Welcome to LUSID, where children can be children.
Our pursuit is to show children who were
sexually abused that they can survive and thrive.
And be a good person too.
We will achieve it by using nature adventures to interrupt the cycle of childhood sexual abuse by making sure those it impacts have the time, space, and support they need to become safe, competent, and secure adults who don’t choose to hurt others.
Trauma changes you. It makes a mess out of who you knew you were and where you were going. It is correct to have time and space dedicated to putting yourself back together with people who have been there before
We are going to work with kids and teens who have been sexually abused. While we welcome any child who has been sexually abused, the difference between us and other programs is we have an underlying mission to identify and provide extra support to the hardest cases with the highest risk of going on to become offenders. Our hope is by offering knowledge, grounding, and a series of rites of passage to those who would become offenders at a young age, before the world has a chance to complicate their healing, we can prevent them from ever falling to that point.
