In a first in the
Boston business
community, Eastern
Bank teamed with
its newest Partner
for Good, Aly
Raisman, to spark
a conversation
about child se
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In a first in the Boston business community, Eastern Bank teamed with its newest Partner for Good, Aly Raisman, to spark a conversation about child sexual abuse and the importance of adults to help break the silence around it, and to call on local business leaders to get involved through employee education and funding. Raisman shared details of her partnership with Darkness to Light, the nation’s leading nonprofit advocating for adults to help prevent and destigmatize child sexual abuse, and her Flip the Switch campaign. The Flip the Switch initiative encourages all adults involved with youth sports to complete Darkness to Light’s Stewards of Children® training, which is widely recognized as the leading, evidence-informed child sexual abuse prevention program in the country and has taught more than 1.7 million adults how to recognize, prevent and react responsibly to child sexual abuse. Eastern Bank announced it will make this prevention training available to its employees, a first in the New England bus...