In this episode of Beyond the Jargon, Karen talks with Jacquelynn Duron, associate professor at Rutgers University, and Melissa South, assistant director of the WISE Program at Children’s Aid and Family Services in South Orange, New Jersey, about their work to address and treat problematic sexual behavior in youth and help stop cycles of shame and abuse.

Beyond the Jargon is brought to you by the National Foundation to End Child Abuse and Neglect (EndCAN). Learn more: www.endcan.org 

Links:
The WISE Program: https://cafsnj.org/wise/

In this episode of Beyond the Jargon, Karen talks with Kelley Fong, assistant professor at the University of California-Irvine and the author of Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services, about her work exploring families' interactions with state and social service systems, particularly the child welfare system.

Beyond the Jargon is brought to you by the National Foundation to End Child Abuse and Neglect (EndCAN). Learn more: www.endcan.org  

In this episode of Beyond the Jargon, Karen talks with Donna Bloom and Sarah Lehman, the Director of Legal Services and the Advocacy Coordinator at Denton County Friends of the Family, a non-profit organization in Texas that provides compassionate, comprehensive services to those impacted by domestic violence, about their work to promote safety, healing, and prevention and to help survivors navigate the complexities of the health, criminal justice, and child protection systems. 

Denton County Friends of the Family: https://dcfof.org

Beyond the Jargon is brought to you by the National Foundation to End Child Abuse and Neglect (EndCAN). Learn more: www.endcan.org  

In this episode of Beyond the Jargon, Karen talks with Sharmaine Joyner, Program Manager for Project CATCH, about her work to build a collaborative case management model that provides youth-focused services to families and children experiencing homelessness.

Project CATCH: https://southernusa.salvationarmy.org/wake/project-catch 

In this episode of Beyond the Jargon, host Karen Albright talks with Karen Fetherston, Executive Director of BeLEAF Survivors, about her longtime work with the Stop Child Abuse & Neglect (SCAN) program to provide direct service prevention education in schools.

BeLEAF Survivors: www.beleafsurvivors.org

Beyond the Jargon is brought to you by the National Foundation to End Child Abuse and Neglect (EndCAN). Learn more: www.endcan.org  

In this episode of Beyond the Jargon, Karen talks with Dr. Galena Rhoades, Research Professor at the University of Denver and Executive Director of Thriving Families, a non-profit that provides support programs for women during pregnancy and postpartum to foster stronger family relationships and improve their well-being. 

Learn more about Thriving Families: https://motherwisecolorado.org/

In this episode of Beyond the Jargon, Karen talks with Dr. Heather J. Risser, Director of the Family CARE Parenting Lab and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, about her work to partner with parents and community providers to find gaps in service access and service delivery, and to design intervention strategies to address those gaps by building parent capacity to meet their children’s needs and overcome barriers to treatment. 

Family CARE Parenting Lab: https://sites.northwestern.edu/familycareparentinglab/ 

In this episode of Beyond the Jargon, Karen talks with Dr. Hank Puls, Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and the Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, about his work to reduce child maltreatment, particularly physical abuse during infancy and early childhood.

In this episode of Beyond the Jargon, Karen talks with Dr. Lisa Schelbe, Director of the Child Well-Being Research Network and Associate Professor at Florida State University, about the importance of collaboration between researchers, policymakers, and practitioners—and why that collaboration is sometimes difficult to achieve.  

"Transition to Adulthood for Youth Leaving Care Can Be Made Smoother, Safe"
https://youthtoday.org/2019/06/transition-to-adulthood-for-youth-leaving-care-can-be-made-smoother-safer/ 

In this episode of Beyond the Jargon, Karen talks with Dr. Tagrid Ruiz-Maldonado, a physician and faculty member at the University of Utah, about her work to better identify and understand childhood injuries. 

In this episode of Beyond the Jargon, Karen talks with Stephen Gruver, the Director of Social Services at the Salvation Army of Wake County, about his work to promote a safe and supportive environment for families and children, particularly through trauma-informed programs designed to coordinate services for those experiencing homelessness. 

What are Family Resource Centers, and how do we measure their effectiveness in preventing child abuse and neglect? In this episode, Karen talks with Dr. Sara Bayless, a Vice President and researcher at the OMNI Institute, about the organization's work to measure the return on investment to local child welfare systems by investing in Family Resource Centers. 

In this episode of Beyond the Jargon, Karen talks with Dr. Natasha Saunders and Dr. Etienne Archambault about their work to understand the scope and nature of the development of mental illness in children following physical assault.

Dr. Saunders and Dr. Archambault are pediatrician-researchers at the University of Toronto, the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, and Sainte-Justine Hospital in Montreal.

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In this episode of Beyond the Jargon, Karen talks with Dr. Heather Taussig, Professor at the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Social Work and an Adjunct Professor at the Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect at the University of Colorado, about her work investigating the buffering impact of turning points in the lives of young people with foster care experience. 

In this episode of Beyond the Jargon, Karen talks with Michele Fingerman, Vice President of Prevention Programs for the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline, Larel Jacobs, Director of Hotline Operations for Childhelp, and Laura Schwab Reese, Assistant Professor at Purdue University, about their collaborative, data-driven work to incorporate text capacity into Childhelp’s hotline, and why understanding data is critical to their work.

Scientific research- how does it work?

Dr. Dalton Conley joins us to discuss the process of scientific research— breaking down how it works, what it means, and how it’s used. 
Dr. Conley is the Henry Putnam University Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, pro-bono Dean of Health Sciences for the University of the People, and a faculty affiliate at Princeton’s Office of Population Research and the Center for Health & Wellbeing. 

Join us— beyond the Jargon.