Visibility Strategies

If systemic responses are primarily reactions to child sexual abuse, and the majority of people dealing with the issue do not engage with systems, our immediate question is: how do we bring actual prevention techniques and the majority of directly impacted people into focus?

What ways are people finding to interrupt and prevent harm? How do we reach, learn from, and support those folks and amplify what they are doing? How can we do so while reducing the harmful effects of oppressive systems narratives?

Understanding how children and communities not using systems define safety, what they need, and how they experience and process harm requires us to:

Build an analysis of the issue and its root causes
Proliferate transformative practices in communities
Create the infrastructures needed for communities to nurture these practices

Outcomes

Development and presentation of the Activist-in-Residence program as a new resourcing pathway

Movement report on those working at the intersections of abolition, transformative justice, and child sexual abuse

A harm reduction practices guide arising from an idea of safety defined by and for children

Analysis and strategy regarding the abolition of “family policing” practices and child protection agencies

A small but growing ecosystem of organizers, donors, movement leaders, community members, and children