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Needs of child abuse survivors
Ark of Hope for Children recognizes that even after any physical or sexual abuse is over, the emotional torment continues for child abuse 
survivors. Victims can often face post traumatic stress (PTSD), mental illness, depression, anxiety, nightmares, falling behind in school, confusion, bullying, separation from siblings, bounced from home to home... the list goes on and on. Food and safe shelter only scratch the surface and yet even in the United States, victims often get little more. (See our international child abuse statistics)
Even adult survivors of child abuse that have not received help will eventually hit an emotional barrier that can feel insurmountable. We have embedded Harrison J. Bahe's short film below called The Manipulated Living by Navajo Joe Films. Manipulated Living helps us make our points in a dramatic way.
The acting of the young boy, Keyghan Burns, shows the level of terror faced by abused children;
sleeping with one eye open in fear of the next attack. The dramatization of his isolation and barren life are quite often a reality for many victims. Yet we who watch the news trick ourselves into believing once saved from the situation, these kids can go back to a normal life. This is far from the truth. The many emotions and fears do not hide well even when treated.
As the adult child abuse victim J. Lyle Johnson portrays, even into adulthood it can be as if it happened right down the hall for the rest of our lives. Cases in point are the adults in their forties and fifties that have contacted Ark of Hope for Children seeking some form of help.
Victims worldwide are receiving far too little emotional help to overcome the mental obstacles forced upon them by their abusers. Sometimes none at all unless they have financial means to pay professionals. Most people may not be psychologists or professional therapists, but many can be great listeners.
Ark of Hope for Children founder Blair Corbett has been "listening" to child abuse survivors of all sorts online since 1992. Hundreds of heart wrenching life stories have been shared with him. In most cases peoples lives have been changed simply by listening and committing to not turn away. In this way, once we have earned the trust of a survivor, we have an opportunity to guide them towards their local providers of assistance.
Now Blair moves to duplicate his efforts through our new live chat victim to survivor support site. Please read about the new site, Removing Chains. If you feel that you too are a good listener and have a heart for the broken hearted, please also look into our Chain Breakers equipping for online mentors and survivors coaches.
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Latest News + Events
- Chillin' at The Castaways
- Boy aged 11 fathers baby with friends mom
- Race Unchained with Team Removing Chains!
- For This We Have No Words
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- Online Vigil Self Harm Due to Abuse
- Protecting kids from pedophiles online
We are so grateful to Stephanie and the staff at The Castaways on the River for such a peaceful, relaxing getaway. We could not have been treated any better and we highly encourage anyone to stay. It is nestled in next to the St Johns River in the small town of Astor, Florida in the north east part of the state.
Whether you live in this fine state as we do or you are driving through Florida and have a couple of days where you need to just relax and perhaps do some fishing, stop by and say Blair and Verna Corbett or Ark of Hope for children sent me!
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Boy Aged 11 Fathers Baby with 36-year-old Woman in New Zealand - Under New Zealand Law - rape is only applicable when males forces sex, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years. Females who force their unwilling partners to have sex are charged only with sexual violation.
I know the psychological damage caused by rape of a male child or teen from victims I help but it seems obvious too many people don’t understand that yet. As founder of Ark of Hope for Children I want to know YOUR thoughts. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/479517/20130617/new-zealand-boy-11-fathers-baby-36.htm
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Run, walk, swim, ride and more for child abuse, child trafficking and bullying survivors through our Removing Chains survivor support program!
So many athletes hit some sort of track each year. We are so proud of your achievements and this year we are looking for amateur and professional athletes running marathons, walkathons, triathalons, biking or bowling to do it to help survivors of child abuse, child trafficking and bullying that Ark of Hope for Children helps and reaches out to. We will even provide you your own T-Shirt for entering and running with us if you will start one of our cool Crowdrise fundraisers like the one to the right!
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Ark of Hope for Children helps abused and neglected children, hoping to bring them to light, hope and fullness. For this amount of neglect I have no words. Please comment once you read the full story.
"Her caseworker determined that she had never been to school, never seen a doctor. She didn't know how to hold a doll, didn't understand peek-a-boo. "Due to the severe neglect," a doctor would write, "the child will be disabled for the rest of her life.""
"The authorities had discovered the rarest and most pitiable of creatures: a feral child.
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Ark of Hope for Children built a live chat survivor support site called RemovingChains.org so victimized children and adults around the world can find hope and support. More on how the site works below, but here our advocates & volunteers are helping raise funds to help us make the site bigger and better for victims of child abuse, rape, trafficking, bully, depression and more. This is to encourage you to join Team Removing Chains by making a donation or start a team of your own!
World ONLINE Vigil for
People Self Harming due to Sexual Abuse as a Child or Adult
Lifting up victims, survivors and their families
February 10, 2013
11:00am - 12:00pm EST (U.S.)
Most of us want to protect our children online. We have learned to do this the hard way from stories of rapes and abductions by sex offenders luring young people from social network sites like Facebook, etc. What if judges said freedom of speech for sex offenders outweighs us protecting kids from pedophiles online?