http://www.ncdsv.org/publications_wheel.html
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I love this resource! It consists of two wheels, a child abuse wheel and equality wheel, based off of the original domestic violence wheel. The child abuse wheel specifically explains signs of child abuse, including physical, emotional, verbal, and sexual abuse components. This helps children and parents to identify signs of child abuse. I think that the equality wheel is also a crucial resource, because it helps parents and children identify a healthy relationship, and differentiate it from an abusive one. This is diverse resource that can be processed in an individual or group therapy setting, or can be presented in a larger group, taking a psycho-educational approach. I love that these wheels are informative and easy to understand. Teaching the concepts from these wheels will inform parents and children, and help them to recognize and be aware of the difference between healthy/safe and unhealthy/unsafe relationships. These wheels can be used as effective tools to help prevent, as well as detect child abuse. -Diana
Friday, October 24, 2014
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Resources
I have been looking up different resources that would be helpful for our project. I have found the following resourcesinformative and interesting:
Our in class discussion we talked about some of the different community resources that we could tap into. We talked about the school districts and that they may have some programs in place that we could incorporate as well as Prevent Child Abuse Utah. We discovered that some of these groups already have resources and perhaps what we need to do is help increase visibility and accessibility to these resources rather than trying to reinvent the wheel. -Ian
The assigned tasks this past meeting included Katie looking further into opportunities to attend a Child Abuse awareness event, and each of us continuing to brainstorm survey questions to be used in measuring public awareness as well as finding further resources for information on child abuse.
-Cameron
- www.rainn.org - my favorite, gives good information, easy to understand
- nsopw.gov
- focus on the family.com - this website gives useful statistics about sexual abuse
- www.stop it now.org
- Huffington Post - safe touch and not safe touch - better to teach children, vs. good and bad touch - not good to teach children, easy for children to misunderstand this language.
- Oprah clip - 4 things parents should know about sexual abuse
- 10 ways to talk to your children about sexual abuse
- www.childhelp.org - 3 main things to tell kids about sexual abuse:
- Explain types of touch
- Teach child to say "no"
- Teach children to speak up
Within the next few weeks I will begin to facilitate an "Adults Molested As Children" group at my practicum. I have begun to study some information for this group that is informative. - Diana
Our in class discussion we talked about some of the different community resources that we could tap into. We talked about the school districts and that they may have some programs in place that we could incorporate as well as Prevent Child Abuse Utah. We discovered that some of these groups already have resources and perhaps what we need to do is help increase visibility and accessibility to these resources rather than trying to reinvent the wheel. -Ian
The assigned tasks this past meeting included Katie looking further into opportunities to attend a Child Abuse awareness event, and each of us continuing to brainstorm survey questions to be used in measuring public awareness as well as finding further resources for information on child abuse.
-Cameron
Survey Questions
Hey all! Here are some ideas for questions we could put on the surveys for the project:
- What knowledge do you have now about child abuse?
- As a parent, what would be some the pros and cons of discussing child abuse with your child?
- If you found out your child was abused, what steps would you take?
- Who would you feel most comfortable talking about the topic of child abuse with? (clergy member, therapist, school counselor)
- How many signs of child abuse do you know?
Some of these could probably be more delicately stated, but there's the general idea.
Laurel
Here are a few more questions I have thought of:
- If you were to witness child abuse, what would be your possible hesitations in reporting it?
- T/F Child abuse reporting is a legal requirement of any witness.
- What agency would be best to call upon witnessing child abuse?
- Would you be willing to attend any training on child abuse awareness if given the chance?
- How frequently do you believe child abuse happens in your neighborhood?
- Have you ever witnessed or experienced child abuse before? If so, circle the following types: Sexual, Emotional, Physical.
Cameron
I am thinking it might be best to keep most of the answers as quantitative as possible. I worry that if we have too many questions that are open ended it will make our data harder to use. Some qualitative questions could be really helpful though.
I am liking the questions that we have come up with, I think as long as we are able to come up with a/b/c/d options and possibly an "other" where they can fill in additional information if they wish. I have started the survey monkey survey, so now we just need to finish it up and figure out how we are going to disseminate it to the widest possible populations. We also talked about naming it something a little more ambiguous to cast a wider net, which is something that I would support, as we included a few more general parenting type questions.
Ian
I agree with Ian. Qualitative responses would probably help most in our short time we have to compile and analyze the data. I like the ideas and questions posted. Ian, do you have more of the questions that we created together when we met before break?
Also, I will be attending the Joining Forces Conference next Monday, and I can get an idea about what is available information out there already.
- What knowledge do you have now about child abuse?
- As a parent, what would be some the pros and cons of discussing child abuse with your child?
- If you found out your child was abused, what steps would you take?
- Who would you feel most comfortable talking about the topic of child abuse with? (clergy member, therapist, school counselor)
- How many signs of child abuse do you know?
Some of these could probably be more delicately stated, but there's the general idea.
Laurel
Here are a few more questions I have thought of:
- If you were to witness child abuse, what would be your possible hesitations in reporting it?
- T/F Child abuse reporting is a legal requirement of any witness.
- What agency would be best to call upon witnessing child abuse?
- Would you be willing to attend any training on child abuse awareness if given the chance?
- How frequently do you believe child abuse happens in your neighborhood?
- Have you ever witnessed or experienced child abuse before? If so, circle the following types: Sexual, Emotional, Physical.
Cameron
I am thinking it might be best to keep most of the answers as quantitative as possible. I worry that if we have too many questions that are open ended it will make our data harder to use. Some qualitative questions could be really helpful though.
I am liking the questions that we have come up with, I think as long as we are able to come up with a/b/c/d options and possibly an "other" where they can fill in additional information if they wish. I have started the survey monkey survey, so now we just need to finish it up and figure out how we are going to disseminate it to the widest possible populations. We also talked about naming it something a little more ambiguous to cast a wider net, which is something that I would support, as we included a few more general parenting type questions.
Ian
I agree with Ian. Qualitative responses would probably help most in our short time we have to compile and analyze the data. I like the ideas and questions posted. Ian, do you have more of the questions that we created together when we met before break?
Also, I will be attending the Joining Forces Conference next Monday, and I can get an idea about what is available information out there already.
Friday, October 3, 2014
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Resources for project
I was thinking of ways that we could help get the word out, including what I could do specifically. I am course happy to talk with my practicum and work agencies to see if they would be on board with distributing some surveys. Both of these agencies are with youth and we work heavily with children and families who are dealing with child abuse. Also, we could think about posting surveys on Facebook or other social media as well to see what kind of responses we get that way. Regarding what Cameron talked about as far as media networks and what we have been discussing, I also have one or two media contacts that I may be able to utilize. Talk to you all soon!
Laurel
Thinking of social media, do you think we could get a representative sample if we invited tons of people in the salt lake area at random to join a Child Abuse Utah group? If we enter a search of adults in the Salt Lake area and pick the nth person (maybe 200 total) to invite to the group, maybe this can help eliminate competing and extraneous variables in the survey.
-Cameron
Laurel
Thinking of social media, do you think we could get a representative sample if we invited tons of people in the salt lake area at random to join a Child Abuse Utah group? If we enter a search of adults in the Salt Lake area and pick the nth person (maybe 200 total) to invite to the group, maybe this can help eliminate competing and extraneous variables in the survey.
-Cameron
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