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Whatever you do for a living and whichever state you live in, YOU can advocate for improved child sexual abuse prevention laws!
Enough Abuse has been advocating to improve child sexual abuse prevention legislation in Massachusetts, and in other states as well! You can learn about child sexual abuse prevention laws in your state and what our recommendations are for each type of legislation by reading our Call to Action report. You can learn how to use the report to advocate for legislation in your state by watching our 3-part Webinar Series for Policymakers and Advocates. To network with other advocates and get help as you advocate in your state, you can join our bimonthly States Policy Exchange.
Below, you will find other helpful Enough Abuse advocacy resources, including our model pieces of legislation for several child sexual abuse prevention laws, a resource document we developed to help you in your advocacy called, “Strategies for Passing Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Laws in Your State”, and more.
Resources & Downloads:
download A Call to Action for Policymakers and Advocates: Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Legislation in the States
This 116-page national report developed by Enough Abuse in collaboration with Prevent Child Abuse America reviews five types of laws aimed at preventing sexual misconduct and abuse through school-based initiatives and provides an overview of each state’s legislative efforts in those areas. Emerging trends are analyzed a set of recommendations are proposed to enhance current state legislative efforts, and to build a national infrastructure to coordinate and support implementation of targeted prevention actions in schools, youth organizations and communities across the states. This report has been updated as of March 2026 to include recently passed legislation.
play_circle Part I: Policymakers and Advocates – An Overview of State Legislative Efforts to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse in Schools and Youth Organizations
Video URL: https://vimeo.com/641665675
Learn what these 5 key CSA prevention laws are, how many states have passed them, and why it is crucial that we pass them in every state.
play_circle Part II: Policymakers and Advocates – Strategies to Pass CSA Prevention Education Laws In Your State
Video URL: https://vimeo.com/644112974
Learn about what provisions are recommended to be included in CSA prevention education laws, whether your state has these laws, and how they might be improved. Also learn the first 14 of 21 Strategies to Pass CSA Prevention Laws.
play_circle Part III: Policymakers and Advocates – Strategies to Enact Comprehensive Screening Laws and Policies in your state
Video URL: https://vimeo.com/646645972
Watch for an in-depth look at standardized screening laws to prevent educator sexual misconduct, what the key components and recommended provisions are, and what resources you can use to advocate to pass or improve the law in your state.
download Model Legislation to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse
The Enough Abuse Campaign has developed model legislative language to prevent child sexual abuse. If your state has not yet introduced these laws, you can meet with legislators and share this language with them and ask that they introduce it in your state. Each bill will need to be adapted for the laws of your state.
Model Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Education legislation
Model Legislation to Criminalize Grooming a Child for Sexual Abuse
download Legislation to Criminalize Grooming as a precursor to Child Sexual Abuse
Through its States Policy Exchange, Enough Abuse has shared information about pending and passed legislation in several states to criminalize grooming as a precursor to child sexual abuse. Visit our new interactive map on State Laws to Criminalize Grooming to see the details of these laws in each state.
exit_to_app Visit our 9 Interactive Maps to View a summary of CSA prevention laws in your state
Enough Abuse has created 9 interactive maps that show a summary of each of these laws in each state when you click on the state:
Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Education Laws
Laws to Screen School Employees to Prevent Educator Sexual Misconduct
Laws Criminalizing Educator Sexual Misconduct
Laws Criminalizing Grooming Children for Sexual Abuse
Laws Criminalizing AI-generated Child Sexual Abuse Material
Civil, Criminal and Lookback windows on Statutes of Limitations in CSA cases
download Strategies to Pass CSA Prevention Laws in Your State
MassKids introduced 21 Strategies to Pass CSA Prevention Laws In Your State in parts II and III of the webinars for Policymakers and Advocates. This document includes links to examples of testimony, press releases, letter campaigns, model bill language and more.
Download Strategies to Pass CSA Prevention Laws In Your State
download Example of an Email Campaign Strategy to Pass Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Legislation in Your State
Here is a series of daily emails sent over the period of several weeks to MA Senate and House leadership and members of relevant committees reviewing child sexual abuse prevention bills, e.g. Committee on Education, Committee on the Judiciary, Committee on Children and Families, etc. Please feel free to adapt these emails to support your state’s legislative efforts to prevent child sexual abuse.
download Open Letter to Legislators
MassKids (the organization which directs Enough Abuse), drafted this Open Letter to Legislators and gathered 250 signatures of support from citizens of Massachusetts who urge legislators to “Pass the Prevention Package” of bills to prevent child sexual abuse. The letter was distributed to the Joint Committee on the Judiciary. See the letter (signatories removed for their privacy) below.
download Sample Cases of Sexual Misconduct in Massachusetts Schools
#1: This list compiled by Enough Abuse based on news reports includes the names of public and private schools/districts where cases of sexual misconduct against students have recently occurred. This list can be used to show the prevalence of sexual misconduct in schools.
#2: This list contains a short summary of 26 recent cases of educator sexual misconduct in Massachusetts, along with pictures of the perpetrators.
play_circle Prevent Child Sexual Abuse Massachusetts: Virtual Advocacy Briefing
Video URL: https://vimeo.com/819932231?share=copy
MassKids and its Enough Abuse Campaign held a Virtual Advocacy Briefing webinar on Thursday, April 20th to educate citizens, policymakers and advocates about a package of bills aimed at preventing child sexual abuse in Massachusetts schools and youth-serving organizations. Senator Joan Lovely and Representative Natalie Blais discussed what these bills, which they have introduced, will accomplish. Several survivors of educator sexual abuse and child advocates explained why passage is so crucial. Participants also learned how they can take action to support these bills.