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Season 7Episode 1January 16, 2025

Sibling Sexual Abuse and Preschool-Age Children

Exploring the often-overlooked issue of sibling sexual abuse and preschool-aged children, examining risk factors, prevalence, and the challenges in addressing this sensitive topic.

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Season 6Episode 19December 12, 2024

What Adult Survivors Tell Us About Grooming

Exploring new research about adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse and the prevalence of grooming behaviors they received.

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Season 6Episode 18November 21, 2024

Why Kids Run: The Foster Care to Trafficking Pipeline

Learn about child sex trafficking and its intersection with foster care, including the factors contributing to child sex trafficking, the vulnerabilities tied to foster care, and the reasons why children

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Season 6Episode 17November 7, 2024

Which Child Abuse Reports Matter? with Melanie Nadon, Ph.D., MPA

What are the intricacies of mandatory reporting in child abuse cases? In this One in Ten episode, we explore the disparities in report substantiations by educators compared to other professionals,

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Season 4Episode 17October 7, 2022

Building a Smaller, Fairer, and Better Child Welfare System, with Christine James-Brown

Child protective services has become the system of last resort for families failed by every other system. Now, what are we going to do about it?

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Season 4Episode 14August 25, 2022

The Future of Possible in Children’s Advocacy Centers, with Ted Cross

Over the last two decades, a growing evidence base has demonstrated the effectiveness of the Children’s Advocacy Center model, but what do we still need to learn to improve our

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Season 4Episode 12July 15, 2022

Moving Equity to the Center of Child Welfare, with Dr. Jessica Pryce

In a child welfare system in which Black and Indigenous children are more likely to be separated from their families, what practical steps can we take right now to make

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Season 4Episode 11June 24, 2022

Beyond Pride: Can Kids Trust Us When They Tell Us Who They Are?, with Al Killen-Harvey

With the recent push for anti-trans bills and states making it difficult if not impossible for trans youth to receive gender-affirming care, how do we better support LGBTQ youth and

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Season 4Episode 10June 10, 2022

The Limits of ACEs, with Dr. Ernestine Briggs-King and Dr. Jonathan Purtle

Decades after the original Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) study, does this tool tell the complete story?

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Season 4Episode 6April 14, 2022

Reframing Childhood Adversity with Julie Sweetland

What if the way we message about the problems of child abuse and childhood adversity makes it harder to solve them?

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