Stop Abuse, powered by Spectrum Puppets, was created in 1986 with the goal to prevent child sexual abuse by raising awareness through education, detection, and referral. Regina Marscheider, the Executive Director of Stop Abuse, gives Hometown [...]
When Janelle, 30, and her husband of 5 years divorced, she and her two children, Joshua, 4, and Mary, 2, moved back to her hometown to live with her mother and stepfather, Joe. From the [...]
When one of every four girls and one of every seven boys gets sexually abused before the age of eighteen, someone has to make it stop. That someone is Simon, the green and purple puppet [...]
We’re pleased to announce that Stop Abuse (Powered by Spectrum Puppets) has been selected by 13News Now and the TEGNA Foundation as a local 2018 TEGNA Foundation Grant Recipient for Hampton Roads. Nine nonprofit organizations in [...]
On September 11th, 2018 Stop Abuse's Regina Marscheider was interviewed by Devin Tucker, a radio personality, on 2WD 101.3. Listen to the entire interview here!
The team of ARDX Foundation’s START Summer interns, the START Program Manager, the ARDX Foundation Executive Director in partnership with the Executive Director of Stop Abuse made a difference this summer. This program delivered an [...]
Stop Abuse is so grateful to the Sue Cook Winfrey Memorial Fund of the Hampton Roads Community Foundation for providing a grant that allows us to bring our Emmy Award winning educational child abuse prevention [...]
The numbers are staggering: 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys will experience sexual abuse before the age of 18. […]
