Are there any @The_ACNA children's ministers, volunteers, or clergy who have some experience w/abuse prevention training & would be willing to step it up and lead an FB group of ACNA people interested in collaborating on improved abuse prevention & response policies? #ACNAtoo
Also, since many children's ministers in ACNA are unpaid and already work many, long hours to serve, do we have any licensed therapists that want to offer feedback on the Provincial Counsel's sample policy?
*Provincial Council, rather. This is what happens when Southern Baptists become Anglicans, y'all. We either run around in the fancy cassocks & demand more incense or we never quite figure out polity & support populist reform movements. I'm both but struggle with homophones.
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This is the empty sentimentality of evangelical Sincerity Culture.
Instead of becoming people that CAN help, immature leaders impose on those seeking help by asking the people under their "care" to receive professions of sincerity as effective assistance. @ACNAToo@StewartRuch
What is clear from the statement of one of the victim's Mother's on @ACNAtoo is that @StewartRuch & many of the leaders of COLA & @ChurchRez believed Mark Rivera & did not believe @ladyjessicahaze & the children who reported Rivera's abuse to their church leaders.
Y'all, I've been working on transcribing the email screenshots from @ladyjessicahaze 's July 3rd 🧵 for ACNAtoo.org 's launch & I'm more tired than @StewartRuch 's performative lament at failing the survivors of abuse in @MidwestAnglican.
Anyone want to help me out?
I just got to this tweet & need to transcribe the screenshots for it and all the Tweets w/ text screenshots after it.
If you want to help, 1. transcribe. 2. DM me the transcription with the relevant tweet 3. retweet the tweet you transcribed in the comments of this thread and let others know it's done so we don't duplicate labor.
@scotmcknight@BpToddHunter@The_ACNA@C4SO Probably not. I haven't looked at details of any policies, but this is literally the ONLY diocese in ACNA that expresses ANY sort of concern for whistleblower protection on their website.
@scotmcknight@BpToddHunter@The_ACNA@C4SO I am guessing that as I look through the documents, I will not find ANY diocese that has policies on how to conduct investigations in ways that are victim-centered & trauma informed. This hasn't been thought through.
@scotmcknight@BpToddHunter@The_ACNA@C4SO As a lay person, it's not clear to me how diocesan policies on abuse prevention & response are developed. Presumably, @The_ACNA has some minimum standards a diocese must meet, yes?
Spending my day compiling a list of ACNA resources by diocese posted on diocesan websites on abuse prevention and response policies. Shout out to Diocese of Churches for the Sake of Others for featuring an easy-to-find page, clear reporting procedures, & whistleblower protection.
@C4SO 's website is definitely the best so far in terms of making it easy for victims to report and in including other forms of abuse as areas of concern other than child sexual abuse. Well done. Other @The_ACNA - take notes.
This points to a broader institutional pronlem in which @The_ACNA either lacks protocols & standards that conform to readily available best practices for responding to sexual abuse allegations...
Most of your fellow parishioners do not know about the mishandling of sexual abuse allegations in @MidwestAnglican by @StewartRuch under the nat'l leadership of @ArchbishopFoley.