Child Sexual Abuse: The Myths. The Facts. What the media should know.

The Georgia Center for Child Advocacy Hosts Media Luncheon in Macon

WHAT: The Georgia Center for Child Advocacy will host a media symposium
and free luncheon for Macon media on Monday, Sept. 8 at the Market
City Cafe. Over lunch, members of the media will learn about the
Georgia Center's Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Program and "Macon
A Difference," the kick-off event for the launch of Darkness to
Light in Macon. The Darkness to Light training curriculum
educates adults to prevent, recognize and react responsibly to
child sexual abuse.

WHO: The Georgia Center for Child Advocacy, a nationally certified
child advocacy center is the preeminent authority on the treatment
of childhood sexual abuse, providing evaluation and treatment for
children's long-term recovery, and leading a statewide prevention
and education program to end the sexual abuse on children.

Darkness to Light is a nonprofit organization that seeks to
protect children from sexual abuse by placing responsibility on
adult shoulders.

Speakers and topics will include:
Nancy Chandler, Georgia Center for Child Advocacy: Child Sexual
Abuse, Why It Matters
Mike Yoder, FBI: Risks of the Internet and Internet Safety
Dr. Lisa Herring, Bibb County School System: How Bibb County
Schools are Addressing Child Sexual Abuse

Media interviews available following the presentation.

WHEN: Monday, Sept. 8, 2008
11 a.m. - 1 p.m. (please arrive at 10:45 to register)

WHERE: Market City Cafe
502 Cherry St
Macon, GA 31201

WHY: One in four girls and one in six boys will be sexually abused
before the age of 18. In Bibb County, 3,757 boys and 6,096 girls
under age 18 will be sexually abused. Only one in 10 children
actually tells, so what can adults do to help?

RSVP: Kathryn Sneed 404-367-2768

CONTACT: Kathryn Sneed, 404-367-2768

SOURCE Georgia Center for Child Advocacy