Author: I Have The Right To Team

TO:  Advocates for  Sexual Assault Survivors and Children

RE:  Michael Delaney’s nomination for Federal Judge for Boston-based 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals 

Dear Advocate, 

This is a call to action for all advocates and allies of sexual assault survivors. The White House nomination of Michael A. Delaney to a Federal Judgeship in the US Court of Appeals in Boston will be reviewed in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, February 15, at 10:00 am in Room 226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC.  

By: Brylie Turk, Student Outreach Intern
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Thursday February 26th, Steve Peacock, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and member of I Have The Right To’s Board of Directors, joined Evan Dawson for an interview for WXXI’s Connections segment (see the link below). In the interview, Steve openly shares his experience of being targeted, groomed, and then sexually abused for years in his own home by his neighbor, starting at when he was only 10 years old, and how he spoke up years later, at the age of 52 years.  

McQuaid Jesuit, a Catholic, Jesuit school for boys in Rochester, NY engaged I Have The Right To to interact with students, parents, and educators.  Our team spent three days on campus working with school leadership, making a presentation to more than 500 high school students, facilitating a separate talk with parents, and visiting with senior boys in their classrooms. 

I Have The Right To interviewed Harrison James who is the co-founder of the Independent School End Sexual Violence Coalition (ISESVC). Harrison is a current junior at a boarding school in New England. For his contributions to the end sexual violence movement, Harrison has been honored as a Gold Medalist by the New Jersey State Governor’s Jefferson Awards and a Daily Point of Light Award by Points of Light. ISESVC is a youth-led coalition of students dedicated to anti-sexual violence mobilization across independent school campuses. Their mission is to operate a network advancing social practices and structural change in an effort to prevent sexual violence and mitigate its effects. 

By Michael Hill and Alex Prout

To my children, you have seen all too well that the institutions that are meant to protect you often fail and that justice is often unfairly on the side of whoever has the most to lose. I vow to do my part to change this. Here is my Father’s Day promise to you. 

Vice Chair and Co-Founder of I Have The Right To Alex Prout engaged CEO Martin Waters of Victoria’s Secret and hundreds of employees in a conversation about gender equity and allyship from men and boys during a company Town Hall.  This address is part of the $90 million spend on strengthening the process to report and investigate sexual harassment cases and improve diversity and inclusion governance.

Receiving your child’s disclosure of sexual assault is likely one of the most tragic and gut-wrenching moments of your life. It is the conversation that no parent wants, and yet one that every parent must be prepared for. Below, we lay out what to keep in mind when having this conversation and what to say each step of the way. We will refer to these moving forward as the A.B.L.L.E.^TM phrases.