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These generational goals work as a guide to the changes we want to accomplish by the end of each generation. The strategies and methods to reaching these goals will be multi-faceted.
Generation One-You: year 2000-2025
Diverse Community Leadership and Solutions, Integration into other Social Justice Movements and Bystander Involvement.
Benchmarks:
* A diverse and skilled leadership is prepared to end child sexual abuse (CSA).
* Community-based solutions are translated into replicable models.
* CSA is understood as relevant across social justice movements.
* Bystanders and the community-at-large begin to see child sexual abuse as everyone's issue and become part of the solution for ending it.
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Generation Two-Children: year 2025 to 2050
Alternative Justice, Offender Accountability, and Public Systems Change.
Benchmarks:
* Alternatives to the criminal justice system are widely available and include prevention and offender treatment. Humanizing offenders is understood to be essential to ending CSA.
* These alternatives are developed into replicable community-based systems of response.
* The movement to end child sexual abuse collaborates with movements committed to public system reform, family reunification, prison abolition, and alternative justice in the development and implementation of strategic agendas.
* Public systems undergo reform and transformation in order to offer real solutions.
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Generation Three-Grandchildren: year 2050 to 2075
We are accountable. Preventing social conditions that lead to child sexual abuse.
Benchmarks:
* The general public assumes it is their business to know about, prevent, and address CSA.
* The issue is widely discussed; preventative actions are well known and practiced.
* We assume that if children are being sexually abused in our families or communities, it affects the wellness of the entire community.
* We collaborate with various movements for social justice in addressing fundamental conditions of oppression, violence and strategies for liberation.
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Generation Four-Great-grandchildren: year 2075 to 2100
End of child sexual abuse, healing continues.
Benchmarks:
* There are no new cases of child sexual abuse. It has stopped.
* Intergenerational healing from the impact of child sexual abuse continues.
* Community values and social conditions support the wellness of youth, accountability and healing.
* We are a part of an interconnected liberation movement that is collectively addressing negative conditions and creating a vision of a changed world.
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Generation Five-Great-great grandchildren: year 2100 to 2125
Restoration. Living the Vision.
Benchmarks:
* Beliefs and practices of individuals, families and communities support mutual respect, well-being of children and youth, and a world without CSA.
* Community values, public systems, and social conditioning support this transformation.
* The restoration and healing around CSA has implications for other major social movements and is part of a just and healed world that we continue to create.
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