ABUSE PREVENTION IS BEST!
The Empower the Fight team, spent four years researching and collaborating with national experts and frontline professionals to bring solutions, not just awareness. To address the most urgent GAP assessed by this collaborative process, PREVENTION!
A prevention-based approach that empowers a citizen response is unconventional but desperately needed. Because abuse prevention is the most effective method to stop the harm to children and long-term social issues.
The reactive destruction of society starts when we fail to protect children.
Katie Fetzer, Founder of Empower The Fight
Empowering & Educating Citizens to Protect Children
To effectively safeguard children requires knowledge and skills that most citizens do not have. So, our vision is to equip at least 3 Million Safe Adults by 2030 with this life-changing information. Because safeguards are critical to reducing a child’s risks and preventing harm. The need is now too big and too urgent to become another child welfare organization that settles within the constraints of our nation’s broken systems.
Reduces Economic Strains
Prevention saves taxpayers an estimated $210K per victim. Based on a conservative estimate by a CDC study, approximately $3 Trillion in costs is added each year. What will be the cost in 20 years, if this growing cycle of destruction continues?
We are a pioneering grassroots organization that empowers citizens to prevent and stop child sex abuse (CSA) and exploitation through education, advocacy, and resources.
A Solution | The power of
ONE SAFE ADULT
In a review of thousands of victim’s gripping stories, a common point emerged: