Apologies for missing a post yesterday, but I had a busted router, and therefore, no internet connection. Had I been up and running, I would have brought you this video clip [after the jump], which I find pretty disturbing. As far as things go, I’d say breast ironing, a practice found in Cameroon (in part [...]

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The National Child Protection Training Center is offering a webinar on vicarious trauma Thursday, August 19th at 3pm CT. Registration is $10. From the site: This workshop will address the effects of working with and responding to children who have witnessed and experienced violence, the effects of working with the people whose loved ones have [...]

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Time for May and June’s Articles of Note {so sorry to have not gotten one done last month!}. All of these are from the late April/May/June issues and electronic previews. As always, please keep in mind this in no way a comprehensive list; simply items that have caught my attention from a selection of peer-reviewed [...]

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Don’t forget, we have a fantastic giveaway going on right now! Just leave your comment here to enter. The National Child Protection Training Center has a webinar coming up in July that should be fantastic for those of you working with kids: Testifying in Court will be presented July 15th at 3pm Central. Cost is [...]

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Last chance to to partake in our latest $50 Amazon.com giveaway in honor of SAAM. To enter just let us know in the original post’s Comments section how you commemorated any day during SAAM, and one inspiring aspect of the day or the event you attended. You have until May 4th to be eligible. The [...]

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The Future of Children, a collaboration of The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and The Brookings Institution has an archived webcast of a panel presentation on preventing child maltreatment given last fall. The webcast is about 35 minutes long. They also produced a journal issue on this topic (Vol. [...]

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The Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape will be hosting a webinar on the links between sexual abuse and online sexual behaviors of adolescents, May 13th, 10:00-12:00 ET. Participation is free, but preregistration is required. Jennifer Lee from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children will be the featured presenter.

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Hey, Canada…

March 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Check out your page for new info…Thanks, Sheila!

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I received an email from a reader asking me to please post information about the financial cost of child abuse in the US. I’m happy to be able to post some relatively recent publications on the topic, the most specific being Prevent Child Abuse America’s 2007 report, Total Estimated Cost of Child Abuse and Neglect [...]

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I’m on my way to Dallas for the Conference on Crimes Against Women, but before I go, I wanted to post a very powerful TED presentation by Sunitha Krishnan on fighting sex slavery. It’s tough to watch some portions, but it’s powerful and under 15 minutes. She talks bluntly about the realities of trafficking, but [...]

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