Protect The Joy
Nonprofit Organization Management - Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Protect the Joy is a National Advocacy Organization whose mission is to guide and fund adult-sized activism and policy to protect the emotional, social, and physical well-being of our youngest citizens.Our Motivation: In the Spring of 2010, Chelsea King, daughter of Protect the Joy founder Brent King, was attacked and murdered on a sunny San Diego afternoon while running trails in a public park. She was a senior in high school. This was not the predator's first sexual attack on a child. The despair that gripped the King family and community was galvanized into action. Applying evidence-based research, they crafted the language contained in Chelsea's Law, a one-strike law that carries a 25 years to life sentence for sexual predators targeting children. California passed it unanimously, followed by other states, and it is now the model, nationwide, for protecting kids from sexual predators. Today, more than 17 million kids are safer because a single community united in grief, took action. The combined power of VOICE, VISION, and LEGISLATION proven, the King family realized that their mission to protect children had only begun. And so, Protect the Joy was born.A Voice For Our Kids:There are organizations built around passing laws to protect trees, coastlines, and birds—all unquestionably important—but there is not an advocacy group in America dedicated exclusively to keeping children safe. Sexual predators, online predators, domestic abuse, pesticides, gun violence, drug proliferation, bullying, food safety, air quality—the list of what threatens our kids is far too long, and it continues to grow.Protect the Joy harnesses the invaluable input of our Joyists combined with powerhouse activists, communities of doers, and legions of lawyers to develop, champion, and pass legislation that protects children from harm. Together, we give children a voice in every State Capital building, in Congress, in the Senate, and in the White House.
