By focusing on educating and sensitizing the community on the impacts of child sexual abuse and gender-based violence, PLL empowers the community through events, media, workshops, and direct-to-client social services.
We also engage our clients through our research efforts by making them feel involved in their own healing and in helping to prevent abuse from happening to others.
Public safety, community engagement, education, and empowerment.
Community challenges in identifying and accessing local resources to help prevent abuse within the community and in surrounding areas.
Bring resources, public safety partners, and other organizations into one space to share their information with the community while actively engaging in physical activity and activism.
Mental health support for survivors of abuse.
Lack of affordable mental health resources and therapy options available to marginalized communities who have been impacted by trauma.
A free group therapy meeting that uses narrative and huamanistice therapy models that will help survivors start their road to recovery.
To bring awareness to child sexual abuse and gender based violence so that we can find solutions to put an end to thier ocurrances.
Abusers depend on the ignorance and embarrasment of the public. Keeping the issues shrouded in darkness creates an atmosphere for preditors to use to keep their victims silent.
By having regular conversations about the issues, teaching children and adults the correct language and how to identify abuse and potential predators, abusers are expose and have less opportunity to victimize.
To help vulnerable community members identify the resources that will empower them.
Community members have difficulty finding services to prevent abuse and support survivors.
Bringing resources to the community member through an incentivised event that will not only give them access to resources and services but also teach them how to use them and educate them on protecting themselves and their childrn.