Help for Adult Victims of Child Abuse
On October - 23 - 2011
For some time now our ethos at HAVOCA has been ‘Every Survivor has the right to become a Thriver.‘ These very words cause some pretty powerful reactions. Visitors to the site appear to like the phrase, but are confused by it’s meaning. The sentence represents a place where they want to be, but they are at a loss as how to get there. Members of our site seem to suffer the same confusion. Although they can associate with the words ‘victim’ and ‘survivor’ they tend to lose perspective of what it would be like to ‘thrive’. Some members even refuse to believe it is possible to thrive, almost as if surviving is all that is possible. And why shouldn’t surviving be a good place to be?
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http://www.havoca.org/HAVOCA_home.htm
---------------------------------------------By the time you finish reading this, 15 children will have been abused; In the next five minutes, 30 more; Within the next hour, 360 more; And by tonight, close to 8,000+ children will have suffered from abuse, 5 of which will die. Child abuse has increased 134% since 1980 and is now considered a worldwide epidemic. The high jump in child abuse deaths and the shocking increase in statistics highlights the frightening lack of public knowledge.
Educate Yourself -- Learn the Facts
It May Just Save a Child's Life!!
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