Jan 11, 2023 Organizations Need Accountability Systems By Debbie Ausburn A North Carolina system learned the hard way that one of its employees was shirking responsibilities and faking work reports. After a...
Oct 31, 2022 UK Report on Child Sexual Abuse Released By Debbie Ausburn The UK’s report on child sexual abuse in a number of religious institutions has been released. Like most such reports, it’s tough...
Jul 06, 2022 Child Education Programs Don’t Prevent Abuse By Debbie Ausburn One universal component of child protection policies is some level of education for the children themselves. Most off-the-shelf policies...
Apr 27, 2022 Youth Organizations Need to Affirmatively Support Their Mandated Reporters By Debbie Ausburn An interesting study from Israel illustrates one of the core flaws that I have found in mandated reporting laws, which is that the...
Dec 06, 2021 A Lesson About Reference Checks By Debbie Ausburn A school teacher in Colorado has been arrested for sexual misconduct on campus, and his employer may or may not have conducted adequate...
Nov 29, 2021 Generalized Anxiety Is Not a Red Flag for Abuse By Debbie Ausburn A judge has dismissed a school district from a civil lawsuit alleging that a teacher initiated a sexual relationship with a student. The...
Nov 17, 2021 Violating Boundaries Leads to Jail Term By Debbie Ausburn A teacher found herself sentenced to jail after a jury acquitted her of a sexual relationship with a student, but convicted her of...
Aug 26, 2021 Study About Lying May Be Based on Lies By Debbie Ausburn One of the big problems in social science research is the “replication crisis.” Many famous studies have results that later researchers...
Jun 30, 2021 Youth organizations have limited ability to check Georgia's child abuse & neglect database By Debbie Ausburn One unanticipated result of Georgia's abolishing its child abuse registry last fall is that many youth serving organizations no longer...
Jun 28, 2021 YSO Staff Member Indicted as Gang Leader By Debbie Ausburn A Chicago social services agency faces a nightmare scenario after learning that one of its star staff members has been accused of being a...
May 24, 2021 Abuse Prevention Programs Addressed to Children Have Significant Shortcomings By Debbie Ausburn One popular, and many believe essential, component of child protection policies is a prevention program geared toward children. In these...
Jan 20, 2021 New Guide For Preventing Child Abuse By Debbie Ausburn Johns Hopkins has published a new guide to preventing child sexual abuse. I have not had time to read it all the way through, but it...