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Looking at Insurance Data to Identify What Works to Prevent Abuse in an Organization
This makes sense. Even something as common and necessary as background checks are only going to catch people who’ve already been caught before. It’s a good thing to do, but it leaves that gap. What doesn’t leave a gap is having policies and procedures in place that prevent anyone from being able to abuse kids when working with your organization. If being alone with a child is simply not acceptable for anyone, that closes those gaps.
As the article goes on, that means rules like not giving kids gifts, not driving them home, etc. That’s what works, and it has to just be the culture in the organization, no questions asked. Create that culture, and you’re making the best effort to protect kids that you can make.

Link – Friends can be Key in Coping with Mental Health Challenges
Yes, you can help people recover, just by being a good friend. “In a study published in Psychiatry Research in May 2017 researchers followed a group of more than 175 people who had experienced an episode of psychosis for two years and compared those who recovered and those who did not. More frequent social interaction…
Historical Brit paedophile gets 21 years
At the start of the month,  former teacher Derek Slade who had worked at two English private schools was found guilty of multiple counts of physical and sexual abuse against boys between 1978 and 1983. This week, Slade was subsequently jailed for 21 years and will serve 14 before being eligible for parole. It’s the…
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Phases of Healing tags: CA When to Share What tags: CA Do Your Fears Hold You Back? 3 Simple Strategies to Ease Fear tags: CA Vivian Norris: Breaking the Silence: The Media and Male Sexual Abuse tags: CA Sugar Ray Leonard: I was child sex abuse victim tags: CA Who’s Watching Your Children? Advice For…

Link – It’s time to approach mental health like a human
I just wrote yesterday about the need to take small steps, and build confidence in healing. Today, I found this post and I think Mark puts a great spin on the same thing: You probably approach physical fitness like a human. If you want to build strength, you lift heavy things that make you feel…

Sharing – Tearing down taboos: Tackling abuse in the Muslim community
I appreciate what the author of this article, Zahra Awaiz-Bilal, is saying. Each group that we belong to has it’s own culture, it’s own rules, and it’s own challenges when it comes to dealing with abuse, but it’s especially important to recognize this as well, across all of those cultures: “The plethora of news stories…
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