ENEMY ON THE INSIDE
Why This Project?
Many of you have seen our earlier work, The Children We Sacrifice, and participated in community discussions facilitated by Grace Poore. We would like you to get involved and make a difference in another way -- by helping us produce a different groundbreaking video and CD-ROM that will become part of a two-year community-education campaign:
Enemy On The Inside
| This extremely important project will present cross-racial and cross-cultural perspectives on what influences some people to turn to children for sexual gratification, to cross the threshold from love and affection to violation. |
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| The documentary will spotlight what can be done to help those who commit incestuous sexual abuse so they can stop. It will explore if incestuous sexual abuse occurs because of socialization more so than psychopathology and which programs for perpetrators are successful in preventing them from sexually abusing again. |
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| In conjunction with the documentary's release, a series of panels, workshops, and community-wide dialogues will feature experts, survivors, perpetrators and those working to help them. |
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Incest perpetrators are not the strangers we warn our children about. They are our own. Silence and shame keep them hidden. Denial ensures that they continue to abuse unchecked. To prevent incestuous sexual abuse we must hold perpetrators accountable for their actions. We need to confront them, not only as people who betrayed us, but as people who will remain in our circles of friends and families and abuse again unless they and we find a way to break their cycle of abuse.
NATIONAL COLLABORATING PARTNERS
Generation Five
-- Staci Haines, Executive Director and Sara Kershnar, National OrganizerThrough survivor leadership, community organizing, and public action, Generation Five works to interrupt and mend the intergenerational impact of child sexual abuse on individuals, families and communities. Enemy On The Inside is an essential tool with which to educate diverse communities. This project allows people to truly see and hear from incest perpetrators, and learn about the signs of offending and the process of 'grooming' children into silence about their experiences ... It explores various approaches to offender accountability, giving people real options for action. Because of her standing, Grace Poore's voice will be heard by many who are yet too unsettled to address the difficult fact of child sexual offenders.
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Stop It Now!
-- Maxine Stein, CEO and PresidentMy organization has been on the forefront of preventing child sexual abuse for over twelve years at the national level in the United States, in the United Kingdom and Ireland ... This work that we do demands a highly-nuanced understanding of the complexities of inter-familial sexual abuse of children ... Enemy On The Inside is an important effort to help individuals, families, community members and professionals to become educated and armed with skills to take balanced, thoughtful, effective steps towards preventing child sexual abuse within families.
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Men Can Stop Rape
-- Patrick J. Lemmon, Director and David Sloane Rider, Coordinator of National ProgramsIn working with men in understanding how men's violence affects men and women and in helping men understand what they can do to prevent violence against women, we are always looking for new and innovative ways to engage men ... In working with both survivors and perpetrators from various backgrounds and communities, Grace is willing to be present in the struggle between the damage and violence that a perpetrator commits and the humanity that the perpetrator contains. Enemy On The Inside will be an invaluable contribution to the field of men's violence prevention.
SHaKTI PRODUCTIONS needs your support with
Enemy On The Inside
This critical project will resonate across cultures and communities.
Join us in our efforts to deal with the perpetration of incestuous sexual abuse of our children. Your donation will help us launch the production phase of our video documentary. For your generosity, you can opt to receive a complimentary copy of the video and/or the educational guide on CD-ROM, have your name listed in the credits, and meet the producer when the documentary premiers in your city. Through our 501(c)(3) non-profit fiscal sponsor, your donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
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