Finding The Best Child Abuse Speakers

By Rosella Campbell


It is said that the best teachers are those who have lived and experienced the subject they are in charge of teaching. That is certainly true of situations that mold our lives and make us who we are as adults. When an organization is looking for someone to do a presentation regarding the cycle of violence they may be looking to find child abuse speakers who have lived the cycle and survived.

These adult children are survivors and many have endured the worst kinds of mistreatment imaginable. Many have been beaten, starved or sexually violated from very young ages. Through living with the abuses dealt to them they have learned how to control their environment emotionally so that it is not as painful as it once may have been.

Some children are removed from their abusive homes only to find themselves placed in an even worse situation in the foster care system. The abusive treatment may come from neighbors, siblings, aunts or uncles or step parents. These people make certain their victims will not speak of their plight using threats and intimidation so many times the victims are grown adults before they speak of the abuse they suffered.

Unfortunately, many adult survivors of abusive homes go on to perpetuate the same behaviors towards the members of their own families. Others are able to take the experiences of their childhood and turn them into tools designed to help others. These people are many times found in social service occupations such as Child Protective Services.

By speaking of trauma as well as the successes they have experienced in their lives they hope to motivate those in their audience to follow their path to recovery. Their goal is inspiring others and showing them that they do not need to continue suffering the left over effects of childhood.

Rather than being defeated by their abusers they become stronger and seek escape through self-reliance, literacy, and by building a life of consequence designed to improve themselves and their communities. They share how they used this inner strength and determination to overcome obstacles and reach the successes they enjoy today.

Many speakers use this knowledge to educate police and other protective agencies by doing presentations at special training events or conferences attended by social services workers throughout the nation. This problem is one of the invisible crimes that takes place at home where no one is a witness except the victims. Through their insight they hope to offer new solutions for those involved in preventing this problem. One invaluable service they can provide is helping to identify red flag behaviors that protective agencies may not be aware of in children or family dynamics.

Because family violence is so under reported advocates and especially survivors feel it is their duty to make the public aware of the tragedies that happen every day behind closed doors. They also have a desire to show others how to find the way out of the personal hell they may be living in.




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