
Prevention and Healing Blog
The Trees of Hope blog equips you to prevent sexual abuse and human trafficking—and offers survivors guidance for healing. We’re also adding new content on identity, showing how a biblical foundation protects and restores.
TRUTH. TOOLS. TRANSFORMATION.
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For Parents & Caregivers
Learn how to talk to your children about abuse in a way that’s honest, age-appropriate, and rooted in faith. Our blog equips you to spot red flags, build safe boundaries, and parent from a place of wisdom—not fear.
Prevention starts with confidence, not panic. Let us help you start the conversation.
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For Survivors
If you're walking the road of healing, you're not alone. Our blog speaks directly to the heart of those who have been wounded—offering hope, spiritual encouragement, and practical tools to help you reclaim your voice and rebuild your story.
You are not too broken. You are not forgotten. Healing is possible.
Hands Wide Open—The Battle We Must Wage
As the darkness of today’s culture confirms the reality of sexual abuse and child sex trafficking, we’re left with a choice: look away, or rise up. This battle won’t be won by law enforcement or policy alone—it demands all of us. Parents, teachers, pastors, neighbors—we are the village, and now is the time to live with eyes wide open and hands ready to act. On our watch, children are being harmed. But with courage, conviction, and the help of heaven, we can fight back and protect what matters most.
More Than Bystanders: Why the Mission Can’t Belong to One Voice
In a world where survivors sit silently in our pews and vulnerable children are all around us, we can’t afford to walk by. This blog is a call to move from passive awareness to active advocacy—because protecting and healing was never meant to fall on one voice alone. It takes all of us.
Waking Up to the Programming: Why Cultural Lies Are a Threat to Our Kids
At Trees of Hope, we believe the greatest threat to our children isn’t just predators—it’s the cultural programming that conditions them to accept exploitation as normal. This blog exposes the lies, highlights the dangers, and points to a better way: protecting the future and healing the past.
Sexual Assault: How Trees of Hope is Helping People Go From Victim to Survivor to Thriver
If you are a victim of sexual abuse, and have never reached out to anyone, please know help is available to you. To begin, Trees Of Hope has
April is Sexual Abuse Awareness Month: Know the Facts and Take a Stand!
At Trees of Hope, we want to teach you the facts, what signs and behaviors to look out for, how to report suspected abuse to authorities, an
How Revenge Porn is Ruining Lives
If you have been a victim of revenge porn, sexual assault or sexual abuse, please know you are not alone. And help is available through Tree
Preventing Sexual Abuse - Behaviors to Watch Between Adults and Children
Prevention of sexual abuse in our society is critical, as every 107 seconds someone in America is being sexually abused. This type of abuse
Trees of Hope 10th Anniversary Celebration
Every year at Trees of Hope we host an annual fundraiser. It is a special event we look forward to all year long and it provides us with...
The Reality of Child on Child Sexual Abuse
About one-third of all sexual abuse offenses are committed by children under the age of 18.
Child Pornography 101
While child sexual abuse and child pornography are not easy topics to discuss, being educated on the topics is crucial. Child pornography...
Lessons Learned from the Larry Nassar Case
In a case that brought sexual assault to the forefront of people’s minds across the world, former team doctor for the USA Gymnastics,...
Enough is Enough
Back in 2016, the organization Enough is Enough sent a pledge, titled the “Children’s Internet Safety Presidential Pledge,” to all of the...
How To Find Courage To Share Your Story
When you bury your secrets, especially a secret of sexual abuse, you’re actually burying yourself alive.
Together Making Kingdom Impact
I am proud to be part of such a robust Christian ministry with a 10-year history of serving the sexually abused and helping parents safeguar
Is Porn a Problem?
Pornography – it’s an industry that generates $13 billion dollars every year in the United States, and according to a recent CovenantEyes...
The Next Public Health Crisis
More and more research continues to become available about the effects of pornography on our brain, heart, relationships and society....
Are You Being Catfished?
What happens when someone you thought you knew ends up being a stranger? One of the dangers of socializing online is Catfishing....
How to Identify Predators
Sexual abuse predators have taken to virtual and live-streaming platforms to access and share exploitative and abusive content of children.
A Short Parents Guide to Age Appropriate Conversations
One of the most important tools in sexual abuse prevention is clear and open communication with your child.
Why Bumper Stickers Make Your Family Vulnerable
The unforeseen downside of having bumper stickers is that it creates an avenue of vulnerability by exposing private information to abusers.