This addresses the understanding that healing is necessary for the primary victims, as well as the secondary victims who are spouses, parents, and children. This coming fall, we hope to begin a support group for spouses of survivors of sexual abuse which will be co-facilitated by our Victim Assistance Coordinator along with the spouse of a survivor. The purpose of this group was to address the relationship between survivor-parent and child, as well as to facilitate discussions regarding triggers that occur in their own parenting journey due to their experience with childhood sexual abuse.
TRAUMA MOVIESHARE SERIES
This year, we began a series of meetings with survivors who are now parents. Their recommendations not only included a yearly Healing Mass, which I have committed to, but also support groups for survivors and their loved ones. The group has since become the Diocesan Survivors Advisory Committee, and has become a guiding voice in our outreach to those impacted by sexual abuse committed by clergy and others. This also provided an opportunity for these survivors to meet each other, and share in their experience. Jasmine Salazar, who is a licensed social worker, to explore and give voice on what survivors felt is needed for healing. This year, the second Mass of Hope and Healing will take place on Thursday, April 21, at 7 p.m., at Our Lady Queens of Martyrs Church in Forest Hills.Īlso last year, a group of survivors came together for the first time, working with our Victim Assistance Coordinator, Ms. Many stated how they experienced it as a grace-filled evening. There was a very positive reaction on behalf of survivors, lay faithful, and clergy. Last year, the diocese offered its first Mass of Hope and Healing requested by survivors of sexual abuse.
My dear brothers and sisters in the Lord,
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