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Responding to Sexual Abuse in Our Church: Supporting Parishes and Faith Communities through Collaboration (Workshop 98)
This workshop describes a successful collaboration of Archdiocese personnel and lay clinical social workers with expertise in sexual abuse to deliver an educational training with clinical integrity to Catholic leadership teams from various parishes and faith communities. Regional trainings were designed to enhance leadership team knowledge and understanding of sexual abuse in general and, in particular, priest perpetrated sexual abuse. The trainings also presented current Diocesan policies and procedures for sexual abuse prevention and intervention and prompted leadership teams to create parish models for education, discernment, healing, and prevention. The overall feedback from the regional presentations was very positive, specifically valuing the credibility, integrity, and forthright nature of the presenters and material.
This collaborative outreach was the outcome of the Archdiocese Policy Review Board on priest perpetrated sexual abuse requesting a Parish Response Subcommittee with lay community experts in the field. The developed format included didactic presentations on various topics critical for the understanding of the issues central to sexual abuse, its sequelae, prevention, and effective intervention at the parish level. In addition, opportunities for individual and small group processing by parish were facilitated for the participant's experiential benefit and also as role modeling for parish implementation. Given the individual areas of expertise, question and answer periods also were included.
Mary Kay Brennan, M.S.W., L.I.C.S.W.
Seattle University
Social Work Program
900 Broadway
Seattle, WA 98122
Orlando Manaois, M.S.W., L.I.C.S.W.
Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center
4800 Sand Point Way NE
P.O. Box 5371/CH-76
Seattle, WA 98105
Denise Aubuchon
Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle
910 Marion Street
Seattle, WA 98109
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