The Ms. Foundation has recently produced a report "Beyond Surviving: Toward
A Movement to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse." This report is based on
interviews and enriched by the discussions from a roundtable meeting we
convened in Spring 2002 on this topic.

The report describes the obstacles to creating an effective prevention
movement as well as concepts for creating new practices. With so little
work that addresses community activism to prevent child sexual abuse, the
Ms. Foundation offers this report to provide a starting point for the work
ahead, a place to begin broader discussion around this issue, a place from
which we as a society can begin to take ownership of and responsibility for
ending child sexual abuse.

We hope that you will find it useful in your work. We would be happy to
send you a copy as well as additional copies if you would like to distribute
it to other colleagues interested in this issue. It can also be downloaded
from: http://www.ms.foundation.org/safety.pdf .

While we know that not all of you may directly address child sexual abuse in
your everyday work, we see you as partners in creating a new space from
which open dialogue about this hidden problem can emerge. Let's continue to
inspire our collective imagination and those of our family, friends,
neighbors, and colleagues in envisioning a world without child sexual abuse.
It can be done!

Patricia Eng
Program Officer
Ms. Foundation for Women
120 Wall Street, 33rd Floor
New York, New York 10005
phone: 212-742-2300 X 312
fax: 212-742-1653
email: peng@...
website: www.ms.foundation.org

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Rebecca K. Odor, MSW
Director, Sexual Violence Prevention
Center for Injury and Violence Prevention
Virginia Department of Health
1500 East Main Street, Suite 105
Richmond VA 23219
Phone: (804) 692-0406
Fax: (804) 786-0917
Email: rodor@...
web: www.vahealth.org/civp/sexualviolence