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Sexual Behavior in Youth: What's Normal? What's Not? And What Can We Do About It? Nov 05, 2021

Show notes

When we first met Dr. Jane Silovsky years ago, talking about youth with problematic sexual behaviors, it was a pervasive myth in the Children’s Advocacy Center world that CACs could not serve these kids. Somehow they weren’t our kids, somehow they weren’t deserving of help, or somehow they just weren’t ours to serve. But 25% to 30% of our cases each year involve sexually abusing or acting out on other kids. To make any difference at all in that work, we have to serve these kids. This is meaningful prevention work.

In today’s conversation, we explore what’s normal sexual behavior in youth—a tough question for any parent or any colleague. How do we identify and stop problematic sexual behaviors? What treatment actually works? How do we involve families in their own healing and success? And how do we get beyond billboards and bus kiosks to doing the kind of prevention work that actually matters?

Topics in this episode:

What is problematic sexual behavior?
What causes it?
Myths about problematic sexual behavior
The importance of caregivers
Demographics & treatment
Public policy and CAC advice
Put on your oxygen mask first
Available resources
Learn more

Links:

Jane Silovsky, Ph.D., is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. She serves as the CMRI/Jean Gumerson Endowed Chair, director of the Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, and director of the National Center on the Sexual Behavior of Youth

Barbara L. Bonner, Ph.D.

20-25% of cases at CACs involve a child hurting another child

David Finkelhor, Ph.D.

Resources for parents from the National Center on the Sexual Behavior of Youth

Elizabeth J. Letourneau, Ph.D.

Military Learning Family Network webinar series is publicly available

NCA’s resources on problematic sexual behavior in youth

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What’s Culture Got to Do With It? Everything. Oct 08, 2021

Show notes

Our guest today is Dr. Maegan Rides At The Door, the director of the National Native Children’s Trauma Center at the University of Montana. Now, many of us know at least some of the historical trauma faced by Native Americans and Alaska Native families, not just the genocide of the past, but also the boarding school abuses of the very recent past.

How does this impact children today? And how does racism, which is very much in the present, add to the trauma burden these children face? And how do we appreciate and recognize and leverage the incredible strengths and resiliency displayed by Native families multigenerationally? Most importantly, how do we craft culturally responsive services, not just in word and good intention, but in actuality, indeed?
Topics in this episode:

Child welfare needs to be culturally responsive (2:09)
Historical trauma and structural racism (5:47)
Cultural resiliency (11:44)
Expanding the original ACEs (17:07)
Recommendations (19:24)
Public policy (25:32)
Culture eats strategy for lunch (28:24)
Advice for CACs (35:30)
Share this episode! (39:05)

Links:
Maegan Rides At The Door, Ph.D., LCPC, is director of the National Native Children’s Trauma Center at the University of Montana College of Education. She is an enrolled member of the Assiniboine-Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Reservation and a descendant of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma.

The NNCTC offers a number of resources on trauma.

Rides At The Door, Maegan, and Ashley Trautman. 2019. “Considerations for Implementing Culturally Grounded Trauma-Informed Child Welfare Services: Recommendations for Working with American Indian/Alaska Native Populations.” Journal of Public Child Welfare 13 (3): 368–78. doi:10.1080/15548732.2019.1605014.

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) original study

RYSE Center
RYSE’s expansion of the ACEs pyramid is available online.

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Trauma and Resilience in Military Families Sep 16, 2021

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When we think of military families, we rightly think of sacrifice and duty. But do we also think about resiliency, perseverance, and a sense of community? The unique sense of identity that comes with military service comes with a complex set of supports and struggles for service members. Dr. Stephen Cozza, a researcher and professor at the Uniformed Services University, joins us to explore the unique strengths and challenges of military families. What are the risks and protective factors that we should be aware of in working with military families? How does the phases of deployment and re-entry create some points of unique vulnerabilities that we need to attend to? And at a time when many soldiers are returning, how can we support families?

Topics in this episode:

An interest in the impact of trauma on military families (1:23)
Protective factors (2:52)
Risk factors (8:37)
Support for military families (13:48)
Neglect (24:36)
Current research (33:26)
CAC-military partnerships (38:52)
Learn more about our work (47:07)

Links:

Stephen J. Cozza, MD, is a retired Army psychiatrist who served as chief of the Department of Psychiatry at Walter Reed and is now a researcher and professor at the Uniformed Services University’s Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress

Attack on the Pentagon

Child development centers on military bases

2019 Demographics Profile of the Military Community 60% of children in the military are under 11 years old, and 40% are 5 years old or younger

Military OneSource

Family Advocacy Program (FAP)

New Parent Support Program

2020 U.S. Department of Defense report on FAP

NCA’s CAC-military partnerships program

CAC-military coverage map

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Taking Stock: The Plan to End Child Abuse Deaths, Five Years On Aug 31, 2021

Show notes

Nearly a decade ago, a coalition of national organizations including NCA began strategizing about how to end child abuse fatalities. We passed a bill that established a congressional commission, which issued a report in 2016. Now we're looking at the successes and challenges of that work. What's changed, or not, in five years? What about state reforms? Join us with Amy Harfeld from the National Coalition to End Child Abuse Deaths and reporters Lia Russell and Caitlin Andrews.

Topics:

2016: The plan (1:45)
Transparency (18:05)
Public policy (23:56)
Advice for CACs (28:00)
A cluster of deaths (32:15)
Another wave of reform? (48:09)

Links:

Amy C. Harfeld, JD, national policy advocate and senior staff attorney, Children's Advocacy Institute; coordinator, National Coalition to End Child Abuse Deaths

Caitlin Andrews and Lia Russell, investigative reporters, Bangor Daily News

Within Our Reach: A National Strategy to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities, report from the Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities, March 17, 2016

State and local reforms

Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act reauthorization

Child and Family Services Improvement and Innovation Act

Family First Prevention Services Act

Maine ombudsman

“After a series of deaths, scrutiny starts again for Maine’s child welfare system,” Lia Russell, Bangor Daily News, June 26, 2021

“Legislative watchdog to probe issues raised by Maine child welfare ombudsman,” Caitlin Andrews, Bangor Daily News, August 11, 2021

Casey Family Programs

OPEGA

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Are We Solving the Wrong Problem in Child Welfare? Jul 29, 2021

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Are we solving the wrong problem in child welfare? When you think of federal child welfare policy, maybe you expect a discussion of foster care and other post-abuse interventions. If so, this conversation with Jerry Milner, former head of the Children’s Bureau at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is going to blow your mind. Because after more than 40 years in child welfare, Milner's leadership of the Children’s Bureau turned a very, very different direction. He explored questions like: What would happen if we turned over our investment and focused on primary prevention instead? And are too many children separated from their parents unnecessarily through foster care? And, more importantly, what role do our own values of equity and belief in family support play not only in the lives of kids but in the life of our public policy? Milner is reimagining the child welfare system of the future. Take a listen.
Topics in this episode:

Origin story (1:20)
Why primary prevention? (4:04)
Why it's hard to change (10:38)
Systemic inequities (16:44)
Different forms of neglect (21:50)
The consumer voice (31:54)
Our new podcast website (39:28)

Links:

Jerry Milner, DSW, is director of the Family Integrity and Justice Works at Public Knowledge, and former head of the U.S. Children’s Bureau

Children’s Advocacy Centers

“$20M diverted from police training facility to mental health facility in Prince George’s,” by Brad Bell, April 19, 2021, ABC7 News

CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates)

Family First Prevention Services Act

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The Trauma They Carried, with Dr. Jordan Greenbaum Jul 15, 2021

Show notes

Years ago, few Americans—even in the field of child abuse—knew or understood child sex trafficking. The media portrayed it as a problem “over there” someplace, far from our shores. Now we know that child sex trafficking is both a global problem and a local one, one that affects children and youth who come across our borders, and youth in schools right down the street.

What makes children vulnerable to trafficking, and those who cross our borders especially vulnerable to it? How do we identify those at risk? How do we address the trauma and pain victims of trafficking have survived and carry with them? And perhaps most critically, now that we do know better, how do we do better on this issue? We talk with Dr. Jordan Greenbaum, director of Global Initiative: Child Health and Well-Being at the International Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Topics in this episode:

Child sex trafficking is a local problem (1:21)
Marginalization and other risk factors (4:26)
What CACs can do (11:31)
Unintended consequences (14:31)
Barriers to referrals (16:43)
Core competencies (27:01)
A public health approach (29:24)
Learn more about our work (37:37)

Links:

Jordan Greenbaum, MD, is director of the Global Initiative for Child Health and Well-Being at the International Center for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC) and an expert on child sex and labor trafficking.

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta

Federally qualified health centers

National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center

HEAL Trafficking

National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP)

Core Competencies for Human Trafficking Response in Health Care and Behavioral Health Systems (February 2021)

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Shola Richards on the Heart of a Healthy Workplace Jun 24, 2021

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If you’ve worked any time at all, then you’ve worked in some place that was unhealthy. Maybe it was full of gossip and backstabbing. Or perhaps there was one disgruntled employee who just made the whole place miserable. Or perhaps you or one of your colleagues was bullied. Toxic workplaces take an emotional toll. They’re exhausting. Draining. Demoralizing.

What can we do as leaders to create a healthy workplace culture right from the very start? How do we turn around one that’s developed some sort of trouble spot? And how do we contribute to a healthier and happier workplace through our own attitude and resiliency? In “The Heart of a Healthy Workplace,” speaker, author, and workplace culture consultant Shola Richards talks to us about creating a healthy workplace environment.

Topics in this episode:

Toxic workplaces (1:25)
Leadership: Sink or swim (7:50)
Return to the office post-pandemic (10:23)
The strongest teams (16:08)
Crucial Conversations (22:34)
Tough love self-care (32:25)
The next normal (39:42)
Inclusion and belonging (41:52)
Learn more about NCA and CACs (45:06)

Links:

Shola Richards is the founder and CEO of GoTogether Global and a keynote speaker, coach, and consultant. He is the best-selling author of Go Together: How the Concept of Ubuntu Will Change How You Live, Work and Lead and of Making Work Work: The Positivity Solution for Any Work Environment.

In June 2021, he was featured as the closing keynote speaker at our annual Leadership Conference for the Children's Advocacy Center (CAC) movement.

Crucial Conversations and Crucial Accountability are from VitalSmarts

Learn more about Admiral James Stockdale’s outlook in Good to Great by Jim Collins

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The ACEs Message and Its Unintended Consequences, with Dr. Jonathan Purtle May 20, 2021

Show notes

When the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study came out and proved the link between traumas such as child abuse and long-term negative health and mental health impacts, why did the public latch onto some results but not others? Why are people less convinced about the physical health impacts of ACEs than others? What role does political leaning play? And are we messaging some things that are harmful or counter-productive? We talk to Jonathan Purtle from Drexel University about how to make sure the general public understands and wants to make the kinds of system changes necessary to improve kids’ lives.

Topics in this episode:

ACEs go mainstream (02:14)
Studying the right way to message about abuse (06:39)
Research results (10:19)
People resist ACEs’ brain/body connection (15:38)
Unintended consequences (20:01)
How to talk about solutions (27:28)
More research needed (32:41)
What to say and what not to say (35:48)
For more information about this topic (42:36)

Links:

Jonathan Purtle, DrPH, MPH, MSc, associate professor of health management and policy, Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health

“Public Opinion About Adverse Childhood Experiences: Social Stigma, Attribution of Blame, and Government Intervention,” Purtle J, Nelson KL, Gollust SE, Child Maltreatment. March 2021. doi:10.1177/10775595211004783

Adverse Childhood Experiences Study

Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice

Sandra L. Bloom, MD

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University

“Beyond ACEs” with Dr. Lisa Amaya-Jackson, One in Ten podcast episode (December 4, 2019)

NCA 2021 Leadership Conference, June 7-9, 2021

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The Journey to Jenna's Law, with Jenna Quinn May 07, 2021

Show notes

Jenna Quinn was one of the first survivors to translate their experience of abuse into child abuse prevention public policy. Jenna was abused by a close friend of the family, someone known through the Christian school she attended. Her mom was a teacher, and her family very supportive, and yet Jenna, like so many others, became vulnerable to ongoing abuse because she didn’t know who, or how, to tell. And her school, like so many other schools, provided no abuse prevention education to kids or to school personnel. The 2009 Jenna’s Law changed that in Texas and became a model for other efforts. Listen in as we explore how centering the experiences of survivors can translate into important policy solutions, and how survivors can not only survive but experience post-traumatic growth that allows them to thrive.

Topics in this episode:

Why she spoke up (1:25)
Jenna’s Law (8:44)
Stigma (12:44)
Faith communities and child abuse (15:04)
Post-traumatic growth (18:23)
What’s next for Jenna (35:44)
Advice for CACs (39:45)
Next episode (44:53)

Links:

Jenna Quinn, M.S., champions the passage of Jenna’s Law at the state and federal level to require K-12 schools to educate students, teachers, and caregivers about how to prevent, recognize, and report child sexual abuse

Jenna Quinn will be the Opening Keynote speaker at our 2021 Leadership Conference on June 7

Children’s Advocacy Center for North Texas (Denton County)

SANE (sexual assault nurse examiner)

Warning signs of child sexual abuse (#ItsYourBusiness)

Darkness to Light has many prevention resources

#ChurchToo (similar hashtags are in use for other religions)

Victor Vieth; see also our earlier interview with him, “Faith, Trauma, and the Problem of Evil” (May 13, 2019)

Post-traumatic growth (PTG), Richard G. Tedeschi, Ph.D., and Lawrence G. Calhoun, Ph.D.

The original study into adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)

A bill to pass the Jenna Quinn Law (S. 734) was introduced in the U.S. Senate on March 11, 2021

The biblical story of Tamar is told in 2 Samuel 13

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A Pathway to Healing, with Patrick Anderson Apr 16, 2021

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When we think about Alaska, we think of Denali, pictures we’ve seen, movies we’ve watched, the wonderful wildlife, and people still living on the cusp of the frontier. But what films don’t always show, and what books don’t always cover, is the incredible challenges of this environment: the high rates of trauma, the high rates of addiction, the high rates of suicide, and the high rates of child abuse. How do you help families identify the root causes of trauma and truly heal? We talk to Patrick Anderson, CEO of RurAL CAP, about the nexus of a brutal truth and enduring hope.

Topics in this episode: