Our work — a proven model we transfer

From delivering services ourselves to strengthening those who stand closest to children.

The Problem and the Gap

Across our region there is no shortage of willingness to protect children. There is a shortage of know-how.

One in three girls and one in five boys experience sexual violence before they turn eighteen, and 80–90% are harmed by someone they know and trust. Most will never reach a specialized center — but every child lives near an organization, a community, and a justice system that could protect them if it knew how. That gap is what we exist to close.

What Make Us Different

Purely academic organizations hold the science without the practice. Purely operational ones hold the practice without the science. No one else holds all three together, with lived experience at the center.

Lived experience

We are survivors. The model was built by the people it was built for.

Frontline practice

Nearly three decades accompanying child survivors, every day.

Neuroscience and evidence

How trauma harms a developing brain — and how safety, connection, and justice heal it.

The Three Fronts

Purely academic organizations hold the science without the practice. Purely operational ones hold the practice without the science. No one else holds all three together, with lived experience at the center.

Who We Strengthen

Organizations

We fund, train, and accompany the organizations serving child survivors. →

Survivor activists

Through Resilientes Inquebrantables, the largest collective of its kind in the region — healing spaces, tools, and funds. →

Governments and institutions

We train institutions, improve policies, and change laws — with governments, the OAS, and the UN. →

The Cycle

We transfer the how, not just the what.

Direct work

Our pilot in Bolivia receives children every day — healing, justice, protection, delivered by us.

Proven model

Every protocol is tested and refined on real lives before it travels anywhere.

 

Regional transfer

The proven how reaches whoever stands next to the child.

Why Now

The science is ready. Neuroscience shows precisely how trauma harms a developing brain — and how safety, connection, and justice heal it.

The law is ready. Binding regional standards now protect child survivors across the hemisphere. But a ruling only changes lives if someone builds the capacity to implement it.

The movement is ready. Survivors across the region are organized, trained, and leading. What is missing is the strength behind them.

Sustain This Work