When trauma goes untreated, and systems remain broken, its effects don’t stop with one child.
1 in 8 Girls are sexually assaulted before age 18 (1 in 11 boys)
Sexual violence against children is not rare or
isolated. It affects millions of children across cultures, communities, and socioeconomic lines. For too many, trauma begins early and shapes how they see themselves, relationships, and the world—often long before help ever arrives.
Children experience physical abuse at home
For millions of children, violence is normalized inside the place meant to be safest. When fear, control, or harm are confused with love and discipline, trauma becomes woven into daily life—and is often passed from one generation to the next.
Conviction rate for child sexual abuse cases in many regions
In parts of Latin America and Africa, the vast majority of reported child sexual abuse cases never result in accountability. When justice systems fail to protect children, trauma deepens, silence spreads, and abuse continues unchecked.
Hope becomes real when trauma is met with the protection, justice and empowerment.
Children experience safe, consistent relationships with caregivers, therapists, and peers—restoring trust, rebuilding attachment, and forming healthy relational bonds that trauma once disrupted.
We work alongside local and national governments to strengthen child-protection systems, train leaders, and pursue justice that restores dignity, protects the vulnerable, and helps prevent abuse before it occurs—rather than retraumatizing survivors.
Children receive Christ-centered, multidisciplinary support that includes education, life-skills development, and practical tools—equipping them with confidence, resilience, and the ability to navigate life well beyond our direct involvement.
Together, we address trauma at it’s roots, often from domestic sexual abuse, protecting children, restoring justice, and building pathways to lasting healing.
Children are not just kept safe—they are taught how to recognize danger, build healthy boundaries, and grow with confidence in secure environments.
Justice is pursued in ways that protect children from further harm, strengthen local systems, and restore dignity rather than retraumatize.
Children receive consistent, trauma-informed, Christ-centered care that addresses emotional, relational, and developmental healing—long after the crisis has passed.
We understand how overwhelming the realities of domestic child sexual abuse and trauma can feel and how hard it is to know where compassion will truly make a lasting difference.
The scale of abuse and broken systems can
leave even the most compassionate people
unsure where to begin.
For more than a century, Kids Alive has
delivered trauma-informed, Christ-centered
care alongside communities and
governments.
We address both individual healing and
systemic reform so trauma is not passed
forward.
Measurable change. Lasting impact.
A conviction rate is 70x more likely with Kids Alive legal representation for a child.
In systems where convictions are rare, skilled legal advocacy helps protect children, hold offenders accountable, and prevent further harm.
Over 2,400 parents, caregivers, and children have been equipped with trauma-informed parenting tools, violence-prevention practices, and sexual abuse prevention and self-protection skills.
These tools strengthen families, build safety, and support healing in everyday life—not just in crisis moments.
264+ active cases where Kids Alive attorneys are pursuing justice for children.
Each case represents a child who is not facing abuse alone. Kids Alive attorneys are actively pursuing protection and accountability—working within legal systems to secure safer futures for children.
You don’t have to do everything. You just have to start.
Children experience harm not only because abuse occurs, but because protection breaks down and healing is delayed. Trauma left unaddressed does not stay contained, it moves through families, communities, and the systems meant to safeguard children.
Kids Alive exists to intervene across this full landscape. We provide trauma-informed, Christ-centered, identity-based care for individual children, with a particular focus on those affected by domestic sexual abuse, exploitation, and severe neglect. At the same time, we work alongside governments to strengthen protection, support families, and reform justice systems. This dual approach equips children to heal and move forward while addressing the conditions that allow harm to persist at their root.
When protection empowers, justice restores, and healing lasts, trauma no longer defines a child’s future.
*If trauma is not transformed, it’s transferred. - Inspired by the teachings of Richard Rohr
