Invitation to interactive session -Safe Schools: Supporting schools address child sexual abuse
Protecting children is no longer an option – it is a responsibility vested in
each one of us. And schools
are at the front line of child protection with
a large part of the truly "awake" time of a child's waking hours
being spent at school.
When you know better, you do better - Maya Angelou
Needless
to state the school and the community of educators are one of the most
significant aspects of a child's world and we
also know that educators care for their students and their welfare and safety
at all times.
A school’s integrity and worth is not based on whether cases of
sexual violence happen to children
on its rolls. Instead it is based on the acceptance of the possibilities
of occurrence and preemptive steps taken to both safeguard and
respond in a timely and appropriate way to ensure that its children may benefit
from its caring and foresight to truly have the right to be safe all the time,
everywhere. Besides being legally liable, schools have an
ethical responsibility to be forestalling and responsive.
The sheer economic costs, direct or
indirect, of addressing the lifelong effect of adverse childhood experiences on people’s lives, compels creating a safe and protective school
community of paramount importance to educators.
A first and crucial step to responding to the
pervasive threat of CSA our children face, is increasing awareness.
The sexual abuse of
children cannot happen in a vacuum. Various factors together
are involved which allow for abuse to happen but
these very same aspects when reworked, can provide for
a holistic and coordinated framework and processes to safeguard children
in a school setting and establish a culture of safety.
As
part of a collective concern to ensure every child 's right to be safe all the
time from sexual abuse Tulir – Centre
for the Prevention and Healing of Child Sexual Abuse and The Millennium Lodge 327 are
organizing a half day interactive
session on September 1, 2018, 9.30 am for school managements and educators to help
sustain their efforts in fulfilling
this basic obligation to their
students. . The venue is in Egmore – details will
be informed upon registration being confirmed.
Participation is limited to three
representatives per school. To
register and for further details please contact tulircphcsa@yahoo.co.in or
call 26618026/43235867. Please be advised
that registration closes on Aug. 30, 2018 and on-spot registrations
will not be accepted.
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