Welcome again it's that time to renew the newsletter. Articles are welcomed and will be cherished and encouraged to support the vision of a world free from violence and abuse. If you would like to contribute please email me on pbcwa@iinet.net.au.

1. Update on USA Activities by Donna Fortin
2. Protective Behaviours (WA) Inc

New Resource Listing

Calender for Professional Training

3. Police Praised for their records
4. The Feminist Bookshop Publications
5. Join the Discussion - childprotect
6. Update on Links Info
7. Sites of related interest
8. New Publications

Monthly meetings of Certified Trainers are held at the Prevent Child Abuse Wisconsin office in Madison, Wisconsin. During these meetings the Trainers share ideas, work out training schedules and work on projects.

The current project, which began in June, 2001 with a two-day retreat is the writing of a USA version of Di Margetts' Training for Trainers Manual. It was an exciting retreat with all the trainers who have been doing PBs for over 15 years, plus three new people and the new Executive Director of Prevent Child Abuse Wisconsin. This was followed by one-day meetings to finish up details. At the last meeting we divided up the various sections of the manual to write.

After several years of debate we settled on the re-wording of the second theme. Because the double negatives jarred those of us who are grammarians, we have changed the wording to: "We can talk with someone we trust about anything, no matter how awful or small."

We also have taken out some of the militaristic language, such as "strategies," etc., and they have become "teaching techniques". The teaching techniques now include Feelings are Feelings, Behavior is a Choice, and Language of Safety recently worked up by Di Margetts.

We are also using the term "freethink" instead of brainstorm as it was pointed out by a person with seizure syndrome that a storm in the brain is exactly what happens during a seizure.

Since some of the USA written curricula has recently been revised, it will take some time to reflect these changes. However, Donna Fortin is in the process of revising the manual, "Living Safely for People with Special Needs, based on Protective Behaviors" and is including the changes in the revision.

Two computer programs are available from ASTOP for elementary and secondary levels teaching/reinforcing Protective Behaviors. They are available through ASTOP, 430 Division St. Fond du Lac, Wisconsin 54938.

Also available from ASTOP is "Feeling Safe, Standing Strong" for secondary level.

S.A.V.E. is the elementary level curriculum recently revised. It has been taught by the Community Safety Education Police for the past 20 years in Madison schools. It is available from Prevent Child Abuse Wisconsin, 214 Hamilton St., Madison, Wisconsin 53703. Fax (608) 256-3378.

Living Safely for People with Special Needs is available from Prevent Child Abuse Wisconsin.

Enhanced Choices for Teens is a beautiful manual by Colleen Wingrove. It is available through Prevent Child Abuse Wisconsin. This manual is based on Gardner's philosophy of Multiple Intelligence.

PB Trainers are currently presenting workshops to schools through the Cooperative Educational Services Agencies in Wisconsin, funded by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

A Speech and Language Clinician at both elementary and secondary levels is using the Living Safely curriculum and finding it extremely useful for students with Down Syndrome. In the same school the Guidance Counselor is using it in her counseling and teaching sessions.

A new evaluation tool is being developed by a retired School Social Worker who is also a PB trainer, which will be included in the new Training for Trainers manual.

Thanks for the opportunity.

Yours for a safer world, Donna Fortin

Protective Behaviours WA (Inc) 8 Burton StreetCannington WA

Effective from 1/12/2001 (including GST)

Payment to be made by CASH / CHEQUE / MONEY ORDER / LPO

Make cheque payable to: Protective Behaviours WA (Inc)

All items are subject to price change without prior notice

Please allow 3 weeks for delivery.

Workshop fees include morning and afternoon teas, lunch and workshop handouts.

Protective Behaviours resources and manuals will be available for purchase at the workshops.

Limited places are available at each workshop so please forward registration forms and payment to our training co-ordinator as soon as possible.

Further information on Protective Behaviours (WA) Inc workshops and specialised/customised training pleased contact the training co-ordinator.

Andrea Musulin
Protective Behaviours (WA) Inc
P.O. BOX 616
BENTLEY WA 6102
Tel: 08 9356 0514
0409071068
Fax: 08 9356 0506

Police praised for their records

2002 -OUTSTANDING service from three WA police officers has been recognised with Australian Police Medals.

Police Commissioner Barry Matthews said Supt Ray Pottinger, Insp. Catherine Bullen and Sen. Const. Rebecca West served the community with great distinction and commitment.

Sen. Const. West helped set up a family violence court and a police domestic violence unit at Joondalup.

In 1997, she was awarded the Edith Cowan Western Australian Women's Fellowship which allowed her to go to Canada and the United States to identify domestic violence prevention programs which had proved successful, particularly with indigenous communities.

New Book for Child Protection Workers:

Stanley, J. and Goddard, C. IN THE FIRING LINE -Violence and power in child protection work.

Serious child protection failures haunt health and welfare agencies around the world. A groundbreaking book for health professionals, finds links between the re-abuse of children and the violence against child protection workers. Based on interviews with child protection workers, and rigorous examination of their case studies. Essential reading for professions, policy makers, supervisors, students and educators in childcare and child protection.

The Feminist Bookshop has a very good selection of Protective Behaviours books for Young Children, Teen Esteem and Sexuality and Books for Background Reading. The listing will be featured in next edition of this newsletter. If you wish to contact the bookshop and obtain your own listing please contact direct.

Interested in discussing child abuse prevention issues online? Want to make contacts with interstate and internal colleagues? Join childprotect now?

childprotect is a moderated email discussion list developed by the National Child Protection Clearinghouse to provide a venue for professionals to discuss child abuse prevention and child protection research, policy and practice issues.

With a small but expanding membership, childprotect has been designed with the specific aim of promoting the exchange of information and ideas between Australasian and other professionals working in the field of child abuse prevention and child protection.

The current membership includes child protection workers; other health and welfare service providers; people working in the criminal justice system, education and training, and policy and service planning; and researchers and information providers.

childprotect's topics for discussion include:

1. Requests for research, policy or practice information
2. Developments and changes to child protection and child abuse prevention
3. Best practice in child abuse prevention and child protection
4. The discussion of broader family violence issues
5. Education and training issues
6. Notices about upcoming conferences, workshops events
7. Pointers to new publications, online papers, resources/links and web sites

To join childprotect send the following email:

To: majordomo@aifs.org.au

Subject: (leave blank)

Message: subscribe childprotect

To send a message to all members of childprotect address your email to:

childprotect@aifs.org.au

Dr Adam Tomison, Research Advisor for the National Child Protection Clearinghouse at the Australian Institute of Family Studies is the childprotect list owner.

For further information contact Adam at: owner-childprotect@aifs.org.au

New Contact for PB Queensland is David Tucker email pbqld@gil.com.au

Website Address for PB Madison Wisconsin - http://www.@geocities.com/pca

Kids Help Line

http://www.kidshelp.com.au/links/childabuse/htm

NAPCAN (WA)

http://www.napcan.org.au

PROTECTIVE BEHAVIOURS (WA) INC.

Focal Point on Sexual Exploitation of Children

Protective Behaviours Madison Wisconsin

Clearinghouse Child Abuse Prevention Programs Database

"Choose with Care Recruitment Manual" is a practical guide for children organizations in selecting people who will be directly involved in their programme. The strategies developed in this manual are specifically designed to fit the needs of non-governmental organizations to ensure that children under care are protected from the risk of sexual exploitation. For better understanding and use of this guide manual, its publishers, ECPAT Australia and MacKillop Family Services are offering training workshops to manual uses on how to carry out the Choose with Care approach.

Contact: ECPAT Australia, P.O. BOX 1725, Collingwood, Vic 3066, Australia

Phone: +61 (0) 3 9419 1844 Fax: +61 (0) 3 9419 9518 Email: ecpat@ecpat.org

The Psychosocial Rehabilitation of Children Who Have Been Commercial Sexually Exploited: A Training Guide and Self Study Material for Carers two Publications. Delaney S. and Cotterill, C. These materials are designed for working with street children and abused young people.

A Training Guide

Chapters cover how the group is going to work together during training; how views about child abuse and ideas about children are shaped; Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) and Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) - What it means and who is affected; the Special Needs of Commercial Sexually Exploited Children; understanding behaviour and development strategies to manage bad behaviour and encourage good behaviour; developing skills in managing challenging behaviour; health promotion; life and social skills; education and vocational training; developing effective ways of working to aid the recovery process; support for carers and successful rehabilitation.

Self Study Material for Carers

These materials are designed for centres, for street children and abused young people, which find themselves taking on new staff without having the resources or opportunity to provide training. These are sample materials for SELF-STUDY, which may be adapted or translated to be suitable for new caregivers of children who are sexually abused or exploited.

Six units cover child sexual abuse, commercial sexual exploitation of children, psychosocial rehabilitation, programmes, reintegration and prevention. Included are guiding principles for working with children who have been commercially sexually exploited.

Both publications can be viewed online in pdf format:

www.ecpat.net/eng/Ecpat_inter/Publication/Other/English/Pdf_page/ecpat_training_manual.pdf

www.ecpat.net/eng/Ecpat_inter/Publication/Other/English/Pdf_page/ecpat_selfstudy_material.pdf

Contact: ECPA, Fax: 00 662 215-8272 Email: ecpat@ecpat.net.