After foster care, Joan is returned home and subjected to more abuse. How can she be saved?Misplaced Childhood chronicles one woman’s powerful journey to overcome a tragic past and use her “lived experiences” to inspire others. Wounded by poverty, child abuse, and foster care, Joan Ulsher discovers a purpose-filled life through military service and faith in God. This transformational journey of survival and triumph ultimately leads Joan to become a fierce volunteer advocate for children in foster care, despite not having a dedicated advocate as a child herself. Misplaced Childhood introduces readers to the Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) model, where Joan continues exploring childhood memories while highlighting her exceptional advocacy journey shaped by the children whose lives are impacted along the way.With its candid look at child welfare and advocacy alongside a personal narrative of healing, Misplaced Childhood opens up new levels of compassion for children suffering from abuse and neglect. Impeccably researched and told with great transparency, empathy, and vulnerability, Misplaced Childhood will inspire readers to embrace the vulnerable inner child in us all and take action for America’s forgotten children.This book contains language about family dysfunction and generational trauma. Read more

A chilling and heartbreaking account of the darkest realities of childhood abuse.With poignant prose and a deeply authentic personal story, this harrowing account exposes the stark and painful realities of childhood abuse, painting a heart-breaking picture of the lasting pain and fear that it inflicts on its victims.Spanning the course of 30 years, inside this coming-of-age memoir, author Christina Vitagliano recounts in vivid detail the frightening nights spent when her father loomed in the doorway of her bedroom, along with the psychological toll that the relentless familial abuse took on her psyche. Told with honesty, openness, and incredible attention to detail, Every 9 Minutes is an eye-opening memoir that delves into the depths of abuse and reveals how one woman learned to retake control of her life and emerge victorious.Contrasting the seemingly ordinary charm of typical childhood memories with the proverbial monster lurking just beneath the surface, this deeply moving account dispels the darkness around abuse and lays the horrors bare for all to see, showing that even the most normal-looking family could have secrets hiding in the shadows.But despite dysfunctional relationships and the soul-crushing torment of sexual exploitation, Every 9 Minutes is a testament to the power of perseverance, showing how Christina emerged from her pain and trauma to build a life of purpose and happiness. With an empowering call to action, she encourages other sufferers of childhood abuse to step forward and take control of their lives, channeling their pain into motivation and refusing to let their trauma define them. Read more

2023 Edition printed in large, clear text. This text is an important resource for teachers, administrators, and advocates of students with special needs. It has been formatted for easy navigation and reading.The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a federal law that ensures children with disabilities receive a free and appropriate public education that meets their unique needs.Comprehensive Support: IDEA provides comprehensive support for students with disabilities from birth to age 21. It mandates special education services, accommodations, and modifications for eligible students to access their education.Access to Education: IDEA ensures that students with disabilities have access to the same educational opportunities as their peers without disabilities. It prohibits discrimination and ensures that students with disabilities are not excluded from any educational program or activity.Parental Involvement: IDEA mandates that parents are equal partners in the educational process and must be included in all aspects of their child's education. This includes participating in Individualized Education Program (IEP) meetings, making decisions about their child's education, and being informed of their child's progress.Individualized Education Plan: IDEA requires schools to develop an individualized education plan (IEP) for each student with a disability. The IEP outlines the student's unique needs, goals, and services necessary to meet those goals.Funding: IDEA provides federal funding to states to support special education services. This funding is essential in ensuring that students with disabilities receive the necessary support and services to succeed in school.Improvements: Over the years, IDEA has undergone several revisions to improve the services and support available to students with disabilities. The most recent update was in 2004, and it included changes that strengthened the law's focus on improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities.Overall, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act has had a significant impact on the education of students with disabilities in the United States. Read more

Clear, inviting, and engaging, Wrightslaw All About Tests and Assessments, Second Edition includes the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Fifth Edition (WISC-V-V) and the Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Achievement, Fourth Edition (WJ IV).The goal of Wrightslaw: All About Tests and Assessments is to demystify the assessment process and make it less intimidating. In this easy-to-read book, you will find clear, concise answers to frequently asked questions about assessments, evaluations, and tests. Learn about psychological, academic, and neuropsychological tests and what these tests measure. Read more

The California Family Code [2025 Edition] provides a comprehensive guide to California's laws related to family matters, updated for 2025. This edition covers key topics such as marriage, divorce, child custody, spousal support, and adoption. An essential resource for attorneys, mediators, and individuals, it offers clear and authoritative insights into family law to help navigate complex legal relationships and disputes. Read more

This one-stop resource explores the leading child welfare issues facing the USA today, as well as the laws, programs, and policy prescriptions that have been implemented or suggested to address pressing child welfare problems. In doing so, the book surveys the perspectives of lawmakers, child advocacy organizations, and scholars, as well as parents and children.Moving through centuries of US history, Child Welfare in America ranges from the child labor practices of the nineteenth century to contemporary anxieties about affordable child care, underperforming schools, screen time and social media pressures, and abusive family environments. Readers will better understand the range of factors affecting child welfare, including the cost of good child care, alcohol and drug abuse in family settings, homelessness, educational opportunities, teen pregnancy, and more. The book also surveys the perspectives of lawmakers, child advocacy organizations, and scholars, as well as parents and children.Profiles of important advocacy organizations, agencies and individuals outline the approaches to child welfare issues and policies throughout the centuries. Read more

A Story of childhood sexual trauma and overcoming. How we changed the laws in New Hampshire. Follow the bread crumbs of signs that could't be ignored and ultimately brought me to victory. Read more

Access the law at your fingertips. Contains a detailed table of contents and all rules in effect as of March 15, 2021. Look for other titles in our series such as Missouri Rules of Criminal Procedure and Civil Procedure. Read more

Paper Ships is a story about a father’s fight for his daughter, family and sobriety. It follows a legal proceeding of two parents fighting for their child for two very different reasons. Read more

What would you do if you thought the government was coming to take your child? Protecting Your Child explains the child protection system—what it is, the way it works, and how to navigate your way through it. For those who find themselves unjustly accused, this book will help.CPS was designed to intervene when children are in need, but many times it oversteps that limited role to investigate and even remove children from safe families. Loving parents, who mean well, often do and say things that inadvertently make their situation worse. This book explains the missteps and how to avoid them. Special sections address how mothers of medically complex children often face the “medical kidnapping” of their children and outlines the steps that help reduce the risk.Every step of the process is covered including:how a case begins,investigatory steps that may lead to legal proceedings,the statements and conduct that may backfire on parents,team meetings, assessments, substantiations, safety plans, reunification plans, and terminations of parental rights,the petition for custody and other legal filings,choosing a lawyer and other members of the parent's support team,what happens inside the courtroom,the roles of CPS caseworkers, child advocates, judges, doctors, and law enforcement,who are child abuse pediatricians,what is a medical kidnapping,what is medical child abuse,what is doctor shopping,what is Munchausen by proxy,what happens if you cannot afford a lawyer,whether the government must let you know if it plans to take custody of your children,whether your children can be interviewed by CPS without your permission,whether you must let CPS into your home, andthe various reports that may be made against you and who generally makes those reports.When parents need help and direction about CPS involvement, this book provides them with the clear and accurate information they need to make informed decisions. Read more

Disability law can be complex and intimidating, so how can concerned parents use it to ensure their child with a disability receives the appropriate education they are legally entitled to?   A Guide to Special Education Advocacy gives strategies for advocating for better provision of special education in schools. Despite the many services and accommodations that have been made for students with disabilities, such as the use of Braille or providing specialized education in a regular or special classroom, many children with disabilities do not get the services they need and are not placed in appropriate programs or settings. Because of this, the perception of disability often remains unchanged. Matthew Cohen's insightful manual gives a practical vision of how a parent or a professional can become an advocate to achieve a more inclusive and rewarding education for the child with a disability.This book will provide parents, people with disabilities, professionals and clinicians thinking about special education advocacy with an overview of current disability law and how it works, identifying practical ways for building positive and effective relationships with schools. Read more

Rooted in the crisis over slavery, disagreements about child labor broke down along sectional lines between the North and South. For decades after emancipation, the child labor issue shaped how Northerners and Southerners defined fundamental concepts of American life such as work, freedom, the market, and the state.Betsy Wood examines the evolution of ideas about child labor and the on-the-ground politics of the issue against the backdrop of broad developments related to slavery and emancipation, industrial capitalism, moral and social reform, and American politics and religion. Wood explains how the decades-long battle over child labor created enduring political and ideological divisions within capitalist society that divided the gatekeepers of modernity from the cultural warriors who opposed them. Tracing the ideological origins and the politics of the child labor battle over the course of eighty years, this book tells the story of how child labor debates bequeathed an enduring legacy of sectionalist conflict to modern American capitalist society. Read more

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No, Pete Townshend: The Kids Aren't Alright 4 adds 18 new true crime stories of kids who kill. 1.) Rachael Mullenix: September 15, 2008, was a typically beautiful day in Newport Beach, California. Sun with some scattered clouds and a high in the 80’s. A perfect day for a boat ride. So it was for a member of the Newport Beach Yacht Club until he noticed something in the water that shouldn’t be there. 2.) Kit Darrant: Teenagers arguing with parents about staying out late on a school night is nothing new and isn’t usually newsworthy. It becomes newsworthy when the argument leads to a vicious attack that ends in murder which it did in Miami, Florida in March 2012. 3.) Chris Dankovich: Chris was a 15 year old whose interests included porn and searching the internet for guns and other weapons-related websites. His Mom found out. This was not going to end well. 4.) Zachary Davis: Zachary was also 15 years old when he ended the life of his mother in 2012 in the family home in Hendersonville, Tennessee. His attorney was eloquent in his defence but would it be enough to save the teenager from a long prison sentence? 5.) Carl “Charlie” Brandt: It was a month before Charlie’s 14th birthday in 1971. He shot his mother to death and wounded his father. Charlie Brandt wasn’t finished there…not even close. 6.) Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme: The country of New Zealand was rocked when the two friends, ages 16 and 15, murdered Pauline’s mother in Christchurch in 1954. 7.) Kieren Smith: Kieren was 16 years old when he stabbed his mother to death in their home in Weymouth, Dorset in England in 2012. After all, was said and done, many still question the motive. 8.) Yukio Yamaji: Yukio was 16 when he killed his mom in their home in the Yamaguchi Prefecture on the Japanese island of Honshu. Yukio was on his way to becoming one of the youngest serial killers in Japan. 9.) Andrew Zaragoza: Andrew was also 16 when he beat his mother to death with a hammer and used a knife to make sure she was dead in their Bel Air, Maryland home in 2017. 10.) Tasmiyah and Jasmiyah Whitehead: The identical twins were 16 when they became fed up with their mother and her rules. The twins had a solution. Cold-blooded murder! 11.) Alexander Bedford: Alexander was 14 years old when he was about to be disciplined by his mother for bad grades. It had happened many times before. This time was going to be different. 12.) Nathan Ybanez and Erik Jensen: A history of abuse sends a 14 year old boy spiraling down a path that leads to murder. 13.) Linda Pedroza: Linda was 17 when she, with a little help from her boyfriend, murdered her mother in their Palm Beach Gardens, Florida home in 2000. 14.) Timur Kimaletdinov: Timur was 16 years old and the pride of the tiny village in western Russia where the family lived. So, what made him pick up an axe and do the unthinkable? 15.) Jake Evans: If you were found guilty of capital murder in Texas, the odds were that you would either get the death penalty or life inside with no parole. With the life without parole option for juveniles gone, what would Texas do with Jake Evans, 17. 16.) Tylar Witt: Tylar Witt changed her wardrobe, her style, and her personality. She also changed her residence. She now lives in the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, California. Still Before The Courts 17.) Amariyona Hall : Two sisters, one 14 and the other 12 years old, stabbed their mother to death during the early morning hours of January 5, 2019. 18.) Unnamed nine year old boy: Pauline Randol had been trying to get mental health help for her nine year old son. Then, one day it was too late. Read more

JUSTICE IS POSSIBLEIF YOU’RE A SEXUAL ABUSE SURVIVOR, you may have tried to pick up the pieces and go on with your life. Whether or not your abuser was punished for their actions, the mental, physical, and emotional toll continues, affecting your relationships and health. And if the abuse happened while you were in a school, in your place of employment, or in an organization that was supposed to keep you safe, the questions linger.How could they have let that happen to me?Why didn’t they see?How can I finally have peace with this?In Defeating the Darkness — Hope, Healing, and Justice: Preventing Sexual Assault in Our Schools and Institutions, Heather Brown shows you how to take back your power and make things right. You’ll hear the stories of others like you who went from being victims to becoming heroes who fought for justice and helped protect others from enduring similar abuse.YOU’LL LEARN HOW TO:• understand why what happened is not your fault• navigate your options within the U.S. legal system• find the right attorney and know what to expect moving forwardIf you experienced sexual abuse within a school, organization, or institution meant to protect you, you have the chance to make things right — not just for you, but for others, too. Read more

”I Am Nobody is an honest, tragic account of child sexual abuse and a powerful resource for individuals struggling with recovery. Gilhooly clearly highlights the shortcomings of the Canadian justice system’s approach; hopefully, one day, the punishment will fit the crime." —Sheldon Kennedy, former NHL player and author of Why I Didn't Say AnythingIn this raw, unflinching look at how his dream of playing hockey was stolen from him by charismatic hockey coach and sexual predator Graham James, Greg Gilhooly describes in anguishing detail the mental torment he suffered both during and long after the abuse and the terrible reality behind the sanitized term “sexual assault.” Although James has been convicted of sexually assaulting some of his victims, including Sheldon Kennedy and Theo Fleury, he neither confessed in court nor was convicted of sexually assaulting many of his other victims, including Gilhooly, depriving him of the judicial closure he craved.Gilhooly also provides a valuable legal perspective—as both a victim and a lawyer—missing from other such memoirs, and he delivers a powerful indictment of a legal system that, he argues, does not adequately deal with serial sexual child abuse or allocate enough resources to the rehabilitation of the victim. Most important, Gilhooly offers hope, affirmation, and inspiration for those who have suffered abuse and for their loved ones. Read more

Eddie Fischer was a teacher at Porter-Gaud, an elite private school in Charleston, South Carolina, for ten years. He was also a serial pedophile. Shortly after he was hired, administrators at the school learned about his sexual interest in young boys but did nothing to stop him. Fischer molested dozens of boys at the school. When they were finally confronted by the parents of a victim, the administrators allowed Fischer to resign quietly and then recommended him for employment at other schools in Charleston where he went on to molest more students for another fifteen years before he was finally arrested. This is the true story of how Fischer was finally stopped and the determined efforts by some of Fischer’s victims to expose the truth about Porter-Gaud’s role in enabling, supporting, and advancing Fischer’s criminal career which spanned four decades. Utilizing court transcripts and first-hand accounts, David Flowers shares the innovative and unconventional strategies, coupled with the remarkable courage of the victims, which exposed and defeated the arrogance of the school and its grossly negligent administrators. David Flowers is a former attorney who spent his career representing victims of sexual abuse in civil litigation. He is uniquely qualified to tell this story because he is one of the lawyers who represented the plaintiffs against Porter-Gaud School and its minions. Read more

This book outlines the progressive steps taken to address the educational needs of an exceptional child. From the Child Find process to filing a Due Process complaint, courts have addressed many legal issues. This book goes through court cases on some key issues from 2018 with an included workbook-style composition section after the cases. Parents and educational advocates will be able to read the cases and use the Thought Questions and composition space to take notes to better analyze their own case and advocate for their child's educational rights. Case Topics include:• Child Find• Evaluation Methodologies• Weighing Experts’ Credibility at Hearings• Attorney Fees• Bullying• “Meaningful Benefit” after Endrew F.Parents, caregivers, and educational advocates could all benefit from this resource book. Read more

The intersection of the Rothschild Family, the British aristocracy and senior members of the British government, industry, and media -- along with sustained deliberate cover-ups by British police -- will go down in history as one of the greatest crimes against humanity. Pedophilia -- the rape of children -- torture to produce adrenochrome -- Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA) -- and the murder of children, both for cannibalism and for disposal -- are "routine" for the highest echelons of the Deep State or the 1% some call "the Cabal."The prevalence of pedophilia at the highest levels of each Commonwealth country, with Australia (included in the final Rest of World volume) and Canada (included in the Americas volume) will stand with the German and other holocausts as one of the greatest crimes against humanity in modern history -- a crime, as the first volume documents, that has its roots thousands of years ago and has been common to the elite since Adam and Eve were beguiled by Satan to produce Cain.The United Kingdom is so horrifically central to this massive global atrocity centered on the City of London that it requires two of the five volumes to document properly.Footnotes at a PhD level of scholarship are provided for every fact in this book. Uniquely the book is also free online at https://pedoempire.org, where a tag cloud identifies the number of times a name appears in chapters -- the Murdochs, for example, appear in five chapters; the Rothschilds in twenty five chapters across the totality of the series with five chapters remaining to be written for the final two volumes.The author, Joachim Hagopian is a West Point graduate and former Army officer who then acquired a graduate degree in Clinical Psychology and worked as a licensed therapist in the mental health industry for 25 years, inclusive of work with children.The totality of this work is scheduled to be made into a movie documentary. The web site, the books, and the movie are in service to the eradication of Satanic pedophilia. This is the final battle for President Donald Trump on behalf of all humanity, and has been recently discussed by Lucian Lincoln "Lin" Wood Jr., one of America's most accomplished attorneys who works closely with both President Trump and the goddess of justice, Sidney Powell.The author, Joachim Hagopian, is the sole copyright owner of this content in all its forms including the free website (https://pedoempire.org), the chapters in Amazon Kindle form, and the printed book. Read more

Law Enforcement Dimensions' trusted 2024 Juvenile Manual keeps you abreast of the latest in the complex arena of youth and the law in Massachusetts. Easily search for key coverage on: reporting requirements, CRA, at risk youth, human trafficking, school issues, secure & non-secure detention, bullying, diversion, and much more. A must-have guide for school resource officers and school administrators alike! Read more