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    Stewards of Children: A Movement to Educate the Community

    Stewards of Children is a movement that strives to educate adults on how to prevent, recognize, and respond to child sexual abuse. This program has been in place at New Hope since April of 2011 with the hope that it will assist in our mission.   Because our team members see the faces of caregivers and children who are faced with multiple feelings and the uncertainty of what tomorrow brings on a daily basis it is important to continue to educate our community.  The national statistic is that one in ten children in our county will be affected by abuse before the age of 18. In Blount County, that number…