Beyond the Jargon: Understanding the Impacts of Child Abuse and Trauma

In this episode of Beyond the Jargon, Karen talks with Stephen Gruver, the Director of Social Services at the Salvation Army of Wake County, about his work to promote a safe and supportive environment for families and children, particularly through trauma-informed programs designed to coordinate services for those experiencing homelessness. 

What are Family Resource Centers, and how do we measure their effectiveness in preventing child abuse and neglect? In this episode, Karen talks with Dr. Sara Bayless, a Vice President and researcher at the OMNI Institute, about the organization's work to measure the return on investment to local child welfare systems by investing in Family Resource Centers. 

In this episode of Beyond the Jargon, Karen talks with Dr. Natasha Saunders and Dr. Etienne Archambault about their work to understand the scope and nature of the development of mental illness in children following physical assault.

Dr. Saunders and Dr. Archambault are pediatrician-researchers at the University of Toronto, the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, and Sainte-Justine Hospital in Montreal.

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In this episode of Beyond the Jargon, Karen talks with Dr. Heather Taussig, Professor at the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Social Work and an Adjunct Professor at the Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect at the University of Colorado, about her work investigating the buffering impact of turning points in the lives of young people with foster care experience. 

In this episode of Beyond the Jargon, Karen talks with Michele Fingerman, Vice President of Prevention Programs for the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline, Larel Jacobs, Director of Hotline Operations for Childhelp, and Laura Schwab Reese, Assistant Professor at Purdue University, about their collaborative, data-driven work to incorporate text capacity into Childhelp’s hotline, and why understanding data is critical to their work.

Scientific research- how does it work?

Dr. Dalton Conley joins us to discuss the process of scientific research— breaking down how it works, what it means, and how it’s used. 
Dr. Conley is the Henry Putnam University Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, pro-bono Dean of Health Sciences for the University of the People, and a faculty affiliate at Princeton’s Office of Population Research and the Center for Health & Wellbeing. 

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