Prevention into Your Community Nancy Corley MA LPC Marissa Gunther MSW LMSW What do you want to get out of this training What would make this time productive for you Training Outline ID: 914023
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Integrating Child Sexual Abuse Prevention into Your Community
Nancy Corley, MA, LPCMarissa Gunther, MSW, LMSW
Slide2What do you want to get out of this training? What would make this time productive for you?
Slide3Training OutlineEffective Prevention: Public Health ModelLet’s Make this Practical: Target Areas for ActionResearchPublic Awareness and Education
Policies and Organizational PracticeCollaborative PracticeBreaking it down: What does this mean for me? Individual Action
Community ActionPolicy-Level Action
Slide4Why is prevention important?
Slide5Public Health ModelTiers of Prevention: Primary
Secondary Tertiary
Sexual abuse results as a combination of individual, relationship, community and societal factors, all need to be addressed to effectively prevent it.
What would it mean to prevent child sexual abuse?
Fewer victims
Children are free to live without sexual trauma
Decrease the risk of future perpetration
Reduction in health care and mental health care costs
Increase engagement of bystanders
Promote healthy social norms
Promote healthy development and safe, stable relationships for children
Slide6Let’s Make this PracticalAction Areas:ResearchPublic Awareness and EducationPolicies and Organizational Practice
Collaborative PracticeAs suggested by the
National Plan to Prevent the Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children
Slide7ResearchPromote the use of research to guide sexual abuse prevention practice.Find and use the most up-to-date research and trends to help understand:
Risk and protective factorsHelp for victims
Help for perpetratorsEffective prevention, response and treatment models
What
the issue looks like in your community
Slide8ResearchResources: Centers for Disease Control and PreventionNational Sexual Violence Resource CenterNational Child Traumatic Stress Network
Child Welfare Information GatewayAdvocate for further research to advance understanding of child
sexual abuse.
Use research to develop effective prevention tools and share those tools
.
Slide9Public Awareness and EducationPublic awareness alone does not prevent child sexual abuse, but can lay a foundation for change. Education can address knowledge, skills and behavior change.
Sample Campaigns:
Slide10Community Implementation:What exactly is my goal?Community OutreachKnow your facts about child sexual abuse
Missouri Kids Count Know your community Who does what? Has that changed recently?
Who do I (& Board, Boss, Co-workers, etc.) know? Consider your target audience
Who do I need
t
o
s
pread
t
he message to?
Why is that person(s) important?
Public Awareness and Education
Slide11Public Awareness and EducationActivity: MAKE A LIST!
Name of Organization, Agency, Business, Professional Club, Key StakeholderContact PersonTelephone numberEmail addressPhysical address
Why them? (Again, what’s my goal?)
Slide12Policies and Organizational PracticesPromote prevention programs that are evidence-based and can be molded to meet
the needs of communities and organizations.Example: Darkness to Light’s “Stewards of Children”
Choose and support policies that prevent child sexual abuse in your organization. Resource: Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s
Preventing Child Sexual Abuse within
Youth
-Serving Organizations:
Getting
Started on Policies and
Procedures
Slide13Policies and Organizational PracticesMaintain a balance between keeping children safe with the need to nature and care for them.
Share information about successful policies and procedures with other organizations in your
community.
Slide14Policies and Organizational PracticesSample policies: Create policies that address or eliminate one adult-one child situations.What does this look like in your organization?
Insist on staff and volunteer screenings that include:Criminal background checksPersonal Interviews
Professional reference checksComplete screenings periodically
Slide15Policies and Organizational PracticesSample policies: Monitor behavior between all adults and children, including older youth who may have the responsibility to care for children.
Create a response system to inappropriate behavior, suspicions and breaches in policy. Enforce it!Insist on frequent and consistent training of all staff and volunteers about child sexual abuse.
Slide16Policies and Organizational PracticeAdoption of different policies will vary depending on these contextual issues: Your organization’s mission and activitiesCulture and language of those served by your organization
Insurance requirementsAvailable resources
Slide17Collaborative PracticePromote local and state level collaboration among organizations to work together to prevent child abuse.Build relationships with individuals and organizations in related areas to child abuse:
Child Advocacy CentersDomestic ViolenceMental Health ProfessionalsEarly Childhood Development
Animal AbuseOthers?? Who could you partner with?
Slide18Collaborative PracticeCombine resources to support prevention efforts.What does this take?
Promote sexual abuse prevention as a unit.Use “reach” of the collaboration to increase public awareness.Identify your constituencies/target groups
Develop a shared messageDisseminate together
Slide19Collaborative PracticeCommunity Coalition Implementation: Who needs to be at the table?
Other non-profits, organizations, businesses, faith-based organizations, key stakeholdersMAKE A LIST!Top-down buy-in AND level-to-level buy-inConvenient time/place to meet
Over lunchCentral locationPlenty of parking
Slide20Collaborative Practice: ExamplesStatewide Collaborations: Task Force on the Prevention of Sexual Abuse of ChildrenMissouri Prevention Partners
Community-based Collaboration: The Alliance of Southwest Missouri (CBCAP Model)
Slide21Taking Action
Slide22Breaking it Down: Individual ActionALL ADULTS ARE RESPONSIBLE IN PREVENTING SEXUAL ABUSEPromote adult and community responsibility. Educate children, youth and adults about how to prevent, recognize and respond to child sexual abuse.
Example: Bring Darkness to Light’s “Stewards of Children” to your communityEncourage people in your life to speak up against child sexual abuse and change norms that encourage secrecy and denial.
Slide23Breaking it Down: Individual ActionPay attention! Observe and monitor the relationships children have with the adults around you. Create environments that are inhospitable to perpetrators of abuse.Contact organizations already working to end child sexual abuse to offer support.
Suggest ways organizations can invite youth and adults to have a role in a community plan to prevent child sexual abuse.
Slide24Breaking it Down: Community ActionChild Sexual Abuse is a community problem that requires
a community effort in order to identify effective community-wide prevention
solutions.Identify and Encourage Family/Parent Leaders and GET THEM INVOLVED.
Identify local leaders and
GET THEM INVOLVED
Part of Prevention is Intervention
Support quality treatment and advocacy services
Encourage
, support and provide child sexual abuse prevention training for everyone serving or interacting with children and youth
AT EVERY LEVEL
.
Slide25Breaking it Down: Community ActionTraining should be on-going and a regular part of every organization’s policies and practices.Form a community coalition dedicated to child sexual abuse prevention or;
Assess your current coalition to identify any new partners you would like to engage in your prevention efforts.Assist all organizations in writing, implementing and enforcing child protective policies.Begin with your own
agency!
Slide26Breaking it Down: Community ActionBuild in community outreachStart a speaker’s bureauDevelop resources, materials to hand-out
Contact local clubs, churches, organizationsOutreach Presentation
What’s my goal?How do I best make the initial contact?Who is the audience going to be?
What’s the most effective format?
1 to 1 or group presentation or other?
Who will make the best “sell or ask”?
What AV or handouts do I need?
Slide27Breaking it down: Policy-Level ActionSupport policies and practices that address child sexual abuse.Does your organization have policies in place?Are they they always implemented? If not,
why not?
Meet with community leaders and policymakers and educate them about the importance of prevention.
Do
you know your district Representative and Senator
?
Have they heard from you? Build a relationship!
Slide28Breaking it down: Policy-Level ActionAdvocate for federal and state funding that supports prevention, intervention and treatment. Support the development of evidence-based policies and laws that work to end child sexual abuse.
What is the benefit of evidence-based policy vs. reactive policy?
Slide29Slide30ReferencesNational Coalition to Prevent Child Sexual abuse and Exploitation. (2012). National Plan to Prevent the Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children (Rev. ed.). Retrieved from
www.preventtogether.orgDarkness to Light. (2007). Stewards of Children: A Prevention and Response Program for Adults: Charleston, SC.
Saul J, Audage.
(2007).
Preventing Child Sexual Abuse Within Youth-Serving Organizations: Getting Started with Policies and Procedures.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control: Atlanta, GA.
Task Force on the Prevention of Sexual Abuse of Children. (2012)
. Report from the Task Force on the Prevention of Sexual Abuse of Children
. Missouri KidsFirst, Children’s Trust Fund & Great Circle: Jefferson City, MO.
Slide31Contact InformationNancy Corley, Project CARE DirectorThe Alliance of Southwest Missouri417-782-9899ncorley@theallianceofswmissouri.org
Marissa Gunther, Prevention Coordinator
Missouri KidsFirst573-632-4600marissa@missourikidsfirst.org