mnsss457 Stop It Now! Records, 1993-2005 (ongoing) Finding Aid Finding aid prepared by Burd Schlessinger. Sophia Smith Collection

Smith College Northampton, MA

2008

Finding aid exported into EAD from InMagic DB/Textworks 7.01. Encoded by Margaret Jessup. June 17, 2008 Finding aid written in English. Collection Overview Stop It Now! Stop It Now! Records1993-2005 (ongoing) MS 516 2 boxes (2.5 linear ft.) English Sophia Smith Collection

Smith College Northampton, MA

Child abuse prevention and advocacy organization. The records document the organization's work to prevent the sexual abuse of children through education and intervention. Materials include conference materials; newsletters; printed material pertaining to sexual abuse of children; brochures; reports; clippings; administrative records of various branches in the U.S.; and writings and speeches by the organization's founder, Fran Henry. Historical Note

Stop It Now! was founded in Northampton, Massachusetts, by Fran Worden Henry in 1992. It is a national, public health based organization working to prevent child sexual abuse through education of adults, including people at risk for abusing and their families and friends, and to promote policy changes at the local and national level to support prevention strategies. Stop It Now! community-based programs currently exist across the country and in the United Kingdom and Ireland. They have successfully tested the idea that when adults are given adequate information and resources they will act to prevent sexual abuse of children.

[Source: http://www.stopitnow.org/index.html]

Scope and Contents of the Collection

The Stop It Now! Records document the organization's work to prevent the sexual abuse of children through education and intervention. Materials include conference materials; newsletters; printed material pertaining to sexual abuse of children; brochures; reports; clippings; administrative records of various branches in the U.S.; and writings and speeches by the organization's founder, Fran Henry.

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Stop It Now! Records, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

Periodic additions to collection are expected and may not be reflected in this record.

The Stop It Now! Records were donated to the Sophia Smith Collection by Maxine Stein in 2005.

Processed by Burd Schlessinger, 2005.

Child sexual abuse--United States--Prevention Child abuse--Law and legislation--United States Child molesters--Rehabilitation Family violence Feminists--Northampton (Mass.)--History--Sources Incest--United States--Prevention Incest victims--Rehabilitation Sexually abused children--Services for Stop It Now! Henry, Fran Worden Henry, Fran Worden