An Arizona Supreme Court opinion says a bishop heard a father admit, around 2011, that he had sexually abused his child. The bishop did not report it. In July 2026, the court sided with the church in the children’s lawsuit, holding that the state’s mandated reporter law…
Mental health needs come from a crisis, a trial, or a traumatic experience. But do they always? A more common understanding needs to be that mental health struggles don’t always look like a crisis. Sometimes they look like getting up, going to work, answering emails,…
Learned helplessness is a psychological concept that describes a condition in which a person has feelings of powerlessness and inability to succeed. Sometimes this condition is brought on by a traumatic experience. Also, this condition can be brought on by learned behaviors from those around…
Picture a church fall festival on a late-October Saturday. Within an hour of opening, about 400 people fill the parking lot, many of them neighborhood families the staff has never met. A parent volunteer runs the cakewalk, and a visiting youth group paints faces near…
October is ADHD awareness month. If you continued reading, my heart goes out to you and your life that is touched by ADHD. As a parent, therapist and person-with-some form of ADD/ADHD, I know the struggle is not only real, but a day-to-day challenge. In every sector of…
YSO Insights went offline for a few weeks while we moved to a new hosting platform. Our newsletters paused during that time too. The move is done, the site is live, and everything works again! We’re back on track, and new posts and newsletters will…
Your child comes home and says a kid at school “won’t leave her alone.” Maybe it happened once. Maybe it’s the third time this month. You have about ten seconds to decide whether this complaint is ordinary conflict or bullying that requires you to step…
Bullying Prevention Month is an occasion to talk about kindness. It is also a reminder to check your negligent supervision exposure, because the numbers are not close. A 2022 analysis of English and Welsh police data found that 52% of child sexual abuse and exploitation cases involved another…
Tom Rawlings and I will speak at the Christian Legal Society’s General Counsel Forum in Denver, Colorado, on October 8. We’re joining a panel on Trey’s Laws. Those laws are the state statutes and pending federal bill addressing settlement confidentiality in abuse cases. If you…
Last week, we presented a workshop at the CAFO Summit on planning for a crisis before it happens, drawing on content we had already built through prior work and our online courses. I expected the content itself to be the most valuable part of our…
A Fresh Start A few mornings ago, I was out in the neighborhood, walking off my previous indulgences with sweets, when I saw a sight I had not seen in a while. A school bus. The Cheese. It was the first day of school for…
Minnesota made grooming a stand-alone felony this August, and other states have passed similar laws in recent years. It is a genuinely interesting development in criminal law, and it is worth understanding. But the law really doesn’t address how grooming works. More importantly, if you run…