SAVE THE DATE: April 28, 2012
The Eighteenth Annual Northern California Child Sexual Abuse Awareness Conference:
will be on April 28th, 2012, 9:30 am to 5:00 pm,
at the Veterans Memorial Center, 203 East 14th Street, Davis, California
As always, the 2012 ISSB Conference will be offered at no-cost and no-registration,
so that all who care to may attend, and can remain anonymous if they so choose.
We are still working on the agenda and Speakers. Stay tuned, or send an email to issbca@gmail.com to get on the email list.
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Our Mission:
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Our Roots:
In 1993, several women in Yolo County, California, attended a workshop held in San Francisco at the Breaking the Silence/Breaking the Cycle conference on sexual abuse recovery. Speaker-playwright Libbe Halevy spoke about the need for survivors to become active in their communities by forming speakers bureaus to inform the public about the profound effects of incest.
A grassroots effort created the ISSB, whose members today speak publicly to raise awareness about the devastating emotional, physical, behavioral, medical, and societal aftereffects of child sex abuse. From 1993-1994 we simply called ourselves The ISSB. From 1995-May 2009 we called ourselves ISSB of Yolo county. We began to have members in many other counties in California, so, finally, in May 2009, we changed our name to ISSB of California. |
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ISSB California Officers
Andrea Ransdell, Executive Director
and Founding Member Heather Markert, Legislative Director Kathy Dreyer, Research Adviser and Founding Member |
ISSB Advisory Board
Sandy Dubois, Founding Member Abby Hamilton, Social Worker and Founding Member Marla Stuart, Founding Member |
Mailing Address: ISSB, P.O. Box 74366, Davis, CA 95617
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