Parents Testimonials
As an abuse survivor, I only wish there had been a workshop like CAP for me when I was growing up. I would have had someone to tell. I feel I can give my children some real practical advice now. I have been waiting for a workshop like CAP for years.
So many programs frighten kids nowadays. This one is wonderfully empowering. Kids really feel they can do something to prevent an assault!
I'm glad I came. I am very particular about what my children see and hear. I would not allow kids to be in a program I had not reviewed first myself. I really liked the CAP program. It gave kids some good, solid prevention strategies.
I expected more graphic, frightening stuff. That's why I attended the parent workshop. I was concerned it would be too harsh for first graders. I was wrong though. The way it is presented isn't threatening-only helpful. I feel our daughter will feel better about herself after attending this seminar.
Following a parent workshop, a couple shared this amazing story with CAP and credit the program with opening their eyes to their children's terrifying experience: Four families, all friends since college, spent every Fourth of July at the farm of one of the families. While preparing for the weekend trip, the six year old daughter of one family did not want to go. Despite her crying and insisting, the plans were made and the family went to the farm. When they arrived, the girl would not leave her mother's side. The next day, after learning the adults were going to leave the children with the caretaker of the farm, the little girl told her mother that when all the adults leave, the caretaker makes them go down in the basement and play with "icky" toys. When the mother heard the word basement, she remembered the story told at the CAP parent workshop. In that scenario, a child told of "snakes in Uncle Joe's basement". Although there were no snakes in the basement, the child couldn't quite describe the abuse and so he told his parents about the snakes so that he could avoid going to the house. With that story fresh in her mind, the mother sat down and talked with the little girl. She discovered that the caretaker would get the children in the basement, molest them, have sex with them and use "special toys" on them. He said their parents would not want them to play with these special toys and if the children told, they would be punished. They might never be able to ride the horses again - their favorite activity on the farm. The mother said if she had not attended the CAP parent workshop, she would have thought her daughter was just having separation problems. Instead, she questioned and believed her daughter. The man was indicted, convicted and is currently incarcerated.