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Learning from Mistakes: Strengthening Youth Safety with Research-Based Screen...Friends for Youth, Inc.
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Program Director Sarah Kremer is joined by Executive Director Becky Cooper, who co-authored our resource and first began looking into how to assess volunteers even before background checks were available.
A Slideshow Presentation on Bullying made for an assignment on AC-1201 UBD,
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A Slideshow Presentation on Bullying made for an assignment on AC-1201 UBD,
Ugh some of the font is messed up.
There were 9 slideshow altogether, but I decided to compile all of them in one.
The first slide was suppose to have hyperlinks to the rest of the slides.
Mandate to Report, Responsibility to Prevent Child Abuse and NeglectJim McKay
Presentation to 2018 Principals Leadership Academy. This workshop will help principals understand their role and responsibility as a mandated reporter of suspected child abuse and neglect including recent updates to legislation enacted during the 2018 legislative session. By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to identify signs and indicators of child abuse and neglect, know what to do when a child discloses abuse, and strategies to help prevent abuse from occurring.
Some ideas and thoughts arising from Cong14. Idea is to start a conversation with interested people on how we can engage parents and teens about the issue of porn addiction, and raise awareness of the repercussions of watching too much porn.
Tackling child sexual exploitation, pop up uni, 2pm, 2 september 2015NHS England
Expo is the most significant annual health and social care event in the calendar, uniting more NHS and care leaders, commissioners, clinicians, voluntary sector partners, innovators and media than any other health and care event.
Expo 15 returned to Manchester and was hosted once again by NHS England. Around 5000 people a day from health and care, the voluntary sector, local government, and industry joined together at Manchester Central Convention Centre for two packed days of speakers, workshops, exhibitions and professional development.
This year, Expo was more relevant and engaging than ever before, happening within the first 100 days of the new Government, and almost 12 months after the publication of the NHS Five Year Forward View. It was also a great opportunity to check on and learn from the progress of Greater Manchester as the area prepares to take over a £6 billion devolved health and social care budget, pledging to integrate hospital, community, primary and social care and vastly improve health and well-being.
More information is available online: www.expo.nhs.uk
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Confronting Online Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation
1. Open Forum conference
confronting online child sexual
abuse and exploitation
The digital playground and the
sexual abuse and exploitation of
children
Tink Palmer
CEO, Marie Collins Foundation
17th May 2016
2. The Marie Collins Foundation
Our vision
All children who suffer sexual abuse via the internet
and mobile technologies are enabled to recover and
live safe and fulfilling lives
Our Aim
• To ensure that the response to children and their
families who have suffered harm via the internet and
mobile technologies is based on sound, evidence
based practice
3. What’s different online?
A young person’s perspective
• “The internet is a weird version of the real world where you can do
everything
• Groomers don’t have to worry about seeming suspicious
• Children can act like adults
• I used people online to make me feel good
• Girls use groomers to make them feel mature – groomers use girls for
sex – it’s mutual using of one another
• Girls get involved with men because nothing much seems to be
happening when you’re 12-14 but you want to be older
• The most talkative (girls) online are the quietest offline
• The most normal (man) online is a real weirdo offline
• We rarely talk about our behaviour online – kind of embarrassing”
4. Some ways in which children and young people
may be harmed online
• Children living in a household where a family member
has been apprehended for viewing child abuse
images
• Children viewing adult pornography
• Children abused through prostitution and/or
trafficking – abusers use the Internet and mobile
phones to control their victims
• Children groomed online for sex offline and/or online
• Children made the subjects of abusive images
5. Children of adults who download or
distribute abusive images of children
• Operation Ore
• Connection between viewing/downloading,
distribution/trading and producing images
• What risk does the adult pose to the children in the
home?
• Impacts on family dynamics
• Some research – Seto et al.
• Practice guidance needed
6. Children and partners of adults who
download abusive images
• The impact of the initial police contact
• The lack of risk assessment
• Coping with the reactions
• The lack of support
• The lack of information
• What to tell significant others?
• What to tell less significant others?
• What to tell the children?
• Role of the school
7. Young people affected/influenced by adult
pornography
• Impacts on girls too- exhibitionism, expectations and the reality
of these
• Availability, extent and nature of what they have viewed
• Length of time they view pornography
• Start viewing – 11/12
• Key : their current developmental stage and the impact such
imagery has on the way they think, feel and act
• Consequential impact on brain development
• Beginning of a spiral?
• Normalisation
8. Young people affected/influenced by adult
pornography
• Increase in referrals over the past 5/6 years
Portman Clinic – John Woods (November 2010) – referrals
for problematic internet usage – 0% 1997 to 26% 2010 –
adult pornography addiction being one of the major reasons
for referral
• Problems presented by the young men
Intimacy deficits
Unrealistic sexual expectations of their partner
Inability to show empathy when in engaging in sexual
activity – such lack of empathy often doesn’t match the
young men’s personal presentation when not involved in
sexual activity
Relationship breakdown
9. Young people abused through prostitution
and/or trafficking
• Abusers
use the internet, mobile phones and abusive
images to control their victims
They sell young people and children online for
sex online or offline
They make arrangements to traffick young
people through online communication and via
mobile phones
• The role of drugs and alcohol
10. 1. Victims are most unlikely to report the abuse that had occurred
2. Most say they would not have told anyone of the abuse had it
not been discovered
3. 5 reasons for not telling
Highly sexualised nature of the language used by the young
women and the images they exchange
Feelings of complicity
Lying about their age
Emotional dependency on online “boyfriend”
Fear of peer group and family responses to what they had
done – nb. “grooming”
Children and YP groomed online for sexual
abuse online and/or offline – female victims
11. Female victims continued
4. All gave minimal information on initial interview with police –
many denied
5. Talking in any detail about what happened is very difficult
6. Shame, guilt, feeling conned, broken hearted
7. Formed online relationships with the offenders when 12/13
8. Age when abuse was discovered 14/15
9. Only a few present with a history of troubled backgrounds
10. Recovery is a long haul – role of family cannot be under-
estimated
12. Jane aged 14 years
• “I would never have told anyone if the police hadn’t
come knocking at our door. It turned out that they had
arrested the bloke I was friends with online and had
traced me through examining his computer. First off, I
said they’d got the wrong person….I was terrified my
mum and dad would know what I had been talking
about….you don’t even talk to your friends about
what you say online….somehow it seems a different
world….one in which I can act like I’m 22 when I’m
actually only 14”
13. Children and YP groomed online for sexual
abuse online and/or offline – male victims
• Young people presenting as gay and bi-sexual
Few facilities in the off-line environment for them –
the internet is their refuge
12/13 when first encountered abusers
Relief that there’s someone else “like them”
Eager and needy for relationships
Multiple engagements with abusing men
Reinforcement given through experiencing sex
and a belief that their “friend/lover” understands
them whereas their family and others around them
don’t
14. Male victims continued
Push-Pull dynamic
Maintaining consistent care and safeguarding of
the child is time and personnel intensive
This leads to a “splitting” of professional
viewpoints regarding how the situation should be
managed
Continuity and consistency of key workers is
essential – they can act as role models
Start coming out of the abyss around 16/17 years
15. Children made the subjects of child abuse images
• History – availability, old images, introduction of the digital
camera
• IWF findings
• Nature of the images
• Current situation – we can’t arrest our way out
• Intervention issues
• This is sexual abuse! NCMEC
16. Relationship of abuser to Child
Identified victims between 1998 and 2012 is
4,910 - NCMEC
Relationship of abuser to child %
Parent/Guardian 18
Other relative 10
Neighbour/family friend 27
Babysitter/coach 7
Guardian’s partner 3
Online enticement 15
Self produced 15
Human trafficker 2
Unknown to child 3
18. Young people’s sexually harmful and
abusive behaviours online
• Concerning behaviours? Just experimenting?
• Issues
Placing themselves and others at risk
Needs supersede rules for young people
Problems with labelling their behaviour
Legal tolerance
Lack of understanding of developmental issues –
brain development, emotional development,
Increase in reports to Helplines and referral
services
19. Examples of young people’s risky sexual
and/or harmful behaviours online
• Harmful behaviours
Downloading abusive images of children
Distributing abusive images
Sexual solicitation/grooming
Placing images of their girlfriend/partner online
Writing compromising, sexual and or threatening messages
directed at their girl friend/partner
Sexting
Trophying
Blackmailing
stalking
20.
21. Thank you for listening
Tink Palmer
tinkpalmer@mariecollinsfoundation.org.uk
Mobile: 07825 501180
