In 1850, a Catholic orphanage called St. Aemilian was founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to take in children whose parents had died in a cholera epidemic. 168 Years later, that same organization — now known as “SaintA” — is still finding shelter for thousands of children who need it, often kids who have deep trauma in their young lives, and helps those kids with a revolutionary approach that’s spreading across the country.
A Park Rapids woman was among eight sisters, six of them victims of childhood sexual abuse by a family member, recently featured in “People” magazine.
Child abuse cases continue to rise and students at Northwest Arkansas Community College are getting top notch training to bring those numbers down. NWACC is the first community college to get national recognition for it’s Children’s Advocacy’s Studies Program.
The STAR (Simulation Training and Research) House at Arkansas State University officially opened Monday afternoon with a special ribbon cutting ceremony at its location on 2511 Quapaw Street on campus. The College of Nursing and Health Professions and the Department of Social Work sponsored the event.
We’ve made a first pass at gathering highlights of ACEs initiatives in each of the 50 states and Washington, D.C. Within the text, below, are links to the individual posted profiles for each state. If you see corrections or want to make additions, we’d love that. Just add them in the comments section of that individual post. Instructions are at the top of each individual post.
A community notification meeting on a level 3 predatory offender moving to Red Wing will be held 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 12 in the lower level of the Red Wing Public Library.
The holiday season will soon be upon us: the energy, the excitement and the stress. The pressure to create a picture-perfect holiday is evident in our society.
Jerry and Patty Wetterling stand in the middle of their kitchen in St. Joseph, riffling through their notes as they prepare to address the media for the first time since authorities had arrested and named Danny Heinrich as a “person of interest” in their son Jacob’s abduction.
The Legacy of Jacob Wetterling continues to live on with the Jacob Wetterling Foundation’s efforts to promote kids’ personal safety.
The 2nd Annual Running HOME for Jacob 5K is Saturday, Oct. 21 at Lake Phalen Park. The event supports the Jacob Wetterling Resource Center (JWRC), an organization dedicated to creating a world where kids can grow up safe.
TPC Rose, a group of about 70 philanthropic women members of TPC Twin Cities in Blaine, held its eighth annual women’s golf tournament Aug. 22 at TPC Twin Cities, 11444 Tournament Players Parkway.
The Jacob Wetterling Resource Center celebrated moving to a new, larger office in Minneapolis on Wednesday. The resource center, which started in 1990 in St. Joseph, Minn., now has five full-time staff members and provides education, training and support for families of missing children and adults across the U.S.
Family safety was the theme of the most recent presentation in a community education series hosted by the nonprofit St. Croix Family Resource Center at St. Paul Lutheran Church July 31.
More than 30 people gathered at Immanuel Lutheran Church on Wednesday, Aug. 16, to get their questions answered and express concerns about a Level 3 predatory offender who is moving to Eden Prairie.
Next in its series of community-building events, the St. Croix Family Resource Center will host a safety workshop at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Stillwater Monday, July 31.
Last summer, the BCA exhumed the remains of five people from Twin Cities cemeteries. Their identities were unknown at the time of burial.
A movement to honor the memory of Jacob Wetterling has surfaced in a program coordinated by the St. Cloud Rox and Sentry Bank. -SC Times
COLUMBIA HEIGHTS, Minn. (KMSP) – The last anyone heard from 20-year-old Segundo Lema was two months ago. The young newlywed and father has yet to place a phone call and hasn’t showed up to work, which has rattled the family still waiting for his return.
Several experts at Zero Abuse Project have authored chapters within the textbook, including Director of Education and Research Victor Vieth, who served as an Editor in Chief. Numerous chapters focus on child maltreatment and child welfare, and the book’s emphasis on violence across the lifespan allows for a great resource for CAAST (Child and Adult Advocacy Studies) programs, as well.
The field of forensic interviewing is a relatively new profession.The concept of a “forensic interview” was necessitated by high profile child sexual abuse cases from the 1980’s
Zero Abuse Project is a 501(c)(3) organization that is 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.
