Frequently Asked Questions
- What is Little Warriors?
- What is the history of Little Warriors?
- What is the Vision of Little Warriors?
- What is the mission of Little Warriors?
- What is the mandate of Little Warriors?
- What are the goals and objectives of Little Warriors?
- Who founded Little Warriors and why?
- What are the statistics relating to child sexual abuse?
- What are the future plans of Little Warriors?
- Where are you located?
- What is the Stewards of Children Program?
- How did Little Warriors get its name?
- What does it mean to be a Little Warrior?
- How is Little Warriors funded?
- Who are the supporters of Little Warriors?
- Has Little Warriors received any grants?
- Does the government fund you?
- What is the operational structure of Little Warriors?
- Who are the members of your board of directors?
- Who are the members of your Advisory Board?
- Who are your media sponsors?
- Is Little Warriors a national charity?
- How can I get involved and help Little Warriors?
What is Little Warriors?
Little Warriors is a charitable organization with a national focus that educates adults about how to help prevent, recognize and react responsibly to child sexual abuse. Little Warriors also provides information about the prevalence and frequency of child sexual abuse and information about healing and support resources.
What is the history of Little Warriors?
Little Warriors was granted charitable status in February 2007. Since that time, a team of dedicated volunteers has worked to create an action based charitable organization that will help prevent child sexual abuse through education and awareness.
Glori Meldrum founded Little Warriors in August 2005. She was inspired to help all children who had been sexually abused because of her past experience as a survivor of child sexual abuse.
What is the Vision of Little Warriors?
To help prevent child sexual abuse.
What is the mission of Little Warriors?
To teach adults how to help prevent, recognize and react responsibly to child sexual abuse.
To raise awareness about the prevalence and frequency of child sexual abuse.
To provide national and local resource information about child sexual abuse.
What is the mandate of Little Warriors?
Little Warriors is committed to:
- Providing information about child sexual abuse.
- Providing child sexual abuse prevention strategies to adults through education.
- Providing information about healing and support resources.
What are the goals and objectives of Little Warriors?
Education
- Provide information about child sexual abuse and its prevalence.
- Raise awareness about child sexual abuse.
- Provide child sexual abuse resource information.
- Educate adults about how to help prevent child sexual abuse by delivering the Stewards of Children child sexual abuse prevention program.
Prevention
- Provide information about the tools and resources to help prevent child sexual abuse.
Healing and Support
- Work with those organizations that provide healing and support services.
- Link people to healing and support services through www.littlewarriors.ca.
Helping to Protect Children
- Provide and create educational tools for adults to help them protect children from child sexual abuse.
Who founded Little Warriors and why?
Founding Little Warriors has been a life long dream for Glori Meldrum – she just didn't know it. Her “Ah-Ha” moment occurred nearly 24 years after being abused. Glori had a dream to do something to help prevent child sexual abuse, and Little Warriors is the realization of that dream.
Glori is a successful entrepreneur, and it is her business knowledge, strong vision, and willingness to take risks and dedication to self-improvement that makes Glori an asset to the Little Warriors Board of Directors.
In addition to being a Little Warrior herself, Glori is a business owner, mother, wife and philanthropist. She owns and operates a successful advertising agency and web development company. Glori is also involved in a number of projects for local not-for-profit organizations including The Good Samaritan Society, Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation and The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.
In 2005 Glori became the first female president of the Entrepreneurs Organization (EO) of Edmonton and has been honoured with a YWCA Women of Distinction Award. She was also named a finalist in the Best Entrepreneur – Service Businesses – Up to 100 Employees category in the 2005 Stevie Awards for Women.
What are the statistics relating to child sexual abuse?
What are the future plans of Little Warriors?
Little Warriors will continue to offer the Stewards of Children child sexual abuse prevention program and will continue building resources to accomplish the vision, mission and mandate of the organization.
In the future, Little Warriors also hopes to build places of healing for families whose lives have been impacted by child sexual abuse. These facilities will provide healing and support programs and direct access to professionals who can help victims and their families heal.
Where are you located?
The Little Warriors head office is located at:
Suite 203, 10637 – 124 Street
Edmonton, AB, Canada, T5N 1S5*Stewards of Children Adult Training Sessions are available at alternate venues, dependent on your city and province. Please visit our prevention training schedule section for detailed information.
What is the Stewards of Children Program?
The Stewards of Children Program, developed by the US organization Darkness to Light, is a child sexual abuse prevention program that is taught around the world to educate adults about how to prevent, recognize and react responsibly to child sexual abuse. The Stewards of Children Program is designed for parents, teachers, staff and volunteers with organizations that serve children and youth.
How did Little Warriors get its name?
The name Little Warriors was inspired by a painting. The spirit of a warrior lives within every victim of child sexual abuse. The imagery of a warrior is linked to child sexual abuse because victims need the strength and spirit of their inner warrior to face their experiences and heal. Like a warrior, these children also need the help, compassion, support and love of many people (like a tribe), to overcome the many obstacles they will face.
What does it mean to be a Little Warrior?
Little Warriors are survivors. They are children and adult survivors of child sexual abuse learning to heal their hearts, bodies and minds. They are trying to understand that the guilt and shame they may feel is not their burden to carry, but belongs to their perpetrator. They are learning to love and be honest with themselves and while learning to accept love and support from the people who care about them the most.
How is Little Warriors funded?
Little Warriors is funded privately through corporate donations and grants from community foundations. Many donations of products, services, supplies and equipment have also been made by a large number of supporters.
Who are the supporters of Little Warriors?
Has Little Warriors received any grants?
Does the government fund you?
To date all contributions have been made by private and corporate donations and community foundations.
What is the operational structure of Little Warriors?
Little Warriors consists of a Board of Directors, as well as an Advisory Board. Operational decisions are made by the Acting CEO and Board of Directors. The Advisory Board consists of industry professionals and academics that can provide confident and critical eye supervision regarding all major Little Warriors initiatives.
Who are the members of your board of directors?
Who are the members of your Advisory Board?
Who are your media sponsors?
Is Little Warriors a national charity?
Although the Little Warriors office is located in Alberta, Little Warriors has a national focus. Our goal is to have trained facilitators teach the Stewards of Children program across the country.
Little Warriors has also compiled a list of healing and support resources throughout Canada, which will continually be updated.
