Once again, another great post. I think I keep replying to your posts. Child Advocacy is extremely important because victimized children could be affected emotionally, behaviorally or physically. Children’s could display a number of signs such as sadness, anger, violence, self-loathing, sleeping issues, dispassion or the child could even face injuries. The sad part is they become knowledgeable about sexual behavior at a young age. Sexual abuse can definitely affect children as they grow into an adult. It is commonly known that children that are sexually abused at a young age are more likely to abuse drugs, attempt suicide or any types of depression. In addition, the children that have disabilities have a higher chance of getting sexually abused
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until I read Chapter 2 in our books. By you mentioning it again, made me do some research. First off, it’s a non-profit organization that focuses their attention on victims that have dealt with drunk driving situations. A woman named Candy Lightner was the founder of MADD which started in 1980. The reason why she chose to do this was because her daughter was killed by a drunk driver. The man that killed her daughter only got two years in prison which infuriated her. She felt there should have been a harsher sentence and that laws and penalties specifically focused on drunk driving should be stricter. Drunk driving started to become a big issue in the 1980s and only her organization was successful at addressing these concerns. MADD even got its own movie aired on NBC named The CANDY Lightner Story and as of today established hundreds of chapters in The United States. MADD centered primarily centered its attention on preventing drunk driving and advocated that drunk drivers need to be penalized harsher. Most importantly, they conducted many programs that helped victims with coping through counseling, support groups or even on their 24 hour help line. In fact, it states that MADD in the year 2012 was able to serve around 60 thousand victims which was considered double the amount if compared 8 years ago (El-Guerbaly, 2005). In the year 1997, MADD declined fatal deaths in relation to alcohol by 20 percent (Heard,
until I read Chapter 2 in our books. By you mentioning it again, made me do some research. First off, it’s a non-profit organization that focuses their attention on victims that have dealt with drunk driving situations. A woman named Candy Lightner was the founder of MADD which started in 1980. The reason why she chose to do this was because her daughter was killed by a drunk driver. The man that killed her daughter only got two years in prison which infuriated her. She felt there should have been a harsher sentence and that laws and penalties specifically focused on drunk driving should be stricter. Drunk driving started to become a big issue in the 1980s and only her organization was successful at addressing these concerns. MADD even got its own movie aired on NBC named The CANDY Lightner Story and as of today established hundreds of chapters in The United States. MADD centered primarily centered its attention on preventing drunk driving and advocated that drunk drivers need to be penalized harsher. Most importantly, they conducted many programs that helped victims with coping through counseling, support groups or even on their 24 hour help line. In fact, it states that MADD in the year 2012 was able to serve around 60 thousand victims which was considered double the amount if compared 8 years ago (El-Guerbaly, 2005). In the year 1997, MADD declined fatal deaths in relation to alcohol by 20 percent (Heard,