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The Nervous System as a Map of this American Moment

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The Fabric of Human Connection: Being and Becoming

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When Empathy is Not Enough

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The Heart of Parenting: Play, Acceptance, Curiosity, Empathy

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7 ways to connect with a young person

Mandatory Reporting in Suspected Child Sexual Abuse: A Safeguard or an Inadvertent Harm?, Oak Foundation.

Qualitative Assessment Approaches for the Protection of Children with Disabilities Within Humanitarian Contexts, The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action.

The Catholic Church and Child Rights Organizations: Finding Common Ground to Avoid Preventable Child-family separation, Global Collaborative on Children’s Issues, Georgetown University.

Social Service Workers in Schools: Their Role Addressing Violence Against Children and Other Child Protection Concerns, Global Social Service Workforce Alliance, UNICEF.

Identifying & Prioritizing Protective & Risk Factors to Strengthen Preventive Approaches in Humanitarian Action, The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action.

Restorative Justice and Child Sexual Abuse, Oak Foundation.

Empowering Parents so Children can Succeed: a Toolkit to support Parent Involvement in Education when their children are in Foster Care, Advocates for Children and SCO Family of Services, Co-Author.

Partnering with Religious Communities for Children, UNICEF, Co-Author (translated into Arabic, French, Portuguese, Spanish).

Child Rights Organizations and Religious Communities: Powerful Partnerships for Children. CrossCurrents, vol. 60 no. 3, 2010, p. 451-461. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/782469.

UNICEF Guide to working with Parliaments, UNICEF, Co-Author (translated into Arabic, French, Spanish).

Determining the Best Interests of Unaccompanied and Separated Children: Lessons from Guinea, The International Rescue Committee, Co-Author.

Engaging Religious Communities to Protect Children From Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation, Child Abuse & Neglect, Volume 38, Issue 4, Pages 600-611, Co-Author, 2014.

A Handbook on Child Participation in Parliament, Inter-Parliamentary Union and UNICEF, Contributor (translated into French and Spanish).

From Commitment to Action: What Religious Communities can do to eliminate violence against children, UNICEF and Religions for Peace, publication supervisor and editor (translated into Spanish and French).

Engaging Muslim Religious Communities to Protect Children against Violence, UNICEF.

Religious Communities Take the Lead for Children, Baylor University School of Social Work, Co-Author.

Real Dungeons: Juvenile Detention in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Human Rights Watch, Co-Author.

Learning Through Play: Akanksha Theater Training Manual, The Akanksha Foundation, Mumbai, India.

Kakuma Refugee Camp Kindergarten Health Education Curriculum, The International Rescue Committee, Kenya.