“What do you do for work?” is a question I hear pretty often. Whether it’s at the school pick-up line or during a “live” on social media, my answer is always the same: I am a public speaker who focuses on teaching kids about sexual abuse. While it may shock some people, it opens…

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    Childhood Victories: Our Year in Review As we enter the final month of the 2020/2021 school year we wanted to take some time and acknowledge the year we’ve had. From the initial lockdown, to rescheduling schools, to learning an entirely new way to deliver our program…here’s the very chaotic yet wonderfully exciting breakdown…

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    Spotlight: Rosie Cataldo’s Mission Childhood Victories has had a lot of exciting additions over the last year! From a new membership site, to new programs, to a new platform of presenting, we are constantly finding ways to further our reach and accomplish our goal: helping children to Be Seen and Heard©. We want…

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  Educate Now, Prevent Later Educate now, prevent later. That’s the ultimate goal, right? To not only educate on sexual abuse and empower survivors to get help, but prevent abuse from happening in the first place. Now, before I joined Childhood Victories, I was with a non-profit for 5 years. During that time I came…

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  Hoping and Coping with Trauma Hoping and coping with trauma isn’t exactly a walk in the park. To not only have to live along side our trauma, but to find healthy coping mechanisms AND stay hopeful seems impossible. And sometimes it really feels that way. It just depends on where we are in our…

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  Turning a Negative into a Positive My life revolves around 3 things: My family, my work, and my dorky artsy-fartsy crafting hobbies. Like most people, I was devastated when we went into lockdown back in March. I’m the kind of person who likes to stay busy; Being stuck at home was incredibly overwhelming the…

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  My Favorite Thanksgiving Memory My favorite Thanksgiving memory is not particularly a happy one. Which sounds weird, right? Wouldn’t something that’s on a list of “favorites” be happy? I guess under normal circumstances that’d be true; But my life hasn’t exactly been normal. Anyways, back to Thanksgiving.  It was 2010. I was invited to…

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  Why I Do The Work That I do This is my 7th school year educating students on sexual abuse. Over that time I’ve had a lot of repeat questions from students and staff . Deanna, does it hurt you to talk about this? Why did your abuser abuse you? Who did you tell? But…

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  Halloween Then and Now Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays. Candy and tricks aside, I love the fall atmosphere and the giddy anticipation of spooky movies, costumes, and ridiculous make-up. I love that my favorite parts of Halloween are around but some things have definitely changed. This is my experience of…

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Fall Traditions To Celebrate Each Year Ever since I was a kid I’ve loved the Fall season. I know some people struggle with allergies and the thought of colder weather coming…Persephone going underground and all, it’s a lot to take in! But even with the change there are so many fall traditions to celebrate each…

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