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 Posted: Fri May 20, 2016 12:28 pm
Hey guys! The cause of the month thread is where we choose a theme for each month and work to bring awareness to resources regarding that cause. Sometimes being informed is the most important part! [b]Mᴏɴᴛʜ:[/b]
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[b]Wᴇʙ Rᴇsᴏᴜʀᴄᴇs:[/b]
[b]Wʜʏ Iᴛ Mᴀᴛᴛᴇʀs:[/b]
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Posted: Fri May 20, 2016 12:34 pm
Mᴏɴᴛʜ: May
Cᴀᴜsᴇ: Child Sexual Abuse
Wᴇʙ Rᴇsᴏᴜʀᴄᴇs: http://http://www.d2l.org/ and https://starbrightfoundation.org/
Wʜʏ Iᴛ Mᴀᴛᴛᴇʀs: Many adults either have been or know someone who has been abused as a child. Child sexual abuse happens to 1 in 3 girls and 1 in 6 boys. Raising awareness about this helps everyone. Draw awareness by being vigilant when a child raises a concern with you, or by donating time, money and web space to the cause. This is an epidemic that needs to end! Stand up for the children, even if they are now adults. As a PTSD survivor, I can say for a fact it is something that stays with you forever.
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Posted: Sat May 21, 2016 4:10 pm
Will you be choosing all of the causes or could any member suggest one? I just want to know.
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Posted: Sat May 21, 2016 4:45 pm
theVolatile Mᴏɴᴛʜ: May
Cᴀᴜsᴇ: Child Sexual Abuse
Wᴇʙ Rᴇsᴏᴜʀᴄᴇs: http://http://www.d2l.org/ and https://starbrightfoundation.org/
Wʜʏ Iᴛ Mᴀᴛᴛᴇʀs: Many adults either have been or know someone who has been abused as a child. Child sexual abuse happens to 1 in 3 girls and 1 in 6 boys. Raising awareness about this helps everyone. Draw awareness by being vigilant when a child raises a concern with you, or by donating time, money and web space to the cause. This is an epidemic that needs to end! Stand up for the children, even if they are now adults. As a PTSD survivor, I can say for a fact it is something that stays with you forever.
I am fully for this!
I want to become an advocate for foster children. I may not know exactly everything they go through, but I want to be their voice. Especially when they feel they do not have one. Hundreds of children die every year because neglect and abuse cases go undetected. And most of the deaths could be avoided if someone would just speak up!
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Posted: Sun May 22, 2016 9:32 am
theVolatile Mᴏɴᴛʜ: May
Cᴀᴜsᴇ: Child Sexual Abuse
Wᴇʙ Rᴇsᴏᴜʀᴄᴇs: http://http://www.d2l.org/ and https://starbrightfoundation.org/
Wʜʏ Iᴛ Mᴀᴛᴛᴇʀs: Many adults either have been or know someone who has been abused as a child. Child sexual abuse happens to 1 in 3 girls and 1 in 6 boys. Raising awareness about this helps everyone. Draw awareness by being vigilant when a child raises a concern with you, or by donating time, money and web space to the cause. This is an epidemic that needs to end! Stand up for the children, even if they are now adults. As a PTSD survivor, I can say for a fact it is something that stays with you forever. I completely agree on this. No matter how many times I tried to forget about that horrible memory, it sticks with you and this greatly affects in having relationships with men. emotion_8c
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Posted: Sun May 22, 2016 9:34 am
Kestrel Redfern theVolatile Mᴏɴᴛʜ: May
Cᴀᴜsᴇ: Child Sexual Abuse
Wᴇʙ Rᴇsᴏᴜʀᴄᴇs: http://http://www.d2l.org/ and https://starbrightfoundation.org/
Wʜʏ Iᴛ Mᴀᴛᴛᴇʀs: Many adults either have been or know someone who has been abused as a child. Child sexual abuse happens to 1 in 3 girls and 1 in 6 boys. Raising awareness about this helps everyone. Draw awareness by being vigilant when a child raises a concern with you, or by donating time, money and web space to the cause. This is an epidemic that needs to end! Stand up for the children, even if they are now adults. As a PTSD survivor, I can say for a fact it is something that stays with you forever. I completely agree on this. No matter how many times I tried to forget about that horrible memory, it sticks with you and this greatly affects in having relationships with men. emotion_8c Oh yeah -- definitely. It has caused more breakups than I can mention, and then triggers for me are men using force or raising their voices, so I can't even be around some dudes having an argument sometimes!
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Posted: Sun May 22, 2016 10:33 am
theVolatile Kestrel Redfern theVolatile Mᴏɴᴛʜ: May
Cᴀᴜsᴇ: Child Sexual Abuse
Wᴇʙ Rᴇsᴏᴜʀᴄᴇs: http://http://www.d2l.org/ and https://starbrightfoundation.org/
Wʜʏ Iᴛ Mᴀᴛᴛᴇʀs: Many adults either have been or know someone who has been abused as a child. Child sexual abuse happens to 1 in 3 girls and 1 in 6 boys. Raising awareness about this helps everyone. Draw awareness by being vigilant when a child raises a concern with you, or by donating time, money and web space to the cause. This is an epidemic that needs to end! Stand up for the children, even if they are now adults. As a PTSD survivor, I can say for a fact it is something that stays with you forever. I completely agree on this. No matter how many times I tried to forget about that horrible memory, it sticks with you and this greatly affects in having relationships with men. emotion_8c Oh yeah -- definitely. It has caused more breakups than I can mention, and then triggers for me are men using force or raising their voices, so I can't even be around some dudes having an argument sometimes! Yes!!! I tend to stay longer with men who agree with what I have to say instead of oppose to them because the more our ideas don't match, the more he would grew insistent and would make certain actions that could leave me petrified! Even nice guys have no escape on this: one time, a guy friend of mine listened to my sad rant about my relationship with my best friend. After I escorted him to his ride, we said our goodbyes and he unknowingly hugged me tight while rubbing my back. I stood frozen and not giving a reply back. I told him, why did he do that? and he answered awkwardly like he thought I needed it and I just stared at him like he is a nut job or something. gonk
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Posted: Sun May 22, 2016 10:48 am
Kestrel Redfern theVolatile Kestrel Redfern theVolatile Mᴏɴᴛʜ: May
Cᴀᴜsᴇ: Child Sexual Abuse
Wᴇʙ Rᴇsᴏᴜʀᴄᴇs: http://http://www.d2l.org/ and https://starbrightfoundation.org/
Wʜʏ Iᴛ Mᴀᴛᴛᴇʀs: Many adults either have been or know someone who has been abused as a child. Child sexual abuse happens to 1 in 3 girls and 1 in 6 boys. Raising awareness about this helps everyone. Draw awareness by being vigilant when a child raises a concern with you, or by donating time, money and web space to the cause. This is an epidemic that needs to end! Stand up for the children, even if they are now adults. As a PTSD survivor, I can say for a fact it is something that stays with you forever. I completely agree on this. No matter how many times I tried to forget about that horrible memory, it sticks with you and this greatly affects in having relationships with men. emotion_8c Oh yeah -- definitely. It has caused more breakups than I can mention, and then triggers for me are men using force or raising their voices, so I can't even be around some dudes having an argument sometimes! Yes!!! I tend to stay longer with men who agree with what I have to say instead of oppose to them because the more our ideas don't match, the more he would grew insistent and would make certain actions that could leave me petrified! Even nice guys have no escape on this: one time, a guy friend of mine listened to my sad rant about my relationship with my best friend. After I escorted him to his ride, we said our goodbyes and he unknowingly hugged me tight while rubbing my back. I stood frozen and not giving a reply back. I told him, why did he do that? and he answered awkwardly like he thought I needed it and I just stared at him like he is a nut job or something. gonk I once slapped the pie out of a man in a theater who took me on a date and I recommended the theater - well he thought the fact that I wanted to sit in the back meant something and started trying to take my clothes off and I decked him and said "what the ********" really loudly and made him drop me off in the middle of the city somewhere so I could get my own ride. >.>
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 6:08 am
theVolatile Kestrel Redfern theVolatile Kestrel Redfern theVolatile Mᴏɴᴛʜ: May
Cᴀᴜsᴇ: Child Sexual Abuse
Wᴇʙ Rᴇsᴏᴜʀᴄᴇs: http://http://www.d2l.org/ and https://starbrightfoundation.org/
Wʜʏ Iᴛ Mᴀᴛᴛᴇʀs: Many adults either have been or know someone who has been abused as a child. Child sexual abuse happens to 1 in 3 girls and 1 in 6 boys. Raising awareness about this helps everyone. Draw awareness by being vigilant when a child raises a concern with you, or by donating time, money and web space to the cause. This is an epidemic that needs to end! Stand up for the children, even if they are now adults. As a PTSD survivor, I can say for a fact it is something that stays with you forever. I completely agree on this. No matter how many times I tried to forget about that horrible memory, it sticks with you and this greatly affects in having relationships with men. emotion_8c Oh yeah -- definitely. It has caused more breakups than I can mention, and then triggers for me are men using force or raising their voices, so I can't even be around some dudes having an argument sometimes! Yes!!! I tend to stay longer with men who agree with what I have to say instead of oppose to them because the more our ideas don't match, the more he would grew insistent and would make certain actions that could leave me petrified! Even nice guys have no escape on this: one time, a guy friend of mine listened to my sad rant about my relationship with my best friend. After I escorted him to his ride, we said our goodbyes and he unknowingly hugged me tight while rubbing my back. I stood frozen and not giving a reply back. I told him, why did he do that? and he answered awkwardly like he thought I needed it and I just stared at him like he is a nut job or something. gonk I once slapped the pie out of a man in a theater who took me on a date and I recommended the theater - well he thought the fact that I wanted to sit in the back meant something and started trying to take my clothes off and I decked him and said "what the ********" really loudly and made him drop me off in the middle of the city somewhere so I could get my own ride. >.> Those are either literal ******** or people who got the wrong idea and can't keep it down their pants. I'm sorry for the language but he is a literal assh*le. If that were me, I at least would throw my shoe at his face or throw a big rock on his car window. xd
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Posted: Fri May 27, 2016 4:54 am
Child abuse is not only neglect or being emotionally/physically/mentally torn down by one's parental figures, it comes in many forms.
As someone who experience classic child abuse and other types of abuse as a child, I think it is an issue that needs constant awareness. Society has a way of shoving important social, economic, political and other types of issues that make them uncomfortable aside until someone dies from it.
It should never take the death of an innocent life for an issue to be brought to the attention of the world, nor for people to advocate it.
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Posted: Fri May 27, 2016 10:38 am
Mᴏɴᴛʜ:January
Cᴀᴜsᴇ:Cervical Cancer Awareness Month
Wᴇʙ Rᴇsᴏᴜʀᴄᴇs:Click here for more information on cervical cancer from the American Cancer Society: http://bit.ly/1YSzJB8
Wʜʏ Iᴛ Mᴀᴛᴛᴇʀs: It’s estimated that approximately 12,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer each year. The increased use of screenings and tests over the last few decades has made cervical cancer relatively easy to prevent and treat. Make sure you’re visiting your health care provider regularly to reduce your risk.
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Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2016 6:03 pm
First person to fill out the form for june gets to share a cause important to them. ^^
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