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.
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