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Keeping Them Safe
Keeping Them Safe
Latest Episodes
Screening, Selection, and Monitoring
A significant part of creating and maintaining safe environments for our children is taking stock of the programs they are part of. In this episode we talk about the screening process, the selection criteria, and the monitoring that is required...
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Are we really meeting the 1993 mandate?
In 1993 the U.S. Study on Child Abuse and Neglect set out a mandate for prevention that focused on safer environments for children to grow up in. We are looking at what is happening with that mandate and how the existing paradigm for prevention...
Shifting the Context of Prevention
Context is defined as "the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed". In the world of child sexual abuse prevention, the context was determined almost 50...
Learning to Respond not just React
Children hear what we say. They translate it literally. This episode reminds us that it is important for us to think before we react to incidents, situations, news stories, gossip or even what our children say. We talk about things we might do ...
What to do when prevention fails?
Regardless of how vigilant we are, there will be times when predators oursmart us and our children pay the price. In addition, our commitment to being Alert Adults can open the door to another adult who is finally willing to share earlier abuse...