Podcasts about stop abuse campaign

Domestic abuse does happen in ministry marriages. Shawn and Sonny speak with victim turn advocate, Hennie Lauf, on today's episode. In some ministry marriages, abuse is weaponized against the wives and children. Today's story sheds light on that sort of abuse, but also, how to overcome and move into healing and wholeness. Resources:Stop Abuse Campaign WebsiteSafe Child Act Aisha's Law - The bill Hennie helped passAbout Hennie LaufHennie Lauf currently works as a State Manager at Stop Abuse Campaign, a non-profit seeking to prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences through public policy and public education.Question for Hennie? Contact her directly at hennielauf@yahoo.comPastor in crisis? Get 1-on-1 restorative help with the Exchange CollaborativeStart the journey to become whole again with Journey to Wholeness --Email Pastor Shawn directly: theShawnhennessy@gmail.comConnect with Pastor Shawn onlineWebsite | Twitter | InstagramEmail Pastor Sonny directly: Sonny@theexchangebrand.comConnect with Pastor Sonny onlineWebsite | Twitter | Instagram | LinkedIn--Near Green Bay, WI? Join Shawn and Sonny for a church service at Life Church Green Bay--Mentioned in this episode:Help Launch the ReserveThank you for listening. Please consider a gift to help us launch the Reserve, our retreat center in North Carolina for pastoral restoration.Support the Collaborative

Stephanie Pianades went into Massachusetts family court looking for help. That was it. One little thing. She went in looking for one help with one little thing, and it snowballed into a monumental challenge that altered her life and the life of her 10-year-old daughter, and as she says, "it will never go back to the way it was." This interview is a cautionary tale about Family Court Abuse, Parental Alienation, DARVO, and Post-separation Abuse. It's not easy to digest but extremely important for parents. We make assumptions about the court system, the main one being that it will protect our children or us. The dark truth is that this is not the case. The family court system is broken. Learn the steps to take to prevent court abuse and parental alienation. The first step is finding vetted attorneys who understand the dynamics of narcissistic abuse and how they can weaponize the court system against the other parent. Stop Abuse Campaign offers top-notch resources to help protective parents fight for their children and win against systemic and other forms of abuse. https://stopabusecampaign.org/takeaction/family-court-custody-crisis/help-for-protective-parents/ AS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Hear and see Stephanie's testimony before the Joint Committee on the Judiciary regarding Family Court abuse in Worcester Family Court Follow Steph on Twitter and support, retweet, re-post, chime in with similar stories to raise awareness, call your local representative to see what you can do to clean up the family court system in your state or country. What is Parental Alienation? https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/parental-alienation What is DARVO? https://www.sbs.com.au/topics/voices/relationships/article/2021/04/13/what-darvo-and-how-it-used-against-survivors-violence https://www.choosingtherapy.com/darvo/   What is Family Court Abuse? Example from a Harvard Law https://www.legalservicescenter.org/when-perpetrators-of-domestic-violence-use-civil-court-system-to-re-victimize-survivors/   Post-separation abuse cycle wheel https://www.onemomsbattle.com/post-separation-abuse     Facebook ➡︎ http://bit.ly/AL-fans Instagram ➡︎ http://bit.ly/AL-instagram Twitter ➡︎ http://bit.ly/AL-twitter   Thank you for listening!  Wishing you blessings of Peace, Prosperity, and Happiness!! Lots of Love! xoxox      

Tonight's special guest is Melanie Blow from Rochester, New York. As a survivor of incest, psychological abuse and a host of other childhood trauma, Melanie is the Executive Director of the Stop Abuse Campaign. The mission at the Stop Abuse Campaign is to prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) through public education and public policy. The ACE study looks at three categories of adverse experience: childhood abuse, which included emotional, emotional, physical, and sexual abuse; neglect, including both physical and emotional neglect; and household challenges, which included growing up in a household where there was substance abuse, mental illness, violent treatment of a mother or stepmother, parental separation/divorce or had an incarcerated household member. Respondents earn an ACE score between 0 and 10 based on how many of the 10 types one reports experiencing. Melanie has over two decades of legislative advocacy regarding children's issues. The Stop Abuse Campaign web site says that keeping these educational and advocacy campaigns running requires 'partnering with the best academic minds to turn great solutions into pilot programs and public policies. It requires delivering advocacy training programs and empowering the dedicated organizations that are working to protect children in local communities.' Melanie has been published in newspapers, magazines and blogs all across the country. She served with the Rochester Regional Coalition Against Human Trafficking, The Downstate Crime Victims Coalition Legislative Advocacy team and with Prevent Child Abuse, NY.

Today, I am sitting down with Melanie Blow she is the Chief Operations Officer for the Stop Abuse Campaign, a national organization that prevents Adverse Childhood Experiences through public education and public policy. She is a founding member of the RRCAHT. As a member of RRCAHT's board of directors, she uses her experience to help RRCAHT manage its media and communications goals. Melanie also sits on the Trauma-Informed Community Initiative of Western NY, the Downstate Crime Victims Coalition (the only member west of the Hudson) and is a member of the public policy committee of the Association of Professionals Against Child Abuse. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/celia-mcintosh/support

KAYDEN’S LAW: EFFORTS TO STOP CUSTODY DECISION DEATHS Seven-year-old Kayden died at her father’s hands because a judge disregarded the father’s threats of violence against her mother. As is the case too many times, the justice system failed this child because the judge created a false equivalency between parents, one of whom was violent. And Kayden paid the price of that. So where is the uproar and public demand that the legal system get smarter? Efforts in Pennsylvania are centered around Kayden’s Law- proposed legislation that would prohibit custody decisions likely to lead to tragic outcomes like Kayden’s. Melanie Blow, with the Stop Abuse Campaign, joins us to explain what Kayden’s Law would mean, how it will improve custody decisions, and how similar efforts are going on all around the country. Airing for the first time, Saturday, December 28, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.

Scientist and Activist Melanie Blow is back to talk about how lawyers are going to file RICO charges against the Buffalo Catholic Diocese in New York State. We're also chatting about ACE Scores, an empirical way to determine one's Adverse Childhood Experiences Score that's been scientifically proven for almost 30 YEARS but has only recently made its way into the mainstream. The higher your ACE Score, the more likely you are to develop cancer, have suicidal ideations, ADHD, a SUD, and/or diabetes!

JUDGE ORDERS BOY INTO FATHER'S CUSTODY DESPITE "PENIS GAMES"           If you were the one making the decision, would you order a small boy who told authorities that daddy played the “penis game” with him, and who then went on to sexually act out with is playmates and school friends, to live with his abuser?           Because it happens a lot. And in the case of Suzanne Lichau’s grandson, it led to her daughter’s fleeing to another country with the child. But that can’t even guarantee safety. What’s going on here?           Join Suzanne and domestic violence expert and advocate Barry Goldstein as we discuss her grandson’s specific case, and the system that allows this to happen. Airing for the first time Saturday, July 13 at 11 AM Pacific time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.

Please welcome to the podcast special guest WOMENACE Peggy Hoffman. Peggy is the chapter leader of Stop Abuse Campaign - Pennsylvania, one of the organization’s largest chapters. She’s leading Family Court Reform in the Keystone State.

We’re so very excited to welcome back special guest WOMENACE Melanie Blow of Stop Abuse Campaign, a national organization dedicated to improving lives, especially the lives of traumatized children. One of Stop Abuse Campaign’s largest chapters is in Pennsylvania. And Melanie returns to the podcast to break down what the newest revelations of cover-ups committed by the Catholic Church in that state will mean for all politicians and people pushing for Statute of Limitations Reform and keeping children safe from abusive predators.

Barry Goldstein is an internationally recognized domestic violence author, speaker and advocate. He is the author of five of the leading books about domestic Violence and child custody, most recently, The Quincy Solution: Stop Domestic Violence and Save $500 Billion. Barry will be the featured speaker at an international conference in Melbourne, Australia on August 3. He developed the Safe Child Act which is the solution to the widespread failure of custody courts to protect children in abuse cases. Barry frequently serves as an expert witness to try to educate courts about current research. He is Director of Research for the Stop Abuse Campaign and co-chair of the Child Custody Task Group for NOMAS. To listen to the PAVE podcast Episode 014 with Barry Goldstein  please click here: About your host:  Alianne Looijenga is an international speaker motivating organizations to effectively help survivors of partner abuse, child abuse and sexual abuse. She is also the founder of aliannelooijenga.com and the Professionals against violence (PAVE) podcast.   Alianne is a survivor of sexual abuse (including rape); partner abuse; and is the mother of twins who were abused by their biological father after a judge granted him visitation rights when the children were […] The post PAVE 014: Safe Child Act, ACE studies, Protective Mothers, Parental Alienation with Barry Goldstein appeared first on Alianne.

This episode of en(gender)ed features guest, Barry Goldstein, an internationally recognized domestic violence author, speaker and advocate.  He has worked in the DV movement since 1983 and served as an instructor in a NY Model Batterer Program since 1999.  He is co-editor of two volumes of Domestic Violence, Abuse and Child Custody with Dr. Mo Therese Hannah, Representing the Domestic Violence Survivor co-authored with Elizabeth Liu, Scared to Leave Afraid to Stay and The Quincy Solution: Stop Domestic Violence and Save $500 Billion.  Barry is the Research Director for the Stop Abuse Campaign and Co-Chair of the Child Custody Task Force for NOMAS, the National Organization for Men Against Sexism. Barry is here to speak with us today about his work in the courts, gender bias, the Stop Abuse Campaign and the Safe Child Act, a comprehensive legislative solution to the child custody crisis.  If you would like to get in touch with Barry, please email him at info@stopabusecampaign.com. --- Thanks for tuning in to the en(gender)ed podcast! Be sure to check out our en(gender)ed site and follow our blog on Medium. Consider donating because your support is what makes this work sustainable. Please also connect with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Don't forget to subscribe to the show!

Tonight's special guest is Margaret (Peggy) Hoffman from Williamsport, Pennsylvania, is an activist and survivor of a toxic family and domestic abuse. Peggy's Native American family suffered multi-generational government oppression and systemic abuses that contributed to growing up in a dysfunctional environment. Her mother had poor health and, after her father took his own life when she was 10, Peggy was raised by multiple family members who were ‘enablers' of abuse. Peggy learned early on about family secrets of incest. Before her current marriage of 22 years, Peggy divorced her first husband after a decade of domestic violence. In 2016, while Peggy's daughter was in the middle of a custody battle, Peggy's 5 yr. old granddaughter disclosed sexual abuse by the father. Although Peggy's daughter did the right things by reporting the abuse to police and a trauma therapist, the courts ultimately disbelieved the allegations, granting custody to the abusive father where her granddaughter still resides today. Peggy says, "Children are the least protected when it comes to sexual abuse.” This systemic failure to protect children who disclose fueled Peggy to dedicate herself to policy reform. She has spent over 1000 hours in training courses and is working as the Pennsylvania director of the Stop Abuse Campaign. She partners with legislators to pass the Safe Child Act and other legislation for family court reform and accountability for legal professionals. According to Peggy, her story has been repeated in about 2.8 percent of custody cases nationwide, with over 7,000 children in Pennsylvania alone ordered into contact or custody of their abuser because of a failing system. Peggy invites listeners to contact her.

Would you be surprised to know that there is no law that says a judge must make a kid's health and safety the first priority when determining custody in a divorce? Every day judges decide where a child will live when the parents divorce. Often they get it wrong, with disastrous results, and those children may be forced to live with someone who has abused or even seuxally assaulted them. Because judges, guardians ad litem, psychologists and other advisors to the courts, don't get it or think the protective parent is lying. It's a tragedy that leaved kids in horrible situations and can set them up for life-long repercussions. The Safe Child Act could change that. Andrew Willis, founder of the Stop Abuse Campaign, and Barry Goldstein, nationally recognized domestic violence author, speaker and advocate, will discuss the Safe Child Act, being considered in several state legislatures as a requirement for child custody decisions. Join us as we talk about how this act could help protective parents, dependent children and the social justice system.

THE SAFE CHILD ACT Would you be surprised to know that there is no law that says a judge has to make a kid’s health and safety the first priority when determining custody in a divorce?  Every day judges decide where a child will live when the parents divorce. It’s always a tough decision, and most people make the most of it because they care about their kids. Often they get it wrong, with disastrous results. And those children may be forced to live with someone who has abused or sexually assaulted them. Andrew Willis, founder of the Stop Abuse Campaign, and Barry Goldstein, nationally recognized domestic violence author, speaker and advocate, will join us to talk about the Safe Child Act. This act, being considered by state legislatures in Hawaii, Pennsylvania, New York, Texas, Utah and Washington, would make child health and safety the first priority in determining custody. Andrew was born in Hong Kong went to school in Great Britain and has not stopped travelling ever since. Following time in the British Army, where he reached the rank of Captain, he spent his life practicing integrated marketing communications and marketing, mostly for global brands. He has been recognized with both creative and marketing effectiveness awards and is a frequent speaker at conferences. Barry Goldstein is a nationally recognized domestic violence author, speaker and advocate.  He is co-chair of the child custody task group for NOMAS and serves as Director of Research for the Stop Abuse Campaign.  Barry Goldstein is the author of the Safe Child Act which is a comprehensive proposal to make family courts safe for children.  He is the author of 5 of the leading books about domestic violence and child custody including The Quincy Solution: Stop Domestic Violence and Save $500 Billion. Join us as we air the show for the first time on Saturday,

Ronni Adams, the Utah chapter leader for the Stop Abuse Campaign , grew up witnessing domestic violence at home and she never thought it would happen to her. Her experience may be a common story for survivors: She met a man. They fell in love. And things were really good for awhile. And then they weren't.

Tonight's SPECIAL GUEST is Laura Fogarty, from Charleston, SC, author of the children's book "I'm the Boss of Me," which empowers young readers to be the boss of their bodies. The book is wonderfully written in rhyme and beautifully illustrated by Remi Bryant and includes a message to parents by Anne Lee, the Founder and CEO of Darkness to Light. “The message you are teaching your child is to rely on his/her intuition about whom to trust and whom not to trust. All children should be empowered with the language to protect themselves,” says Anne. This book will help parents open a dialogue with their children about a tough topic but one that is imperative to better protecting them from possible abuse. Laura Fogarty is also launching a "Letters to LALA" campaing at Stop Abuse Campaign.org designed to answer questions from the abused. She's is the author of two novels, Larger than Life and Painted Blue. You can order books by contacting Laura's publisher, Lucinda Dunn, at deal.lucinda@gmail.com. Laura invites email at: lalafogarty@comcast.net

Tonight's SPECIAL GUEST is Andrew Willis from New York City. Mr Willis is from the Stop Abuse Campaign, StopAbuseCampaign.com, working collaboratively with NPEIV to eradicate abuse from America before 2036. They see their role as educating and enabling a popular, grassroots movement to stop abuse as well as igniting conversations about abuse so that people start talking and sharing and becoming more involved as a community. They invite everyone to take their PLEDGE. As the web site states, " It's going to take all of us working together as an organized and popular, grassroots movement to affect the necessary changes in law and societal attitudes concerning abuse – by education, activism, and funding." The Stop Abuse Campaign's primary strategies to stop abuse are: (1) Educate all adults on how to create safe environments for themselves and those that they love. (2) Provide easy access to enhanced mental health treatment to all survivors who need it. (3) Ensure all abuse is reported into the system and effectively handled. (4) Recruit America's adults to the movement to stop abuse.