Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 261

Tonight's SPECIAL GUEST is Angela Williams, abuse survivor, author of "From Sorrow to Sapphires" and founder of the Voice Today non profit, at www.VoiceToday.org, a movement to break the silence and the cycle of child sexual abuse. The VOICE mission is to bring awareness to the silent epidemic through awareness campaigns, educational and healing programs. She has been a child advocate for many years, trying to right the wrong done to her and millions of other adults. Ms Williams, a Georgian, says, "As a survivor of incest, suffering in silence for 14 years at the brutal hands of my stepfather, my passion has become helping others learn to break the silence barrier of child sexual abuse and to make a difference in the lives of children in the next generation." A faith based organization, the values of the Voice Today Movement include the belief that prayer is the power source against the demonic forces driving child sexual abuse, seeking to break the silence of child sexual abuse by fostering the VOICE Movement, a grass roots effort to educate adults, speak out unashamedly and provide healing support for survivors, and that will become a platform for social change. VOICE wants to change society's attitudes and actions that surround child sexual abuse, both locally and globally, by reaching as many people as possible, and seeks to shift the responsibility for preventing Child Sexual Abuse from the child to the adult. They want to empower survivors to find their voice and start the healing process.