The next couple of days
I’ll be keeping an eye on the news about Ivan, and hoping for the best.
I cant say that I was really aware of this organization until I got an email from someone at CASA-Nashville yesterday. I did want to bring them to your attention though, if you live in the Nashville area: I work with Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Nashville, Tennessee. We are a nonprofit organization that…
If you can’t read that, or Twitter starts blocking embeds again – at the mention of a pediatric psychiatric hospital Rep. Cox said “You might want to check that place for grooming”.
Yes, the very mention of providing mental health care for children is met with a suggestion that it is a place for grooming. Because, of course, anyone who encourages kids to talk about their mental health is out to groom them for sexual abuse.
This is a dangerous path that we are on.
I found this post about the statistics of on-line predators compared to the level of panic about on-line predators quite interesting. I’ve been aware for a number of years that focused media attention on any issue can greatly impact how people act, regardless of what the actual risk might be. How many people won’t travel…
I’ve been off-line for a couple of days, enjoying some vacation time with the wife. Tonight we’re in Boone, NC with free wi-fi so I’m spending just a little bit of time getting caught up on some things. One of those things is pointing out that the October Edition of the Carnival Against Child Abuse…
From a mention on OxBlog I found links to humanitarian relief efforts for Iraqis from the Red Cross and UNICEF. We watched them celebrate their new freedom from Saddam’s oppression yesterday, and now these organizations are going to be part of a huge effort to rebuild the country and help it’s people. That’s a pretty…
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