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… relationships with God and others, to teach them about safe boundaries, and to teach them to take action if they … doctors, nurses, daycare staff, school counselors, and safe church committee members. It was a valuable and powerful … this curriculum to some of the smaller reservation churches as time allows. We are working on a mini-training …
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… Support Survivors.” Another nearby poster said “You are Safe Here.” Though not explicitly in reference to sexual … a space that felt powerful and healing—safe. I think churches have a lot to learn from initiatives like these. … You Are Safe Here …
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… could I not become an advocate in my community? Here at Safe Haven Ministries, we strive to be a refuge for women and … community. I find some of our strongest advocates are our churches. Churches have been an intimate part of Safe Haven’s … Speaking Up: My Work at Safe Haven Ministries …
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… higher rates of reported sexual crimes indicate a more safe and just community. A community where women believe … deny the mounting evidence parallel the tendency for many churches to immediately surround their accused spiritual … As in New York City, low rates of reported abuse in a church could indicate a less safe church rather than safe one …
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… We all need to be safe. According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, safety is … nearby and I had my pillow. I remember feeling safe at church, surrounded by adults and children who cared about me … they knew, quite often a parent. So our excuse that “churches are like families” and therefore we don’t need to …
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… not primarily as a documentary of period of the Catholic church’s history, but to open our eyes to the reality of … after the opening of the Office of Abuse Prevention (now Safe Church), about 150 total reports of clergy abuse had …
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… Prevention & Education Program Manager at Safe Haven Ministries, give a presentation on domestic violence at the recent Safe Church Conference was an important and difficult …
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… 24, with a focus this year on the sex industry and the church. Why is Safe Church talking about the sex industry? Because it’s not …
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… Safe Haven Ministries recently published a film entitled “ … Nina is eloquent about describing the way in which the church culture she was a part of led directly to her abuse. … of what is fairly normal patterns of thinking in many churches. In any church, there is the danger of emotionally …
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… victim needs to be more important than the industry (or church, or school, or denomination) “looking good” or … background checks, and has initiated a program called Safe Sport which educates about abuse in athletics and …
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… conversation about abuse, one that rarely happens in church settings where issues of abuse, if they are talked … from the outside will be one of the forces that compel churches to start talking about abuse openly and pave the way towards an environment that is safe for those hurting from all kinds of abuse. What do you …
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… Abuse and the churches’ basically consistent failure up to this day to care … credibility. Sometimes when I’m feeling despair about the church, I’ll read the comments section of the latest abuse … tradition are present which would make the church a safe place for the vulnerable? What can Christians offer, and …