Hi my name is David Victor and I am the Executive Director/Founder of Project Impact – a newly formed public benefit non-profit, pending 501(3)(c) confirmation from the IRS. Project Impact is located in Eugene, Oregon and is dedicated to the reduction and prevention of sexual abuse in our society. Project Impact’s perpetrator prevention focus and media campaigns will deliver information to individuals and groups that turn worry, fear and shame into action. We provide resources and information for all adults to recognize and challenge behaviors they see in others that put individuals at risk to be sexually victimized. We also provide assessments, and intervention services to individuals, and family members, as well as to people at risk to abuse.
I am a graduate of the University of Oregon (GO DUCKS) and have over 17-years of clinical experience working with survivors and perpetrators of sexual violence. I started out as a victim advocate and child assault prevention facilitator/coordinator for the Shasta County Women’s Refuge (1987-1991) , a juvenile sex offender group home counselor for Family Life Center in Petaluma Ca. (1991-92), a mentor for at-risk youth (1994-95), and a sex offender therapist for adult sex offenders at Lane County Sex Offender Treatment Program (1995-2005). I have conducted research on Perceived parental acceptance vs. rejection of adult male sex offenders (1998), The management/supervision and treatment practices of sexual offenders in Lane County (2004), and The status of Sexual Assault Response Teams throughout Oregon (2006). I am a Professional Member of Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA), Past Board Member and Member of the Oregon Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (OATSA), I was the Chairperson for the Lane County Sexual Assault Response Team (2005-2007), I am a Member of the Prevention and Education Committee, as well as, the Prison Rape Elimination Act Workgroup for the Oregon Attorney General Sexual Assault Task Force.
In the coming weeks, months and years, I will be updating this blog and passing on information to the masses in hopes that more people will become involved in this silent public health epidemic.
I believe that in order to truly prevent sexual abuse from occurring in the first place we need to shift our focus from having sexual abuse be a “women’s and girls issue” to putting the responsibility where it should be – and that is with men and adolescent boys in our society. I want to challenge all men and adolescent boys to join me in becoming part of the SOLUTION rather than the PROBLEM.
www.endsexualabuse.com