We feature Sabrina Osso, who shares her story behind Osso Safe Certifications for properties to provide a safe space for children in violent households.
Children Deserve To Be Respected In Homes
Safety must become a required standard condition of residency. The laws, courts, judges, and child protective service agencies fail abused children over and over again. Waiting until children are 18 years of age is way too late. They will resort to drugs/alcohol, unhealthy relationships, unhealthy friendships, cutting, eating disorders, and/or suicide. Home violence must be resolved in homes and it needs to be a paid service.
My company’s core product is Osso Safe Certifications for properties, which entails the Osso Safe Home Sweet Home Package. Included in the package is the Osso Safe Home Sweet Home Seminar. Adults and children alike become educated. Residents will learn facts, statistics, warning signs, definitions of abuse, the difference between abuse and discipline, what constitutes a healthy relationship, etc.
During the seminar, we use our children’s book to lay the groundwork for home safety/respect/home violence prevention. It is called Home Safe Home, For You and Me. It describes the difference between respect and disrespect, safety and abuse. It introduces the concept of the Osso Safe Kids Cheer, “I want to live where I am Osso Safe and I am Osso Safe with…”
For kids, this book is a tool to let them know that their voices are powerful and that they do have choice. The book will give them courage to speak out and say who they wish to live with because they choose respect and safety.
Children’s Book: Home Safe Home, For You and Me Written by Sabrina Osso and Illustrated by Aiwaz Jilani http://amazon.com/dp/B0BHLBWMXQ
For grandparents, parents, and teachers, the book is a tool to educate themselves and the children in their lives about how important it is to practice respect and safety in the home because it is indeed a practice.
At the seminar, we also notate who the children feel safe with, at home. Granted, children can lie, however, we know that abusive parents/ stepparents/ family members can only keep their poker face for so long. Then their true abusive colors reveal themselves. Therefore, we raise the question again to the children, “who do you feel safe with?”. It is their voice, their choice and we unite those children to those people, whether it be an aunt, an uncle, a grandparent, a close family friend. We check in with the child for about 6-9 months and we will find that the child’s health, well being, and safety are restored because they are living in an Osso Safe Certified Property with Osso Safe individuals.
Properties become Osso Safe Certified after certain documents are signed, everyone completes the seminar, and other components are included such as technology and therapists assigned to the property. This makes for safer residency for all, rather than leaving it to chance, to the wind.
I am a survivor of violence. My father beat my mother on a regular basis and my mother beat me. The children’s book and the Osso safe certifications for properties would have made a positive difference in my life. My company was born out of a 1-woman show called “Home Sweet Home?”, that I wrote, choreographed and performed. I have created bona fide paid products and services to make homes safe for all, especially children.
I dedicated my children’s book to my niece, Emma, who is not safe at home. She loves the book. With Osso Safe Certifications, she would live with me in safety because she knows she would be respected and free. Like all children, her voice will be heard and her choice will be implemented.
It’s Respect.
It’s Osso Safe, as homes should be.
Sabrina Osso
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