bermuda Health-Abets, a podcast where we discuss everything from A to Z on healthy living, is focused on "Darkness to Light" with SCARS: Child Sexual Abuse Awareness and Prevention. #empoweringinformingandmotivating Bermuda residents to live well.
Our guests this episode is Debi Ray-Rivers, Founder & Executive Director of SCARS Bermuda. During this episode, Debi talks about the importance of having conversations, the importance of training to recognize abuse, prevent it, and react to it responsibly. Debi shares her experiences in her family with child sexual abuse, our responsibility to protect children, the courses available through SCARS and the importance of awareness. Debi also talks about the impact on children and the scars created as a result of child sexual abuse. Listeners, the children are our future and it is our responsibility to ensure their safety. #nomoresilence #lettheirvoicesbeheard #protectthechildren #stopchildsexualabuse
For emergency situations that require immediate and urgent assistance call 911 or police at 211 or 295-0011. Other resources in the community include SCARS Bermuda, Child and Family Services (441) 278-9111, and Coalition for the Protection of Children. If you see or hear something, report it, don't stay silent, don't keep secrets, speak up!
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