This Week’s Links (weekly)
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Several new cases of sexual abuse unearthed at Penn State as a result of enhanced training
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STOP THE HURT – UK Based Support
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‘Tis the Season to be Depressed
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tips to child sexual abuse prevention
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Stranger Danger is rare in child abuse cases
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Self Injury Signs and Symptoms
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Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Unfortunately, I think too many survivors seem to think this way: You will hear many phrases about healing. ‘When I heal’ etc. The idea of this is to give us hope. Hope that one day we will be cured and have no suffering. At the time of our darkest hour, thoughts of healing may help…
In our overly connected society, we may often confuse connectivity with connection — human connection that is. Commenting, texting, reposting and retweeting have become substitutes for communication, and we often erroneously use these to gauge the status of a relationship. That can be dangerous, because the truth is so much gets overlooked when scrolling through…
The increase is startling. “In actual numbers, the suicide rate among 10- to 24-year-olds jumped from about 7 per 100,000 in 2007 to nearly 11 per 100,000 in 2018, according to the National Vital Statistics Report published Sept. 11.” Note that this is all pre-2020, so we can’t blame this on pandemic, or anything else…
I think the statistics coming from the text service in the UK are interesting. In the 10 months since Shout launched as the UK’s first 24/7, free and confidential crisis text service, our trained volunteers have had 250,000 conversations. Around 18,000 of these have been with children under 13. Suicide is the main issue that…
Louisiana to spend $500K to keep suicide prevention hotline runni Childhood abuse increases risk of adult suicide, finds research Don’t Say Things that Make Depression Worse for a Loved One Bucks County aims to train 25,000 to prevent child abus Live Your Life for You, Not to Please Expectations Free Webinar: Identifying Past Trauma Responsible…
Single Handed is an Anglo-Irish police drama featuring Owen McConnel as Sergeant Jack Driscoll, member of the Irish Garda police force who takes over his retired father’s patrol patch in the Connemara region of Ireland. The Lost Boys is the two-part series 4 opener for the UK showings of the drama, though ITV in the…