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• 21st Century Child Abuse: A Conversation with Michael Salter, one of the World’s Leading Researchers on Modern Forms of Victimization.

  Professor Michael Salter is the Director of Childlight UNSW, the Australasian hub of Childlight, the Global Child Safety Institute, which undertakes research for impact on child sexual abuse and exploitation. Childlight UNSW is based in School of Social Sciences at UNSW, where Professor Salter conducts national and international research on child sexual exploitation, gender-based violence and complex trauma. His published work includes the books Organised Sexual Abuse (2013, Routledge) and Crime, Justice and Social Media (2017, Routledge) and over sixty papers in international journals and edited collections. His research engages with policy and practice across multiple sectors, including mental health, social work, law enforcement and internet regulation.Professor Salter is Chair of the Grace Tame Foundation and a past president of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) where he has served on the Board of Directors since 2018, and on the Scientific Committee since 2015. He sits on the editorial boards of the journals Child Abuse Review and the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation. Dr Salter is a member of a number of advisory groups, including the Advisory Group of the National Plan To Prevent Violence Against Women and Their Children, the Expert Advisory Group of the eSafety Commissioner, and the Expert Advisory Committee of the Canadian Centre for Child Protection. Source: https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/professor-michael-alan-salter 

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• Ensuring Child Safety Online in the 21st Century: Policy Implications

  Summary of Key Findings  In the current state of technology, we have failed to create any meaningful legal framework to ensure our children are safe in the digital world. The lack of legal protections for children online differs from those of the physical world. Children online are at risk of experiencing poor mental health outcomes, being victims of predatory behavior, being exposed to harmful content, and being illegally sold firearms and/or drugs. Without age assurance or verification in the digital world, adults have unfettered access to children. Currently, most child sex trafficking victims report they are being contacted via text and internet platforms such as social media and gaming. Additionally, the number of images of child sex abuse material (CSAM; formerly referred to as child pornography) sent to authorities increased exponentially in the 21st century, and the vast majority of CSAM images come from social media. Children are also at greater risk of being exposed to adult content, including pornography, whether the exposure was sought out or unwanted. Protecting children online would require platforms to verify the ages of their users and to put restrictions in place so children can navigate the digital world safely. Various advanced age verification processes have been developed and are widely available. Despite this, many platforms have failed to implement age protections even when they know children frequent their sites. Thus, lawmakers are compelled to make clear that the same protections for children that exist in the physical world are also required in the digital world. There are many policy changes needed to further ensure technology safety, and a starting point is to: a) require pornography websites to verify user age to ensure only adults are accessing the sites; b) require social media companies and gaming platforms to verify a new account holder’s age; and c) requiring social media platforms to enable maximum default privacy settings for users who are children. Maura Gissen BioMaura Gissen is a fifth year Clinical Psychology doctoral student with the University of Colorado Denver and has her master’s in counseling psychology. Maura currently works with the Farley Health Policy Center (FHPC) with CU Anschutz engaging in research and program implementation. More specifically, she has been focused on youth mental health related to diversifying the workforce pipeline, and on child health and safety in digital spaces. Maura has been working in the mental health field for ten years and focuses on the intersection of trauma and systemic disparities for individuals across the lifespan. She is passionate about engaging in clinical therapeutic practice, along with research focused on policy, advocacy, and systems-level change. 

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• Supporting Clinicians in Working with High-Stress Families: A conversation with Sarah Cleary, Ph.D.

  Many therapists find it challenging to work with children who have experienced trauma and families facing multiple stressors, high conflict, and systemic issues. These families can be difficult to engage, leading therapists to feel ineffective, and thereby contributing to overarching burnout. Consequently, the children who often need the most support sometimes go without it. But what if clinicians working with these vulnerable populations received more robust support, including ongoing group supervision and mentorship? Could this lead to better outcomes for both patients and providers? This is the question our guest, Sarah Cleary, Ph.D. (she/her), has been exploring at Denver Health, developing a variety of supervision experiences for trainees and staff over the past few years. Join us as we discuss how these support systems can make a difference. About our Guest:Sarah Cleary, Ph.D. (she/her) is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and AF-CBT In-House Trainer with the Child Mental Health Team, Outpatient Behavioral Health Services at Denver Health. She is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

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• 21st Century Child Abuse: A conversation with Emily Cashman Kirstein, who leads child safety public policy at Google

  Emily leads efforts to keep children safe online at one of the world’s largest and most powerful technology companies, Google. Previously, she led the policy team at Thorn, a tech-focused nonprofit working to end online child sexual abuse. And earlier, she spent seven years both in her home state of New Hampshire and in Washington, DC as an assistant to US Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH). In the Radio Kempe Podcast, Emily outlines the comprehensive steps Google is taking to keep children safe online, including using new technology tools to match the “hash values” (digital fingerprints) of images of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) so the images can be quickly reported and removed. These tools include “classifiers” to identify never-seen-before content, and other innovations. She indicated Google is not only using these tools on its own platforms but is making them available to other companies. She also discussed work Google is doing on parental education and mentioned a Google collaboration with the Royal Academy of Pediatrics and Child Health in the UK to better identify children harmed online and intervene. She also discussed the work that Google is doing to identify and mitigate the risks to children from Generative AI. 

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• Be Well> Do Well> Stay Awhile: Leadership's role in creating a culture of resilience and wellness.

  The last of the three drivers of workforce resilience is the critical role that leaders play in creating a culture where resilience and well-being are valued and supported. Research tells us that compared to client-related burnout, staff experience higher levels of burnout related to agency-level factors. Workplace-related burnout was also more strongly associated with job stress, job dissatisfaction, and intent to leave. If your organization is struggling with turnover, leadership must lead the way to create a culture that encourages, supports, and models thriving not just surviving. Interested in learning more about Be Well. Do Well. Stay Awhile. Visit our website www.kempecenter.org in the Our Work and/or Workforce Education and Innovation pages to learn more. 

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