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Webinar To Discuss News Coverage of Childhood Trauma

On March 16, 2016, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. ET, Defending Childhood, in partnership with OJJDP and Futures Without Violence, will present “The News About Childhood Trauma: Findings and Implications.” Presenters will explore how childhood trauma is reported in the news and identify steps that advocates can take to improve the conversation for expanding media coverage.

Resources:

Register for this free webinar.

OJJDP has announced a fiscal year 2016 funding opportunity for their National Juvenile Justice Data Analysis Program. This program supports OJJDP's National Juvenile Justice Data Analysis Program by providing vital data to the field on juvenile well-being and risk behaviors, juvenile victimization and offending, the juvenile justice system's response to law-violating behavior, and related issues. All applications are due by 11:59 p.m. ET on April 26, 2016.

Dr. Janet Rosenzweig shares her analysis of a study published online in JAMA Pediatrics that examined the rate of children exposed to abuse in youth-serving organizations. While this post was written for the public and is not a comprehensive analysis, Dr. Rosenzweig shares her thoughts, concerns, and suggestions for parents based on the results of the study. Click here to read the full post on Philly.com.

The National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC), PreventConnect/California Coalition Against Sexual Assault (PreventConnect/CALCASA) and the National Alliance to End Sexual Violence (NAESV) have established a new partnership (The National Partners) in order to increase visibility of, and access to, sexual violence prevention expertise. This initiative has received seed funding from the National Football League (NFL) to coordinate prevention, policy, and messaging efforts; establish a presence in the Washington, DC metro area; and to award grants to advance a variety of promising practices and policies that can be replicated.

 

Purpose

To fund promising practices or policies that are replicable and that:

• improve the response to victims of sexual violence;
• reduce the likelihood of perpetration of sexual violence; or
• strengthen communities’ capacity to create safe environments

Funding Categories

• Services or advocacy for people who have been sexually victimized
• Strategies for reducing the likelihood of people to sexually offend
• Organizational, systemic, or community-level prevention strategies

Eligible Applicants: 

501(c)3 organizations who have experience with addressing and/or preventing sexual violence.

Deadline for Intent to Submit form:  January 22, 2016

Process:

We are now inviting brief descriptions as the first step in the application process.

Access to the Intent to Submit form.

Additional Information: including grant announcement, guidelines, application, and frequently asked questions

 

Find thoughts for parents on  how holiday hugs can offer important lessons! 

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Find thoughts for parents on  how holiday hugs can offer important lessons! 

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December 4, 2015: 

Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment releases, "Dancing through the puddles to eradicate sexual harm” talking prevention with Cordelia Anderson. 

Excerpt: 

Cordelia has been working in the field of sexual harm for nearly 40 years traversing the landscapes of research, treatment and victim advocacy with a focus on prevention, reduction and support. Cordelia believes that the best way to prevent sexual harm is to fully understand its causes, the perpetrators and its victims; we need a holistic, informed and multi-dimensional approach. In order to develop a shared, systematic approach to preventing sexual harm we need to recognise that that what are often seen as different [opposing] sides of the sexual harm field [treatment providers vs. victim advocates vs. criminal justice professionals vs. the ‘public’] are not actually opposed, instead they are actually complementary and we need to get better at drawing them together through language as well as action. Which means that in order to prevent sexual harm we need to be able to see the being picture, we have to be able to dance between the disciplinary ‘puddles’ [like Cordelia has across her career], or get out of our silos, of sexual harm......

ECPAT-USA releases the “Steps to Safety” report analyzing Safe Harbor Laws (2015).

Adapted summary: Safe Harbor laws protect children who become victims of sex trafficking by ensuring they are treated as victims, not criminals. With its easy-to-use checklist and guidance for state legislators it is a useful tool for anyone seeking to pass strong Safe Harbor laws. The report covers 19 states and the District of Columbia. It covers the broad spectrum from states with minimalistic laws to highly detailed. This report will help ensure each state has a detailed and comprehensive law in place. ECPAT-USA will lend its support to help make this a reality. 

Adapted summary: Free Webinar - Expected and Unexpected Funding Partnerships to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse on Thursday, November 11 at 11amPT/1pmCT/2pmET

Almost all of us will agree that investing in prevention is essential if we are truly committed to ending child sexual abuse.  But the US, in fact most countries, have not committed significant funds to prevention.  With presenters from a variety of perspectives, this web conference will discuss some likely and unlikely places where funds have been invested in preventing sexual violence.

This session is part of the 2015-2016 #PowerInPrevention Ending Child Sexual Abuse web conference series hosted by PreventConnect along with leading child sexual abuse prevention experts Cordelia Anderson and Joan Tabachnick.