Kids Are the Experts: Youth Perspectives on Healing After Abuse

Kids Are the Experts: Youth Perspectives on Healing After Abuse

June 11, 2026 · 44 min · Season 8 · Episode 12

About this episode

This episode discusses the importance of integrating children's voices into the evaluation of healing after abuse.

In this episode of One in Ten, host Teresa Huizar speaks with Kristi Westphaln (UCLA School of Nursing) about integrating children’s voices into Children's Advocacy Center (CAC) outcome measurement and understanding what healing after abuse means to youth. Westphaln describes her work with the Canopy CAC and a scoping review showing CAC literature emphasizes programmatic measures (forensic interviews, prosecution) more than child perspectives, and how this aligned with the National Children’s...

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