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Prevention begins with seeing the pattern. We help adults recognize grooming before harm, through education built for parents, teachers, and communities.
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We Are A Survivor-Led Movement
survivors breaking silence building community demanding justice for ourselves and the next generation
Founder Jan Broberg With Her Son & Co-Founder Austen Tanner
Los Angeles, CA • 1994
The shape of the work
Awareness • Community • Justice
Everything we build sits on three pillars. Each one answers a different part of the same question: how do we keep this from happening again, and help the people it already happened to.
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Community
No survivor should have to heal alone. We build peer-to-peer survivor-led community where survivors are seen, believed, and supported.
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Justice
Protection takes more than awareness. We work to change the laws that run out before survivors are ready to speak.
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Breaking silence
Awareness starts with education.
Awareness is JBF's first pillar because nothing changes without it. Grooming happens in silence. Abuse happens in silence. Systems fail in silence. The work of breaking that silence is education: equipping people with the knowledge, language, and courage to recognize harm, interrupt it before it happens, and speak openly about what survivors experience.
SPOT6
Our community grooming education and prevention program, created by Teresa Agustin. We teach the public how to spot the six stages of child grooming, equipping families, schools, and communities to recognize the signs and interrupt harm before it happens.
Trauma Interrupted
Hosted by Jan Broberg, reframing the stigma around trauma and abuse. When survivors are heard, we all begin to heal.
Building community
Healing happens in community.
Healing does not happen in isolation. It happens in community. Every survivor deserves to be counted, and your presence is part of something much larger than any one of us.
The Survivor Circle
A free online community where survivors of trauma, shame, and abuse find connection, peer support, and people who truly understand. No shame. No blame. Just people who get it.
T.I.M.E.
Trauma Interrupted, Mitigated & Expressed. A peer-to-peer supportive framework for trauma recovery, over twelve phases, led by survivors for survivors. It lives inside the Circle.
Demanding justice
Protection requires changing the law and public policy.
Children's rights are civil rights. The United States has never fully treated them that way. For too long, survivors have been doubted and dismissed by the very systems meant to protect them. That ends here.
10,000,000 Survivor Voices
We're raising ten million survivor voices to help end the statute of limitations for children in all fifty states and territories. Add yours, and stand with the survivors the system has doubted for far too long.
End the Statutes of Limitations
JBF is actively supporting legislation to end the statute of limitations in all fifty states and territories, so a survivor's healing never runs out the clock on justice.
Awareness
Prevention begins with awareness.
Predators follow a pattern. Once adults can see it, they can interrupt it. Awareness is the first and most protective thing we do.
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Trauma Interrupted with Jan Broberg
The wound, the work, and the way forward.
Jan Broberg sits down with survivors, experts, and advocates for honest, long-form conversations about what happened, what healing actually takes, and how people find their way back.
No sensationalism. No tidy endings. Just the truth, told by the people living it.
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Prevention education
Spot the six stages of grooming.
Predators live where we live. They follow a pattern, and the pattern can be seen. SPOT6 teaches parents, educators, and communities to recognize the six stages of grooming and intervene before harm.
Spot a stage. Save a child.
The 6 stages of grooming
- 01Selecting a targetThey watch, identify a vulnerable child, and test how they respond.
- 02Gaining trustThey win over the child and the adults who guard them.
- 03Filling a needThey become the one who gives attention, money, freedom.
- 04IsolationThey separate the child from the people who would notice.
- 05DesensitizationThey erode boundaries until contact is made to feel normal.
- 06Maintaining controlThey keep the child silent through guilt, shame, and fear.
Community
No survivor should have to heal alone.
Healing does not happen in isolation. It happens in community. This is where the people who understand find each other.
Healing happens in community.
The Survivor Circle is a free, private, peer-to-peer survivor-led community. Survivors talk with survivors. They share what helped, sit with what still hurts, and build the kind of belonging that recovery actually needs.
Events, recovery meetings, retreats, and quiet everyday connection. Built by survivors, for survivors.
The T.I.M.E. Program
An eight-week, peer-to-peer healing Program for trauma recovery.
T.I.M.E. is our eight-week Program, moving through recovery one step at a time in a cycle that loops back to the beginning. It runs as a cohort, with open enrollment, so you can join any time and enter wherever the group is.
It lives inside the Survivor Circle. Built by survivors, led by survivors. Stay for as many cycles as you need.
Happening now
There is always something going on here.
If Kris sent you here, you are in the right place. Jan sat down with Kris Collins on Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder and told the whole thing. If you found us because of that conversation, welcome. You do not need a story ready. You do not need to be far along. You just have to show up.
Coming up in the Circle
Wednesday, August 12 · 12:00 PM MDT
Meditation with Edit B. Kiss
Better sleep, better mood, better focus. A guided hour with the Circle's community director.
Saturday, August 15 · 12:00 PM MDT
Meet & Greet with Jan Broberg · Boundaries
A boundary is not a wall. Come talk about the ones we are all still learning to hold.
The Meet and Greet runs every Saturday at noon Mountain. Come as you are. There is nothing to prepare and nothing you have to say.
Trauma Interrupted with Jan Broberg
Jan's own podcast. A new episode every Friday, on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you listen.
Start listening →Thank you to Kris and the whole KallmeKris team for making room for this conversation.
Justice
Protection requires changing the law and public policy.
Awareness and community help survivors. Justice keeps the next child safer. That means changing the rules that fail them.
"No survivor should run out of time to be believed. We will end these statutes of limitations in all fifty states, and I intend to see it happen in my lifetime."
Jan Broberg, Founder
Survivors of childhood abuse should not have a deadline to seek justice.
Most states put a time limit on how long a survivor of CSA can bring a case against the person who harmed them. The clock starts early and runs out, in many places, before a survivor is ready to say what happened.
Disclosure takes time. Most survivors don't speak until well into adulthood, sometimes decades later. By then the law has often run out, and the people who caused the harm walk free because a survivor's healing didn't fit a courtroom's calendar.
Raising 10,000,000 Survivor Voices
Add your voice to help end the statute of limitations for children in all fifty states and territories, and stay with us as the campaign grows.
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The reality
The scale of this crisis demands more than silence, far more.
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1 in 4 girls
An estimated one in four girls experiences CSA before the age of eighteen. Most never disclose while it is happening, so researchers widely agree the true number is higher.
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U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1 in 6 boys
An estimated one in six boys experiences CSA before adulthood. Boys disclose at even lower rates than girls, so this figure almost certainly understates the reality.
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U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
97% known to the child
Abuse by a stranger is the rare exception. In the overwhelming majority of cases, the person who causes harm is someone the child already knows and trusts: a family member, family friend, coach, or caregiver.
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Darkness to Light
60M+ survivors
More than sixty million adults in the United States are survivors of childhood trauma. Behind each number is a person still carrying what happened to them.
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Darkness to Light
98% factual
When a child discloses abuse, they are almost always telling the truth. False reports are rare, even when a child later recants out of fear, pressure, or shame. Believing children is the first act of protection.
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Peer-reviewed disclosure research
Decades to disclose
Disclosure takes time. Many survivors do not find the words until well into adulthood, sometimes decades later. By then the legal window to seek justice has often already closed, which is exactly what the End the Statutes campaign exists to change.
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Survivor disclosure research
$9.3 billion a year
A federal estimate places the annual economic burden of CSA in the United States at $9.3 billion, and that figure reflects only reported cases and a narrow set of costs. The true cost, human and economic, is far higher.
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The CDC reports 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys experience CSA. We believe the real numbers are higher, because many survivors never report.
The Johns Hopkins figure of $9.3 billion reflects only reported cases and a narrow set of costs. When you factor in addiction, mental health disorders, self-harm, suicide attempts, intergenerational trauma, and the disproportionate impact on Indigenous communities, the true cost is almost certainly in the trillions. The human cost cannot be measured at all.
JBF exists because these numbers demand action, and because survivors deserve more than statistics.
In their words
Here's what happens when survivors break the silence, begin to heal, and demand to be heard.
Coming from severe trauma and violent sexual abuse from age 6 through 21, I never thought anyone would ever believe me. Now I can actually celebrate my survival. My life looks so different now than it did three years ago. I am forever grateful for the Survivor Circle.
Telling my story to someone who believed me changed everything. Three years ago I was cutting, lost, and desperate for connection. Everything changed when I found you, shared, and let the healing begin. I am finally at that happy place I always said I dreamed about.
I am forever grateful for that circle of support that saved my life. I am now the grandmother of four granddaughters and feel that my healing has broken the generational cycle of abuse in my family.
Our mission
We exist to prevent child abuse through education, to support every survivor's healing through community, and to interrupt systems that perpetuate harm, so all survivor stories are honored and future generations are protected.
Our vision
A world where prevention is possible, where trauma no longer lives in silence, where survivors heal together in community, and where public policy supports survivors and protects children.
Our values
Your safety comes first.
Everything we build, every program, every space, and every conversation is designed with your safety at the center. You will not be pushed, pressured, or exposed here. You set the pace.
Your privacy is sacred.
What you share, when you share it, and with whom is entirely your decision. We will never expose, exploit, or trade what you entrust to us. Your story belongs to you.
Met with dignity.
Every survivor who comes through our doors deserves to be treated with respect and care, exactly as they are and exactly where they are. No exceptions and no conditions.
Radical inclusivity.
There is no wrong time to arrive and no story too small, too big, too complicated, or too long in the making. We actively build spaces where everyone belongs and everyone is welcome.
Honest conversations.
We are not afraid to name hard things. Trauma, abuse, grooming, systemic failure, and the work of healing all require honesty and education, and we will not look away.
Accountability over silence.
We call out the systems, institutions, and cultural norms that protect perpetrators and silence survivors. Politely staying quiet is not neutrality, it is complicity.
Healing is active.
We believe in every survivor's capacity to heal and build a brighter future. That healing requires courage, community, and doing the work, and we will walk alongside you, but the journey is yours.
Community as medicine.
Healing does not happen in isolation. Connection, shared experience, and peer support are not supplemental to recovery and they are not optional. They are central to it.
Hope as a practice.
We choose hope not as a feeling but as a daily commitment, to survivors, to the next generation, and to the world we are building together.
Our mark
A heart, three layers, and one small voice.
Every element is intentional. The path runs from the inside out, and from the bottom up.
A free soul
A bird. The place the journey is heading, and proof of where that growth leads.
Three expanding layers
Awareness, community, and justice, widening outward, because that is the path.
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Birds in flight
Look again and the layers lift. The same shape, taking off.
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The inner child’s voice
The quiet one. The survivor not yet heard. The whole foundation exists for that voice.
Our founders
This foundation didn't come from a boardroom. It came from survival.
Jan Broberg
Co-Founder & Executive Director
Jan Broberg is a mother, a sister, a friend, and someone who loves life deeply. She is empathetic, community-driven, and unwavering in her belief that a better future is possible if we are willing to unite in the fight for it.
She is also a survivor. As a child, Jan was abducted twice by a trusted family friend and subjected to years of abuse. Rather than retreat from that experience, she chose transparency: to tell the truth about what happened, about every sign that was missed, and about every way the system failed her family, because she believed that truth had the power to protect others.
That belief became the Jan Broberg Foundation. Today she brings that same openness to everything she does: the Trauma Interrupted podcast, SPOT6 presentations in schools and communities, the Survivor Circle, and the campaign to end the statutes of limitations for children. She shows up not as a spokesperson, but as a founder who is still doing the work.
She wants more for the next generation. That is why all of this exists.
Austen Tanner
Co-Founder & COO
Executive producer of Trauma Interrupted and program director of T.I.M.E.
He helps turn lived survivor experience into structure that other survivors can actually use.
Teresa Agustin
Board Chairwoman
Creator of SPOT6, our prevention education program,
and a survivor whose own search for justice, denied by a deadline she never knew was running, shapes our advocacy work.
Jan's TEDx talk
How to live in the 90%.
In this 12-minute TEDx talk, Jan shares her story of surviving severe childhood grooming, trauma, and sexual violence from ages 12 to 16.
Jan answers three questions that changed everything for her:
- 01Who do I want to be in the room?
- 02Who do I want to be in the world?
- 03What do I want to leave behind?
This talk is for every survivor who has ever wondered if healing is actually possible. It is.
As featured in
Jan's story has been told thousands of times. In magazines, on television, in two published books, and in two award-winning documentaries, including the Netflix documentary Abducted in Plain Sight and the Peacock series A Friend of the Family.
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This work runs on people who refuse to look away.
Every gift funds peer-to-peer survivor-led community, prevention education, and the campaign to end the statutes of limitations for children.
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There is more than one way in.
Volunteer
Help us do the work. If you have a few hours and a skill to lend, we can use them. You don't need to do everything, just something.
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Wherever you are in your story, there is a safe place for you here. Start in community, or just write to us when you're ready.
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