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For more than 1,400 days, they waited.

Little kids but now grown up, the childhoods they’d left behind stained by trauma. They waited to discover what a Prince of the Church knew.

From those four days in 2016 when George Pell gave evidence from Rome via video link because his Vatican doctor declared him unable to fly to Australia; through the rest of the royal commission; through his trials, his appeals, and through a final month of delay.

If you’re a manager or workplace leader you can have a direct impact on the welfare and wellbeing of your employees. The latest resource from the Mental Health Foundation will…

Shery Mead’s keynote address at the Experts by Experience Conference 2011. April 2020

Mike Holloway’s team in the Waikato (Male Support Services) congratulated by the Mayor for “providing an extremely valuable service, for which our city is very, very grateful.” View letter (PDF…

Most people have heard about “honour abuse” of women but men can be hidden victims too. Coming from conservative religious communities, they can find themselves having to hide anything from sexual abuse to domestic violence to their being gay, because to speak out could dishonour their families. Newsnight’s Katie Razzall has been speaking to men trapped in this predicament. If you need support with forced marriage or honour violence, help and support is available bbc.co.uk/actionline

Leaving covid behind should not mean leaving the homeless out in the cold again, advocates say. Director and founder of the Male Room Philip Chapman said while the lockdown response…

Labor fears some of the thousands of survivors of child sexual abuse with unresolved redress claims could die before they are compensated under the $3.8 billion scheme and has urged the federal government to make early payments to sick and elderly survivors.

Kia Mārire (“Effectiveness with Māori”) is the national strategy of Male Survivors Aotearoa to provide a range of support services that are effective for Māori. View Kia Mārire

The Male Room usually offers people a place to go, get some kai, and talk to someone face-to-face. Under the lockdown rules a lot of that has changed, but director…

Read article (PDF) By Jorunn E. Halvorsena, Ellen Tvedt Solbergb, Signe Hjelen Stigec April 2020

Cardinal George Pell is being investigated by police over a new allegation of child sexual abuse, according to News Corp reports. Pell was released from jail last Tuesday after the…

Appreciate your Covid-19 role and focus Understand and manage the risks of remote support services Pay special attention to privacy and confidentiality Be prepared for a safe and enabling interaction…

Victims of child sexual abuse should not be dissuaded from coming forward and reporting perpetrators as a result of the jury conviction of Cardinal George Pell being overturned by the…

The High Court today granted Cardinal George Pell special leave to appeal, and unanimously allowed the appeal. In other words, Pell won. His convictions were quashed and he will be…

Peer support refers to a process whereby individuals with lived experience of a particular phenomenonprovide support to others by explicitly drawing on theirpersonal experience. It has been adopted in a…

Two men have come forward publicly for the first time to accuse George Pell of sexually abusing them when they were young boys housed in a Catholic orphanage. In allegations…

The New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse and Nga Wai a te Tui are partnering to bring together information related to COVID-19. The New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse website is bringing…

Former brother of St John of God, Bernard McGrath, will be eligible for parole in December 2044. McGrath, who is serving two prison sentences in NSW for sex crimes against…

For most of the past 12 months, Mark Shannon has been sleeping rough in the streets around Nelson’s central city. He says while coronavirus is a scary subject, it hasn’t…

Phillip Chapman, MSA Chair “Don’t be afraid to take an unfamiliar path Sometimes they’re the ones that take you to the best places” Unknown Kia ora koutou.

Effectiveness of peer support in a mental health setting…An interesting research proposal that includes and analysis of the challenges and benefits of peer support. Read article (PDF) By Michael John Norton, Michael Bergin,…

Page 1. Walden University ScholarWorks Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies Collection 2020 Adult Male Survivors’ Disclosure of Childhood Sexual Abuse: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis… Read…

Sarah Ferguson spends her working life wading through murky waters, tackling difficult, confronting and harrowing stories but none has tested her like the project that consumed her for the past…

Next Wednesday and Thursday, the last two days of the year that’s passed since George Pell was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment, are also the former archbishop’s last real chance…