About CWAVusa
You hear about the horrific child abuse cases in the news each day. Relatives and neighbors said they suspected child abuse but didn’t take the time to report their suspicions to law enforcement. Experts say nearly 3 million child abuse cases go unreported each year. One out of 6 boys and 1 out of 4 girls will be sexually molested by the time they are 18 by a trusted close person, uncle, aunt, sibling, cousin, coach, teacher, neighbor or babysitter. Please get the facts today and educate your children! Nearly 4 out of 10 children will drop out of school this year because they are being bullied at school or abused at home. Furthermore, crimes against children typically carry 25% of the sentencing of the same crime committed against an adult.
The statistics on crimes against children each year in the U.S. are staggering, sobering and should compel each of us to want to get involved. According to a recent Washington congressional hearing in June, 2011, nearly 10 children die each day from abuse. Yet, unlike cancer and many other diseases, abuse is a willful act and 100% preventable through education and law enforcement.
How can we help the rest of the world when we aren’t taking care of those in our own back yard? Why do saving animals impact us more than protecting our nation’s children, our future? Join us in being a voice for our kids!
Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Alpharetta, GA, Children Without A Voice USA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated and determined in fighting crimes, child abuse and neglect in America through education and advocacy.
Our Children Deserve Better. They Need Your Voice!
Children Without A Voice USA provides parenting classes, pre-school and elementary classes on how to keep themselves safe, bullying classes, teen parenting classes, and distributes FREE educational materials to organizations on a national level. 100% of our funding goes toward the printing of our educational materials and workbooks for our classes.
Our children are our future. Please help us break the cycle of abuse and end the violence in America.
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Mission Statement
Children Without a Voice USA is dedicated to raising awareness and preventing crimes against children, child abuse and neglect through advocacy and education.
CWAVusa Staff
Executive Board
Lin Seahorn
Lin was the product of a broken and abusive home and as a result was entered into the foster system numerous times, having lived in the private and large group home setting. She has over 25 years of experience in marketing, sales, and management in the Telecom Industry both as a business owner and corporate executive trainer for a Fortune 100 company. She is a visionary and helped pioneer the retail cellular market in its infancy.
Today, she devotes all her energies to increasing awareness of crimes against children in the United States and in other countries. She has served on boards, headed up many fundraisers and drives and has been an active child advocate for over 25 years. Most of her work has been in fighting for tougher sentencing laws for child abusers and molestors. She currently resides with her husband in Alpharetta, Ga.
Lin has presented her story and the mission of CWAV to numerous student and civic organizations. She is an accomplished public speaker and welcomes the opportunity to speak to groups that wish to learn more about child abuse & neglect in America and how CWAV is working on behalf of children.
William A Mattson
USG Corporation
Carrie Vruno
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Atlanta, GA
Board of Directors
A.D.A.M. Inc.
Engle Martin and Associates
AT&T
Huber Engineered Materials
Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC
Members-At Large
Dr. Jessica Cooper, Kids First Dental
Paul McCormack, V.P., Connectics
Dr. Dean Greeson, Chief Medical Director, Peach State Health
Honorary Board Members
Medical Director
Stephanie V. Blank Center for
Safe and Healthy Children
Dr. Brian K. Payne, PhD
Chair and Professor, Criminal Justice
Georgia State University
Devin Hall
Tax Partner
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Advisory Board
Dr. Silvia L. Mazzula is an assistant professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in the Department of Psychology. She received her PhD in Counseling Psychology from Columbia University (BS and MA, The College of New Jersey; MPhil, Columbia University). She completed her formal training in child psychology at the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey
Dr. Desmond Runyan is professor of social medicine of pediatrics and clinical professor of epidemiology at the University of North Carolina. He is the National Program Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. Dr. Runyan has researched child abuse for over 30 years and has published over one hundred research articles and book chapters. He co-founded a comprehensive child abuse center and organized the longest multi-site prospective study of the consequences of child abuse; LONGSCAN is now 19 years old. He has worked with scholars in Egypt, India, the Philippines, Brazil, and Chile to increase child abuse knowledge.
Pediatrics, UCLA
Dr. Chadwick is an internationally renowned child advocate and researcher, having produced over 60 studies and publications on abuse and neglect over the past 40 years. He has received numerous awards and honors spanning his career and is founder of the Chadwick Center for Children and Families. His positions have included Senior Vice President and Director of several children’s hospitals, professor at San Diego University and the University of Utah school of medicine.
Wendy is an adjunct professor at New England Law in Boston. She was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School from 2002-2003 where her work focused on the status of women in their capacity as victims in the criminal justice system. Wendy is a trial and appellate attorney specializing in the representation of crime victims, women, children and victim service providers and is the founder and director of the Victim Advocacy & Research Group, a volunteer legal advocacy organization that has provided free legal services to victims and other third-parties in the criminal justice system since 1992. She has worked for CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and CBS News as a legal analyst, and appears regularly on network and cable television. A columnist for The Daily Beast and Gatehouse News, and is a published author.
School Psychologist, M.E.D
Shelly has participated in numerous professional development trainings including the areas of assistive technology, Autism and Asperger Syndrome, behavior management, bilingual students and assessments, medication management, writing defensible IEP's, and the implementation of special education due process and special education law. Shelly has been an advocate for children for over 30 years and has served as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) and as a member of the Citizen Review Panel for the Cherokee County Juvenile Court in Georgia. She has worked with the Department of Family and Children Services, the juvenile justice system, guardian ad litems, pediatricians, and numerous agencies responsible for the welfare of children in foster care and in our schools.
