We are delighted to announce that Alisa Barnard has joined the team at Learning Courage as Director of Operations and Consultant. It doesn’t often happen that when you imagine the type of person you need for a role, the perfect candidate emerges, but that’s exactly what happened with Alisa. As we discussed our growing needs […]

By Alison Cross | across@courant.com | Hartford Courant UPDATED: October 8, 2024 at 12:42 p.m. For survivors of child sex abuse, studies have found that most men and women will not come forward with their experiences until after their 40th birthday — if they choose to speak about it all. Jamie Forbes said it took roughly 35 years to go public with his story. […]

Amy Wheeler and Jamie Forbes recently wrote something that appeared in Miss Hall's School's alumae magazine. Titled "Caring For Survivors Is Caring For the School", the article shares their observations about working with schools that have conducted investigations into historic educator sexual misconduct. The article discusses the range of emotions that are held within the […]

United Educators (UE) insurance announces a groundbreaking partnership with nonprofit Learning Courage to help prevent sexual abuse at K-12 independent day and boarding schools and youth-serving organizations.

Jamie discusses his experience living as a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and the process of healing, including preparing to face his abuser in court.

Jamie Forbes speaks about what motivated him to start Learning Courage and what he aims to do for schools and for survivors.

During our Hope event this February, we showed the below video, which explains how we work with schools and the impact schools experience when we partner with them to reduce and respond to sexual abuse and misconduct.

About This Podcast Episode In this episode, United Educators' (UE’s) Melanie Bennett interviews Dr. Shamus Khan, co-author of the book Sexual Citizens, and Jamie Forbes, CEO of Learning Courage. How Findings From the Book Sexual Citizens Translate to K-12 | United Educators (ue.org) Melanie Bennett, Esq. ARM-E, Senior Risk Management Counsel In her role on UE’s […]

Photo credit: Matt Kalinowski This month's issue of Boston Magazine features an article written by our founder, Jamie Forbes. In it, he writes about his personal experience being abused by a male teacher at Milton Academy when he was a freshman there in the early 1980s. Getting this kind of mainstream media attention on a […]

Courage To Act: Building Community After Sexual Abuse The National Business Officers' Association (NBOA) recently published an article written by our Founder, Jamie Forbes. The piece identifies critical supportive services that schools should consider providing when incidents are reported. To read the article in full, click here. Or to download a PDF of the article, click […]

Help us double your gift! An anonymous donor has generously offered Learning Courage $50,000 in matching challenge funds over the next 2 years. Matching funds are available for gifts from people who have not yet supported our work.

Respected educator and author, Peggy Orenstein, wrote an important opinion piece in today's NY Times. In it, she argues that the availability of porn online exposes all children to it- like it or not. And ignoring that leaves out an important tool in helping kids understand how to become good sexual citizens. We do no favor to students (and our broader community) when we ignore the presence and role of porn in the education of our children's education about sex.