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The Safety Zone episodes
- Dr. Mark McNear: Finding My Words
Dr. Mark McNear discusses growing up in a home with an abusive father, his battles with addictions and rehab and ultimately his calling as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
31 min - NCOSE Releases The Dirty Dozen List
The National Center on Sexual Exploitation released their annual Dirty Dozen List of organizations that facilitate, enables or profits from sexual exploitation. We talk through the list. Many organizations not surprising but there are a couple that will raise your eyebrows.
31 min - His Story, His Healing, His Plea to the Church: an Interview with Josh McDowell
Josh McDowell has spoken to more than 46 million people about the evidence of Jesus Christ since he turned from being agnostic and joined Campus Crusade for Christ in 1961 and shortly thereafter started Josh McDowell Ministry. He has written or co-authored 151 books including More Than A Carpenter and Evidence That Demands A Verdict.
Josh is also a survivor of horrific childhood sexual abuse, perpetrated by a trusted employee of his family. He joins us to discuss the sexual abuse he survived, sharing red flags that nobody noticed, while making a plea to pastors and church leaders to join us in preventing violence.
37 min - Empowering Church Leaders to Prevent Abuse
We have seen a surge in domestic violence and sexual abuse within the church, so we want to empower and encourage church leaders that violence is preventable.
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Music: "Slow Burn", "Decisions" by Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com) License-Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
23 min - A Survivor's Voice: Interview with Joelle Casteix
Joelle Casteix is one of the leading global advocates and spokespeople for survivors of child sexual assault and cover-up. A founding member of the board of directors of the Zero Abuse Project, she has helped launch ZeroAbuse.ai, an innovative AI tool that evaluates the risk factors that suggest potential predatory individuals within an organization and those associated with cover-up. A former member of the adjunct faculty of the UCI School of Law, Joelle is the award-winning author of the bestsellers The Well-Armored Child: A Parent’s Guide to Preventing Child Sexual Abuse (RiverGrove Books) and The Power of Responsibility
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Music: "Slow Burn", "Decisions" by Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com) License-Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
41 min - Preventing Child Sexual Abuse with the Learning Zone
We have brought together a team of national experts that include a former violent crime detective, a national trainer, author and survivor, a children's ministry leader and a child forensic interviewing to create a dynamic and solutions-driven online child sexual abuse prevention training program for employees and volunteers who work with children. Stop the abuse before it happens.
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Music: "Slow Burn", "Decisions" by Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com) License-Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
22 min - Suicide Prevention: An Interview with Glen Bloomstrom LivingWorks Faith
Glen Bloomstrom with LivingWorks Faith joins us to discuss suicide prevention and intervention and how they are equipping church and ministry to understand and intervene, especially in light of the the impact from the COVID pandemic.
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Music: "Slow Burn", "Decisions" by Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com) License-Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
33 min - What is the Role of an SRO? Part 2 an Interview With SRO Chase Lyday
Chase Lyday, Avon Schools Chief of Police, has been an SRO for 11 years and is currently the President of the Indiana SRO Assoc. as well as a board member of the National School Resource Officers Assoc. (NASRO). Chase helps us understand how SROs are trained and their role within a school.
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Music: "Slow Burn", "Decisions" by Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com) License-Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
30 min - What is the Role of a School Resource Officer? Part 1
There is a movement across the U.S. to defund police and remove officers from schools because of a belief that police create a pipeline to prison in our schools. Is this true? We have a two part series on the role of a specialty trained school resource officer that also considers the difference between an SRO and a traditional school police department.
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Music: "Slow Burn", "Decisions" by Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com) License-Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
29 min - Impact of Domestic Violence on Kids & Community
We discuss the impact of witnessing domestic violence on children, how this has impacted co-host Melinda Ronn, and how violence in the home impacts the community.
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Music: "Slow Burn", "Decisions" by Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com) License-Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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About The Safety Zone
From the publisher's feed
The Safety Zone is engaging conversations on all aspects of violence prevention from experts who have decades of experiencing in specialized law enforcement, U.S. Secret Service, FBI, Navy Seal Teams, corporate security, hostage negotiations and school security.
Mike McCarty & Melinda Ronn are the hosts. Melinda has spent decades in communication, having started in the George W. Bush White House where she served as a liaison to churches, ministries and pastors in the U.S. She now works with numerous media outlets nationally such as Fox, CNN, CBN and numerous other media groups.
Mike has decades of violence prevention experience that started as a violent crime detective in Nashville, TN and was part of a small team that developed the nation's largest largest law enforcement-based violence prevention program which immediately reduced the number of domestic homicides by 50%.
Mike left Nashville and started providing training and consulting for organizations such as U.S. Department of Justice- Violence Against Women Office, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Homeland Security and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.
Today, Mike is the CEO of Safe Hiring Solutions which is a violence prevention, background screening, visitor management and threat assessment organization with more than 7,000 clients that include schools, churches, volunteer organizations and corporations.