Incest AWARE
Consultations.
Trainings.
Workshops.
The Incest AWARE Alliance offer a number of direct services to survivors, families, and organizations to better navigate prevention, intervention, recovery, and justice. Please, review the offerings below and learn more about the individuals and organizations by following the links to their websites. Note that these are only recommendations, not direct referrals. Please, explore the options and decide which professionals are best to work with for you, your family, or your organization.
Parenting Safe Children Trainings
Feather Berkower, Founder of Parenting Safe Children, is a licensed clinical social worker and one of the nation’s leading experts in child sexual abuse prevention. She has dedicated her career — which now spans over three decades — to educating parents and youth professionals on how to make their communities “off limits” to child sexual abuse.
Please, review and sign up for one of her next workshops below.
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Feather Berkower, Founder of Parenting Safe Children, is a licensed clinical social worker and one of the nation’s leading experts in CSA prevention.
Off Limits is a book for children written by Feather Berkower and Sandy K. Wurtele, Ph.D.
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With Parenting Safe Children “Conversation-Starter Cards,” you can confidently initiate conversations about your child’s body safety with all caregivers.
Circles of Safety Trainings
Stop It Now! offers prevention training for adults who are caregivers, educators and advocates for children's sexual wellbeing. Our training series, Circles of safety offers a variety of options, is available in person, virtually and can be adapted for any youth serving organization.
Sex Education Trainings
Claire Appelmans is the founder of Living Earth Sex Ed, an educational organization where parents, caregivers, and children learn about bodies, boundaries, and sexuality. She provides private consultation sessions online to parents and caregivers who would like personalized support in educating their children about bodies, boundaries, and sexuality. She also teaches in-person and online sex education classes to parents, caregivers, and children. Her work educates parents about how to teach their children about bodies, boundaries and sexuality, including which physical and digital boundaries to put in place to protect children from sexual assault. Her classes also teach children which physical and digital boundaries to put in place and who to ask for help if people cross those boundaries. Additionally, Claire addresses how siblings, parents, and other family members should honor those boundaries and what to do if they do not honor them.
Incest Awareness Trainings
Josephine A. Lauren, the co-founder and community organizer of Incest AWARE, guides training and consultations to increase incest awareness and ensure that all anti-incest content represents the complexities and sensitivities of the issue. Reach out to Jo. for more information.
The Incest Gap Training
Learn about the consequences of incest and how to support survivors. Incest abuse remains a taboo topic in our society. This leaves children vulnerable to repeated abuse and survivors isolated in their recovery process. It's time that parents and professionals, communities and cultures, understand the impacts of incest abuse. Together, we can prevent incest, introduce safe methods of intervention, compensate survivors during recovery, and ensure a justice process that ends recidivism.
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In this training, you and your team will learn:
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The causes and consequences of incest abuse.
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The institutional betrayal that leaves survivors isolated.
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The intersectional complexities of incest abuse when coupled with racism, sexism, ableism, sizeism, homophobia, transphobia, and xenophobia.
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Community support models that identify victims and place them in a network of support.
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An integrated, long-term model of recovery that addresses the neurological, physiological, psychological, relational, economic, and spiritual impacts of incest.
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Systemic solutions that ensure prevention, intervention, recovery, and justice.
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Individual answers to support survivors throughout their healing processes.​
Incest Content Consultation
Represent the complexity of incest abuse with guidance from survivors. Incest abuse is a horrible reality for so many. It's important that the issue is represented authentically and accurately in publications and productions to help educate others, gather support to end incest, and help survivors.
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Work with Jo. to ensure your publication or production:
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Shares the complexity of incest abuse without sensationalizing or reducing the narrative.
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Stays survivor-centered while representing both the personal and political sides of the issue.
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Sets the issue alongside the intersections of other social justice problems like racism, ableism, sexism, sizeism, homophobia, transphobia, and xenophobia.
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Includes the causes and consequences of incest to inspire social empathy.
Transform Trauma into Empowered Living
The 3 Vital Questions: Applying the Power of TED*® to Work and Life
Susan Dunlop, founder of Blue Borage, is a lived experience expert, certified trauma-informed
professional coach, and TED*® & 3 Vital Questions® Licensed Facilitator. Drawing from her personal
journey as a survivor and her professional expertise, Susan has dedicated her work to empowering
individuals, families, and professionals to model change, starting with themselves and create a ripple
effect that transforms relationships and communities now and for future generations.
At Blue Borage, we understand how environments marked by chaos, poor communication, and a lack of
emotional safety can perpetuate cycles of dysfunction, drama, and harm across generations. For those
affected by incest and childhood trauma, these dynamics often leave lasting impacts on relationships,
decision-making, and personal growth. The 3 Vital Questions: Applying the Power of TED*® to Work and
Life is a six-week facilitated group program designed to help participants acknowledge and break these
cycles, model empowered behaviours, and reclaim a life of purpose and connection.
Say Hello to Susan:
Learn how to prevent family incest, as well as the causes and consequences of sexual abuse in families.
Learn how to heal after family incest and connect to organizations to support you in your journey.
Learn how to support a family incest survivor through crisis, intervention, and recovery.
Connect with a community leading a movement seeking to end sexual abuse in families.