A Safer Church for all: Safeguarding, Core to Mission.
SAVE THE DATE: Saturday 20 June 2020
You are warmly invited to attend the inaugural Catholic Professional Standards Ltd (CPSL) safeguarding conference in partnership with the NCCA Safe Church Program on 20 June 2020 in Melbourne. The conference is a must for all church leaders, those with safeguarding responsibilities and those who want to explore how safeguarding is core to the Christian mission.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS invited:
Fr Hans Zollner SJ
Fr Hans is a theologian and psychologist. He is President of the Centre for Child Protection and Director and Professor of the Institute of Psychology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and a member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors. He is seen internationally as one of the leading experts on sexual abuse working within the Catholic Church today.
Dr Kathleen McChesney PhD
Dr McChesney’s early career was in law enforcement in the USA. In 2002 she was appointed by the United States Catholic Bishops’ Conference to establish and lead their Office of Child Protection where she developed and administered a national compliance mechanism to ensure that all Catholic dioceses complied with civil laws and internal policies relative to the prevention, reporting and response to the sexual abuse of minors. She has researched, published and lectured frequently on the issue of sexual abuse of minors in religious institutions. She is currently working with a number of congregations of male religious across the USA.
| Details about the conference will be released in the coming months, pending information and updates regarding COVID-19 and Government public health advice. |
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PARTNERSHIP BACKGROUND
In January 2020, CPSL and NCCA signed a partnership agreement to work collaboratively on four key areas of mutual interest that we believe will add value to Australian church and faith communities in the area of safeguarding. One of those outlined initiatives is the collaboration on the inaugural CPSL conference.
The conference planning was well formulated prior to the partnership and was intended for Catholic Church delegates, however, due to the partnership agreement with the NCCA this scope has now been extended to include any representative through any denomination, in particular those in leadership roles within NCCA member churches.
