"Being a victim of child abuse is often a long road to recovery. Steve Davis, familiar with this process, is the founder of On River Time, a charity that lets the role of fly fishing help victims of abuse to heal, at the Lodge at Palisades. After...
"The plan would be the first collaborative effort across the industry to block paedophiles from sharing images online, and would involve a single database of the worst child abuse images. "At the moment, each company has its own process for removing...
"The green walls and frosted glass panels in the newly renovated veterans legal clinic at John Marshall Law School might strike most visitors as nothing more than slick finishes in a fancy new office space. "But to architect Chad Harrell, every detail...
http://youtu.be/UnIzyimUcr0 Gresham College, founded in 1597, lecture defining how children grow up with parents who have serious personal challenges.
Blog post of ACEsConnection member Patricia Wilcox, LCSW. "I am re-reading the Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh. If you haven’t read it, do so immediately! It is a wonderful story and conveys the inside experience of the children we...
"People often wonder what the long-term consequences of child abuse are. Now if we're talking about, for example, physical abuse, the child may have sustained broken bones which may heal with no problems at all, or depending on the type of fracture...
"What do we owe our tormentors? It’s a question that haunts those who had childhoods marked by years of neglect and deprivation, or of psychological, physical, and sexual abuse at the hands of one or both parents. Despite this terrible...
"High Levels of Emotional Stress Can Be Toxic to Children, But Nurturing Can Help... "Research has found that adverse childhood experiences like poverty, a parent’s job loss, or parental substance abuse, cause severe stress in young children,...
"Physicians in all 50 states are required to report suspected maltreatment of a child.... "The AAFP and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recently issued final recommendations stating that current evidence is insufficient to assess the...
"Maui Economic Opportunity, Inc. (MEO) is the recipient of a $10,000 grant from AT&T. "MEO Youth Services will hold an educational and healthy activity camp called Camp HOPE Maui in July for children exposed to high-risk behaviors.... A growing body of research, including the Kauai Longitudinal Study, demonstrates that children with adverse childhood experiences can overcome this trauma with interventions that include activities that promote resiliency, competency, and...
"Learn to recognize the six signs of child abuse and sexual abuse: trouble walking or sitting; knowledge or interest in acts inappropriate to his or her age; makes strong efforts to avoid a specific person without an obvious reason; ...
"A new child victims unit has been created within the state Attorney General’s Office to streamline prosecution of suspects in child abuse cases and provide social services to victims in Delaware. “The child victims unit brings together...
"In an outspoken intervention, the Education Secretary warned that many households were being turned into guesthouses with “fleeting” fathers playing a bit-part in children’s lives and young people being left to fend for themselves....
"We teach students a simple solution if they encounter an attempt of sexual assault. Shout, Yell, Run and Tell," said Anita Pereira, president, Udant, a NGO which has developed and mentored this module. We ask children, within the age group of 10 to...