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  • No Place For Discrimination: These Traditional Leaders Are Standing Up For SGBV Survivors In Their Communities

    December 05, 2023 |

    The Solutions Paper |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Borno State

    Groups like Women in New Nigeria and Youth Empowerment Initiative (WINN), in collaboration with local leaders, are addressing stigma and providing support services for survivors of sexual and gender-based violencev(SGBV). These groups educate survivors on the violence they endured, provides them with a safe space to rest and engages them in the community to fight feelings of isolation SGBV survivors often face.

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  • When a student is shot and killed, Cleveland schools' mental health team springs into action

    June 30, 2023 |

    ideastream |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    People call CMSD’s Rapid Response Team when crises occur to mobilize support services to help students and staff dealing with trauma or mental health crises. The Team has more than 200 staff members, including counselors, psychologists and nurses stationed in schools, as well as partnerships with outside mental health agencies that work within the school district. The Team has provided support on 950 different occasions including students struggling with suicidal thoughts, grief counseling and reports of students experiencing physical or sexual abuse at home.

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  • Boarding School Alumni Push for a New Kind of Abuse Investigation

    March 13, 2023 |

    Christianity Today |

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    Response Location: Japan

    In an effort to uncover decades of abuse allegations at the Christian Academy of Japan, investigators began working with academy alumni who helped push the investigation forward. Over the course of several years, alumni met regularly, clocking thousands of hours of work on the case, meeting with investigators and survivors. When the final report was released in 2021, 72 cases of alleged abuse — including sexual, physical, emotional and child-on-child abuse — were uncovered over a 44 year period.

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  • Children rising up against abuse through just a phone call

    December 10, 2021 |

    Metro FM 90.8 |

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    Response Location: Uganda

    The Uganda Child Helpline is a 24/7 toll-free line, whose goal is to encourage children and adults to report cases of child abuse. The Helpline then links at-risk children to support and protection through case management services. Currently, there are call centers in 68 districts and the line receives an average of 9,509 calls a day.

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  • How K9s are helping law enforcement track child predators

    December 09, 2021 |

    Richland Source |

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    Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

    Specially trained dogs help law enforcement catch child sexual abuse predators. The dogs can sniff out electronic storage devices like cell phones, USB drives and SD cards, where child sexual abuse material is often stored. The dogs use their keen sense of smell to find devices, which they indicate by pawing at it or putting their nose up against the object. The dogs also provide emotional comfort to the victims, and their trainers, as well as serve as good public relations messengers raising awareness about child sexual exploitation.

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  • A pilot program in Iowa produces encouraging results for foster kids

    October 27, 2021 |

    Street Roots |

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    Response Location: United States, Iowa

    By putting a priority on rescuing children from danger in their homes by reducing the danger or placing the children in relatives' care, Iowa courts have greatly reduced the traumatizing use of emergency foster care placements with strangers. The program, which began with seven judges and has since spread statewide, starts with a simple list of questions that judges or social workers ask to identify specific solutions to problems other than the default mechanism of sending children to live in foster care, which can make their emotional problems worse.

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  • Sexual Violence Is Endemic In Sokoto But A Law Firm Is Changing The Narrative

    September 23, 2021 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Sokoto

    Rashida Muhammad and Co. is a small law firm in Nigeria's northwest states that gives free representation to women and girls who have been victims of sexual and gender-based violence. Despite harsh laws on the books, the people who commit such crimes benefit from an inefficient and slow system of justice. The Rashida firm has successfully prosecuted five cases, with more in progress. When victims do not see a likely way to seek justice, crimes go unreported, people committing harm remain unaccountable, and victims are discriminated against in education.

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  • Meet the baroness catching paedophiles red-handed

    June 13, 2021 |

    The Times |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    The people who produce child pornography give police invaluable evidence, if it can be decoded, when they film themselves sexually abusing children. A Scottish forensic anthropologist and anatomist has helped both in the prosecution and defense of abuse cases by determining whether the hands that are seen in a video belong to the person charged with the crime. Her method of finding conclusive points of comparison now is being used to develop algorithms that could spread the detection method worldwide.

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  • Can a Radical Treatment for Pedophilia Work Outside of Germany?

    June 07, 2021 |

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    Response Location: Germany, Berlin

    Prevention Project Dunkelfeld is "arguably the world's most radical social experiment in treating pedophilia." Its prevention-first approach to providing treatment to people who are sexually attracted to children means that it encourages people to volunteer for treatment and disclose past and planned crimes without the threat of being reported to authorities and punished. German law makes this possible, but in most places such crossing of lines from thoughts to action would be grounds for mandatory reporting. This policy and the program's disputed claims of effectiveness have drawn harsh criticism.

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  • Dependency Court Programs Focus On Babies' Health

    April 29, 2021 |

    The Imprint |

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    Response Location: United States, Tacoma, Washington

    The Safe Babies program model trains judges to oversee foster-care cases with the goal of fixing the problems that led social workers to remove young children from their homes. Operating swiftly, so that babies do not lose precious weeks and months apart from their parents at a critical time, programs like Best For Babies in Pierce County, Washington, put teams of medical and mental health experts on a case. Nationwide, the program used in 30 states makes family reunification much more likely and rapid, with healthier parental attachments and child development.

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