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    Washington Communities Against Predators

 

What We Do

At Communities Against Predators, our primary role is within our communities: empowering parents to safeguard their children, enabling an exchange of information between parents, school districts, and various law enforcement agencies, and encouraging the creation of policies and legislation to fill gaps used by predators.

Educate Children to the Risks of their World
When children are toddlers at home, families teach kids to avoid unsafe environments, and secure kids from household dangers like detergents. When they explore out of the home, via play dates, preschool, and parks, families should prepare kids for the risks present in those environments, too. Nothing is as effective for preventative safety as open communication about real risk.

Policy is an incredibly effective tool for individuals, families, and organizations.
Does your community swimming pool keep a notebook of registered offenders living in the area? Do they have a policy in place to stop people from photographing your children? Don't you think they should? Parks, malls, public areas: they're there in the hopes that you'll visit; let them know what you need to feel secure. Or let us know, and we'll tell them.

Legislate to ensure that consequences are in place when education and policy fail.
If society can articulate its objection to a behavior, and if no legitimate civil liberties are infringed, then create legislation. Remember, however, that criminals do not care about law, they care about what they can get away with.

Who We Are

Bethan,
Director of Legislation and Policy
The social and economic costs of child sexual assault [CSA] are tremendous and long lasting for the child, family, and community. These costs even pass on to future generations in a horrifying cycle of violence.

Parents who are empowered to stand physically between their child and the predator, children who trust their instincts, recognize their own value, and who understand what appropriate boundaries are - those things will show results over time. That is what we are working toward at CAP.

“The one who wants to do something finds a way; the one who doesn't finds an excuse”
Sudanese proverb

Heather,
Director of Education and Outreach
The impact of sexual abuse, especially during the formative years, can be devastating to an individual and can negatively impact his or her wellbeing for years to come. I want to be one voice in helping educate and empower families in an effort to prevent abuse from occurring.
 
Through our efforts here at Wash-CAP in helping create policies and legislation, educating communities and families, and encouraging the free flow of communication among parents, school districts, and law enforcement, we’re making strides in doing just that.

 

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching