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  • Kids Say #MeToo After Each Performance of This Play

    May 16, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Virginia

    Since the mid-1980s, Prevent Child Abuse Virginia (PCAV) has used theater to teach elementary and middle school students about sexual abuse and in the process empower them to report it. Over the course of 34 years, 13,000 students have disclosed their abuse experiences following a viewing of the play. “Many parents are very uncomfortable talking to their children about personal body safety because it gets all mixed up with the sex conversation,” executive director of PCAV explains. "The messages in the play fill the gap left behind by ineffective policy and cultural roadblocks," the author says.

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  • Sacramento's Quest to End Solitary Confinement for Kids

    April 05, 2018 |

    Pacific Standard |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    Solitary Confinement on youth can be extremely emotionally damaging. The practice is also costly, and can lead to expensive lawsuits. Yet, a slew of states and youth detention centers are trying to reduce the time young people spend in solitary confinement. In the Sacramento Juvenile Detention, one program is doing that.

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  • Can an Algorithm Tell When Kids Are in Danger?

    January 02, 2018 |

    The New York Times Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

    Wrongly assessing risks for children in potentially abusive or dangerous homes has dire consequences, but a new predictive analytics system is assisting screeners to help those who need it most.

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  • Meet Arachnid, the crawler hunting child abuse photos across the web

    December 05, 2017 |

    Apolitical |

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    Response Location: Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba

    For all the positive tools and platforms the internet has helped create over the decades, it can also be an extremely dark place, and has unfortunately enabled the horrific and wide-spread sharing of millions of images depicting child abuse, including of rape and torture. Artificial Intelligence - specifically the Arachnid web crawler launched by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection - is proving the most efficient and effective weapon in shutting down these abominable sites, combing through scores of data at a speed no human or government can match, and issuing takedown notices.

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  • Mexico's Cartoon Therapists

    July 25, 2017 |

    BBC |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Mexico

    In order to address dynamics that may keep a child from talking about traumatic experiences, a Mexico City-based child psychologist developed Antennas. Antennas is an animated character controlled and voiced by the psychologist who, as an alien, can ask basic questions about people and relationships. This approach has been effective for psychologists and use of Antennas has spread to the judicial system as well.

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  • More Than Just Hope

    May 25, 2017 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Camden, New Jersey

    Prospects in Camden, NJ, one of the most impoverished and murder-ridden cities in the U.S., are finally looking up, particularly for its younger residents. This is in part thanks to Hopeworks, a nonprofit that provides Camden’s youth with employable skills while addressing childhood trauma and socioeconomic stresses. Having served 3,500+ people in their 17 years of operation, Hopeworks is now expanding its success story to Philadelphia, where they will implement a pilot program later this year.

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  • Meth series: Family drug courts fight rising tide of meth-fueled child abuse and neglect

    December 13, 2016 |

    The Montana Standard |

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    Response Location: United States, Montana

    Montana saw the rise of child abuse and neglect cases due to parental substance abuse, particularly with those using methamphetamine. Family drug courts are reversing this trend due to a more holistic approach striving for permanency through rewards and sanctions program, frequent testing, and treatment.

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  • Putting the Power of Self Knowledge to Work

    September 23, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    Childhood trauma, or adverse childhood experiences (ACE), can cause a number of social problems such as dropping out of school, drug abuse, depression, and even becoming an abuser. The more accessible ACE research studies are to communities and schools, the better chances social workers and mental health professionals can evaluate and provide the right care to children. Integrating ACE research has influenced policy changes that have directly helped at-risk children get on a healthier path.

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  • How Malawi Girls Combat Sexual Abuse – Self Defense

    July 26, 2016 |

    News Deeply |

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    Response Location: Malawi, Dedza

    Sexual abuse and rape are frequent and accepted parts of the social fabric in Malawi. To combat that, Malawi girls and boys take self defense classes to learn how to avert assault in order to protect themselves and others.

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  • Schools work to aid children of domestic violence

    April 23, 2016 |

    Corpus Christi Caller Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Brockton, Massachusetts

    Massachusetts’ Brockton Public School district has trained the entire staff at three elementary schools to recognize signs of trauma in children. Inspired by the book, “Helping Traumatized Children Learn,” by Eliana Gil, the district’s initiative has now inspired another text and has spread to school districts around the world. Core to the initiative is trying to work more proactively toward social emotional health.

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