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About Feather Berkower, LCSW

Feather is a licensed clinical social worker and holds a Master’s of Social Welfare from the University of California, Berkeley.

She has been a leader in child sexual abuse prevention since 1985 and has educated nearly one-hundred fifty thousand schoolchildren, parents and youth professionals. Her well-regarded workshop, Parenting Safe Children, empowers adults to keep children safe from sexual assault.

Before founding Parenting Safe Children, Feather managed a regional chapter of the Child Assault Prevention Program in Colorado, which delivers school-based curricula to protect children and teens from bullying and sexual assault.

Feather co-authored Off Limits, a parenting book that will change the way you think about keeping children safe. It is available on her website at parentingsafechildren.com

She presents Parenting Safe Children Workshops in schools, youth organizations, parenting groups, and businesses in the United States.

Feather is also available for private consultation.

Feather believes that adults are responsible for protecting children from sexual assault. Feather makes this difficult topic less scary, and consistently impresses audiences with her knowledge, commitment, and warmth.

On this episode:

• How Feather found her calling to teach child sexual assault prevention
• Why teaching body-safety to your child is the same as teaching them to wear a seatbelt, or why they shouldn’t touch a hot stove.
• Feather shares what sex-offenders are looking for.
• The majority of sex-offenders are someone you know and often a family member.
• Why adults are responsible for protecting children from sexual assault.
• Practical tips on what parents can do to get started with child sex-abuse prevention.

Connect with Feather:

Website:  https://parentingsafechildren.com

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/parentingsafechildren/

Instagram: @parentingsafechildren.

References

Movie: ‘Something about Amelia’ 1984; https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088149/ 

Recommended resources for purchase:

• Off Limits: A Parent's Guide to Keeping Children Safe from Sexual Assault -https://parentingsafechildren.com/book/
• Conversation Starter Cards -https://parentingsafechildren.com/book/#cards
• Parenting Safe Children Online Workshop -https://parentingsafechildren.com/online-workshops/

FREE DOWNLOADs FROM FEATHER:

https://parentingsafechildren.com/resources/

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