The Children's Advocacy Institute at the University of San Diego School of Law last month came out with its grades for  states' reporting of child abuse fatalities or near-fatalities. Oklahoma went from a C+ in 2008 to a B this year, and promptly landed itself in hot water. That's because of what seems to be a federal agency that's bucking a…

Few people pass from birth to death without intimate knowledge of trauma’s capacity to alter the landscape of the psyche. So many experiences are traumatizing: war, rape, death, car accidents, hurricanes, earthquakes, bullying, scapegoating, incest, family violence, racism, homophobia—and this, a cursory list…

There was scary news as well as news to inspire coming out of the first presentations at the Weight of the Nation, the forum sponsored by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention taking place in Washington, D.C. The meeting began on Monday and ends today. It's supposed to "highlight progress in the prevention…

This interactive billboard in London's Eustis Station invites people to use their mobile phones to drag the abuser away from a woman....drag him across several large screens. It's a clever way to make the point....especially as it focuses the change of behavior on the abuser, rather than a sometimes more traditional question: "Why doesn't the victim leave?"

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