Understanding Neglect

Today’s episode included the following speakers (in the order they appear):

Host: Luke Waldo

Experts:

• Jennifer Jones – Chief Strategy Officer, Prevent Child Abuse America
• Bryan Samuels – Executive Director, Chapin Hall
• Dr. Kristi Slack – Professor, University of Wisconsin; Founder, Prof2Prof; Affiliate, Institute for Research on Poverty
• Hannah Kirk – Healthy Start Supervisor, Children’s Wisconsin
• Theresa Swiechowski – Family Support Supervisor, Children’s Wisconsin
• Ashlee Jackson – Family Support Specialist II, Children’s Wisconsin
• Bregetta Wilson – Lived Experience Coordinator, Wisconsin’s Department of Children and Families
• Tim Grove – Senior Consultant – Wellpoint Care Network
• Dr. Julie Woodbury – Family Preservation and Support Manager, Children’s Wisconsin

:31 – Luke Waldo – Introduction to Overloaded: Understanding Neglect podcast and Strong Families, Thriving Children, Connected Communities initiative.

• Strong Families, Thriving Children, Connected Communities

3:33 – Luke Waldo – Child neglect and abuse statistics. How is child neglect defined?

• Wisconsin Out-of-Home Care Report (2020)

4:56 – Jennifer Jones – Definitions of neglect differ across the country. Wisconsin’s definition of neglect, which specifically includes “for reasons other than poverty”.

• Wisconsin Department of Children and Families
• Wisconsin’s Definition of Neglect
• Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA)

7:51 – Bryan Samuels – Child neglect national and state statistics. Why neglect is the primary reason for family separation in child welfare systems.

10:43 – Dr. Kristi Slack – Child neglect and poverty. Systems’ failures that lead to overloaded families.

12:51 – Luke Waldo – Introduction of Lived Experience and Direct Practice experts.

13:12 – Hannah Kirk – Defining child neglect.

13:40 – Theresa Swiechowski – Defining child neglect.

13:55 – Ashlee Jackson – Poverty and neglect.

14:22 – Bregetta Wilson - Defining child neglect.

14:31 – Hannah Kirk – Mental health and substance use challenges.

15:44 – Theresa Swiechowski – The gray areas of neglect.

17:54 – Luke Waldo – Complexity of neglect. Introduction of stories about individuals and families that experienced neglect.

18:48 – Bregetta Wilson – Social determinants of health. Story about an 18 year old young man who had been involved with the child welfare system for much of his childhood. Story about a mother who went to the system to ask for help, but then had her children taken from her.

• Social Determinants of Health

24:00 – Tim Grove – Story about a 3 month old child that experienced neglect. Trauma as an underlying root cause. Trauma statistics in the child welfare system.

30:23 – Luke Waldo – How families become overloaded by stress.

30:54 – Dr. Julie Woodbury – Mental health and stress piling on overloaded families.

32:18 – Bryan Samuels – The intersection of poverty and neglect.

32:54 – Luke Waldo – 3 Key Takeaways.

35:21 - Closing Credits and Gratitude.

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