Childhood Fractured

Ending Child Sexual Abuse Through Contemporary Art

CHICAGO, IL   |  childhoodfractured.com

Mission

Childhood Fractured is a non-profit humanities-based human rights initiative centered on preventing the sexual abuse and exploitation of children through contemporary art. Our initiative operates on a multitude of levels. We are fostering civic engagement with regards to the individual and their level of awareness surrounding the international epidemic of child sexual abuse. We are challenging them to engage and challenge their communities to do the same. Legislative and macro actions will soon follow. Decisive and swift action is necessary if we are to ensure the psychological, emotional, and physical safety of the children here today and the generations to come!

Ruling year info

2017

Founder & President

Allen Vandever

Main address

1432 W. Irving Park Rd. Storefront

CHICAGO, IL 60613 USA

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EIN

82-2119996

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Arts Service Activities/Organizations (A90)

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

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Chicago Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse Sex Positive Group

This is a group for survivors of childhood sexual abuse; it is also a group for sex positive, kink, and kinky supporters to talk, learn, and help one another. The group is meant to empower survivors to be more than just being strong & healthy, but also how to stay sex positive.

How can we have a healthy sex life without letting these experiences impact us in a negative way? We will discuss just that, and how our experiences affect us sexually, how we can use our kinks to deal with our trauma. We’ll talk about triggering consequences that can affect our experience & alternative methods that we can use in safe and consensual way.

If you are a survivor, the first step is to talk with someone about it; either a trusted friend &/or a counselor. If your lived experience is threatening to destroy your relationship, you should tell your partner about it. Therapy can help you understand the patterns in your life created by the abuse, including the ways it has been affecting you.

For someone attempting to face these complex issues the importance of having acceptance and unconditional, non-judgmental support cannot be understated. It is the abusive and negative interpersonal interactions that created the pain and it is the supportive and affirming ones that have the power to lift it. In general, childhood sexual abuse survivors tend to either pursue sex recklessly as adults or to forgo sex completely. This group is to help avoid this.

Abuse hurts, and discussing experiences with others who have had similar experiences, aids in the healing process. We will have monthly events. This group is open to people of all genders, dynamics, and sexual orientations. Allen Vandever will be painting a live narrative painting about how being sexual abused as a child effected him in his teens this will be the first in a series of 3 paintings exploring the effects of sexual abuse on a person sexuality and sex life.

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Victims and oppressed people

Come talk about consent join the discussion. Every Friday we talk about consent and what it means how does consent make your life better. I believe we are on the verge of a consent moment, We live in a society were quite often cosent is not asked for or given and this needs to change come join us and see were can improve on consent. Coming soon we will have a Consent discus podcast.

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Cultivating awareness by engaging the body through " Zazen" or seated meditation. Developing focus through posture & breathe. Every Friday night from 5:00 PM-6:30 PM. $10 suggested donation.

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LIVE PAINTING & STORYTELLING
Childhood Fractured was originally based on a series of fourteen paintings. Each painting told a story of contemporary artist, Allen Vandever’s experiences with child sexual abuse, torture, and rape. These stories have since been adapted into a book by Author, Derek Hopkins. Together they have realized the need to evolve if there is to be a significant impact on the international epidemic of child sexual abuse. The original paintings have also been adapted into interactive performances. These performances include Allen Vandever painting original works while telling his story. After the conclusion of the piece, the audience is encouraged to interact, question, and have dialogues with Allen Vandever. Such performances on child sexual abuse and related subject matter are unprecedented.

Allen Vandever also does Live Narrative paintings about alcohol, sexuality, and many other life struggles.

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Allen Vandever and Derek Hopkins, co-founders of, Childhood Fractured, have made themselves available for public speaking. This includes sharing their harrowing stories of childhood sexual abuse in a public forum, their experience creating art centered on childhood sexual abuse, the male perspective of being a victim of childhood sexual abuse, and pioneering creative measures to end the sexual abuse of children.

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Childhood Fractured

Board of directors
as of 02/20/2022
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Board co-chair

Allen Vandever

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Term: 2017 -


Board co-chair

Derek Hopkins

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Term: 2017 -

Dawn Vandever

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Stanley Krissanov

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