August 18, 2025

Are your kids safe as they head back to school?

Dear Parents, Grandparents and Caregivers,  

Summer vacations, family road trips, and swimming in the sun will shift all too soon into back-to-school shopping for school supplies, backpacks and sneakers. Learn what you can do to keep your kids safe from sexual abuse as they return to school.

You want to make sure that the children in your life are equipped to start the school year with all the tools they need to ensure both their academic success and their social and emotional growth. Keeping your children safe in today’s world requires more than the proverbial warning to “look both ways, when you cross the street…”. You may have heard about the growing number of schools confronted with cases of sexual misconduct and abuse of students by school employees, and how too many unsuspecting children and teens encounter sexual predators who invite their way into our homes through the internet. 

Keeping children safe from sexual abuse is overwhelming and confusing to busy parents and caregivers. What do you need to know? How can you get accurate information from a trusted source that will support you to be the first teacher of your child about body safety and appropriate boundaries between adults and children?

Enough Abuse, a leading resource for child sexual abuse prevention, is here to support you. Download our free Straight Talk About Child Sexual Abuse: Prevention Guide for Parentsnow. Learn what you need to know to talk confidently to your children about this critical safety risk before sending them off to school this fall.

Enough Abuse is working with hundreds of schools to train their staff and to support their adoption of key child sexual abuse prevention policies. Donate now to help Enough Abuse enable more schools and more caregivers to keep children safe.

In solidarity with caregivers for children, 

Jetta Bernier, Executive Director

ENOUGH ABUSE®, formerly Massachusetts Citizens for Children, dba MassKids, is the nation’s oldest citizen-based child advocacy organization, with a 6-decade history of improving the lives of vulnerable children. We prevent the sexual abuse of children in their homes, communities and online through prevention trainings, education and advocacy.

 

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