Punch a hole in the darkness!!

Become a Lamplighter

Start a Chapter in your area.

For information please email Marjorie at margie@thelamplighters.org

Provide a “home away from home” for other survivors, a safe place where they can tell their story.

Support for adult survivors of child sexual abuse, incest, domestic violence, rape and sexual assault

We welcome advocates

Let us show you how to heal sexual abuse, how to find the way for both children and adults to recover.

We proudly announce a new addition, My Poetry Corner. At the age of thirteen, after my abuse began, like so many of us, I started writing poetry to hide my pain. As I moved forward across the Bridge of Recovery I re-read my poems and was startled to find that they were a reflection of what my inner voice, my subconscious mind, always knew to be the truth. Please read them as you’ll find bits and pieces of yourself that will help your healing. I thank all my readers for allowing me to share this private and personal “attic in my mind.”

Rescue the frightened child inside of you.

REPAIR Your Life

Words to ponder…..words to bring you peace.

“If you can raise your consciousness about the limitations of the physical plane in connection with the matter that troubles you, then the conditions on that plane will change, and in some utterly unforeseen and normally impossible manner, the tragedy will melt away, and to the advantage of all parties to the case.”

Emmet Fox, The Sermon on the Mount

Stop the Silence at www.stopcsa.org is helping to establish and promote Lamplighter survivor groups in collaboration with The Lamplighter Movement.

REPAIR For Teens will be out soon! Keep your eye on our Home Page for the announcement.

A CHILD’S BILL OF RIGHTS

1. A child has the right to decide who can and cannot touch any part of their body.

2. A child has the right, in fact the duty, to report to a safe person any time someone attempts to touch their body inappropriately.

3. A child has the right to set boundaries regarding any part of their own body.

4. A child has the right to dial 911 on the phone if they think they are in any danger from someone wanting to touch their body inappropriately and ask for help NOW.

5. A child has the right to be believed if they are honestly reporting any danger from someone touching or attempting to touch their body inappropriately.

6. A child has the right to run away or scream for help if someone approaches them in a manner that seems scary or “yucky”.

Please read these RIGHTS to your child frequently. They belong to them. Help them to understand what each one means.

Tell your child frequently:

“Your body belongs to you; you can decide who touches it.”

Copyright (c) 2011 by Marjorie McKinnon. All Rights Reserved.

Children of an untreated victim of childhood sexual abuse stand a five times greater chance of being abused themselves.