Links (weekly)
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Boxer Quanitta Underwood’s Inspiring Fight Against Sexual Abuse — and for Olympic Gold
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Child Abuse at Miramonte Elementary School & Keeping Children Safe!
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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Sharing – What Is Familial Sexual Grooming?
Consider how often a child is not believed because the family friend or member “doesn’t seem like the type?”
That’s familial grooming. That is getting the family to see you as one thing when you are targeting a child in that family, thereby not only giving you access to the child but creating doubt about whether their own child is telling the truth. It also doesn’t help that so many of us think we know what a predator looks like, and are so easily fooled:
Sharing – Carrying heavy secrets alone: sexual trauma disclosure in boys and men
We shouldn’t act surprised when claims of abuse are revealed many years after the act. That’s not evidence that the claim is false; it’s just the norm.
Sharing – Psychoeducation: What It Is and How it Helps
Get educated about trauma and the conditions that can be caused by trauma. Do it for yourself so that you can understand and heal from your trauma and do it for the people around you impacted by trauma.
Don’t tell me you don’t know anyone who’s been impacted by trauma. That’s simply not true.
