Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2170

Tonight's special guest is Joseph Galata from Reno, Nevada, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse followed by abuse as a teenager in theater. "When abuse occurred at the age of 16," he explains, "I was told to keep it secret or else I would be fired from the theatrical production and the show would close down. The man who abused me in the theater was the husband of an investor / director / producer." Joseph is a former Representative to the United Nations Socio-Economic NGO Council, a retired state university faculty member, the former director for Hospice foundation, and spent 33 years in television and radio broadcasting as producer, director, and journalist. Joseph is now the Executive Director for the Reno, Nevada, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization Sierra Association of Foster Families (SAFF), which focuses on the education of children and teens in foster care, as well as that of their birth parents and foster parents, by creating and facilitating educational programs for reducing the catastrophic statistic of: 85% of adults in American federal and state prisons DO NOT have a high school diploma and 70% of those adults were children and teens in foster care. Joseph travels internationally performing a one-man musical theatrical show he wrote about a man's healing journey from childhood sexual abuse. He is an international keynote speaker and workshop facilitator on social and health issues including healing from grief of abuse.