CONCURRENT SESSION 4 - stream 3
Tracks
Track 3
| Tuesday, May 16, 2017 |
| 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM |
| A2 |
Speaker
Professor Daryl Higgins
Director, Institute of Child Protection Studies
Australian Catholic University
Applications of the situation prevention model: Building chid-safe environments in practice
Abstract
Despite efforts to address the problem of child sexual abuse—as has been demonstrated by research, and findings from the current Royal Commission into institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse—it continues to occur in a variety of community youth-serving organisations (e.g., education and care, welfare, justice, religious, arts/leisure, and health settings). This "how-to" oriented training will describe a systematic approach to the identification of risks in community organisations as well as offering suggestions for prevention and risk reduction strategies to address these concerns.
In this interactive workshop, Professors Higgins and Kaufman will provide an overview of the focus of past strategies to keep children safe and the limitations of focusing prevention strategies on individuals. After outlining the need for systemic strategies that focus on modifying the situation, the workshop will build on the Situational Prevention Approach model outlined in Kaufman’s keynote address, and give tools to help participants apply the model within their current organisational context.
Participants will be challenged to undertake a risk brainstorm around the child safety concerns that they face within their current organisational settings, with opportunities to work through and share strategies that could eliminate or ameliorate the risks identified. The application of this approach with Boys and Girls Clubs of America, in a project sponsored by the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape, will be provided to illustrate it's potential for community-based prevention.
In this interactive workshop, Professors Higgins and Kaufman will provide an overview of the focus of past strategies to keep children safe and the limitations of focusing prevention strategies on individuals. After outlining the need for systemic strategies that focus on modifying the situation, the workshop will build on the Situational Prevention Approach model outlined in Kaufman’s keynote address, and give tools to help participants apply the model within their current organisational context.
Participants will be challenged to undertake a risk brainstorm around the child safety concerns that they face within their current organisational settings, with opportunities to work through and share strategies that could eliminate or ameliorate the risks identified. The application of this approach with Boys and Girls Clubs of America, in a project sponsored by the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape, will be provided to illustrate it's potential for community-based prevention.
Biography
In February 2017, Daryl was appointed Professor and Director, Institute of Child Protection Studies, Australian Catholic University. His research focuses on public health approaches to protecting children, and child-safe organisational strategies. A registered psychologist, he has been researching child abuse impacts and prevention, family violence, and family functioning since 1993.
Dr. Kaufman is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and a Professor of Psychology at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, USA. He has chaired state prevention committees in Ohio and Oregon and co-chaired the committee that created Oregon’s first statewide sexual violence prevention plan.
Chair
Jodie Griffiths-Cook
Public Advocate and Children and Young People Commissioner
Office of the ACT Children and Young People Commissioner
