Sexual Abuse:
Good-Touch/Bad-Touch® www.goodtouchbadtouch.com
excellent website about sexual abuse, signs & symptoms, how to report abuse, and more information regarding their curriculum - Good-Touch/Bad-Touch.
Your Body Belongs to You (available at Amazon.com)
children's book by Cornelia Maude Spelman (author) and Teri Weidner (Illustrator)
Administration for Children & Families www.acf.hhs.gov
How to report sexual abuse. If you suspect that a child is being abused or neglected, you should call your local Child Protective Services ( CPS ) agency or the CPS agency in the State in which the abuse occurred. Lists numbers to call in each state. U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services.
Bursting the Bubble www.burstingthebubble.com
Has someone touched your private parts or made you touch theirs? It can also include rape, or other things that make you feel uncomfortable (e.g. making sexual comments, making you watch them masturbate, rubbing their body against you in a sexual way, trying to tongue kiss you, or making you look at sexual pictures or videos). This site covers all of these issues.
Broken Yoke www.brokenyoke.org
This ministry reaches out to those who have experienced the great pain of being sexually abused as well as to the offender.
Christians for Biblical Equality www.cbeinternational.org
A non-profit organization comprised of individual and church members from more than 80 denominations who believe that the Bible, properly interpreted, teaches the fundamental equality of men and women of all ethnicities and all economic classes, based on the teachings of scripture as reflected in Galatians 3:28: There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Living Hope Ministries www.livehope.org
This web site exists out of a love and concern for those who have suffered or are presently suffering the many faces of abuse. It exists to offer hope. It exists to help lead damaged souls and crushed spirits to the Truth.
AACC American Association of Christian Counselors www.aacc.net
AACC is committed to assisting Christian counselors and the entire ‘community of care,’ licensed professionals, pastors, and caring church members with little or no formal training. It is our intention to equip clinical, pastoral, and lay care-givers with Biblical truth and psycho-social insights that ministers to hurting persons and helps them move to personal wholeness, interpersonal competence, mental stability, and spiritual maturity.
Book: The Wounded Heart by Dan B. Allender (available at Amazon.com)
"The Wounded Heart" is a classic text on the understanding and treatment of the sexual abuse victim. Dan Allender writes from a foundation of biblical insight, psychological research, and counseling experience.
Book: Counseling Survivors of Sexual Abuse by Diane Langberg (available at Amazon.com)
This powerful book deals with the issue of how Christians, especially those called to counsel, can help survivors of sexual abuse find healing and hope. From 20 years of experience, the author demonstrates how counselors can walk alongside people deeply wounded by sexual abuse as they face the truth about who they are, who their abuser was, and who God is as the Savior and Redeemer of all life. Counseling Survivors of Sexual Abuse issues a strong call to the church at large to walk with survivors through the long dark nights of their healing.
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