Brave Voices

Speak Up to Protect Children

Our Mission

  1. Reduce the number of children harmed sexually by dismantling silence through advocacy, education, and learning.
  2. Provide a place for adults who were sexually harmed as children to share their lived experience, wisdom, strength and hope. A place where they can be heard, seen, known and held up with reverence and esteem in order to inspire others to break their silence by also Speaking Up.

Are You a Brave Voice?

Brave Voices breaks the cycle of silence that perpetuates childhood sexual abuse. Every adult contributes to the reduction of harm by speaking up. Join the Brave Voices Movement. Use your voice to normalize the conversation.

We at Brave Voices believe not just parents, but all adults – families and our communities – are responsible for ensuring that children have safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments. 

Your Voice Matters.

Brave Voices:

  • Know that they are the person responsible for protecting children from becoming sexually harmed.
  • Educate themselves; they work to move through their own discomfort in order to think, listen, learn and speak about the devastating problem of CSA and its prevention.
  • Find the courage to use their voice, even when it shakes!
  • Contribute to the reduction of harm by using their voice at every opportunity.
  • Speak up to protect children.
  • Normalize the conversation of CSA and its prevention.
  • Are adults who take responsibility to ensure children have safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments by speaking up whenever there is a worry or doubt that a child may be in danger of being harmed sexually. 
  • Are adults who do everything within their power to prevent sexual harm from occurring to children in their care.

What is Storycorps?

Storycorps is the largest online digital archive of human voices. It is their mission to build connections between people by preserving and sharing humanity’s stories in order to create a more compassionate world. Its collection of stories has been deemed to hold historical and cultural significance enough to be inducted into the Library of Congress. The Brave Voices Community Page on Archives Storycorps offers those who experienced CSA the opportunity to use their voice, to be heard, and counted.

Join the Movement

Imagine a movement as strong as MothersAgainstDrunkDrivers, Black Lives Matter and MeToo.

In order to put an end to the silence that perpetuates childhood sexual abuse we need every adult to become a Brave Voice. How do you see yourself included in the movement to protect children?

Which Volunteer Position is a Perfect Fit For You?

Publicist

  • Contact and communicate with every “Celebrity” who has spoken publicly about the sexual harm they experienced as children. 
  •  Personally invite them to be interviewed on Archive Storycorps. 
  • We know that when others hear celebrities breaking their silence. Normalizing the conversation will snowball and before we know it conversations about protecting children from sexual harm will be discussed openly and often with respect and dignity. When people who speak up to protect children are held with reverence, others will begin to feel safe enough to use their voice as well. 

Fundraiser

  • Organize events to raise money to support the efforts of Brave Voices

Grant Writer – 

  • Write Grants to fund Brave Voices initiatives.

Media Manager –  

  • Keep Brave Voices in the media’s eye. Keep the media up to date with events, announcements, programs offered etc. Keep the media accountable for continuing to report not only the initial report but how the case evolves. 

Researcher – 

  • To study and prove speaking up, breaking the silence does in fact contribute to the reduction of sexual harm.

 

Please click the button below and fill out the form. Select “Volunteer” in the Subject dropdown menu. Let us know in the message box what role you’d like to volunteer for and we’ll get back to you!

Support Brave Voices

Want to support Brave Voices in other ways?

Buy a Yard Sign!

Tell potential perpetrators there is ZERO tolerance to childhood sexual abuse in our community with a Brave Voices yard sign.

Buy a Top!

Tell potential perpetrators there is ZERO tolerance to childhood sexual abuse in our community with a Brave Voices T-shirt, long-sleeved shirt or hoodie.

Meet Cheryle Gail Grace

Through my personal journey of healing, I have found my brave voice. I now practice having courageous conversations, even when my voice shakes. I invite all of you to stand up alongside me.

“May our collective roar become so loud that the world cannot help but listen!”

-Cheryle Gail Grace

As an open and Affirming organization, we welcome people of diverse race, gender, sexual orientation, family status, economic condition and of physical, mental and emotional ability. No matter who you are on life’s journey, you are welcome here.

Need to talk? Brave Voices Ask For Help; RAINN (Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network) 24/7. Free. Confidential. 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) rainn.org