Darkest Before Dawn: Forging Hope on the Edge of Injustice
Darkest Before Dawn cuts through the unrelenting challenges of child abuse work—online exploitation, AI-driven threats, strained systems—to show what’s actually shifting and why hope is warranted. It delivers grounded strategies, systemic clarity, and practical steps to move child advocacy from perpetual crisis toward lasting impact.
Suggested Audience: All CAC and MDT members
Full Description: The fight against child abuse can feel unrelenting—marked by rising online exploitation, the emergence of AI tools that generate new and evolving dangers, strained resources, and systemic failures that too often harm the very children they are meant to protect. Yet amid the darkness, there are tangible reasons for hope. Darkest Before Dawn equips participants with promising strategies, systemic insights, resiliency practices, and actionable steps that move child advocacy from crisis response toward lasting impact. This workshop blends realism with purpose, offering a clear vision for child advocacy professionals who refuse to accept the status quo.
Learning Objectives:
Recognize the urgent challenges and systemic barriers to achieving major declines in child abuse prevalence.
Identify key advances, promising practices, and everyday sources of resilience for multidisciplinary teams.
Implement concrete action steps to improve case outcomes and contribute to the long‑term reduction of child abuse.
Evaluate systemic gaps and pursue practical measures to strengthen collaboration and accountability.
Speaker(s): Robert Peters