A local school is working to end the stigma surrounding childhood trauma. Jenilee Cousil, an art teacher at Washington High School, started the “Stigma Stoppers” club this year. “It is a pressing issue and it’s also personal. I know and I love people that have struggled with substance disorder and so it’s just very close to my heart and something
Dr. Pearl Berman, Child Advocacy and Adult Studies (CAAST) faculty at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Immediate Past President of the National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence, or NPEIV, has acquired funding through a Pennsylvania Commonwealth Grant to create topical videos covering a wide variety of topics that may be beneficial to CAST faculty and students.
Zero Abuse Project Board Member and Immunis, Inc. Chairman, Dr. Hans Keirstead, delivered a keynote on child sexual abuse to the UN General Assembly in New York, which aligns with the United Nation’s efforts to eradicate human trafficking and eliminate emotional, economical and physical violence against children and women. READ MORE
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In a major victory for victims of child sexual abuse, President Biden signed a bill that will eliminate the statute of limitations for people who were sexually abused as minors to file civil claims. The bill removes time constraints for survivors to file claims related to sex abuse crimes against minors, including forced labor, sex trafficking, sexual abuse and sexual
Watch this TV news segment covering the investigation into clergy sexual abuse from our friends at Godly Response to Abuse in the Chrstian Environment (GRACE), one of the co-sponsors of our Keeping Faith program designed to train those responding to cases of spiritual abuse. Watch here
Nearly a year after Zero Abuse Project’s press conference, a bankruptcy judge on Thursday approved a $2.46 billion reorganization plan proposed by the Boy Scouts of America, which would allow it to continue operating while compensating tens of thousands of men who say they were sexually abused as children while involved in Scouting. Read More
Listen to Zero Abuse Project staff and Child Advocacy Studies (CAST) Director Dr. Tyler Counsil discuss our mission, impact, and some exciting upcoming events on this episode of WAMW Take 5 For Our Community. Listen Here
The National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan (NPEIV) and Zero Abuse Project are pleased to announce that CAST Director, Dr. Tyler Counsil, will be the new incoming President-Elect in 2022. NPEIV has long been a supporter of the CAST movement and the NPEIV Action Teams and experts thereof are continually exploring new horizons by which CAST can flourish and
Please join Zero Abuse and its affiliates at the Academy on Violence and Abuse for our next ACEs Health Champions Gathering, a two-part series examining early intervention and its potential to mitigate intergenerational trauma. This is a great opportunity for CAST faculty, CAST students, and frontline professionals to learn about an emerging topic.
A new publication exploring pandemic-related factors associated with predicting family violence and child maltreatment has been released in Frontiers in Psychiatry. The publication highlights CAST learning as a means to help improve educator and frontline professional competencies with respect to actively and consistently screening for indicators of maltreatment. The article is available for download here. If you’re new to learning
On the this episode of the PACEs Connection podcast, “History. Culture. Trauma.” special guest Dr. Tyler Counsil, Zero Abuse Project staff member and Director of Child Advocacy Studies (CAST), discusses how CAST addresses our country’s history and culture of child abuse, and prepares students with a multidisciplinary understanding of the most effective responses.
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Zero Abuse Project’s Chief Program Officer for Education and Research, Victor Vieth, speaks with PolitiFact about grooming and teaching children about gender identity in our schools.
Zero Abuse Project staff member and Director of Jacob Wetterling Resource Center, Alison Feigh, has co-authored a new book exploring the complicated issue of identifying and punishing sex crimes.
Please join Zero Abuse and its affiliates at the Academy on Violence and Abuse for our next ACEs Health Champions Gathering, a two-part series examining early intervention and its potential to mitigate intergenerational trauma. This is a great opportunity for CAST faculty, CAST students, and frontline professionals to learn about an emerging topic.
In honor of Child Abuse Prevention Month, Zero Abuse Project and Jacob Wetterling Resource Center contribute to an online seminar and discusses concerning online behaviors our kids are often engaged in, and highlights prevention practices.
The Redwood County Attorney’s Office hosts a training led by Zero Abuse Project staff Victor Vieth, Chief Program Officer of Education and Research, and Kathleen Nolan, Senior Attorney.
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Zero Abuse Project’s Chief Program Officer Victor Vieth serves as the guest editor for this recent issue of The APSAC Alert, with helpful coverage on five issues related to abusive head trauma and shaken baby syndrome, as well as strategies for prosecutors handling these cases and the response from appellate courts.
The next AVA and Zero Abuse ACEs Health Champions Gathering will be hosted on April 8, 2022 at 12 PM PT. The topic will focus on the question ‘Can No Hit Zones prevent ACEs and promote Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs)?‘ Our presenters will be Dr. Randell Alexander, MD, PhD and Dr. Suzanne Frank, MD. Dr. Alexander is a Professor of
When children witness violence, they may endure decades of physical and emotional harm. This dynamic is the focus of a recent article from The Washington Post that includes comments from Victor Vieth, Zero Abuse Project’s Chief Program Officer for Education & Research.
Zero Abuse Project is pleased to announce the launch of a new journal for CAST-centered and multidisciplinary team (MDT)-derived publications from our colleagues at East Tennessee State University (ETSU). The Journal of Interprofessional Practice with Social Work (JIPSW) “is an open-source, semi-annual peer–reviewed publication that provides an interdisciplinary forum for information exchange spanning the variety of practice settings that incorporate care
The REAL Academy CEO Kevin Marino and Director of Research Robert Wright, are releasing a new book exploring the NC child protection landscape and how to improve MDT collaboration via a novel theory known as ‘Administrative Tethering.’
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Zero Abuse Project is a 501(c)(3) organization committed to the elimination of child sexual abuse. Our programs are designed to provide training and education to professionals and students, and to help transform institutions to effectively prevent, recognize, and respond to child sexual abuse.
