Keeping kids safe in the summer: How to create a secure environment beyond school Awareness + Prevention

Keeping kids safe in the summer: How to create a secure environment beyond school

With summer quickly approaching, many children are eagerly anticipating a break from the routine of…

Meghan Krein

After 7 years in foster care, 12-year-old boy is adopted Intervention + Treatment

After 7 years in foster care, 12-year-old boy is adopted

Ricky, age 12, was in Tennessee’s foster care system for seven years — more than half…

Meghan Krein

Peer-on-Peer abuse: What can be done when kids hurt kids? Awareness + Prevention

Peer-on-Peer abuse: What can be done when kids hurt kids?

  The child welfare system focuses primarily on the safety and well-being of children under…

Terrence Murtagh

Trigger warning: Christmas Awareness + Prevention

Trigger warning: Christmas

5 tips to help survivors flourish through the holidays The holidays offer many gifts, but…

Terrence Murtagh

PAWsitive reinforcement Awareness + Prevention

PAWsitive reinforcement

Feeling stressed, overwhelmed, worried, or sad? At Childhelp, we get it. Not just the normal…

Terrence Murtagh

Checklist for a safer school Awareness + Prevention

Checklist for a safer school

As children return to school, concern for classroom safety has rarely been higher; still, compassionate…

Terrence Murtagh

Telling someone Intervention + Treatment

Telling someone

The impact of prevention education is life changing. For Stephanie, a student of Childhelp Speak…

Terrence Murtagh

Talking to children about school shootings Intervention + Treatment

Talking to children about school shootings

Grief is a place called Uvalde, Texas where 19 children and two teachers were killed,…

Terrence Murtagh

Benefits and challenges of a special needs foster care adoption Awareness + Prevention

Benefits and challenges of a special needs foster care adoption

Guest article written by Sophia Young Around the world, there are many families built on…

Terrence Murtagh

You can prevent child abuse Awareness + Prevention

You can prevent child abuse

All of us can be a positive influence in a child’s life. At the very…

Zuzana Urbanek

A survivor’s story of sexual abuse Intervention + Treatment

A survivor’s story of sexual abuse

I have spent years trying to find closure with my abuse.  For me, information is…

Meghan Krein

How social workers can help children heal Intervention + Treatment

How social workers can help children heal

Though we may not want to believe it, abuse directed at children is heartbreakingly increasing.…

Terrence Murtagh