Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN)

Q & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight the special co-host will be Pastor Deborah Schleich, who grew up all over the world in a military family where her mother was mentally ill, and is now a survivor-professional. Living in Pensaco...

Tonight's special guest is Dannette Allen from Seattle, Washington, a returning NAASCA family member. After her birth mother committed suicide, she was raised in a world of physical, emotional and verbal violence. Dannette relates, “As a child, my memories were of living in fear for my life. I was regularly beaten up and beaten down at home by my mother while my father did nothing to stop it. … My...

Tonight's special guest is Andrew Pari, LCSW, from the Antelope Valley area of Los Angeles, a returning NAASCA family member who is the founder and Executive Director of Sexual Assault Awareness. Called the ‘nation’s leading authority on the arousal mechanism in sexualized violence,’ Andrew is a psychotherapist with over 20 years' experience treating survivors of sexual abuse and assault, includin...

Q & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight the special co-host will be Dr Jaime Romo from San Diego, California, an educator, consultant, author, and Commissioned Minister, who promotes healing from abuse and the prevention of child sex...

Tonight's special guest is Anne-Marie Rose Byzuk from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse at the hands of many. As Anne-Marie relates, “I have suffered physical abuse, sexual abuse, and mental abuse ever since I could remember, from my mother to her boyfriends to my stepdad. My stepfather started out by resenting my mother for choosing the party life ov...

Q & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight the special co-host will be Sharyn Higdon Jones, a licensed psychotherapist for over 35 years with individuals, couples and families who have experienced the trauma of abuse. In her words: “The...

Tonight's special guest is Lang Martinez from Oxnard, California, a survivor of sexual abuse as a 17 year old boy and a recovering addict who has lived a life of trauma with deep socio-emotional experiences. Now he's a 55 year old homeless advocate in Ventura County, just north of Los Angeles. Lang has struggled in his life with homelessness and incarceration, trying to seek meaning while hampered...

Tonight's special guest is Danny Jackson from Orlando, Florida, a professional, the Senior Hypnotherapist at the Orlando Hypnosis Clinic. In his work, Danny helps people every day through the feelings of abuse or neglect that they experienced as children .. issues that are interfering with, and in some cases, destroying their lives today. "It's truly rewarding work," Danny says. “I had been workin...

Q & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight the special co-host will be Barbara Joy Hansen from Milford, Massachusetts, a child abuse survivor and Violence Prevention Expert. Her book, 'Listen to the Cry of the Child,' is where she share...

Tonight's special guest is Pennie Saum from Puyallup, Washington, a returning NAASCA family member and a survivor of sexual and emotional abuse from infancy to 18 years old. She now runs the new non profit organization Brave and Unbroken. Her perpetrator was her biological father. Sneaking into her room at night when everyone else in the house was asleep, threatening and violent, he had total cont...

Q & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight the special co-host be Lori Golden from San Diego, California, a survivor and a private psychotherapist working with other trauma and abuse survivors. Lori shares, “I am a survivor of incest. M...

Tonight's special guest is Valerie Slininger (Val) from Point Pleasant, New Jersey, a survivor of emotional and psychological abuse/neglect and from it developed CPTSD. She's at a place in her healing where she wants to share her story because her mom just passed. "I am the daughter of a sexual abuse survivor who suffered her entire life with unresolved trauma," Val says. "She was an angry, broken...

Tonight's special guest is Malisia (Mia) McKinney from Daytona Beach, Florida, a returning NAASCA family member who's back to talk about her recent life and work. Mia is a child abuse survivor of physical and sexual abuse and poisoning who advocates for other survivors through her writing. She recently authored a 12 Step Work Book for Survivors of Sexual Abuse, certainly one valid approach to heal...

Q & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight the special co-host will be 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...

Tonight's special guest is Cathy Brochu from Jamesville, New York, who says "My personal background as it relates to Child Abuse would be as a survivor of 13 years of incest, a survivor of family violence and as a survivor of sexual assault from non-family members." Above all, Cathy has evolved, moving from victim to survivor to advocate. She has years of experience as an individual involved with...

Q & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight the special co-host will be Carlotta Taylor from Clinton, Mississippi, a survivor of child abuse by her own family and in foster care. After searching for her purpose for years, she learned it...

Tonight's special guest is Tim Lennon from Tucson, Arizona, the President of the Board Of Directors at SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests). Tim shares, "I was one of twelve children who grew up in an Irish Catholic neighborhood and went to Catholic school for twelve years. The priest who raped me was an occasional visitor to my home. He was also a teacher at my elementary school an...

Tonight's special guest is Alicia Mo'Batti from Sacramento, California, a child abuse survivor who suffered at the hands of her own father. There was intense family dysfunction and mental, emotional, verbal, physical and sexual abuse in the family dynamics. "I didn't think I would survive," Alicia says. She suffered suicidal ideations and attempts until she came to realize her life was never her o...

Q & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight the special co-host is Bill Murray from Los Angeles, our founder. Bill's recovery is 12 Step-based and spans some 3 and a half decades. Sexually abused by numerous clerics, all men, between the...

Tonight's special guest is Tracey Maxfield, RN, from British Columbia, Canada, who says she's had a very interesting life story including childhood abuse, clinical depression, workplace bullying and suicide attempts. 'Escaping the Rabbit Hole: my journey through depression' is her first book and has received international rave reviews. "I’ve been to hell and made it out alive," she explains. "I ca...

Q & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight the special co-host will be Pastor Deborah Schleich, who grew up all over the world in a military family where her mother was mentally ill, and is now a survivor-professional. Living in Pensaco...

Tonight's special guest is Angela Hyman from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Angela is joining us for the first time and is a survivor of childhood incest. She was adopted by her paternal grandparents, grew up on a working farm in very rural South Carolina. As a young child, she was very loved and protected, until her grandmother became ill when Angela was 11. Angela went to live with her much older...

Tonight's special guest is Clark Fredericks from Newton, New Jersey, a child sex abuse survivor who suffered for years at the hands of his former Boy Scout leader, a Lt. in the local Sheriff’s Dept. Manipulated and taken advantage of both physically and emotionally for years, Clark suffered unimaginable pain for over 30 years of his life. Never wanting to feel trapped again, Clark sabotaged career...

Q & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight the special co-host will be Felicia L Reed, a trauma-informed Recovery Coach who suffered the entire spectrum of abuses from the age of 5 to 51. That was the point when she started a healing an...

Tonight's special guest is Tanya Cooper from New York State, a child abuse survivor. Tanya’s life in foster care began at five, due to her birth mother’s addiction and neglect. Eventually she was separated from all but one of her siblings. While in care, she survived being sexually abused by two foster brothers. Aging out of the foster care system at 18, with no family and place to go, Tanya signe...