HOPE FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION
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Mission Statement
HOPE FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION Living an abuse free life...is more than a hope or a dream... Helping children and families is the goal of Hope For Children Foundation. This organization works to provide guidance, support, suggestions, answers and education, helping to find the right path of action for protecting children and their families from abusers. The FBI reported 97% percent of abused children reported to the legal system are not protected by the legal system. Therefore, Hope For Children Foundation's goal is to reach as many people through training them in person and through the Web site: hopeforchildrenfoundation.org, click on Training, then choose from the selection of FREE videos provided. You will find a complete, well rounded training program valued by the IRS at more than $3 million dollars. Hope For Children Foundation has not charged attendees for the training, to ultimately provide a better shield of protection to the most vulnerable children and their families. Thank you for caring.
About This Cause
Dear Friends, Hope For Children Foundation's mission is to prevent cruelty to children, including reducing crimes of sexual assault and domestic violence. By working together, the prospect of precious children living abuse-free lives can be realized. We provide education to the general public and to professionals who are charged with protecting children and adults against crimes of sexual assault and domestic violence. We produce educational films and upload the completed DVD to the Hope For Children Foundation's website. This service is provided at no charge to the general public and professionals. Your generous donation will assist us with updating our Violence Against Women Act training and other related training. Go to our website, www.hopeforchildrenfoundation.org. Click on Training, then hover over the Icon of the Child's face until you find the Violence Against Women’s Act. Click on it and watch it. This Act originated in 1994. It is essential to understand that these federal laws are designed to protect children, women, and men. We have also been certified to train law enforcement officers, prosecutors, judges, and other professionals who are charged with protecting our most vulnerable...precious children. Trainees have received the education courses well in Texas and throughout the nation. The goals of the training include: • Train First Responders • Train the General Public • Protect Children, Women, and Men • Provide Various Service Referrals for Victims and Reported Abusers Our goals include providing resources to benefit those who have been victimized, including but not limited to continue developing state-of-the-art training explicitly targeting the healing process and overcoming/coping with symptoms of depression. Usually, prosecutors can expect a 100% conviction rate when the Hope For Children Foundation training is applied to cases of sexual assault and domestic violence. Why this project? Obstacles add to the national child abuse problem documented by the FBI, which reports that 97% of abused children referred to the legal system are not protected by it. We must join together and forge justice for children. Exposure to violence is a national crisis that affects approximately two out of every three of our children. Of the 76 million children currently residing in the United States, an estimated 46 million can expect to have their lives touched by violence, crime, abuse, and psychological trauma this year. This will shock you...in 1979, U.S. Surgeon General Julius B. Richmond declared violence a public health crisis of the highest priority, yet 37 years later, that crisis remains. Whether the violence occurs in children’s homes, neighborhoods, schools, playgrounds or playing fields, locker rooms, places of worship, shelters, streets, or juvenile detention centers, the exposure of children to violence is a uniquely traumatic experience that has the potential to profoundly derail the child’s security, health, happiness, and ability to grow and learn — with effects lasting well into adulthood. Exposure to violence in any form harms children, and different forms of violence have other negative impacts. Sexual abuse places children at high risk for severe and chronic health problems, including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, suicidality, eating disorders, sleep disorders, substance abuse, and deviant sexual behavior. Sexually abused children often become hypervigilant about the possibility of future sexual violations and experience feelings of betrayal by the adults who fail to care for and protect them. Physical abuse puts children at high risk for lifelong problems with medical illness, PTSD, suicidality, eating disorders, substance abuse, and deviant sexual behavior. Physically abused children are at heightened risk for cognitive and developmental impairments, which can lead to violent behavior as a form of self-protection and control. These children often feel powerless when faced with physical intimidation, threats, or conflict. They may compensate by becoming isolated (through truancy or hiding) or aggressive (by bullying or joining gangs for protection). Physically abused children are at risk for significant impairment in memory processing and problem-solving and for developing defensive behaviors that lead to consistent avoidance of intimacy. Intimate partner violence within families puts children at high risk for severe and potentially lifelong problems with physical health, mental health, and school and peer relationships, as well as disruptive behavior. Witnessing or living with domestic or intimate partner violence often burdens children with a sense of loss or profound guilt and shame because of their mistaken assumption that they should have intervened or prevented the violence or, tragically, that they caused the violence. They frequently criticize themselves for having failed in what they assume to be their duty to protect a parent or sibling(s) from being harmed, for not having taken the place of their injured or killed family member, or for having caused the offender to be violent. Children exposed to intimate partner violence often experience a sense of terror and dread that they will lose an essential caregiver through permanent injury or death. They also fear losing their relationship with the offending parent, who may be removed from the home, incarcerated, or even executed. Children will mistakenly blame themselves for having caused the batterer to be violent. If no one identifies these children and helps them heal and recover, they may bring this uncertainty, fear, grief, anger, shame, and sense of betrayal into all of their essential relationships for the rest of their lives. Community violence in neighborhoods can result in children witnessing assaults and even killings of family members, peers, trusted adults, innocent bystanders, and perpetrators of violence. Violence in the community can prevent children from feeling safe in their schools and neighborhoods. Violence and ensuing psychological trauma can lead children to adopt an attitude of hypervigilance, to become experts at detecting threats or perceived threats — never able to let down their guard to be ready for the next outbreak of violence. They may come to believe that violence is “normal,” that violence is “here to stay,” and that relationships are too fragile to trust because one never knows when violence will take the life of a friend or loved one. They may turn to gangs or criminal activities to prevent others from viewing them as weak and to counteract feelings of despair and powerlessness, perpetuating the cycle of violence and increasing their risk of incarceration. They are also at risk of becoming victims of intimate partner violence in adolescence and adulthood. The picture becomes even more complex when children are “polyvictims” (exposed to multiple types of violence). As many as 1 in 10 children in this country are polyvictims, according to the Department of Justice and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s groundbreaking National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence (NatSCEV). The toxic combination of exposure to intimate partner violence, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and exposure to community violence increases the risk and severity of posttraumatic injuries and mental health disorders by at least twofold and up to as much as tenfold. Polyvictimized children are at very high risk of losing the fundamental capacities necessary for normal development, successful learning, and productive adulthood. About 30% of the Abused Go On To Abuse Others - Reported National Child Abuse. $ The financial costs of children’s exposure to violence are astronomical. The economic burden on other public systems, including child welfare, social services, law enforcement, juvenile justice, and, in particular, education, is staggering when combined with the loss of productivity over children’s lifetimes. It is time to ensure that our nation’s past inadequate response to children’s exposure to violence does not negatively affect children’s lives any further. We must not allow violence to deny any children their right to physical and mental health services or the pathways necessary for maturation into successful students, productive workers, responsible family members, and parents and citizens. We can significantly reduce this epidemic by committing to a robust national response. The long-term adverse outcomes of exposure to violence can be prevented, and children exposed to violence can be helped to recover. Children exposed to violence can heal if we identify them early and give them specialized services, evidence-based treatment, and proper care and support. We have the power to end the damage to children from violence and abuse in our country; it does not need to be inevitable. We, as a country, have the creativity, knowledge, leadership, economic resources, and talent to intervene on behalf of children exposed to violence effectively. We can provide these children with the opportunity to recover and, with hard work, to claim their birthright … life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We invest in the future of our nation when we commit ourselves as citizens, service providers, and community members to helping our children recover from exposure to violence and ending all forms of violence in their lives. A CALL TO ACTION... The challenge of children’s exposure to violence and ensuing psychological trauma is not one that the government alone can solve. The problem requires a truly national response that draws on the strengths of all Americans. Our children’s futures are at stake. Every child we can help recover from the impact of violence is an investment in our nation’s future. This project calls for a collective investment nationwide in defending our nation's precious sons and daughters! Will you join us, please? Every day is the right time to love our children! Please start with us today! Thank you, Patricia L. Hope Kirby Executive Director - Co-Founder