Podcast
Keeping Them Safe
Hosted by Sharon Doty · EN
Creating and implementing a new paradigm for educating adults how to protect children from predators and stop child sexual abuse before it happens.
27episodes
Episodes
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The Child Molesters Already Among Us
Jan 8, 202500:14:36Tap to summarizeSend us a textIn this episode we discuss some research that looked at those child molesters who are already working in the organizations that our children are part of. Who are they and how do we find them and eliminate the risk to our children? What, if anything, makes them distinct from the predators in our families and the volunteers in our organizations?
Transcribe →Why practice?
Dec 26, 202400:11:34Tap to summarizeSend us a textThis episode considers why "good" parents, grandparents, and guardians need to make the effort to find out more about predators and how they operate. Why do we need to practice to learn and why do we need to be on watch all the time?
Transcribe →Active Shooter Protocols vs. Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Practices
Nov 6, 202400:17:30Tap to summarizeSend us a textThis episode explores the challenges faced by schools dealing with active shooter protocols while committing to create safe environments that thwart sexual predators. The challenges are identified and possible solutions offered that give parents and teachers a pathway to finding solutions that do both - or at least don't significantly compromise either.
Transcribe →Where do we start?
Oct 24, 202400:17:46Tap to summarizeSend us a textThis episode speaks about the core tenets of the programs of KEEPING THEM SAFE. We talk about what matters in the development of programs and why and what the program is intended to communicate and provoke.
Transcribe →Safe Environments in Schools and Organizations
Sep 19, 202400:15:18Tap to summarizeSend us a textIn 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 the school year. The principles cited by the UN can help focus the efforts of concerned adults and guide the development of policies, procedures, and practices that work.
Transcribe →What predators tell us about grooming activities.
Sep 11, 202400:24:42Tap to summarizeSend us a textIn 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 children, parents, and communities.
Transcribe →Viewing the Issue through Today's Eyes
Aug 28, 202400:15:26Tap to summarizeSend us a textThis 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 why it appears to be taking so long to stop it from happening.
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