Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Five Things You Need to Know Today: School Committee Meeting; Darkness to Light Training at the YMCA; Bingo at the Senior Center; and more...
"Five Things you Need to Know Today" is a Patch column that provides readers with essential, daily information at a glance. 1. School Committee Meeting The Stoughton School Committee meets in the TV studio at Stoughton High at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 13. An agenda is posted in the media gallery. 2. Darkness to Light Training at the YMCA The Old Colony YMCA’s Stoughton Branch (445 Central St.) is offering the award-winning Darkness To Light child abuse prevention training to the community on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012 from 6 to 9 p.m. This training is FREE and open to all adults. Contact Joe Leaver to RSVP at 781-341-2016 x283 or jleaver@oldcolonyymca.org. Questions? Call or email Susan Komisar Hausman, Darkness To Light Program Consultant - …
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Various town employees, including the entire Stoughton Fire Department, have recently had the chance to attend Darkness to Light training sessions, which is dedicated to teaching adults simple, pro-active steps to help protect children from sexual abuse.
In partnership with the Old Colony YMCA, dozens of Stoughton town employees and community members have been receiving training in the Darkness to Light Childhood Sexual Abuse Prevention Program. Darkness to Light is a non-profit organization dedicated to teaching adults simple, pro-active steps to help protect children from sexual abuse, according to a March 28 Stoughton Patch article. "Child sexual abuse is not a Y problem, or a school problem, or a church problem or a Penn State problem: it is a community problem, something which will only be mitigated by the education of adults making informed choices for children," said Susan Komisar Hausman, a Darkness to Light facilitator since 2006. The two and a half hour training session consists …
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Stoughton Schools staff recently had the chance to attend a Darkness to Light workshop, which is dedicated to teaching adults simple, pro-active steps to help protect children from sexual abuse.
Stoughton Public Schools administrators, nurses and coaches recently partnered with the YMCA-sponsored Darkness to Light Childhood Sexual Abuse Prevention Program. Darkness to Light, a non-profit organization dedicated to teaching adults simple, pro-active steps to help protect children from sexual abuse, is not widely known in the Northeast. The Old Colony Y and Certified Instructor Susan Komisar Hausman are ensuring that will change. As Hausman says, “We are aiming high, looking to train 5% of the adult population in those 31 communities [part of the Old Colony YMCA] in child sexual abuse prevention. That means about 10,000 adults.” It has been said that sexual abuse is a community problem and Hausman, with the support of the Y and …
