Saprea

Saprea empowers survivors with healing strategies, skills, and resources to reduce trauma symptoms, experience post-traumatic growth, and significantly improve the quality of their lives.

Saprea encourages parents and caregivers to proactively learn and apply the preventative skills needed to reduce the risk of sexual abuse impacting the children they love.

Saprea educates individuals about this worldwide epidemic and encourage them to take action in their communities.

To inspire hope and healing, Saprea hosts adult female survivors at retreats in Utah and Georgia. At the retreats, everything focuses on helping survivors reclaim hope. Survivors: 1) Attend education sessions that help them understand how trauma from abuse impacts individuals both physically and emotionally, 2) Learn strategies to overcome self-defeating and unhealthy behaviors in order to heal from trauma, (3) Participate in a variety of physical activities like yoga, nature walking, and Muay Thai (a form of martial arts), and 4) Enjoy a variety of services and experiences designed to make survivors feel safe and relaxed. The goal of the retreat is to empower survivors with specific understanding and skills that make healing possible and to create a supportive and safe community. After the retreat, survivors participate in a 12-week online course to help them apply what they learned. We currently host over 800 women each year from around the world at the retreats. We are working to make our programs scalable and expand to other locations both within the United States and abroad to make the retreat experience accessible to more women.

To empower parents and caregivers, Saprea is also devoted to raising awareness and preventing sexual abuse. Our website hosts resources to educate parents and caregivers about the risk and impact of sexual abuse. We also have numerous resources about prevention tools along with activities and strategies parents and caregivers can use to have frequent conversations with their children about healthy sexuality. In addition to our online resources, Defend Innocence executes multiple awareness and education programs through our social media channels each year. We are currently creating more digital resources to expand the scope and reach of our message. In addition to providing material for parents, we plan to provide materials to enable community influencers (education leaders, healthcare leaders, ecclesiastic leaders, etc.) to share our message. Many of our educational materials are currently provided in both English and Spanish.

We have more than 80 full-time staff, spread among four different teams: clinical, outreach, philanthropy, and operations.

Our clinical team has been created with industry experts, licensed therapists and nurses, and case managers, all with decades of experience. The therapists maintain current occupational licenses and are provided with resources for professional training annually. The clinical team coordinates all of the educational and therapeutic activities survivors participate in both during and after retreat.

Our outreach team consists of talented individuals with experience in education and social media as well as design and video production. These teams develop, design, and market high-quality content for a wide and varied audience. Our team members have years of industry experience. For example, our video production team is led by a five-time Emmy-winning producer. Funds are budgeted annually to keep our experts trained in new and innovative techniques.

Our philanthropy team coordinates all aspects of fundraising. Donations come from both large donors (like corporations and family foundations) and individuals. In addition to constantly developing relationships with valued partners, the philanthropy team plans and executes major fundraising events each year like galas and thank you dinners. This team also oversees our online swag store.

Our operations team not only oversees the day-to-day logistics of running our organization but also processes retreat applications and coordinates travel itineraries and scheduling for retreat participants. We typically have three to six months of the retreat scheduled. Our retreats have 24 women, and we hold three retreats per month.

Since our founding in 2014, we have made significant progress on the pillars of our mission. We have established the Saprea Retreat to host survivors of sexual abuse. The core of the curriculum at the retreat comes from our Reclaim Hope book and workbook, which were written, edited, designed, and published by the foundation. We hope to one day serve women across the country and around the world in multiple locations and languages because survivors everywhere need healing resources. We have educated hundreds of parents about the issue of sexual abuse through face-to-face education presentations and are currently transitioning to a digital, peer-to-peer model. Parents, caregivers, and community influencers anywhere will be able to access education materials focused on prevention and awareness and then empower others with the knowledge that they gain. We constantly create and release new content through our blog and through campaigns that reach millions of people. We are also mindful of being sustainably funded for the future. As a nonprofit 501(c)(3) public charity, we are on track to reach the IRS requirement that 33% of our total donations come from the general public. We are committed to working every day to help with healing from and preventing childhood sexual abuse. We're proud of what we've accomplished and are eager to keep doing more.