We have seen a tendency for youth-servicing organizations (YSOs) to concentrate all of their efforts on preventing sexual predators from...

As we work with youth organizations to draft good child protection policies, we see three very common misconceptions. Youth-serving...

The police investigation into staff at the Rainbow House in Clayton, County, Georgia, offers three important lessons for youth...

A Colorado appeals court vacated a defendant's conviction for attempting to entice a child into his vehicle for purposes of sexual...

We constantly advise clients that the only thing worse than not having a plan is having a plan that you don’t follow. The Oxford High...

Teaching children to resist abuse, particularly sexual abuse, is a very popular child protection technique.  A recent scoping review of...

Connecticut has made some changes to its child welfare laws, effective this fall.  It added paid camp staff and volunteer staff and...

An important new study addresses the common belief that child protective services agencies conflate poverty with child neglect. The...

Next week, TED attorneys will be speaking at the European Conference for the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and...

The Michigan legislature enacted a common-sense bill that goes against recent trends by taking people off the state’s child abuse...

Developing a child protection policy can be a difficult process, in part because there is little evidence which policies actually work....

One well-known problem in the child welfare field is that children who suffer abuse are at much higher risk of being victims of violence...