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Let’s take a moment to appreciate the partners of people with mental health issues
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Friends in Crisis: What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Let’s take a moment to appreciate the partners of people with mental health issues
Friends in Crisis: What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Nathan from DadWagon sent me a note today to let me know about an interview they did on the site with Joel Johnson. Joel is a gadget geek, and has worked on such well-known blogs as Gizmodo, and BoingBoing. Recently, he posted on his personal site about having grown up a victim of sexual abuse…
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“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…
A new twist in the ever-present Catholic Child Abuse crisis happened around the time of Jerry Sandusky’s conviction. This time a priest was convicted of covering up abuse by failing to report priests to either authorities or the new dioceses where offending priests had been moved. The BBC has the summary here. – CBG
As Marisa Kabas, who should be credited with bringing all of this to light, points out, the NCMEC website no longer talks about the increased risk of trafficking to LGBTQ+ youth. They can no longer provide resources and education about those risks or information about how to support those kids. They are even expected to dead-name missing trans kids in all announcements.
They are leaving LGBTQ+ kids behind. The alternative to doing that was not to have funding to run the only reporting agency for online CSAM, the clearinghouse used by many online services and law enforcement agencies to combat CSAM and trafficking, and the primary source of information about missing children in the US.