About Us

The mission of Crossroad Women and Family Services is to enrich the lives of women and children in Columbus County, however we will provide information, advice and services to women all over the state of North Carolina. We offer a variety of programs focused on the health and wellness of women and their children. We also provide child sexual abuse prevention, advocacy and training workshops.

Why Abuse Prevention?

If you keep on doing the same things, you will keep getting the same results. There are literally untold millions of children who have been sexually abused by someone they love and should have been able to trust.

Unfortunately, the child often keeps silent because, the abuser says that what they did was a "secret", the child is "afraid" of the abuser, the child still "loves" the abuser and do not want to cause trouble, the child do not think anyone will "believe" them.

Sexually abused children often struggle with guilt and shame. They feel dirty and isolated from the rest of the world because they believe that they did something wrong.

Though sexual abuse is never a child's fault abused children hide their pain. In most cases the abuse is never reported but the impact is far reaching. And it is the root causes of many family problems today, which becomes societal problems ranging from crime and drug addiction to eating disorders and teen pregnancy. Research findings support the following statistics:

• 70-80% of sexual abuse survivors report excessive drug and alcohol use.
• 50% of male survivors have contemplated suicide, more than 20% attempted suicide.
• Sexually abused girls are more like to develop eating disorders as adolescents.
• More than 60% of teens first pregnancies are a result of molestation, rape or attempted rape, and the average offender is 27 years old.
• Approximately 40% of sex offenders report being sexually abused as children.
• Both males and females who have been sexually abused are more likely to engage in prostitution.
• Approximately 70% of sexual offenders of children have between 1 and 9 victims; 20-25% have 10 to 40 victims.
• Serial child molesters may have as many as 400 victims in their lifetimes.

Show that you care, by becoming aware..... Join the fight against child sexual abuse. For children. For life. For hope. For healing.

For more information on how you or your organization can get involved contact us by email at info@crossroadwomenfamily.org.