Beyond Silence: Jewish Community Professional Resources Download a PowerPoint Presentation entitled “Approaches for Engaging Youth Serving Organizations and Schools in Child Sexual Abuse Prevention” prepared by Safe and Sound for the Beyond Silence professional development day held on November 18, 2015. Beyond Silence Closing Keynote by David Waksberg, CEO of Jewish Learning Works, delivered during the Beyond Silence professional development day on November 18, 2015. Cali

Child Help Hotline provides a variety of reporting, counseling and referral services. Call (800) 4-A-CHILD or 800-422-4453 RAINN , the National Sexual Abuse & Incest Hotline at Tel:800-656-HOPE

Emergency Reporting of Child Abuse In an emergency, call 911 or go to your nearest emergency room. To report child abuse or suspicion of child abuse: Call the police 24/7 If you live outside city limits, call your county sheriff 24/7 Call your local Child Protective Services 24/7. To locate the local number call Tel:800-422-4453. Child Abuse Reporting Resources in the United States & Israel Child Help Hotline provides a variety of reporting, counseling and referral services

If you are a clergy person, educator, healthcare professional, counselor, therapist, law enforcement or person working in a variety of other service professions, you may be a mandated reporter of child abuse. The U.S. government Child Welfare website has information about laws, policies and other subjects related to the prevention and reporting of child abuse in all 50 states, on tribal lands and in the U.S. territories. Additional resources: How to Report Child Abuse or Neg

A resource for victims, perpetrators and the constellation of those involved when there has been sexual abuse by Caprice Haverty, Ph.D. and Anna Weisberg, Ph.D. At A Step Forward, Inc. (ASF) we address and treat all aspects of sexual abuse, from the victim to the perpetrator, and from the family to the wider community. Where appropriate, we provide therapy for those families who are separated due to the sexual assault and who wish to reunify. We also specialize in the treatme

Between 2013 and 2016, the Board of Rabbis of Northern California , Jewish Learning Works and the Educators Council , Shalom Bayit , Bay Area Jewish Healing Center and Bay Area Temple Administrators engaged the Beyond Silence Campaign to generate and sustain a community wide response to abuse and to raise consciousness about the prevention and reporting of child sexual abuse and related types of abuse. These are resources gathered during that campaign: Child abuse reporting

For adults and children Bass, Ellen, and Laura Davis. The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse , 20th Anniversary Edition. William Morrow Paperbacks: 2008. (Recommended by Rabbis Paula Marcus and Pam Frydman) Dorff, Rabbi Elliott. Family Violence by Elliot Dorff, Part I, “ The Legal Status of Abuse ” approved by the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly of Conservative Judaism. Page 775 et seq. Dratch, Rabbi Marc. “ T

Click here to view Our Moral Imperative to Response to Sexual Abuse by Rabbi Pamela Frydman and Kathy Baxter which appeared in the April 4, 2014 edition of J, the Jewish News Weekly of Northern California.