One in Ten
Episodes
Preventing Educator Sexual Misconduct with Dr. Elizabeth Jeglic
30 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of One in Ten, host Teresa Huizar speaks with researcher Dr. Elizabeth Jeglic about preventing educator sexual misconduct, which has i...
Treating Adverse Childhood Experiences in Rural America
16 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of One in Ten, host Teresa Huizar speaks with Dr. Lindsay Druskin-Grimes about the complex relationship between adverse childhood expe...
Old Before Their Time: The Impact of Childhood Trauma
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of One in Ten, host Teresa Huizar engages in a thought-provoking conversation with Dr. Frank Putnam, Professor of Psychiatry at UNC Sc...
Magic and Monsters: Child Sexual Abuse and Institutional Betrayal
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of One in Ten, host Teresa Huizar interviews filmmaker Norah Shapiro and actor and executive producer Anthony Edwards about their awar...
When Homeschooling Hides Abuse
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of 'One in Ten,' Teresa Huizar interviews Dr. Emily Putnam-Hornstein (UNC Chapel Hill) about how homeschooling intersects wi...
What Drives Problematic Sexual Behavior in Kids
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of One in Ten, host Teresa Huizar welcomes Dr. Brian Allen, professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Penn State, to discuss what m...
Breaking the Cycle of Neglect
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of One in Ten, host Teresa Huizar speaks with Dr. Robin Ortiz, an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics at NYU Grossman ...
Child Abuse, AI, and the Forensic Interview
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of 'One in Ten,' host Teresa Huizar speaks with Liisa Jarvilehto, a psychologist and PhD candidate at the University of Hels...
Teen Suicide in an Online World
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of 'One in Ten,' hosted by Teresa Huizar, Dr. Sheryl Chatfield from Kent State University discusses the alarming rise in you...
Medical Child Abuse: When Caregivers Deceive
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of One in Ten, host Teresa Huizar engages in a thought-provoking conversation with Dr. Jim Hamilton, an associate professor at Yale Sc...
When Child Sexual Abuse Hits Home for Jurors
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of 'One in Ten,' host Teresa Huizar speaks with Dr. Maggie Stevenson, Associate Professor of Psychology at Kenyon College, a...
What the Pandemic Revealed About Exploited Youth
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of One in Ten, host Teresa Huizar talks with Dr. Matt Kafafian from George Washington University about his research on how the COVID-1...
Why They Don't Tell: Understanding Reluctance in Trafficked Youth
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
 In this episode of 'One in Ten', host Teresa Huizar speaks with researcher Scarlet Cho, a doctoral student at the University of California...
How Child Sexual Abuse Silences Non-Abused Siblings
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of 'One in Ten,' host Teresa Huizar engages in a thought-provoking conversation with Dr. Rosaleen McElvaney, a clinical psyc...
Best of the Best: Which Child Abuse Reports Matter?
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally aired November 7, 2024.In this episode of One in Ten, Teresa Huizar interviews Dr. Melanie Nadon from the University of Illino...
Tackling Victim Advocate Burnout
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of 'One in Ten,' host Teresa Huizar interviews Dr. Maddison North, an assistant professor at Middle Tennessee State Universi...
Image-Based Sexual Abuse: The Pain That Never Goes Away
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Show NotesIn this episode of 'One in Ten,' host Teresa Huizar interviews Dr. Kimberly Mitchell from the University of New Hampshire's C...
Siblings Divided at Home and Foster Care
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Show NotesIn this episode of One in Ten, host Teresa Huizar speaks with Dr. Dylan Jones, a postdoctoral fellow at Penn State University, about the nua...
Healing Beyond Justice for Teen Sexual Assault Survivors
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of "One in Ten," host Teresa Huizar interviews Dr. Jessica Shaw, an associate professor at the University of Illinois, Chica...
Child Sex Trafficking Starts at Home
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of One in Ten, Teresa Huizar speaks with Dr. Vanessa Bouché, research fellow at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, about child sex tra...
Is God Punishing Me?
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of 'One in Ten,' host Teresa Huizar speaks with Dr. Ernie Jouriles, professor and director of clinical training at Southern ...
Honoring their Stories: Intentional Engagement in Advocacy, Education, and Prevention
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features a live conference panel discussion led by NCA CEO, Teresa Huizar, at the 2025 NCA Leadership Conference. Highlighting their them...
Understaffed and Undersupported Detectives in Crisis
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of “One in Ten,” host Teresa Huizar speaks with Dr. Lisa Nichols, an assistant professor at the University of Northern Colorado, t...
Teachers Using Tech to Cross the Line
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of One in Ten, host Teresa Huizar talks with researcher Kotomi Yokokura about the critical issue of educator sexual misconduct and the...
When the Help You Seek is for Yourself
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of One in Ten, host Teresa Huizar speaks with Dr. Melissa Bright, founder and executive director of the Center for Violence Prevention...
Remembering Their Names
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Host Teresa Huizar speaks with Dr. Emily Putnam-Hornstein and Dr. Sarah Font, co-principal investigators of Lives Cut Short, about the persistent issu...
Twice the Harm: Children, Domestic Violence, and Abuse
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of One in Ten, host Teresa Huizar talks with Dr. Rebecca Rebbe, an assistant professor at UNC Chapel Hill School of Social Work, to de...
When Kids Witness the Unimaginable
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of One in Ten, Teresa Huizar speaks with Katie Connell, a forensic interviewing expert and retired FBI unit chief, about the impact of...
Enforcing the Institutional Boundaries that Keep Kids Safe
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of One in Ten, Teresa Huizar interviews Dr. Luciana Assini-Meytin from the MOORE Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse at Jo...
Looking Back to Look Forward in Child Welfare
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of One in Ten, host Teresa Huizar speaks with Dr. Meg Sullivan, former Acting Assistant Secretary for the Administration of Children a...
Sibling Sexual Abuse and Preschool-Age Children
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of 'One in Ten,' host Teresa Huizar interviews Dr. Jane Silovsky, Director of the Center of Child Abuse and Neglect at the U...
What Adult Survivors Tell Us About Grooming
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, titled 'What Adult Survivors Tell Us About Grooming,' Teresa Huizar interviews Dr. Elizabeth Jeglic, a leading researcher o...
Why Kids Run: The Foster Care to Trafficking Pipeline
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of One in Ten, host Teresa Huizar speaks with Arturo Garcia, a doctoral researcher at the University of South Florida, about child sex...
Which Child Abuse Reports Matter? with Melanie Nadon, Ph.D., MPA
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of One in Ten, Teresa Huizar interviews Dr. Melanie Nadon from the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, about the intricacies of ...
How Trauma Fuels The Sex Trade with Klejdis Bilali
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of One in Ten, host Teresa Huizar converses with Klejdis Bilali, a doctoral researcher at the University of South Florida's Traff...
Breaking Taboo: Addressing Sibling Sexual Abuse with Amy Adams
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of 'One in Ten,' host Teresa Huizar interviews Amy Adams, a Ph.D. doctoral researcher at the University of Birmingham, about...
The Ripple Effects of Firearm Injuries in Children with Dr. Zirui Song
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of "One in Ten," host Teresa Huizar speaks with Dr. Zirui Song, an Associate Professor of Healthcare Policy and Medicine at ...
Why Belonging Matters
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of One in Ten, Teresa Huizar speaks with Gaelin Elmore, Youth Advocate, Speaker, and Belonging Champion. They discuss the significant ...
Why Don't More Teachers Report Abuse?
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why Don't More Teachers Report Abuse? Understanding the Challenges and SolutionsIn this episode of 'One in Ten,' host Teresa Huizar spe...
Creating Change Through Storytelling
27 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do we persuade people more effectively and more authentically? And how does telling our own leadership story help those we’re trying to persuade...
Which Kids Do We Believe?
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Black children and other children of color are less likely to be believed when reporting sexual violence and are considered less credible by jurors. B...
How Good Are We at Keeping Kids Safe?
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to child sexual abuse and exploitation, a new look at the U.S. shows we’re not doing very well. Economist Impact's Out of the Sha...
What Is Weathering? With Dr. Arline Geronimus
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Arline T. Geronimus coined the term “weathering” to describe the effects of systemic oppression—including racism and classism—on the body....
How Good Are Parents at Recognizing Grooming?
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Would you recognize grooming if you saw it? We all think we know what it means, but that doesn’t mean we’re any good at spotting it—even if we’...
Climate Change and Violence Against Children
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
All of us have had to give more thought to climate change and its effects in recent years. But to what degree have we yet reckoned with the way in whi...
Treating Adolescents With Problematic Sexual Behaviors
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cases involving problematic sexual behavior are between a quarter and a third of all cases of child sexual abuse that come through Children’s Advoca...
Boys: The Invisible Victims of Child Sex Trafficking
20 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Child sex trafficking is not a new phenomenon. And thankfully, the general public and child abuse professionals have greater awareness than ever of it...
Making Prevention Education Accessible for All
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Children with intellectual and developmental disabilities are more than three times more likely to experience abuse and neglect than children without ...
A Sea of Red Dots: The Explosion in Online Child Sexual Abuse
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While the presence of child sexual abuse images in child sexual abuse cases is not new, the sheer scale and scope and ubiquity of it all is. The expon...
Why Do People Believe Conspiracy Theories About Human Trafficking?
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The rise in myths and conspiracy theories about human trafficking have been one of the most frustrating parts of being a child abuse professional over...
Understanding Kids With Problematic Sexual Behaviors
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Geoff Sidoli joins us from NCA’s Institute for Better Mental Health Outcomes to talk about kids with sexual behavior problems. Myths abound about wh...
Keeping Kids Safe in the Homeschool Boom
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Homeschooling is the fastest-growing form of education in the U.S., a surge in popularity that crosses every demographic, political, and geographic li...
Cultural Considerations Working With Middle Eastern and North African Families
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the U.S., there are at least 1.2 million immigrants from Middle Eastern and North African countries, and close to 4 million descendants from prior ...
Glimpsing the Iceberg: Corporal Punishment and Physical Abuse
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To truly address child physical abuse, we have to understand the scope of the problem and how the use of corporal punishment can escalate to the point...
Tailoring TF-CBT to Black Children and Youth
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you listened to the last episode, you learned a lot about effective, evidence-based treatment—specifically, TF-CBT. But what do you do if, as a c...
TF-CBT: Helping Kids Get Better
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the mid-90s, little was known about how to effectively treat trauma, especially that trauma that can arise from child sexual abuse. Victims often l...
Best of the Best: The Real Red Flags of Grooming
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most compelling problems in child sexual abuse prevention has been how to describe to parents, caregivers, and the general public exactly w...
Best of the Best: Let's Talk About Spanking
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Research shows that about 75% of physical abuse starts as physical discipline gone terribly awry. We have years of data showing spanking is ineffectiv...
How Inequality Fuels Child Abuse
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We struggle to understand and talk about the link between poverty and child abuse. On the one hand, we know that not every poor family abuses and negl...
Are We Remembering the Boys?
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In most countries around the world, girls are disproportionately at risk of, and harmed by, both sexual abuse and exploitation. But we also know that ...
Fighting Back: What Jurors Don’t Get About Abuse
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Child sexual abuse is never a child’s fault. Absolutely never. And it’s unrealistic to expect children to somehow fend off the predations of adult...
Why Do Kids Blame Themselves After Abuse?
01 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For professionals, one of the saddest aspects of child sexual abuse is the way in which many victims struggle with blaming themselves for the terrible...
Addressing the Needs of Children and Families After Mass Violence
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this panel discussion recorded at the 2023 NCA Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C., on June 6, 2023, Dr. Melissa Brymer, Dr. Angela Moreland,...
Small Brave Moves for a Life-Changing Field
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In our culture, when we think of examples of leadership bravery, we often think of huge risk and very heroic images. Hollywood reinforces this with mo...
Best of the Best: Gender Bias and the Myth of Parental Alienation
05 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone’s heard of the vengeful ex-wife who accuses her ex-husband of child abuse just to get back at him during a divorce. There’s even a scient...
Best of the Best: Beyond ACEs
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1998, the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) study showed that traumatic events in childhood were common and could have lasting effects—on ever...
Growing Up Online: Addressing Child Sextortion
07 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Online exploitation of children is sadly not a new phenomenon or topic. But what is new is the dramatic growth of sextortion cases. In “Growing Up O...
The Real Red Flags of Grooming
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most compelling problems in child sexual abuse prevention has been how to describe to parents, caregivers, and the general public exactly w...
Practical Magic: Understanding Lived Experience Through Data
13 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most vexing questions in child abuse intervention is: How do we know that the work we do makes a difference? We can count the number of kid...
PTSD Interrupted?
17 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve learned so much about the trauma experienced by children who’ve been abused. We know about their clinical symptoms. We know how these affect...
When Abuse Strikes Twice
27 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What causes revictimization? How can we prevent it? There are common factors that contribute to child abuse and neglect that may affect any family: jo...
Giving Kids Their Futures Back During the Holidays and All the Rest of the Year
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When we think of the holidays, we often think of the sheer joy of it: Spending time with loved ones, eating favorite treats, and reflecting on bygone ...
What Really Matters in Team Effectiveness?
02 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Children’s Advocacy Centers (CACs), have been growing in the U.S. and around the world as the gold standard response in child abuse intervention for...
America’s Inconsistent Response to Child Sexual Abuse
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you haven’t already read Out of the Shadows, both the country report and the most recent edition, which is focused on U.S. state-by-state analysi...
In Bad Faith: When Clergy Abuse
04 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Clergy have a uniquely intimate place in the lives of people of faith: present at baptisms, weddings, sick beds, and funerals. They’re with us when ...
Why Aren’t More Child Sexual Abuse Cases Prosecuted?
21 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re a child abuse professional, at one time or another you’ve wondered, “Why was this case prosecuted but that one wasn’t?” Or felt fr...
Building a Smaller, Fairer, and Better Child Welfare System
07 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last several years, we’ve become more and more aware of the challenges and—let’s face it—the inadequacies of the child welfare system...
Best of the Best: Are We Solving the Wrong Problem in Child Welfare?
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While we’re on vacation, here’s one of our favorite episodes: “Are We Solving the Wrong Problem in Child Welfare?” When you think of federal c...
Best of the Best: Faith, Trauma, and the Problem of Evil
09 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While we're on vacation, here's one of our favorite episodes: "Faith, Trauma, and the Problem of Evil." Many survivors of child se...
The Future of Possible in Children’s Advocacy Centers
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We are complete nerds when it comes to research. This podcast was founded on it, and many listeners receive our weekly research-to-practice briefs. Ov...
The Unique Vulnerability of Youth Athletes
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past five years, sexual abuse scandals in sports have continuously been in the news. Whether swimming, tae kwon do, or most famously gymnasti...
Moving Equity to the Center of Child Welfare
15 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In child maltreatment cases, while our attention is focused on the child and family in front of us, do we give any thought to the child protection sys...
Beyond Pride: Can Kids Trust Us When They Tell Us Who They Are?
24 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is a critical time for the child protection and Children’s Advocacy Center community to be allies for LGBTQ kids. Nearly two dozen states have ...
The Limits of ACEs, Live Panel Discussion
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The 1998 CDC-Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Study helped build public understanding of the consequences of untreated childhood...
Collateral Damage: Kids and the Internet Privacy Wars
27 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Justin Fitzsimmons, associate vice president at the National White Collar Crime Center, joins us to raise the alarm about the way in which technology ...
The Fear of False Allegations
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you’ve ever worked anywhere near the criminal justice system, you know how heartbreaking it is when a case goes to trial and you have a clear dis...
Exploring the Memoir of a Stolen Boyhood with Author Stephen Mills
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode is a conversation with author and survivor Stephen Mills about his recently published memoir, Chosen. For those who haven’t yet re...
Reframing Childhood Adversity
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, a great time to talk about the way we message around child abuse and childhood adversities. The ways in which w...
Does America Believe Female Sexual Abusers Actually Exist?
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Does America believe female sexual abusers actually exist? When we think about child sexual abuse, don’t we automatically picture in our mind a fath...
The Surprising Prevalence of Sibling Sexual Abuse
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When we think about problematic sexual behaviors in youth, we often think of a neighbor child, or someone at school. Someone acting out in the communi...
The True Cost of Olympic Gold
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years, how we look at the Olympics and elite sports has begun to change—driven by cases like that of Larry Nassar, the team doctor who for...
Sticks and Stones … But What If Words Do Hurt?
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past 18 months, systemic and structural discrimination have received widespread—and, let’s face it, much-needed—media attention and pub...
How Accurate Is Memory After 20 Years?
27 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past two decades, and in many cases because of statute of limitations reform, many adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse have come forwar...
Prevention, Healing, & Justice: A Blueprint for Action
26 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We're all too familiar with the statistics and issues around child abuse in the U.S. But what do we really know about violence against children g...
Do Anti-Poverty Programs Reduce Child Abuse?
09 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We’re always very careful to say that poverty doesn’t cause child neglect and abuse. And we don’t want to conflate these things or have people t...
Multidisciplinary Teams: What's the Secret Sauce?
25 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s episode, we speak with Dr. James Herbert, senior research fellow at the Australian Center for Child Protection, the first Children’s Ad...
Sexual Behavior in Youth: What's Normal? What's Not? And What Can We Do About It?
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When we first met Dr. Jane Silovsky years ago, talking about youth with problematic sexual behaviors, it was a pervasive myth in the Children’s Advo...
What’s Culture Got to Do With It? Everything.
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest today is Dr. Maegan Rides At The Door, the director of the National Native Children’s Trauma Center at the University of Montana. Now, man...
Trauma and Resilience in Military Families
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When we think of military families, we rightly think of sacrifice and duty. But do we also think about resiliency, perseverance, and a sense of commun...
Taking Stock: The Plan to End Child Abuse Deaths, Five Years On
31 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nearly a decade ago, a coalition of national organizations including NCA began strategizing about how to end child abuse fatalities. We passed a bill ...