At the start of the month, former teacher Derek Slade who had worked at two English private schools was found guilty of multiple counts of physical and sexual abuse against boys between 1978 and 1983. This week, Slade was subsequently jailed for 21 years and will serve 14 before being eligible for parole. It’s the…
British newspaper The Guardian has published a new interview with kidnap and abuse survivor Natascha Kampusch today. You can read this interview here. – CBG
This week is National Suicide Prevention Week in the US, and it just so happens that Friday is also World Suicide Prevention Day. I wanted to take a moment and highlight the Take 5 to Save Lives program that the National Council for Prevention of Suicide has put together for this year. I think there…
Saw this news release in an email this week and thought I would share. Don’t know much more than this, so if you do, be sure to leave us a comment with any information you might have. The Oprah Winfrey Show is working on a program that will be filmed in October specifically for men…
The movie Boys and Men Healing, which has been screening in various places, and gotten pretty rave reviews from the male survivor community, is now available on DVD. You can order it over on the Big Voice Pictures website. If you’ve seen the movie, or get the DVD and watch it sometime soon, let us…
Whilst it’s good to keep track of the new survivor websites opening up for both genders, it’s also important to mark the end of an era where one particular site is concerned. The Foundation of Survivors, backed up and run by the author Joe Peters, reached its 10th Anniversary last Saturday, 24th July, but has…
