Giving Compass' Take:

• A new program called Aleinu: Safeguarding our Children, is going to serve as a resource for New York Jewish organizations to end child abuse. 

• The resource is a set of tools that demonstrate best practices for safeguarding children and can be used and replicated across organizations for scale. The success of these tools could be pioneering for technology dedicated to safeguarding children. 

• Learn more about programs that are helping children recognize and report abuse. 

Child sexual abuse statistics are staggering. According to the Center for Disease Control, one in six American men and one in four women were sexually abused before the age of 18. In the American-Jewish community, it is likely the stats are similar.

Now, the community has decided to take action to stop child abuse of all forms.

A new program, Aleinu: Safeguarding our Children, will launch on November 25th and serve as a “unique and critical resource to New York Jewish organizations,” said Adina Frydman, UJA-Federation of New York’s executive director of Community Resources.

Aleinu, a program of Sacred Spaces, is funded by UJA. The idea of Aleinu, according to Sacred Spaces founder Shira Berkovits, is to take child safeguarding to scale, to reach hundreds of Jewish organizations, beginning with those in the New York area.

Over the last two years, Aleinu, under the management of Sacred Spaces program manager Danielle Pitkoff, identified the 10 best practices in child protection that every organization should know. Then, it developed a set of tools for each practice that will enable organizations to implement them on their own.

Read the full article about ending child abuse by Maayan Hoffman at eJewish Philanthropy.