Since 2019, a group of experts by experience and experts by profession have been working together to identify research priorities around the support and recovery needs of survivors. This is an important initiative urgently needed due to the scarcity of sexual violence research. We hope this work will be a spring board for future investigations, […]

From the National Center for Victims of Crime: Scams and fraud are ongoing and rapidly escalating problems. Researchers and advocates have sought to understand the dynamics of financial fraud victimization, however, the drivers behind chronic, repeated fraud victimization have remained a mystery. The FINRA Investor Education Foundation and the AARP Fraud Watch Network will discuss […]

From the National Indigenous Women's Resource Center and Indigenous Safe Housing Center; more details to come. Specialty Institute June 28-30, 2022

Professionals working with and serving communities at risk of human trafficking increasingly use public health strategies to establish evidence-informed, data-driven responses to human trafficking. "The Public Health Response to Human Trafficking: A Look-Back and a Step Forward," published by Public Health Reports (PHR) and sponsored by the Office on Trafficking in Persons, expands the current […]

Join the Institute for Research on Poverty for this timely webinar. A growing body of research has begun to change understandings of how toxic environments can affect young people, particularly African American boys and young men. This webinar features presenters Noni Gaylord-Harden, Jocelyn Smith Lee, and Alvin Thomas who will address risk and protective factors for youth […]

Judges play a critical role in making reasonable efforts decisions in child welfare cases, yet there is limited research on how they make these decisions or how those decisions relate to case outcomes. This study seeks to fill that gap by examining judges’ reasonable efforts decision-making at the initial hearing of a child welfare case. […]

This is the first in a series of free, virtual lectures from the Kempe Center featuring esteemed clinicians and researchers who specialize in the field of child maltreatment. These talks will be livestreamed via Zoom and open to the public (no registration necessary). Presenters: Kristine A. Campbell, MD MSc, Associate Professor in the Department of […]

This is another in a series of free, virtual lectures from The Kempe Center featuring esteemed clinicians and researchers who specialize in the field of child maltreatment. These talks will be livestreamed via Zoom and open to the public (no registration necessary). Presenter: Ernestine Cabady Briggs-King, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke […]

Another in The Kempe Center series of free, virtual lectures, featuring esteemed clinicians and researchers who specialize in the field of child maltreatment. These talks will be livestreamed via Zoom and open to the public (no registration necessary). Presenter:  Anita Barbee, Ph.D., MSSW, Professor & Distinguished University Scholar, Director of PhD Program, University of Louisville. […]

Another in a series of free, virtual lectures from The Kempe Center, featuring esteemed clinicians and researchers who specialize in the field of child maltreatment. These talks will be livestreamed via Zoom and open to the public (no registration necessary). Presenter: Hank T. Puls, MD, Physician, Children's Mercy Kansas City, and Associate Professor of Pediatrics […]

The final event in a series of free, virtual lectures from The Kempe Center, featuring esteemed clinicians and researchers who specialize in the field of child maltreatment. These talks will be livestreamed via Zoom and open to the public (no registration necessary). Presenter for this day's event:  Cinnamon Dixon, D.O., M.P.H., a board-certified pediatric emergency […]