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Stop Child Abuse Now

1,412 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratings

Monday to Friday's "Stop Child Abuse Now" (SCAN) feature trauma informed HOSTs and Co-hosts and respected child abuse prevention, intervention and recovery advocates. They're all volunteers members of the National Association of Adult Survivors of Child Abuse (NAASCA), a 501(c)3.

Founded in 2009, NAASCA.org was originally a grassroots effort. It was launched based on our founder Bill Murray's personal life experienced. Bill wrote, "Very few adults escape years of severe childhood sexual abuse, pre-pubescent X-rated photography, sex trafficking, and a two week long kidnapping." He continued. "But I have, and for some 35 years I've been in recovery from its devastating effects."

After years of operating as a grassroots effort, NAASCA became a public charity in 2015 .. a 501(c)3 .. but we receive no grants or outside support, and belong to no other organization. There are no dues or fees.

Our MISSION is entirely self-sustaining through the volunteer contributions of our members.

The single purpose is to address issues related to childhood abuse and trauma including sexual assault, violent or physical abuse, emotional traumas and neglect from two specific perspectives: 1) educating the public, and 2) offering hope for healing and services to adult survivors.

There are now nearly 3000 BlogTalkRadio shows, podcasts in the ever-growing library.

Join us five-nights-a-week (Mon to Fri), at 8pm EST (so 7pm CEN, 6pm MTN, 5pm PAC) for solution-oriented discussions about the many issues of child abuse and trauma. The shows always include panel discussions and call-in participation.

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Episodes

"Community Matters" This Week - 566

January 14, 2019 01:00 - 1 hour - 82.1 MB

"Community Matters" -- Public Safety OPEN MIKE discussion show from LA Community Policing (see: LACP current articles) ~~ Bring your experience and opinions. Tonight we'll discuss the National public safety news of the previous week. Each day the Los Angeles Community Policing web site (LACP.org) is updated with current news, often from America's most recognized sources. We scour the obvious newspapers and cable news organizations, but also include articles that appear on noted activist, soci...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2050

January 12, 2019 01:00 - 1 hour - 82.6 MB

Tonight's special guest is Nicole Kilburg from Wassaic, New York, who comes from two or three generations of trauma, child abuse and sex abuse. "I ran away from home when I was 15 and was placed in foster care," she says. Nichole eventually became an attorney and discovered the horrible state of Child Welfare Practice in New York State. Her mother, who'd grown up in foster care herself, was her first abuser, physically and emotionally. Her father abandoned the family when Nicole was four and ...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2049

January 11, 2019 01:00 - 1 hour - 81.9 MB

Q & A call-in discussion -- Join Bill Murray, Carol D. Levine, Tammy Shoffstall, Terri Lanahan, Debra Hunt, Charlie Stecker and other NAASCA family members, as they invite you to help them discuss the National Association of Adult Survivors of Child Abuse. Every day we carry new articles, tools, programs and services designed to help us in our single purpose, to address issues of child abuse and trauma including sexual assault, violent or physical abuse, emotional traumas and neglect .. and w...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2048

January 10, 2019 01:00 - 1 hour - 82.4 MB

Tonight's special guest is Renee Encinias from Austin, Texas, Program Director at Hope Rising Ministries, committed to the long term care and recovery for minor girls who have been rescued from human sex trafficking and exploitation. Their mission is to provide hope and a future to these girls and to foster wholeness and healing to at-risk families and children. Renee's interest in the field came after a 'temporary' job she took in a small town children's home. With her Criminal Justice degre...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2047

January 09, 2019 01:00 - 1 hour - 82.5 MB

Q & A Night - You'll suggest the themes for tonight's show, which will involve any topic from the world of public safety, violence prevention, and child abuse and trauma. Special co-host Dr. Debra Warner, Psy.D., a Los Angeles based Forensic Psychologist and a professor at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, will help lead the discussion. NAASCA is pleased to announce that Dr. Deb will be making regular special co-host appearances on upcoming Tuesday night question-and-answer style...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2046

January 08, 2019 01:00 - 1 hour - 83.1 MB

SCAN's 'News of the Week' OPEN MIKE discussion show from NAASCA.org (please see: NAASCA current articles) ~~ The all-volunteer National Association of Adult Survivors of Child Abuse has a single purpose, to address issues of child abuse and trauma including sexual assault, violent or physical abuse, emotional traumas and neglect .. and we do so from two specific perspectives: (1) educating the public, especially as related to getting society over the taboo of discussing childhood sexual abuse...

"Community Matters" This Week - 565

January 07, 2019 01:00 - 1 hour - 82.3 MB

"Community Matters" -- Public Safety OPEN MIKE discussion show from LA Community Policing (see: LACP current articles) ~~ Bring your experience and opinions. Tonight we'll discuss the National public safety news of the previous week. Each day the Los Angeles Community Policing web site (LACP.org) is updated with current news, often from America's most recognized sources. We scour the obvious newspapers and cable news organizations, but also include articles that appear on noted activist, soci...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2045

January 05, 2019 01:00 - 1 hour - 79.5 MB

Tonight's special guest is Matt Paknis from Marion, Massachusetts, a survivor of child abuse when he was 9 and a senior management consultant with six years of college football coaching, ten years of playing football, and five championship seasons, whose focus is on lessening bullying in the workplace. He was a former assistant coach at Penn State under Joe Paterno and has spoken publicly about being abused as a child. When Matt was nine years old, young Matt's mom was diagnosed with a melan...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2044

January 04, 2019 01:00 - 1 hour - 82 MB

Q & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional - Using an OPEN MIKE forum, each Thursday night we'll feature a different survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight's special guest is Michelle Bless from Cincinnati, a survivor of severe child abuse who's now a Minister and Chaplain. She'll appear on the 1st Thursday of each month and is  the author of the book "Out of Darkness: the Michelle Bless Story," her story of redemp...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2043

January 03, 2019 01:00 - 1 hour - 80.5 MB

Tonight's special guest is Tracy Fricke from Springfield, Illinois, a returning NAASCA family member who has a new non profit effort, 'I Am A Survivor Photography' which is spreading awareness of child abuse. Tracy describes the mission as, "my very own passion project filled with unique and engaging content. Explore my site and all that I have to offer. Perhaps 'I Am A Survivor Photography' will give you the opportunity to share your story of child abuse through photography." Tracy certainly...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2042

January 02, 2019 01:00 - 1 hour - 81.5 MB

New Years Day ~~ "Looking forward to progress in our recovery this year" ~~ Join Bill Murray, Carol D. Levine, Tammy Shoffstall, Terri Lanahan, Debra Hunt, Charlie Stecker and other NAASCA family members, as they invite you to help them discuss the child abuse related gifts of our family, the National Association of Adult Survivors of Child Abuse. Every day we carry new articles, tools, programs and services designed to help us in our single purpose, to address issues of child abuse and traum...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2041

January 01, 2019 01:00 - 1 hour - 80.1 MB

SCAN's 'News of the Week' OPEN MIKE discussion show from NAASCA.org (please see: NAASCA current articles) ~~ The all-volunteer National Association of Adult Survivors of Child Abuse has a single purpose, to address issues of child abuse and trauma including sexual assault, violent or physical abuse, emotional traumas and neglect .. and we do so from two specific perspectives: (1) educating the public, especially as related to getting society over the taboo of discussing childhood sexual abuse...

"Community Matters" This Week - 564

December 31, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 82.9 MB

"Community Matters" -- Public Safety OPEN MIKE discussion show from LA Community Policing (see: LACP current articles) ~~ Bring your experience and opinions. Tonight we'll discuss the National public safety news of the previous week. Each day the Los Angeles Community Policing web site (LACP.org) is updated with current news, often from America's most recognized sources. We scour the obvious newspapers and cable news organizations, but also include articles that appear on noted activist, soci...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2040

December 29, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 81.9 MB

Tonight's special guest is Timothy 'Ryzer' Poff from Easton, Pennsylvania, Commander and Chapter Leader of the Easton Guardian Angels. He may be joined by original founding members of the Chapter including his assistant, Captain Tracy 'Gypsy' Rapoli, Administrator, and 1st Lieutenant Steve 'Bald Eagle' Brailo, Trainer. The Easton Guardian Angels started in 2007 in Easton, Pennsylvania, and has been going strong ever since. A 501(c)3 non-profit community organization, the Chapter works togethe...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2039

December 28, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 82.5 MB

Q & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional - Using an OPEN MIKE forum, each Thursday night we'll feature a different survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight's special guest, for each 4th Thursday of the month, is Felicia L Reed, a trauma-informed Recovery Coach who suffered the entire spectrum of abuses from the age of 5 to 51. Then she started a healing and recovery process. That learning and using coaching and self...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2038

December 27, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 81.1 MB

Tonight's special guest is Shirley J Davis from Mattoon, Illinois, a survivor of child abuse and a writer for blogs, magazines and websites. Shirley is the survivor of severe and repeated childhood trauma that included physical, emotional and sexual abuse. This will be the first time with us telling her story. "The abuse I endured began when I was a newborn and lasted until I was fifteen years old," she says. "There was [enough] severe neglect and torture involved that made it impossible for ...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2037

December 26, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 82.6 MB

Christmas Day ~~ "Come celebrate the gifts of our NAASCA community" ~~ Join Bill Murray, Carol D. Levine, Tammy Shoffstall, Terri Lanahan, Debra Hunt, Charlie Stecker and other NAASCA family members, as they invite you to help them discuss the child abuse related gifts of our family, the National Association of Adult Survivors of Child Abuse. Every day we carry new articles, tools, programs and services designed to help us in our single purpose, to address issues of child abuse and trauma inc...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2036

December 25, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 82.1 MB

SCAN's 'News of the Week' OPEN MIKE discussion show from NAASCA.org (please see: NAASCA current articles) ~~ The all-volunteer National Association of Adult Survivors of Child Abuse has a single purpose, to address issues of child abuse and trauma including sexual assault, violent or physical abuse, emotional traumas and neglect .. and we do so from two specific perspectives: (1) educating the public, especially as related to getting society over the taboo of discussing childhood sexual abuse...

"Community Matters" This Week - 563

December 24, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 81.9 MB

"Community Matters" -- Public Safety OPEN MIKE discussion show from LA Community Policing (see: LACP current articles) ~~ Bring your experience and opinions. Tonight we'll discuss the National public safety news of the previous week. Each day the Los Angeles Community Policing web site (LACP.org) is updated with current news, often from America's most recognized sources. We scour the obvious newspapers and cable news organizations, but also include articles that appear on noted activist, soci...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2035

December 22, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 82.7 MB

Tonight's special guest is Andrew Pari, LCSW, from the Antelope Valley area of Los Angeles, a returning NAASCA family member who serves as the Executive Director of Sexual Assault Awareness. He's a psychotherapist with over 20 years' experience treating survivors of sexual abuse and assault, including CSEC and sex workers. "I've done a number of law enforcement/military trainings, along with conferences since we last spoke," Andrew reports, "I speak and train nationally on the experience of a...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2034

December 21, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 81.6 MB

Q & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional - Using an OPEN MIKE forum, each Thursday night we'll feature a different survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight's special guest is Lorna Littner, LMSW, MS (in Public Health), from New York City, a survivor of sexual abuse by her grandfather. She 'll appear on the show every 3rd week of the month. Lorna's spent most of her career as an educator in the field of human sexuali...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2033

December 20, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 83 MB

Tonight's special guest is Dr Robert T Muller, Professor of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, author on trauma and mental health, a Fellow at the International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation and founding editor of an online magazine, The Trauma & Mental Health Report, that's now visited by over 100,000 readers a year. His new book, 'Trauma and the Struggle to Open Up' describes how to use attachment and trauma therapy in the psychotherapy relationship to help clie...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2032

December 19, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 82.5 MB

SPECIAL TOPIC Night - "Examining Institutional Abuse" with special co-host Dr Jill Jones-Soderman, a NAASCA family member and Exec. Dir. of the Foundation for Child Victims of Family Courts. ~~ TONIGHT'S TOPIC: "Arizona Cruelty in the Family Court; the fight for life to prevent certain death" -- This is story of how the Court is demanding reunification in a situation of demonstrable, documented, acute danger. The FCVFC has presented many client sagas involving the transfer of children from th...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2031

December 18, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 82.2 MB

SCAN's 'News of the Week' OPEN MIKE discussion show from NAASCA.org (please see: NAASCA current articles) ~~ The all-volunteer National Association of Adult Survivors of Child Abuse has a single purpose, to address issues of child abuse and trauma including sexual assault, violent or physical abuse, emotional traumas and neglect .. and we do so from two specific perspectives: (1) educating the public, especially as related to getting society over the taboo of discussing childhood sexual abuse...

"Community Matters" This Week - 562

December 17, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 82.2 MB

"Community Matters" -- Public Safety OPEN MIKE discussion show from LA Community Policing (see: LACP current articles) ~~ Bring your experience and opinions. Tonight we'll discuss the National public safety news of the previous week. Each day the Los Angeles Community Policing web site (LACP.org) is updated with current news, often from America's most recognized sources. We scour the obvious newspapers and cable news organizations, but also include articles that appear on noted activist, soci...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2030

December 15, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 82.9 MB

Tonight's special guest is Jennifer Corona from Houston, Texas, a returning NAASCA family member who was last with us in 2014. "I am a survivor of 30 years of multiple types of abuse. Throughout the years I managed to continue pursuing my goals & achieved by far more than I could have ever imagined." A paralegal and author, she's an activist, advocate, speaker and mentor for victims of domestic and sexual abuse. "My greatest desire is to become an attorney to help victims more." She explains,...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2029

December 14, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 81.7 MB

Q & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional - Using an OPEN MIKE forum, each Thursday night we'll feature a different survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight's host is Bill Murray from Los Angeles, our founder. Bill will be happy to answer questions about anything related to NAASCA, it's mission and tools. Bill's recovery is 12 Step-based and spans some 3 and a half decades. Sexually abused by numerous clerics, all me...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2028

December 13, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 82.5 MB

Tonight's special guest is Yisroel Picker from Jerusalem, Israel, a Psychotherapist. He works with survivors specializing in helping children and young adults understand and improve their own thought processes. Although he's not himself a survivor, he obviously knows his stuff .. especially in the area of CSA prevention. Yisroel has written extensively on the topic. "Working with my child clients about their thought process has shown me that there is a lot in the area of Child Sex Abuse Prev...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2027

December 12, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 82.2 MB

Q & A Night - You'll suggest the themes for tonight's show, which will involve any topic from the world of public safety, violence prevention, and child abuse and trauma. Special co-host Dr. Debra Warner, Psy.D., a Los Angeles based Forensic Psychologist and a professor at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, will help lead the discussion. NAASCA is pleased to announce that Dr. Deb will be making regular special co-host appearances on upcoming Tuesday night question-and-answer style...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2026

December 11, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 81.8 MB

SCAN's 'News of the Week' OPEN MIKE discussion show from NAASCA.org (please see: NAASCA current articles) ~~ The all-volunteer National Association of Adult Survivors of Child Abuse has a single purpose, to address issues of child abuse and trauma including sexual assault, violent or physical abuse, emotional traumas and neglect .. and we do so from two specific perspectives: (1) educating the public, especially as related to getting society over the taboo of discussing childhood sexual abuse...

"Community Matters" This Week - 561

December 10, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 81.5 MB

"Community Matters" -- Public Safety OPEN MIKE discussion show from LA Community Policing (see: LACP current articles) ~~ Bring your experience and opinions. Tonight we'll discuss the National public safety news of the previous week. Each day the Los Angeles Community Policing web site (LACP.org) is updated with current news, often from America's most recognized sources. We scour the obvious newspapers and cable news organizations, but also include articles that appear on noted activist, soci...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2025

December 08, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 82.1 MB

Tonight's special guest is Melissa Hudson from Grapevine, Arkansas, a child abuse survivor who recently published a book, 'The Drums Beating House,' about her experience as a survivor of child abuse. Melissa reports that a lot was expected of her as a first-born child. "More is expected of [them], she says. "They are pushed further to achieve and have that never-ending sense that 'I'm just not doing good enough, I have to do better' instilled within their personalities." My parents were in no...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2024

December 07, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 82.2 MB

Q & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional - Using an OPEN MIKE forum, each Thursday night we'll feature a different survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight's special guest is Michelle Bless from Cincinnati, a survivor of severe child abuse who's now a Minister and Chaplain. She'll appear on the 1st Thursday of each month and is  the author of the book "Out of Darkness: the Michelle Bless Story," her story of redemp...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2023

December 06, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 82.6 MB

Tonight's special guest is Patty Duncan from Batesville, Arkansas, a child abuse survivor who spoke at The SCRIPT Conference in Los Angeles in July. She's the former Executive Director of Family Violence Prevention. Patty says she was abused sexually from ages 3-5 by a teenaged boy." I never told [anyone] until my daughter was born, and I struggled changing her diaper so afraid that I would be perceived has having done something inappropriate." She goes on, "I will never forget the day he [he...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2022

December 05, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 78.9 MB

Q & A Night - You'll suggest the themes for tonight's show, which will involve any topic from the world of public safety, violence prevention, and child abuse and trauma. Special co-host Dr. Debra Warner, Psy.D., a Los Angeles based Forensic Psychologist and a professor at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, will help lead the discussion. NAASCA is pleased to announce that Dr. Deb will be making regular special co-host appearances on upcoming Tuesday night question-and-answer styl...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2021

December 04, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 82.5 MB

SCAN's 'News of the Week' OPEN MIKE discussion show from NAASCA.org (please see: NAASCA current articles) ~~ The all-volunteer National Association of Adult Survivors of Child Abuse has a single purpose, to address issues of child abuse and trauma including sexual assault, violent or physical abuse, emotional traumas and neglect .. and we do so from two specific perspectives: (1) educating the public, especially as related to getting society over the taboo of discussing childhood sexual abuse...

"Community Matters" This Week - 560

December 03, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 82.4 MB

"Community Matters" -- Public Safety OPEN MIKE discussion show from LA Community Policing (see: LACP current articles) ~~ Bring your experience and opinions. Tonight we'll discuss the National public safety news of the previous week. Each day the Los Angeles Community Policing web site (LACP.org) is updated with current news, often from America's most recognized sources. We scour the obvious newspapers and cable news organizations, but also include articles that appear on noted activist, soc...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2020

December 01, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 82 MB

Tonight's special guest is Teresa Joyce from the UK, a returning NAASCA family member , author of "There's a Fine Line" which she says is a true story that ranges over a period of many years. Teresa explains the book, "covers the first married years of my mother's life, and the abuse she received from my now deceased father." Sadly, hardship just seemed to follow her around. Some years later she remarried, but unfortunately this union would "tear her once more into tiny pieces." Teresa explai...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2019

November 30, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 82 MB

Q & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional - Using an OPEN MIKE forum, each Thursday night we'll feature a different survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight's host is Bill Murray from Los Angeles, our founder. Bill will be happy to answer questions about anything related to NAASCA, it's mission and tools. Bill's recovery is 12 Step-based and spans some 3 and a half decades. Sexually abused by numerous clerics, all me...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2018

November 29, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 81.6 MB

Tonight's special guest is Patty Rhyne from Antioch, California, a survivor of sexual, physical and emotional abused by multiple men over the course of her life. "My abuse started when I was only 4 years old. My first abuser began by grooming me," she writes. By the time she was 7 his sexual abuse was happening every day. And her mother regularly neglected her. "CPS was called on my mom many times, but nothing ever came from it." Patty's mom began working for her abuser at his bar. "It's hard...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2017

November 28, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 80.5 MB

Q & A Night - You'll suggest the themes for tonight's show, which will involve any topic from the world of public safety, violence prevention, and child abuse and trauma. Special co-host Dr. Debra Warner, Psy.D., a Los Angeles based Forensic Psychologist and a professor at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, will help lead the discussion. NAASCA is pleased to announce that Dr. Deb will be making regular special co-host appearances on upcoming Tuesday night question-and-answer style...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2016

November 27, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 83.1 MB

SCAN's 'News of the Week' OPEN MIKE discussion show from NAASCA.org (please see: NAASCA current articles) ~~ The all-volunteer National Association of Adult Survivors of Child Abuse has a single purpose, to address issues of child abuse and trauma including sexual assault, violent or physical abuse, emotional traumas and neglect .. and we do so from two specific perspectives: (1) educating the public, especially as related to getting society over the taboo of discussing childhood sexual abuse...

"Community Matters" This Week - 559

November 26, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 80.6 MB

"Community Matters" -- Public Safety OPEN MIKE discussion show from LA Community Policing (see: LACP current articles) ~~ Bring your experience and opinions. Tonight we'll discuss the National public safety news of the previous week. Each day the Los Angeles Community Policing web site (LACP.org) is updated with current news, often from America's most recognized sources. We scour the obvious newspapers and cable news organizations, but also include articles that appear on noted activist, soc...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2015

November 24, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 82.2 MB

Tonight's special guest is Sandra Holdorf from Lansing, Michigan,  an adult survivor of childhood sexual, physical, and mental abuse from an alcoholic parent. "When I was younger," she says, "people didn’t really recognize the long lasting impact that mental abuse had on children. Physical abuse was recognized to a degree, but you still only heard about it in extreme cases." She goes on, "The sexual abuse I suffered was getting more and more invasive. My sister recognized that I had started s...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2014

November 23, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 82.2 MB

GRATITUDE NIGHT -- Q & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional - Using an OPEN MIKE forum, each Thursday night we'll feature a different survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight's special guest, for each 4th Thursday of the month, is Felicia L Reed, a trauma-informed Recovery Coach who suffered the entire spectrum of abuses from the age of 5 to 51. Then she started a healing and recovery process. That learning and usin...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2013

November 22, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 83.3 MB

Tonight's special guest is Ghadeer Elghafri from Toronto, Ontario. Originally from Gaza City, Palestinian, she's a sexual, physical, emotional, mental, verbal and psychological child abuse survivor. "I am Muslim and Arab .. and both cultures need help in child sexual abuse," she shares. "My mom, my eldest brother and my 2nd eldest sister abused me physically and psychologically. There was sexual abuse from my eldest brother." Ghadeer goes on, "There was domestic violence in my family home. My...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2012

November 21, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 76.8 MB

SPECIAL TOPIC Night - "Examining Institutional Abuse" with special co-host Dr Jill Jones-Soderman, a NAASCA family member and Exec. Dir. of the Foundation for Child Victims of Family Courts. ~~ TONIGHT'S TOPIC: "The Latest Plague Upon Our Houses - 'Pre Fix Custody' Litigation" -- A  predetermined end result determines the outcome of a Trial Court. Tonight's anonymous guest is from California, a section of the country where we have seen an embrace of programs referred to as 'reunification trea...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2011

November 20, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 81.6 MB

SCAN's 'News of the Week' OPEN MIKE discussion show from NAASCA.org (please see: NAASCA current articles) ~~ The all-volunteer National Association of Adult Survivors of Child Abuse has a single purpose, to address issues of child abuse and trauma including sexual assault, violent or physical abuse, emotional traumas and neglect .. and we do so from two specific perspectives: (1) educating the public, especially as related to getting society over the taboo of discussing childhood sexual abuse...

"Community Matters" This Week - 558

November 19, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 82.3 MB

"Community Matters" -- Public Safety OPEN MIKE discussion show from LA Community Policing (see: LACP current articles) ~~ Bring your experience and opinions. Tonight we'll discuss the National public safety news of the previous week. Each day the Los Angeles Community Policing web site (LACP.org) is updated with current news, often from America's most recognized sources. We scour the obvious newspapers and cable news organizations, but also include articles that appear on noted activist, soci...

Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2010

November 17, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 83 MB

Tonight's special guest is Fallon Seabrook from North Carolina, where she now serves as NAASCA's Ambassador. She's a child abuse and domestic violence survivor whose parents divorced when she was young. Fallon and her sisters were raised in a single-parent home with their mother. She had traumatic teen and young adult years and had no idea awaited her. She now calls herself 'The Adversity Warrior' and is an activist and author. Fallon's misunderstanding of what a “relationship” looked like wa...