• Home
  • Donate
  • Escape
  • ABOUT
    • Overview
    • Client Rights
    • Services
    • Support Groups 
    • Services for Teens
  • GET HELP
    • Overview
    • Get Help For Yourself
      • Domestic/ Dating Violence
      • Sexual Assault or Rape
      • Child Sexual Abuse
      • Sexual Behaviors Between Children
    • Get Help for Someone Else
    • Resources
    • Resources for College Students  
  • GET INFO
    • Overview
    • Education
      • Information for College Students
      • Sexual Behaviors in Children
      • Sexual Assault and Rape
      • Domestic/ Intimate Partner Violence
    • Prevention
      • Teens Preventing Abuse
      • Get Involved for College Students
      • Bystander Intervention
      • Enough Abuse Tompkins: a project of the Advocacy Center
    • Blog
    • Newsletter
  • GET ACTIVE
    • October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month
    • Take Back the Night 2025: Friday, April 25th!
    • Volunteering & Internships
    • Job Opportunities
  • SUPPORT OUR WORK
    • Ways to Give
    • ChangeMakers
    • Kids Are Our Business
    • Not Your Average Auction

24 Hour Hotline:

607-277-5000
Offices: 607-277-3203

P.O. Box 164
Ithaca, New York 14851
Skip to content

LOGO

search HOTLINE: 607-277-5000 Escape DONATE
Escape

Category: Child Sexual Assault

May 29, 2025July 21, 2025

Myths Behind Child Sex Trafficking

Guest Written by Cornell Student, Paris Wu “A myth is simplistic: it cannot express the complexities of an issue, entertain controversy, or encompass ‘gray areas…’ It presents morals, heroism, and…

Read On
March 28, 2023

Wear Blue April 3 for Child Abuse Prevention Month!

April is Child Abuse Prevention (CAP) Month. To honor survivors of childhood abuse, the Advocacy Center is sharing some actions people in Tompkins County can take to raise awareness and…

Read On
January 6, 2023July 21, 2025

Youth Sex Trafficking Happens Here

There are youth in Tompkins County who have been sex trafficked or targeted for sexual exploitation. Does that surprise you? If it does, that is not surprising. Many people have…

Read On

Posts pagination

1 2 3 Next

View By Category

  • Agency Updates and Statements
  • Cell Phone Violence
  • Child Sexual Assault
  • College Campus
  • COVID-19
  • Current Events
  • Did You Know?
  • Domestic Violence
  • Domestic Violence childhood experiences
  • Events
  • Fundraising
  • Healing
  • LGBTQ+
  • Life after Abuse
  • Parenting
  • Prevention
  • Rape
  • Reproductive Coercion
  • Safety Planning
  • Sex Trafficking
  • Sexual Assault
  • Stalking
  • Support
  • Teens
  • Tompkins County
  • Uncategorized
  • Ways to Help
  • Youth Education

Stay Informed 


Subscribe to our Newsletter


Click here to subscribe.


The Advocacy Center is dedicated to providing support, advocacy and education for survivors, friends, and families of domestic violence, and sexual assault in Tompkins County.


  • Get Help
    • Welcome
    • For Yourself
    • For Someone Else
    • Resources
  • Get Info
    • Education & Prevention
  • Get Active
    • Volunteering & Internships
    • Internships
    • Support Our Work
    • Job Opportunities

The Advocacy Center is dedicated to providing support, advocacy and education for survivors, friends, and families of domestic violence, and sexual assault in Tompkins County.


  • Call Hotline Now
  • Donate

Got It

For Your Safety...

Computer use can be monitored and is impossible to completely clear. If you are afraid your internet and/or computer usage might be monitored, please exit your internet browser now and use a safer computer.

If you are viewing our site and need to quickly get away to an unrelated site, click the escape button in the top right corner and you will be redirected. Please test these features on your computer right now to ensure that they work.

For an emergency, call 911, or you can call our hotline now.

Hotline: 607.277.5000

Got It