Spring/Summer Tour on FACSA Foundation.org
The FACSA Foundation (Family and Friends Fighting Against Child Sexual Assault) was founded May 2009, by Connie Lee to combat the issue of child sexual assault in communities across Louisiana. We currently provide pro-bono attorneys and counselors for children of child sexual assault and their families. We give them guidance, resources; go to cour
t with them, and whatever they and their family need to heal. We promote healing and hope through our free community education and prevention conferences, and speaking engagements at churches, schools, clubs, and businesses, for we feel everyone is affected by trauma, not just from child sexual assault and human trafficking. We have taken our mission on the road to teach community leaders, grandparents, and families, how to be the front line defense for their children; which signs to look for, solutions, and safe exit plans. We teach them to thrive and not just survive from trauma; how to live and not merely exist. Summary
Creating A Paradigm Shift: The Shattering The Silence Tour and Documentary Project is on a nationwide tour filming a documentary on survivors of child sexual assault, the latest healing therapies, and counseling techniques, enabling others to heal from any trauma; as well as hosting free prevention and education conferences, with local organizations from the cities we stop in on the tour, on prevention/education of child sexual assault and human trafficking. The challenge we seem to face in America and across the globe is too many of our children are being sexually assaulted in their homes, where they are supposed to feel safe, and too many people are turning away in indifference. Child sexual assault has1 in 3 girls and one in six boys are sexually assaulted before their 18th birthday. Five children die a day due to abuse. Human trafficking, which is becoming more predominate in the U.S., is a 32 billion dollar industry, surpassing the drug industry
How will this project solve this problem? The FACSA Foundation (Family and Friends Fighting Against Child Sexual Assault) began a nationwide "Shattering The Silence Tour," to educate communities on prevention of child sexual assault and human trafficking, to Shatter The Silence, which perpetrators use to control their victims. We are filming a documentary on survivor’s stories, and the latest healing therapies, and counseling techniques for the healing of any type of trauma. We want people to get involved! Potential Long Term Impact
The long term impact will give children hope to see so many, united, fighting for them; to provide safer environments for children to fulfill their dreams; to change the public policies, and to Shatter The Silence of a multi-generational epidemic. With prevention and education on this nationwide tour, and promoting local organizations who have joined us, we can reduce the 24.3 billion dollars of direct cost to states due to child sexual assault. People will learn to thrive, and not just survive! Project Message
The Project Message is to promote and teach, Hope and Healing; that everyone has trauma and pain, which affects every aspect of our lives. We can learn to thrive, rather than just survive the traumatic moments of our lives; and we can learn to live rather than merely exist. "Child Sexual Assault does not discriminate, for pain knows no color, religion, gender, age, race, or social economic status."
- Connie Lee, Founder/President of the FACSA Foundation
Connie Lee/FACSA Foundation/Founder/President
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