Keeping Them Safe
Creating and implementing a new paradigm for educating adults how to protect children from predators and stop child sexual abuse before it happens.
Episodes
50 episodes
Safe Environments in Schools and Organizations
In this episode we look at some suggestions based on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Children to help school and organization staff and volunteers work with parents to establish the safest possible environment for children during...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 17
•
15:18
What predators tell us about grooming activities.
In this episode we discover some very clear, very specific ways that these potentially risky behaviors show up in reality. We see, from the mouths of predators, how they use the activities that we view as simple and normal to develop trust with...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 16
•
24:42
Viewing the Issue through Today's Eyes
This episode reminds us that the effort to address child sexual abuse as a public problem or a public health problem is not new - even if it seems it might be so. How this became a public problem and when that happened can help us understand wh...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 15
•
15:26
Noticing the Behavioral Signs of Predators
There are a few behaviors that we know are part of the predators grooming process. These behaviors have been identified for us by those who use them to groom children. In this episode we reinforce three of the behaviors and remind ourselves tha...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 14
•
23:17
Chaperoning Young People
Are you the chaperone for the school field trip or the sponsor that is traveling on the bus to music competition or the parent who volunteers to ride the bus with the football team or cheerleaders? This episode is an opportunity for you to cons...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 13
•
17:01
No Tipping Point
This discussion reminds us of what it takes to shift a paradigm and how difficult it is to get anyone to listen to what we have to say until they can give up their conviction that what we promote can't be done.
•
Season 2
•
Episode 12
•
24:24
A Real Story About Real People
This episode tells the story of a priest's seduction of young men in the parish where he served and how he was able to accomplish this under the watchful eye of parents and other adults. Sharon's family is a part of this story. She knows everyo...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 10
•
23:03
The Thing About Female Perpetrators
Most people assume that the majority of perpetrators of child sexual abuse are men and while that is accurate, at least 20% of all child sexual abuse is committed by women and almost 80% of the time it is a biological parent - a mother - who is...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 11
•
17:23
Background checks and Sex Offender Registries - How do they help?
Many people think that Sex Offender registries and background checks can solve the problem of potentially risky adults. However, that is not the case. They do have their place in the entire process of creating safe environments and in this epis...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 9
•
17:42
Why is it not handled yet?
As today's society seems to focus on everything happening quickly and being handled with velocity, there's a lot of frustration about why child sexual abuse still is not handled. Why are there still predators seducing our children? This podcast...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 8
•
26:27
It's Not Just Our Problem
This episode presents the results of an Australian study that demonstrates that predators the world over are using the same techniques and activities to gain access to our children, to groom them, the parents, and the community. Listen to what ...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 7
•
20:33
Child Abuse Prevention Month - How can I help?
This short conversation reminds us of the reasons for April being name Child Abuse Prevention Month and offers some ways we can call attention to the need for all of us to have our attention on what it takes to keep children safe.
•
Season 2
•
Episode 6
•
18:38
Answering Unanswered Questions about the Numbers
This episode includes a discussion of where the "numbers" come from in the conversation for prevention of sexual abuse of children and how these numbers were determined. We also look at how these numbers launched the conversation that child sex...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 5
•
17:06
Blue is the Color of Prevention
This episode reminds us that April is Child Abuse Prevention Month and Blue is the color of prevention. Listen for ideas that you can share with others to draw attention to prevention and ways you can call attention to the issue yourself. ...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 4
•
13:52
Answers to Unanswered Questions
In this episode we begin to answer some questions that seem to be universal. They are often in the background of our thinking as we go through the training or listen to the podcasts. We begin by talking about the part/responsibility parents hav...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 3
•
23:07
Its Everyone's Job
While we all want to think that children are safe the fact is that they are not. This episode looks at how we can take responsibility for making sure that there are safe environments for all children and that we create a world that works for ev...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 1
•
12:03
Online Language Used by Predators
In this episode, we being to investigate the world of online solicitation by considering that there are unique aspects of this world. For one, the only tool a predator has is language, so all the potentially risky behaviors are manifested in th...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 2
•
18:04
Are Adolescents Safer Online?
In this episode there is a discussion of recent research that gives us some insight into the world of young people online. It considers that, although we know that in person social relationship are supportive and important, the fact is that ado...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 33
•
20:43
When the Risky Adult is Family
Challenging the potentially risky behavior of beloved members of the family is the most difficult aspect of Keeping Them Safe. We must be willing to speak up and speak out and model that behavior to our children if we are to expect them to be w...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 32
•
12:55
Labeling and How It Impacts Us
In this episode, we consider the labels that society places on all of us at times and how labeling others can impact how we see them, how they see themselves, and how the world relates to them. We consider that leaving off the labels and focusi...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 31
•
16:54
Santa Safety - Preserving the Magic
In this episode we identify some things to consider during this holiday season when children are excited to visit Santa. How do you make sure that the experience is one of joy and love and magic and protect your child from a potential predator ...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 30
•
15:40
What Else Offenders Have to Say
In this episode, we continue to look at what child molesters can tell us about how they are able to gain access to our children, how they cultivate trusting relationships with us, and how they lure our children into situations and environments ...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 29
•
26:03
What Offenders Can Tell Us
In this episode we take a look at some research from a different source to see how an investigation from a criminal perspective can reinforce and perhaps enhance the value of what we are discovering in this journey. What can offenders tell us a...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 28
•
27:50
Monitoring Outside Programs Using Your Facility
Many organizations have agreements with area schools, organizations, and programs to share facilities. This episode looks at the challenges of ensuring that those outside organizations are complying with the standards you set for your facilitie...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 27
•
19:26
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
This episode speaks to the establishment of actual physical environments that promote safe environments using the context of the guidelines set forth in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Patents, administrators, teachers, volunteers...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 25
•
26:30