Rosemary Webb,
Co-President

Rosemary Wooden Webb has been an advocate for awareness and prevention of sexual crimes for over three decades. Her career began as a teenager, when she lobbied the U.S. Congress with her family in 1977 to watch a CBS "Sixty Minutes" segment on child pornography. The piece was based on the investigative reporting of her father, child advocate Ken Wooden. Many members of Congress did watch the show, and it led to creation of the Sexual Exploitation of Children Act of 1977. This was the first federal legislative effort to regulate child pornography and provide funding for victims of child sexual abuse and exploitation.

In 1985, Rosemary co-founded Child Lures Prevention in Shelburne, Vermont with father, Ken Wooden and sister, Jennifer Mitchell. Together, they created the Think First & Stay Safe School Program, a turn-key personal safety program for schools, churches and youth organizations. Rosemary has been instrumental in revising and updating the program many times over the years to keep up with changing social and crime trends. Over 7,000 schools and school systems nationwide now use the acclaimed Think First & Stay Safe program, which was the sole prevention program featured at the most recent White House Conference on Missing, Exploited and Runaway Children.

Rosemary works with educators, law enforcement, military and religious organizations and community leaders across the country to bring prevention education to their communities. In 2006, she garnered an Emmy Award co-producing the televised town hall meeting, "Smart Choices, Safe Kids: A Child Lures Prevention Town Hall Meeting,” which was broadcast statewide throughout Illinois, compliments of NBC-5 Chicago.

Knowing the power of television and peer teaching, Rosemary recently teamed up with colleague Jennifer Mitchell to develop the Teen Lures TV Newscast. The Teen Lures TV Newscast gives students the opportunity to serve as news anchors, broadcasting sexual assault awareness and prevention facts to their peers via live performances, taped presentations and , where available, closed-circuit or cable TV. www.teenluresprevention.com.

Rosemary was the spokesperson in national PSA's produced by John Walsh and appears regularly as a personal safety expert on local and national television. She regularly presents at conferences and for educational and community groups across the nation.

She recently testified before the Vermont Senate Judiciary Committee at one of its special sessions concerning Vermont's sexual offender protocol and laws. Rosemary serves as a member of the Vermont Department of Children and Families' Community Outreach Working Group, which creates legislative recommendations on how most effectively to implement sexual abuse prevention education programming. She belongs to the Vermont Chamber of Commerce and the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce.

On a personal note, Rosemary has been married for thirteen years and has an 11-year-old daughter and a 9-year-old son. She enjoys volunteering at her children's school, teaching enrichment programs in math, literature and science. Family time involves music, travel, boating, and an assortment of sports.

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