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DC EMPOWERING CHILDREN, INC.

Healing 4 The Sexually Abused Only

Dorchester, MA   |  www.dcempowering.org

Mission

DC Empowering Children uses the right type of education based on the theory of knowledge to empower rape victims of all genders to heal healthily while learning Child Sexual Abuse Prevention skills and strategies. Services for victims are...ALWAYS...Free of Charge!!!

Ruling year info

2009

CEO

Dr. Debbie Chambers Ed.D.

Main address

5A MELVILLE AVE

Dorchester, MA 02124 USA

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EIN

06-1702549

NTEE code info

Single Organization Support (P11)

IRS filing requirement

This organization is required to file an IRS Form 990-N.

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Communication

Programs and results

What we aim to solve

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Child Sexual Abuse is one of the biggest problems facing the world today and is the underlying cause of many things that are blighting our society. Rape and sexual assault victims often know and feel the pain of being raped in their childhood, teens, and adulthood. They sometimes feel or believe they suffer no short- or long-term effects, but many do. When true healing from the initial CSA trauma is not achieved some rape victims, without realizing, have a way of making themselves a victim of self-inflicted abuse, both internally and externally. Externally, they may look for love in all the wrong places, including sex and drugs, which internally has a way of blocking the pain of being raped in their childhood and/or adulthood. Sadly, some victims do not know healing is even an option.

Our programs

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?

Empowering Against Sexual Abuse Educational Program

The purpose of the “Empowering Against Sexual Abuse” program is to educate participants to define sexual abuse and rape, to identify CSA & Sexual Abuse signals, to attain freedom from being sexually abused, to recognize healthy vs. unhealthy personal space, to understand the dangers sexual abuse secrets, and steps needed to report crime by appointment only.

Population(s) Served
Victims and oppressed people

This program focuses on holistic Sexual Abuse Healing and Child Sexual Abuse Prevention (CSAP). The objective of this program is to help victims of rape heal healthily and learn CSAP strategies to empower others by appointment only.

The purpose of the "A Victim No More" program is to empower victims of sexual abuse, starting with the concept that sexual abuse is not their fault.

Population(s) Served
Victims and oppressed people

The purpose of this program is to teach how eating healthy is a diet and an essential part of empowering one's self & others against sexual abuse by appointment only.

Population(s) Served
Victims and oppressed people

The FREE Lloyd C. Wright II Healing Sexual Abuse Conference series teaches healthy sexual abuse healing skills with a main focus on Child Sexual Abuse prevention.

The conferences are an established public arena attacking Child Sexual Abuse (CSA), an issue that is often silenced in families and communities since 1998, with sex abuse survivors, counselors, judges, doctors, lawyers, and artists to promote the healing of any sexual abuse for females and males of all ages.

Population(s) Served
Victims and oppressed people

Where we work

Videos

Our results

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.

Number of individuals in the target audience that expresses intent to adopt (or continue) desired behavior

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Related Program

A Victim No More Program

Type of Metric

Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues

Direction of Success

Increasing

Number of groups/individuals benefiting from tools/resources/education materials provided

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Related Program

Empowering Against Sexual Abuse Educational Program

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Number of clients reporting increased knowledge after educational programs

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Related Program

A Victim No More Program

Type of Metric

Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues

Direction of Success

Increasing

Average number of service recipients per month

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Related Program

Empowering Against Sexual Abuse Educational Program

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Holding steady

Context Notes

The total number of clients reported does not accurately define the number of clients receiving services. Often, clients receive more than one service, leading to an undercount.

Goals & Strategy

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.

Charting impact

Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.

Provide skills and strategies for children, teens and adult victims of any form of sexual abuse, healthily.

Strategy 1: Teach clients healthy sexual abuse healing skills and strategies.

Strategy 2: Provide a monthly workshop and annual conference empowering victims against sexual abuse that is also a public arena attacking Child Sexual Abuse (CSA). These events focus on the sexual abuse of children, an issue that has been silenced in families and communities since 1998, with sex abuse survivors, counselors, judges, doctors, lawyers, and artists promoting the healing of any sexual abuse for all genders of any age.

Strategy 3: Offering specialized individual short and long-term treatment plans for needs for clients to thrive after sexual assault.

Strategy 4: Create Auntie Claudia's Place to provide emergency short term-long term...

Over the past 25 years, Dr. Chambers has become a uniquely qualified expert on CSA and its prevention as a result of healing from 6 months- 16 years of Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) and 11 years later, a sexual assault by an unknown serial rapist.


Dr. Chambers completed Cambridge College's 2019 Fall Semester Behavioral Health Care Management program in 2022.

How we listen

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.

done We shared information about our current feedback practices.

  • How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?

    To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals

  • Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?

    We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We share the feedback we received with the people we serve, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback, We ask the people who gave us feedback how well they think we responded

  • What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?

    We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback

Financials

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Operations

The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.

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DC EMPOWERING CHILDREN, INC.

Board of directors
as of 11/15/2024
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Board chair

Dr. Debbie Chambers

DC Empowering Children, Inc.

Dr. Debbie Chambers

DC Empowering Children, Inc.

Sidney J. Chambers

DC Empowering Children, Inc.

Stephanie G. Cruz

DC Empowering Children, Inc.

Myra E. Pritchard

DC Empowering Children, Inc.

Constantina Livramento

DC Empowering Children, Inc.

Board leadership practices

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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  • Board orientation and education
    Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Not applicable
  • CEO oversight
    Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Not applicable
  • Ethics and transparency
    Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Not applicable
  • Board composition
    Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Not applicable
  • Board performance
    Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes

Organizational demographics

SOURCE: Self-reported; last updated 6/27/2024
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Leadership

The organization's leader identifies as:

Race & ethnicity
Human
Sexual orientation
Decline to state
Disability status
Person with a disability

Race & ethnicity

Gender identity

Transgender Identity

Sexual orientation

No data

Disability

Equity strategies

Last updated: 09/26/2022

GuideStar partnered with Equity in the Center - an organization that works to shift mindsets, practices, and systems to increase racial equity - to create this section. Learn more

Data
  • We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
Policies and processes
  • We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.