Stan and Clarence chat with Patty Wetterling.Patty Wetterling was a stay-at-home mother of four children when her world was rocked by the abduction of her 11 year old son Jacob, on October 22, 1989. With a shattered heart, Patty began studying child abduction and sexual exploitation. Who abducts children, how are they located, what can we do to prevent these horrible crimes? Her advocacy led her to passing Federal legislation requiring sex offenders to register their addresses with law enforcement. She served on the Board of Directors for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children for 22 years and was Chair of the board from 2012-2015. As a consultant with the US Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Director of Sexual Violence Prevention for 7 1/2 years at MDH. Associate with the National Criminal Justice Training Center of Fox Valley Technical College, Patty has presented countless victim impact sessions to law enforcement about AMBER Alert and long-term missing programs across the country. She has been a keynote speaker at conferences addressing crimes against children and child sexual abuse and continues to fight for a world where children have the right to grow up safe and follow their dreams.Join the conversation at healthchatterpodcast.comBrought to you in support of Hue-MAN, who is Creating Healthy Communities through Innovative Partnerships.More about their work can be found at http://huemanpartnership.org/
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter and yet another special show, which we'll get to in a second. But this one is really near and dear to my heart. And you'll see why in a second. I'd like to thank our great crew, as I always do. Maddie Levine-Wolf, Aaron Collins, Deandra Howard do wonderful background research, along with Sheridan Nygaard, who does research and our marketing.
So thank you to all of you. And Matthew Campbell is our production manager, gets all these shows out to you, the listening audience. And then, of course, there's Clarence Jones, who's my co-host. Unfortunately, he can't be with us today. He's got to attend a family funeral in Chicago. But he's got some great questions that I'll be able to pose to our great guest today. So thank you to all of you.
Also, thanks to Human Partnerships. community health organization in the state of Minnesota that's really second to none as far as promoting health for all of us, no matter where you come from and what community you live in, they are quite good. You can check them out at humanpartnership.org. You can check us out, Health Chatter, at healthchatterpodcast.com.
And just so everybody knows, we get all of our research notes out to you on our website so you can listen and read up as well. And also check out some of the different websites that we provide for you and your background interests. So thank you to you as well, the listening audience. Today, I have a great guest. She and I go back a long, long way. Patty Wetterling is with us.
We're going to be talking about... We've kind of titled this show, Sorrow, Hope, and Health. For those of you that have been certainly in the state of Minnesota, the story that Patty... brings to all of us and brought to the forefront was the unfortunate abduction of her son, Jacob, back in 1989. And it really was a sad, sad day. But I will say this, that out of all of it,
came some hope and hopefully some happiness. So Patty was a stay-at-home mother with her four children when the abduction of Jacob took place. She has done incredible advocacy work that, to be quite honest with you, is really second to none. She's been on the the Board of Directors for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and was the chair of that group as well.
She's been a consultant in the Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency and Sexual Violence and Prevention. She was a dear colleague of mine, even all those years, but then also at the Department of Health where, and Patty will be able to allude to this, where she realized that not only was the issue itself a public safety issue, but also a public health issue.
So we'll get into that in a minute. But many of the things as it relates to child abduction in all the laws that have been passed well these years, much credit really goes to Patty and her work. And so Many, many thanks. And I hope going forward for you, Patty, there will be happiness. So thanks for being with us today on Health Chatter.
Thank you, Stan. It's good to hear your voice again.
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