Keeping Children Safe from Sexual Assault — In Your Community Dear Parents & Youth Professionals, Welcome to Parenting Safe Children! I’m glad you’re here, and invite you to join me in keeping your children, and all children, safe from sexual abuse—a mission to which I have been dedicated for more than three decades. In support of my mission, I deliver evidence-based prevention workshops, offer private consultations, draft policies for youth organizations, and produce materials on how to make homes and communities “off limits” to child sexual abuse. Here’s what distinguishes my work from o ..read more

Dear Friend, Happy New Year to you and yours. I wish for healing, wellness, and safety in this New Year, 2023. I am holding out a special light to children and teens around the world who are living through the trauma of child sexual assault. Let us pause for a moment to send our love and commitment to these children. My mission with Parenting Safe Children is, and always will be, to keep children safe from sexual assault. I am steadfast in my conviction that we, together, can eradicate the horror of child sexual assault. Will you join me and take this 2023 pledge? First, I understand tha ..read more

Jill, Mom “A few years back I learned a family member was arrested for possession of child pornography. It terrified me. If I could miss this about someone in my inner circle, what else was I missing? I listened to an episode of the Psychologists Off the Clock podcast titled Keeping Kids Safe from Sexual Abuse featuring Feather Berkower, LCSW with Parenting Safe Children. I learned that one in three girls and one in six boys will be sexually abused by the time they reach eighteen. I learned predators groom parents to gain their trust before turning their attention to the child. When they groo ..read more

“I attended the Parenting Safe Children workshop and it was the most worthwhile and significant course I have taken as a parent. I always assumed my kids (11, 9 & 6) were generally safe and protected because I thought of myself as a good parent. However, I quickly realized that I had much to learn and that my assumptions had to be challenged. For example, I learned why something as simple as making your children hug their grandparents makes them much more vulnerable to sexual offenders in the future. So now we discuss consent with our children and adult family members  ..read more