In the UK, the children’s charity NSPCC has launched a new campaign aimed at teaching children about abuse. The goal is to allow kids to “say now I know instead of I wish I had known”. More information is available in the news story, as well as on the NSPCC site
As part of our general late summer catchup, UK Newspaper the Daily Mail published two stories about false allegations of rape and child sexual abuse over the long weekend at the end of August. The first, which had hallmarks of some American college cases where consensual sex was recorded on a mobile phone and proved…
“Multiple stressors in the child’s family and community context, and social and cultural attitudes that shame and blame victims, can create environments in which disclosure is fraught with difficulty. The process of disclosure often involves behavioural and indirect cues, and accidental disclosures, as much or more often than a conscious decision to tell someone about…
This is something many of us in the child abuse survivor community have known about for awhile. Society as a whole seems to be having a similar problem. “Of course we are moving away from touch!” exclaims Francis McGlone, a professor in neuroscience at Liverpool John Moores university and a leader in the field of…
As I’ve been writing in the past few days, this is another example of how childhood trauma is leading to bad outcomes as adults. This time from Canada. ““We have a health equity issue on our hands, and we need to talk about how to reduce rates of incarceration in the first place,” Bodkin said….
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This week is National Suicide Prevention Week in the US, and it just so happens that Friday is also World Suicide Prevention Day. I wanted to take a moment and highlight the Take 5 to Save Lives program that the National Council for Prevention of Suicide has put together for this year. I think there…
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Watch for the 2014 “Turn Up The Volume” Tour announcement coming very soon. A Tour that will be Empowering Youth and Children by Empowering them to Speak Up and Speak Out.
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RT @SurvivorNetwork: NSPCC Launches Now I Know Campaign: In the UK, the children’s charity NSPCC has launched a new campaign aimed at t… …