Coronavirus: Living homeless under the threat of pandemic
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…
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From the Chairman’s desk, March 2020
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.
Peer Support Workers: An Exploration within an Irish Mental Health Service
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,…
Adult Male Survivors’ Disclosure of Childhood Sexual Abuse: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
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…
ABC journalist Sarah Ferguson on making Revelation and coming face to face with two of the Catholic Church’s worst serial paedophiles
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…
Pell’s last stand
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…
Man who filmed infant sex abuse in US handed sentence of between 205 and 775 years
An American man convicted of filming an infant being sexually abused will likely spend life in prison. Published in One News
Survey of sex abuse victims hopes to dispel myths about survivors
A survivor of sexual abuse is conducting what she believes is the first broad survey of victims of sexual abuse in the U.S. Catholic Church, with the hopes that the…
Bristlecone Project
Men who were sexually abused or assaulted—whether as children or adults—may feel isolated and stigmatized by what happened to them. The truth is that millions of men from around the…
Advocates call for more female-specific sex offender rehabilitation
Experts have flagged there is a lack of gender-specific rehabilitation for female sex offenders in New Zealand, compared to men who are more often imprisoned and enter male-oriented group programmes….
Nelson’s Annette Milligan dedicated to supporting sexual assault victims
On the back of a 30-year career as a nurse and public health campaigner, Annette Milligan has a new role that will see her focus on improving outcomes for victims…
Northland sexual abuse survivor speaks out to assist healing
Paul Davenport is speaking out about being sexually abused as a child growing up in Northland a bid to help others. Read article By Jenny Ling Published in NZ Herald…
Church apologises after schools learned of priest’s conviction through media
The Catholic Church has been forced to apologise to outraged parents who only learned their parish priest had been convicted of sex offences through a story on Stuff. Published in…
Victoria’s education regulator launches investigation into St Kevin’s College
An elite Melbourne school will be investigated by the Victorian Registration & Qualifications Authority over its management of child abuse risks. Published in SBS News
New domestic violence stats show psychological abuse as common as physical
The ‘Offences by Family Members’ report was released today as part of the wider ‘2018 New Zealand Crime and Victims Survey’, with the findings likely to influence future funding for…
Sexual abuse survivor Ken Clearwater asks MPs to acknowledge male rape victims
A sexual abuse survivor is asking lawmakers to better acknowledge male rape victims and is calling for an end to gender comparisons in sexual abuse statistics. Ken Clearwater, the National…
Catholic Priest Says ‘Pedophilia Doesn’t Kill Anyone’ After Barring Abortion-Rights Lawmakers From Communion
A priest in Rhode Island has defended his decision to ban all lawmakers who voted in favor enshrining abortion protections under state law from receiving communion at his parish. Published…
National Redress Scheme: Sex abuse survivors say victims are dying before receiving compensation
It has been more than 18 months since the National Redress Scheme was introduced as a way of compensating survivors of clergy child abuse. Published in ABC
Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge rejects proposed Queensland laws to report child abusers who confess
Brisbane’s Catholic Archbishop has made a formal submission opposing the State Government’s plan to make priests report child sex offences revealed in the confessional. Published in ABC
I vainly believed I had the fortitude to report on child abuse, but there was always my own case
Periodically, for most of the five years of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, I covered its squalid revelations as both journalist and abuse victim. For…
ComVoices 2016 State of the Sector Survey finds community organisations struggling
ComVoices have released results from their second survey of community organisations. The State of the Sector Survey 2016 was completed by 280. Published in New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse
Former Marlborough teacher jailed for sex with students can now be named
A Marlborough teacher who was jailed for having sex with two students aged under 16 has abandoned her bid to keep her name secret. Jamiee Marie Cooney admitted at the…
Queensland archbishop opposes planned law to compel priests to report child sexual abuse
Mark Coleridge says move to legislate against the sanctity of the confessional will fail to make children safer. Published in The Guardian