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Keeping Them Safe
Keeping Them Safe
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Sifting Prevention Efforts
Why bother to become an Alert Adult? Why should I take the time to do what I think the professional community should be doing? Find out why what you do to become an Alert Adult is worth the time - worth the effort - worth the focus - FOR ALL CH...
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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...
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 ...