Is this what we want our profession and what we stand for (the prevention of violence against ALL children) to be remembered for when we look back on our time?

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Here's the only example I could find by international child health associations - ICHG and ISSOP www.internationalchildhealthgroup.org/ichg-issop-s...

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Sport and the Catholic Church have been compared in many scientific papers before - and these recent examples show why.
Power and status over justice, healing and dignity is at the core of institutional child abuse. /FIN

... the Dutch Olympic Committee and the Dutch Volleyball Federation - enabled by the IOC rules and regulations - to represent his country, at the highest level of sporting excellence. 4/

Power of the institution prevails above human dignity.
In a way, this reminds me of the institutional dynamics that were at play at the Paris Olympic Games, when Steven Van De Velde, a convicted child rapist, was chosen by ... 3/

Seeing people rewarded with immense status and power when they have played a major role in covering up child sexual abuse can be incredibly, incredibly hard to manage. With this choice, the Catholic Church demonstrates that the stolen childhoods, justice and healing for survivors, do not matter. 2/

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✔️Eligibility includes:
👉Identifying as someone who's survived/ been directly impacted by child abuse in sport (psychological, physical or sexual abuse) before the age of 18.
👉Being an adult (18 years+).
👉Desire to use the insights from your experience to inform safer sport prevention strategies

🔍The project aims to identify strategies to improve community clubs’ response to child abuse sport and co-develop a framework for the involvement of people with lived experience of abuse in sport in collaborative research projects.

Our research team at Victoria University would like to invite 4/6 people who’ve experienced child abuse in Australian sport to join an advisory committee for a collaborative research project.

Ughhh my heart goes to the family and those impacted. May he rest in peace.

Chief Investigators (Institute for Health & Sport, Victoria University): Dr Aurélie Pankowiak, Dr @marynwoessner.bsky.social, A/Prof F.Mclachlan, Prof Parker. Project staff: Alison Quigley, Lived Experience Advocate/ PhD candidate, Alana Richardson, Research Assistant, Dr Jeffrey Bishara, Postdoc.

Stay tuned as recruitment for the lived experience advisory committee will start soon.

2. to co-develop a framework for the meaningful engagement of victim-survivors in initiatives on child abuse prevention in and gain a better understanding of the experiences of people with lived experience in joining such initiatives.