Awareness to Action is an initiative focused on preventing child sexual abuse by helping adults and communities take action to protect children through:
Learn more about A2A
Wisconsin responds to the allegations of sexual abuse by a former Penn State football coach. Read the Letters to the Editor in the Wisconsin State Journal and Capital Times.
A2A believes that preventing the sexual abuse of children is the job of all adults. Our initiative utilizes Darkness to Lights Stewards of Children program to help adults learn how to keep the children in our lives safe.
Learn more about prevention
* One in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys are sexually abused before their 18th birthday.
* According to the Office of Justice Assistance, nearly 2/3 of sexual assault victims in Wisconsin are 15 years old and younger. Read more of the findings.
Awareness to Action is a program of Children's Service Society of Wisconsin with funding provided by Children's Hospital and Health System's Child Abuse Prevention Fund and the Wisconsin Children's Trust Fund.
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