Keeping Them Safe

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What is a gift? We think that is an easy question, but this episode challenges us to look at what we call a "gift" and see whether it is really a "gift" so that we can teach our children the difference. We and they need to be able to tell the difference between something that is truly a "gift" and something that look like, seems like, and acts like a "gift" but it really the effort of a potential predator to trap a child is a web they can't get out of. 

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In this episode, Sharon answers some of your questions about predators. Who are they? Are they all pedophiles? What's the difference? What about strangers who abduct, molest, and often kill children? Are all predators male - or at least most of them? 

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In this episode, Sharon shares with us some hints about the ways that grooming is accomplished using techniques such as bribery, flattery, jealousy, and anger. You will have an opportunity to look at the ways that you use these techniques to gain what you want and begin to see how a predator goes further in order to manipulate you, the child and the community and accomplish their goal. 

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LaChez English, from the Oklahoma State Health Department provides all of us with Everyday actions we can take to prevent child abuse and neglect. This episode is presented in service of April as Child Abuse Prevention Month.

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In this episode, Robyn Sears of the Oklahoma Child Guidance Center shares many simple ways that we can make a difference in our community and support families as part of a month long concentrated focus on prevention of child abuse. Take the time to learn how you can bring a new eye to situations that you encounter every day and perhaps prevent abuse and neglect. 

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This Interview with the Creative Director of the VIRTUS Protecting God's Children program addresses the challenges faced by a program that started to implement this new paradigm more than 20 years ago in the U. S. Roman Catholic Church. Crispin talks about the successes and the hurdles that have impacted the program's objectives and identifies some of the spaces adults go through on this journey to prevention. 

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In this episode, we engage in a conversation with Erica Frazier, a child guidance counselor committed to shifting the paradigm. Erica talks about the need for parents and other responsible adults to learn about these potentially risky behaviors and begin to intervene and stop possible grooming from proceeding. 

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In this episode we talk about how predators continue to cultivate a relationship with children that leaves out the parents by operating in ways that ignore the parents' rules and cultivate an environment of secrecy. In addition, parents are encouraged to have conversations with their children that thwart secrecy and open the door to the children being able to tell the parents everything without being in trouble. 

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In this episode we begin to consider the grooming process that predators employ to gain access to and trap children in their web of sexual abuse. We also being to look at the first of the potentially risky behaviors adults exhibit that indicate possible grooming and how we can interrupt and intervene when we see those behaviors as well as how we can monitor our own behavior to make sure we are not unconsciously contributing to the problem. 

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Join us as we work to shift the paradigm of child sexual abuse prevention and give parents and other caring adults the knowledge and power they need to protect children from predators. We will be identifying the risky adult behaviors that a part of the grooming process and finding ways to interrupt the behaviors and protect children from every being harmed. In this episode we introduce you to the source of this conversation and begin to discover what it will take to create a world where all our children are safe.