Helped Affected Individuals
Groenveld first began providing information about what she referred to as cults to the public and helping affected individuals in 1979. In 1980, she founded the Freedom In Christ ministry, whose purpose was to counsel former members of controversial groups, and provide information about coercive religious sects.
Jan founded the Cult Awareness and Information Centre (CAIC), in 1990. Groenveld's CAIC website was started in 1991, with an original size of 500 kilobytes. Groenveld first met Steven Hassan in 1993, when she brought him to Brisbane, Australia from the United States for a seminar. Hassan educated Groenveld as to the serious potential for doubt and lack of veracity in satanic ritual abuse stories.
Groenveld's name eventually became well known as an educator and campaigner against so-called cults and controversial religious sects. Groenveld's Cult Awareness and Information Centre was listed with her name as a resource in Marlene Winell's book, Leaving the Fold. "Jan Groenveld" is a prohibited term on the Church of Scientology's internet filters, software it gives its members to filter out critical information on the internet. See Scientology versus the Internet.
Read more about this topic: Jan Groenveld
Famous quotes containing the words helped, affected and/or individuals:
“God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“I am less affected by their heroism who stood up for half an hour in the front line at Buena Vista, than by the steady and cheerful valor of the men who inhabit the snow-plow for their winter quarters; who have not merely the three-o’-clock-in-the-morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest, but whose courage does not go to rest so early, who go to sleep only when the storm sleeps or the sinews of their iron steed are frozen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The world’s made up of individuals who don’t want to be heroes.”
—Brian Moore (b. 1921)