To Trouble the Comfortable and Comfort the Troubled: Championing the Voices of Families A Conversation with Progressive Legal Advocate Vivek Sankaran. Hosted by Kendall Marlowe This past Child Abuse Prevention Month we were inspired to have a conversation with this community to rethink the roles that support children and families. We discussed what real help might look like for families; we worked to identify opportunities where each of us could step up to promote prevention regardless of our...
Many therapists find it challenging to work with children who have experienced trauma and families facing multiple stressors, high conflict, and systemic issues. These families can be difficult to engage, leading therapists to feel ineffective, and thereby contributing to overarching burnout. Consequently, the children who often need the most support sometimes go without it. But what if clinicians working with these vulnerable populations received more robust support, including ongoing ...
Emily leads efforts to keep children safe online at one of the world’s largest and most powerful technology companies, Google. Previously, she led the policy team at Thorn, a tech-focused nonprofit working to end online child sexual abuse. And earlier, she spent seven years both in her home state of New Hampshire and in Washington, DC as an assistant to US Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH). In the Radio Kempe Podcast, Emily outlines the comprehensive steps Google is taking to keep children ...
The last of the three drivers of workforce resilience is the critical role that leaders play in creating a culture where resilience and well-being are valued and supported. Research tells us that compared to client-related burnout, staff experience higher levels of burnout related to agency-level factors. Workplace-related burnout was also more strongly associated with job stress, job dissatisfaction, and intent to leave. If your organization is struggling with turnover, leadership must lead ...
Lucy Berliner is a renowned giant in trauma and trauma screening and was the former Director of the Harborview Center for Sexual Assault and Traumatic Stress at UNICEF’s global research arm in Italy. She was the long-time Director of the Harborview Center on Sexual Assault and Traumatic Stress at the University of Washington, and Clinical Associate Professor in the School of Social Work and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Lucy is a world-renowned advocate and champion fo...
Dr. Daniel Kardefelt-Winther leads the Digital Engagement & Protection Team at UNICEF’s Global Office of Research and Foresight in Florence, Italy. He is one of the world’s foremost researchers on the harm to children in the digital world. In the Radio Kempe Podcast, Daniel discusses his pioneering Disrupting Harms research and how extensive the risks are to children online today. He also addresses the adequacy of response of public and private agencies to these exploding pro...
One of the three drivers of workforce resilience is cultural practices that support well-being and resilience within an organization. Supervisors in child welfare play a pivotal role in creating and sustaining the culture of the organization. Consider that “culture” is the way things are done in an organization, and how it feels to work in that organization. No one has more impact on that than the supervisor. And the foundation of a culture is the level of psychological safety found in teams ...
Jacqueline Beauchere is the first Global Head of Platform Safety at Snap. Inc. She heads Snap’s online safety strategy and is working on these issues worldwide. Previously, Jacqueline spent more than 20 years at Microsoft where she was the company’s, and the industry’s, first Chief Online Safety Officer. At Snap she is raising awareness of online risks, advising on Snap’s tools and policies, and engaging with audiences worldwide. In this Radio Kempe Podcast, Jacqueline discusses the ste...
One of the three drivers of workforce resilience are 5 surprisingly simple behaviors individual staff can practice to support their personal resilience. These research-supported practices; Gratitude, Moving Your Body, Mindfulness, Acts of Kindness, and Building Social Support are simple, yet amazingly impactful ways anyone can do to support their well-being and resilience. And a huge bonus is that they all can be practiced within the workday, which has the added benefit of building connection...
Dr. Ethel Quayle was a research clinical psychologist (no longer in practice) at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland in the United Kingdom. She is also a world-renowned researcher, who has focused on sexual crimes against children, especially sexual offenses involving the Internet. A particular priority for her work has been the role of abuse images in the offending process. In the Radio Kempe Podcast, Dr. Quayle discusses the vital importance of research on this proble...
Human services organizations are facing unprecedented burnout, turnover, and recruitment challenges. The Kempe Center has developed "Be Well> Do Well> Stay Awhile," an evidence-informed framework to support workforce resilience. This framework targets three key drivers: leadership, workplace culture, and five simple resilience behaviors for staff. In addition, there are five simple behaviors individual staff can practice to support their resilience. Join us monthly for this series, as w...
In this podcast, we discuss a recent paper published by Dr. Suzanne Kerns and colleagues from the Kempe Center, Clayton State University and Kaiser. The paper is called “An Equity-Focused Assessment of Evidence-Based Parenting Intervention Research.” It was published in May, 2024 in the journal Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review. The paper describes the extent to which the research studies that are included in assessment of the evidence for parenting programs include different compon...
Host: Ernie Allen Recorded: July 2, 2024 Julie Inman Grant heads the world’s first government regulatory agency committed to keeping its citizens safer online – particularly its children. She uses civil powers to takedown illegal or harmful content, including child sexual abuse material, pro-terrorist content, image-based abuse, cyberbullying, and others. Julie describes her approach “Safety by Design” which balances user safety, particularly child safety, with new technolog...