Summary: Overviews the five basic categories of child abuse and their effects on children. The video also examines the reasons adults abuse children, and describes ways to stop current abuse and prevent future abuse. Also stressed are means of obtaining help for victims.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Childhood sexual abuse affects all social and economic groups. Psychiatrists, social workers, and law enforcement officials explain how the pattern of abuse is frequently spread throughout the family; why children can be manipulated into silent acceptance of abuse; the signs of sexual abuse and how and to whom they should be reported; the reliability of children as witnesses; teaching...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The story of legendary movie star Joan Crawford as she struggles for her career and battles the inner demons of her private life. This torment manifests itself into her relationships with her adopted children, Christina and Christopher.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MOMSummary: Families destroy themselves, so families have to heal themselves. If I Could is the heart-wrenching chronicle of Tracy Marasco, a single mother struggling to help her adolescent son James cope with severe emotional trauma resulting from abandonment by his father and sexual abuse by his father's cousin. To complicate the situation, Tracy herself was victimized as a child, sexually abused by her...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Inspired by "simulated baby" counseling programs for teenage students, this video uses a classroom setting and dramatizations to teach personal responsibility and self-awareness in parenting and childcare. It helps young people recognize various forms of abusive behavior, including physical injury, sexual abuse, emotional humiliation, neglect of parental duties, and imminent risk, or knowingly...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This compilation of ABC News segments reports on the complex, ongoing challenges facing families and organizations that shelter endangered children. The three segments are "Calling All Angels," which explores dangers and frustrations familiar to many foster kids and visits a Kentucky institution for girls who have been in and out of foster homes; "A Call to Action," which examines...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The Taking of Logan Marr tells the tragic story of a young girl who was killed while in state custody. On January 31, 2001, 5-year-old Logan Marr was found dead in her foster mother's home in Chelsea, Maine. The foster mother, Sally Schofield, was a highly-respected former caseworker for Maine's Department of Human Services (DHS) who would later be convicted of manslaughter. As suspected, the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: Kids who grow up facing brutality and neglect are lucky if a teacher or daycare provider catches on. Tragically, child abuse often goes unnoticed-and if a first-responder does detect it, he or she may not understand what measures must be taken. This program spells out the Four Rs of child abuse-the harsh Reality of its presence in our society, the Results it leads to, the many ways to Recognize...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: After fleeing his negligent and abusive parents, a hardened, streetwise twelve-year-old boy sues them to protest the life they've given him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN CAP1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TCFF CAP
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CAPSummary: This video speaks directly to adults and children with two helpful segments on confronting child abuse. The first emphasizes that adults in supervisory roles have clear responsibilities, not only to overcome fears of reprisal and report suspected abuse, but also to create a safe environment in which children can freely express problems. The reassuring second segment counsels children that they...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: A victim of childhood sexual abuse confronts the horrors of his past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RETCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER RETSummary: Sarcastic and rude statements to children can leave as deep a wound as a cigarette burn or welts from a belt. This important program looks at both physical and emotional child abuse, and the lifetime effects they may have on children. We touch on what you can do if you recognize abuse of someone you know.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Hyde, Catherine Ryan
Summary: No longer tolerating her husband's borderline abuse, Faith escapes to her parents' California beach house to plan her next move. She befriends Sarah, a fourteen-year-old on the run from her father and reeling from her mother's sudden and suspicious death. While Sarah's grandmother scrambles to get custody, Sarah implores Faith to take her to Falkner's Midnight Sun, the prized black mare that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HYDSummary: What is the future of our children in America? Kids today live in a volatile world where violence in the school, home, and streets is an everyday occurrence. Statistics are staggering as children are not only abused by adults, but are killing each other. This program looks at the sources of violence that affect our children. Among the experts featured in the program are Dr. James Garbarino,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The key to reducing violence is understanding its roots. This program offers insights and suggestions that can stop dangerous incidents before they start. Among the topics explored are ways to avoid becoming a victim of campus crime, domestic abuse and the cycle of violence theory as defined by psychologist Lenore Walker, date rape and guidelines for preventing it, the triggers for bias crimes,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Dugard, Jaycee Lee
Summary: "In the follow-up to her #1 bestselling memoir, A Stolen Life, Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own. When Jaycee Dugard was eleven years old, she was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in South Lake Tahoe, California. She was missing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DUGARD, JAYCEE LEE DUGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B DUGARD DUGJulien, Maude
Summary: "Maude Julien's parents were fanatics who believed it was their sacred duty to turn her into the ultimate survivor--raising her in isolation and subjecting her to endless drills designed to "eliminate weakness." Maude learned to hold an electric fence for minutes without flinching, and to sit perfectly still in a rat-infested cellar all night long (her mother sewed bells onto her clothes that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JULIEN, MAUDE JULCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio JulienFowler, Connie May.
Summary: Award-winning author Connie May Fowler chronicles the emotional battery and physical abuse that she suffered from her boyfriend and explains how the dedication of her dog Kateland got her through the difficult times.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2002
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 813.54 FOWQu, Anna
Summary: "As a teen, Anna Qu is sent by her mother to work in her family's garment factory in Queens. At home, she is treated as a maid and suffers punishment for doing her homework at night. Her mother wants to teach her a lesson: she is Chinese, not American, and such is their tough path in their new country. But instead of acquiescing, Qu alerts the Office of Children and Family Services, an act with...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 QU, ANNA QUEmerson, Kevin
Summary: Five years ago Elian was kidnapped. Physicall and emotionally abused, brainwashed, now his captor sends him into the mall-- with a bomb strapped to his chest. Across the mall is Maya, a girl whose crippling anxiety holds her prisoner in its own way. When Maya keeps Eli from detonating the bomb, nothing is the same. They are drawn together by their dark pasts-- and only time will tell if meeting...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC EMESummary: A terrifying new horror awaits Laura and her seven-year-old son Cody when they flee her abusive ex-husband and try to settle into a new life in an idyllic and remote lakeside farmhouse. Still traumatized, their physical and mental well-being are pushed to the limit as their fragile existence is threatened.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Media 2022
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOBooth, Coe
Summary: After a wonderful seven weeks at Ainsley International School, twelve-year-old Caprice has been offered a full scholarship and she should be delighted, but instead she is full of doubts because what happened at the last night dance has brought back the memory of being sexually abused by her uncle as a four-year-old; worse, her maternal grandmother is ill, and that means going back to the house...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BOOOverton, Hollie
Summary: "You've been held captive in one room, mentally and physically abused every day, since you were sixteen years old. Then, one night, you realize your captor has left the door to your cell unlocked. For the first time in eight years, you're free. This is about what happens next ... Lily knows that she must bring the man who nearly ruined her life to justice. But she never imagined that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Redhook 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OVEMcCrae, Shane
Summary: "An unforgettable memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and raised by his white supremacist grandparents. When Shane McCrae was three years old, his grandparents kidnapped him and took him to suburban Texas. His mom was white and his dad was Black, and to hide his Blackness from him, his maternal grandparents stole him from his father. In the years that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023