04 Sep, 2024 Object Lesson in Crisis Response By Debbie Ausburn From Texas, we have a report of accusations against a church staff member, and an illustration of a church that did almost everything...
31 Aug, 2024 Courts Continue to Rule Against US DOE By Debbie Ausburn Another federal court, this one in Texas, has ruled that the U.S. Department of Education cannot enforce its most recent Title IX...
28 Aug, 2024 Children Benefit from Nature By Debbie Ausburn A few weeks ago, the Washington Post published an interesting article about the many benefits that children receive from being outdoors. ...
26 Aug, 2024 Mandated Reporters and Disclosures of Historic Abuse By Debbie Ausburn A story from California illustrates a couple of important principles that youth organizations should follow when dealing with disclosures...
24 Aug, 2024 Lawyers May Be Eliciting Inaccurate Testimony from Children By Debbie Ausburn A recent research article looked at how lawyers in court questioned children about timing issues. Prior research has shown that...
21 Aug, 2024 Book Release: Protecting Other People's Children By Debbie Ausburn I am thrilled to announce that my new book, co-written with my colleague Tom Rawlings, is available for pre-order! We believe that...
19 Aug, 2024 Lack of Mental Health Care Plagues Foster Care System By Debbie Ausburn A story from New Hampshire highlights one of the biggest issues for the foster care system, namely, providing adequate mental health...
17 Aug, 2024 Forensic Interviews of Teens Are a Different Kind of Conversation By Debbie Ausburn An interesting new study looked at factors unique to forensic interviews of adolescents. It wasn't a broad or particularly deep study,...
15 Aug, 2024 International Child Abuse Conference By Debbie Ausburn My colleague, Tom Rawlings, and I are speaking on August 20 at the upcoming meeting of the International Society for the Prevention of...
15 Aug, 2024 Avoiding Buyer's Remorse With AI Tools By Mitzi Hill Attached is a story about how AI grading tools exposed school districts in California to embarrassing failures (including giving students...
14 Aug, 2024 Federal Court: Treating Misgendering as Bullying Does Not Violate Students’ Free Speech By Debbie Ausburn The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently considered a school's anti-bullying policy that prohibits “discriminatory...
12 Aug, 2024 Lessons from a Fired Teacher By Debbie Ausburn A case from the New Jersey Supreme Court has some important lessons for youth organizations. The immediate issue involved defamation...