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VICTIM TRACK

We bring an understanding of grooming to victims. The majority, if not EVERY victim, is unaware that they’ve been manipulated into submitting to their offender, and instead of a natural ability to express the violation against them, they hold onto a life-long sentence of shame, self-admonishment, and embarrassment. When this knowledge is shared with care to someone who has suffered in silence as a groomed victim, powerful transformations occur.

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LEGAL TRACK

Help With Grooming

We are developing a detailed curriculum on Grooming Techniques that can be used by law enforcement and prosecution teams, including victim advocacy. This aim is to make the prosecutorial process mercifully more efficient for victims, sparing them agonizing delays by helping strengthen the cases against abusers. We have commenced this phase of our project and are using raised funding to move forward in developing curriculum and tools to help in this process. Thus far, Two cases in SE Idaho Courts have prevailed using steps of grooming, with more cases currently active.

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FAMILY TRACK

Prevention

These “Seven Elements of Grooming” need to be shared to families and loved ones. We have found many families to say, “If I would have known the steps of grooming, I may have seen it and stopped it.” These words are far too often spoken after the fact. This information needs to be put out front and quickly. We believe that with an increased awareness toward such, we can reduce/prevent the incidence of abuse in our community and break repeating patterns.

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Our Beginning

In May of 2010, while sitting in a rehabilitation center in Southern California, Matt Morgan shared with his wife and children, for the very first time, the abuse that was waged against him as a young boy some thirty-five years earlier. Matt had been diagnosed and come to understand he had Disassociated Amnesia and PTSD from harm placed upon him as a young boy. That day was the beginning of Matt’s inspiring and life-saving journey.

It was also the beginning of what is becoming an Idaho lighthouse for survivors and advocates like himself. A long lawsuit soon ensued into a unique civil case court battle for “Fraud for Grooming of a Child”. Attorneys and therapists would remind Matt to keep trudging forward this emotionally crippling ordeal, JUST ONE… IF you can just save one in all of this, it will be worth it.

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Have You Seen This?

“Grow little one!” every survivor must find and receive those quiet whispers of encouragement.

Like the angel that whispers to each blade of grass, “Grow, little one!” every survivor must find and receive those quiet whispers of encouragement. For the Morgan’s, it was the belief that the journey toward Building Hope Today would be worth every setback, every doubt and every heartache, if just one child could be saved.

The right to wellness and the ability to give and receive love is a God-given gift. At Building Hope Today, it is our collective vision to grant our children, and our children’s children, the opportunity to grow fully and beautifully into themselves without the tragic loss of trust, innocence, and self-worth that are taken daily from the lives of children like Matt Morgan.

Please consider participating in this vision with us today as we work to save “Just One…”

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Charter Initiatives

Victim and Legal Team Advocacy

We have moved forward aggressively with developing a detailed curriculum on grooming techniques that can be used by law enforcement and prosecution, including victim advocacy, aiming to make the prosecutorial process mercifully more efficient for victims, sparing them agonizing delays by helping prosecutors strengthen their cases against their abusers.

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Community and Education Outreach

We at Building Hope Today know that our communities can be a part of making effective change for hope filled tomorrows for children. With the wide impact that child sexual abuse has on each and every aspect of our community, we have to join together in education and standing up for children. Building Hope Today asks our community members to engage with our educational materials and resources. The Family Pack is a tool that was constructed to help educate all people on the variety of issues surrounding the steps that abusers utilize in grooming children. The information from the Family Pack and the resources that we list in our “Get Help” section can help you learn about the many ways it is possible to end child sexual abuse and support survivors. All communities can also be a part of our outreach conducted throughout the year. You can see what we are doing on the events tab. Please join with us because all children have the right to be protected from child abuse!

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