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Bits and Pieces of Interesting Items

  • Tomorrow evening, ESPN’s excellent E:60 program will do a piece on Invisible Victims:

According to experts, children with disabilities are three times more likely than children without them to be victims of sexual abuse. And when the disability is mental rather than physical – meaning the disability is not immediately visible – the cases are even harder to address or to adjudicate. Focusing on a teenage basketball player from South Carolina, Jeremy Schaap uncovers this silent epidemic in an E:60 investigation.

  • The P Luna Foundation is looking for help and ideas for Male Abuse Awareness Week:

Male Abuse Awareness Week, Dec 1-8 is coming up soon. We are planning an event in San Francisco. Any other suggestions on how to make this a successful year for the charity? :)) Lets talk?
http://help4guys.org/

 

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