Kids Are Our Business Breakfast
(KAOBB)
KAOBB is a celebration of HAVEN’s Safe Kids Strong Kids Program, which provides classroom-based instruction to K-12 students throughout Strafford and Rockingham counties. Seeing over twelve thousand students a year, the HAVEN Educators travel school by school, teaching children about Personal Body Safety, Healthy Relationships, Sexual Harassment, Consent, Teen Dating Violence, and more. Bringing together 150 guests, this special event highlights our Education team.
KAOBB unifies and rallies community members around HAVEN’s values and provides the opportunity to meet our Educators and learn more about their important work. Kids should be Everyone’s business, and there’s nothing more inspiring than recommitting ourselves to HAVEN’s mission to build safer and stronger youth and communities.
With 130 guests attending, we were able to share just how important our prevention education programming truly is. Our Education Team sees roughly 13,000 K-12 students each year, which only makes up half of the school-aged kids in our catchment area. With your continued support, we can expand our reach and make sure that all kids get the help and understanding they need.
As discussed in our program, only 1 in 10 children disclose their abuse, leaving the other 9 to suffer in silence. The sexual abuse of children in the United States amounts to a total lifetime economic burden estimated to be at least $9.3 billion each year. What are we doing to solve this? Our team teaches children personal body safety starting in Kindergarten with six simple rules:
1. My body belongs to me.
2. Touches in the private area are only to keep me clean and healthy.
3. Touches in the private area are never a secret.
4. If I’m hurt, confused, or scared, I can talk to a grown-up I trust.
5. It’s never too late to tell.
6. Keep on telling until you get the help you need.
These rules empower children to disclose their abuse when needed and to recognize abuse before it happens. We know that to truly combat this abuse, it begins with education, awareness, and a commitment to the work that we do, from children and adults alike.
If you feel compelled to support our prevention education work, please text "HAVEN" to 366283 to donate.
Thank you so much for your continued dedication to our mission and the work we do with children. Here is to safe kids, healthy teens, and changing lives!
For More Information
For more information: info@havennh.org
Development: development@havennh.org
Outreach: outreach@havennh.org
Education: education@havennh.org
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