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Protect Act 2024
The Protect Act 2024 supports law enforcement, in part, by extending the time period that technology companies must retain child sexual abuse materials, giving Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task force teams up to a year for investigations. This legislation helps investigations that can prevent child sexual abuse, safeguarding our children online. Require websites and…
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Mental Health Awareness Month – May 2024
Many of the symptoms people experience from exposure to the trauma of others, are simply the brain and body reacting to something that needs to be addressed. TIJF works to educate community heroes to both understand and respond to those symptoms with tools and techniques to help mitigate the effects of vicarious trauma and to…
Read MoreMental Health Awareness Month – May 2023
Many of the symptoms people experience from exposure to the trauma of others, are simply the brain and body reacting to something that needs to be addressed. TIJF works to educate community heroes to both understand and respond to those symptoms with tools and techniques to help mitigate the effects of vicarious trauma and to…
Read MoreCatalytic Supports TIJF for Giving Tuesday!
Sending a huge THANK YOU to Catalytic Risk Managers & Insurance Agency, LLC for their generous support toward our Giving Tuesday Campaign! Giving Tuesday is our year-end fundraising campaign, helping to raise funds for organizational needs and programs into 2023. This year we need your support more than ever, as we will see a cut in…
Read MoreOur Shirts Are Back!
But only for a limited time. This shirt is dedicated to the heroes who work to save children from abuse and exploitation everyday. When you purchase a shirt, it supports our vicarious trauma mitigation training programs for heroes who experience traumatic materials, events, and stories of victims regularly through the work they do. This type…
Read MoreThe Innocent Just Foundation is a Proud Nonprofit Partner with San Diego Gives 2022
The Innocent Justice Foundation (TIJF) has provided mental health and wellness programming focusing on vicarious trauma mitigation to support Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Teams and their affiliates across the country since 2009 through Supporting Heroes in Mental Health Foundational Training (SHIFT). SHIFT was one of the first Federally funded programs to focus on…
Read MoreMental Health Awareness Month with The Innocent Justice Foundation
During a trip to Yellowstone with her family, Beth Medina, the CEO of The Innocent Justice Foundation was enjoying a view of the waterfalls, when a gentleman approached her and commented on her t-shirt. He said, “that is a great organization, it saves lives”. Beth told him who she was, and he went on to…
Read MoreMay is Mental Health Awareness Month with The Innocent Justice Foundation
Join us in supporting heroes this May! In an effort to grow and share our Helping Advocates Rebound from Trauma (HART) program, we will be hosting several training opportunities this May. We will provide free vicarious trauma mitigation and mental health & wellness training to San Diego County victim serving professionals. We have one full-day…
Read MoreTHANK YOU!
We are grateful for your support! Victim serving work takes an emotional toll, and exposure to violent materials and events, or victim stories is a requirement of many first-responder & health and human service professions. Vicarious trauma can be catastrophic, resulting in depression, burn-out, and sometimes suicide. With your contributions, our organization is able to…
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