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Hating perpetrators is easy. Someone sent me a link to a short video of some man speaking about how important it is for dad’s to be seen as threatening. The man claims that this is how to protect children from pedophiles. Make sure that everyone sees you (dad’s) in your child’s life and knows that

With tears on my cheeks, I’m making this declaration: Nova Scotia is hopeless. People are living in tents. People are hungry. Teachers are frustrated. Cancer, Obesity, Diabetes… name the disease, it is flourishing here in Nova Scotia. Misogyny is rampant. Racism is tolerated. Violence is everywhere. And we keep expecting the government to fix it

A Review by Priority Kids A Code of Conduct is one of my FAVOURITE documents. I can decode a lot of valuable information from a Code of Conduct. For example, if I go to an organization’s website and have trouble locating their Code of Conduct, that tells me something. If I ask about a Code of

Oh Come On! Warning – I was feeling pretty whiny when I wrote this. In the build up to Mother’s Day Weekend, I took a few big hits. I got an email from my child’s school asking me to stop advocating for my child. They listed a handful of ways to collaborate (all of which

How can our community keep kids safe when police aren\’t able to lay charges against those who put children at risk? Last week we heard about a concerning incident in our local community. First we heard about it through a Facebook post from a concerned caregiver. And then it was in our provincial and local

I did it.   I went to ChatGPT to find out what AI has to say about sexual abuse prevention. Every time I read an article or hear a discussion about the content generating algorithms that ChatGPT is now able to produce for anyone, I find myself doubtful. Sure, AI might be able to produce content

Did you ever notice that the phrases that we say the most, like ‘Don’t judge a book by it’s cover’ are actually the things we do the most often? I guess that’s why we tell ourselves we shouldn’t do it. We’re trying to talk ourselves out of a habit that is deeply ingrained in all of

At Priority Kids, we’ve really ramped up our outreach efforts over the past month and I am thrilled to see my calendar filling up with meetings. With a new prevention advocate on staff at Priority Kids, we have drastically improved our ability to reach out and connect with people who work with kids. The more connections we

Just because an organization utilizes a not-for-profit structure does not make it good. Just because an organization is for-profit, does not make it bad. But these are the assumptions that permeate much of the way we interact with and think about organizations in our communities. Maybe this is why the term ‘social enterprising’ has become so widely used.  ‘Business =

The term isn’t new. It’s been a part of our community jargon for quite some time. If I was a video editor I would make a montage of all the different people in all the different meetings and presentations telling all the audiences about how important it is to use ‘evidence-based’ programs. Evidence-Based. Evidence-Based. Evidence-Based.