Thread by @hlgriffin

@The_ACNA Who is conducting this independent investigation?

What are their qualifications?

What is the scope of the investigation and its proposed methods?

In what ways is it "independent"?

Will the final report be public?

@The_ACNA Are the persons conducting this investigation trauma-informed and survivor-sensitive in their procedures for identifying victims & communicating with victims?

What methods do they employ that demonstrate claims to be survivor-sensitive & trauma-informed?

https://twitter.com/ladyjessicahaze/status/1411365673788350465?s=20

@The_ACNA What can survivors expect if they decide to entrust themselves to the Province's professions of grief & goodwill by sending an email identifying themselves as victims of abuse?

Who will read this email? What are their qualifications?

@The_ACNA Disclosing abuse to anyone, let alone a stranger who represents (even as an "independent" investigator) the denomination who has previously enabled their abuser & mishandled abuse allegations on a diocesan level, is to take great risk & open oneself to retraumatization.

@The_ACNA Are the leaders of @The_ACNA so dazzled by their own sincere good intentions to "do this right" that they have forgotten to think about whether they have a right to expect survivors to trust them with their stories? What reason would survivors have to trust them?

@The_ACNA Has the deeply grieved and empathetic leadership of the @The_ACNA demonstrated even basic audience awareness by bothering to think about how overwhelming & difficult it is for survivors to trust institutions who have empowered their abusers?

@The_ACNA Has @The_ACNA leadership bothered to explain to those who might wish to report abuse what the procedures "that must be followed" actually are and what outcomes can be expected?

https://twitter.com/ACNAtoo/status/1421494119222841348?s=20

@The_ACNA Would it not be appropriate to ask survivors what their own hopes & expectations are in contacting @The_ACNA? Do they wish, for instance, to initiate a legal proceeding? Should the relevant procedure be explained to them before they commit to it?

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@The_ACNA Does the @The_ACNA intend to offer support to survivors who risk coming forward?

Will the Provincial Province Team pay for therapy, for instance?

Will the survivors have some say in who provides care for them?

@The_ACNA The as-yet-unformed Provincial Response Team of @The_ACNA can't claim to be ignorant of these concerns any more than @StewartRuch & leaders in @MidwestAnglican who engaged the @ACNAtoo survivors.

The survivors have explained the concerns repeatedly, often publicly.

@The_ACNA @StewartRuch @MidwestAnglican @ACNAtoo Like @StewartRuch & @MidwestAnglican, @The_ACNA has not demonstrated that they are capable of listening & taking these concerns, which reflect best practices for investigations & have often been communicated by a licensed & trauma-informed therapist, seriously.

@The_ACNA @StewartRuch @MidwestAnglican @ACNAtoo The leadership of @The_ACNA is not entitled to trust that it has not earned, nor is it likely to earn sympathy from the public or survivors when survivors do not choose to entrust them with their stories as part of an "independent" investigation.

@The_ACNA @StewartRuch @MidwestAnglican @ACNAtoo The leadership of @The_ACNA is furthermore not entitled to control the story of survivors who were abused by ACNA leaders like Mark Rivera or "M" of the Diocese of Pittsburgh. The Province is not entitled to trust when the dioceses have failed to handle abuse allegations properly

@The_ACNA @StewartRuch @MidwestAnglican @ACNAtoo You don't get to control the stories of abuse survivors, @The_ACNA .

You don't get to command their trust just because you have convinced yourselves that because you mean to do well, you are capable of doing well.

You have to show that you are capable of doing well.

@The_ACNA @StewartRuch @MidwestAnglican @ACNAtoo This means that you explain your procedures and policies.

This means that you answer reasonable survivor questions.

This means that you listen to survivor concerns & demonstrate that you are listening with your actions.

@The_ACNA @StewartRuch @MidwestAnglican @ACNAtoo Just because YOU may be aware of abuse allegations that have been handled well by the Province or dioceses in the past doesn't mean that survivors know of these private victories or should overlook ACNA's many (often public) failures in responding properly to abuse allegations.

@The_ACNA @StewartRuch @MidwestAnglican @ACNAtoo Just because @The_ACNA may have worked really hard on a good procedure doesn't mean that survivors should entrust themselves to them, especially when the ACNA leaders can't be bothered to explain these procedures to people clearly, or provide support for navigating the process.

@The_ACNA @StewartRuch @MidwestAnglican @ACNAtoo Please try to get out of your institutional insider headspace, @The_ACNA leaders.

Many of you are also pastors in addition to being adminsitrators.

Please show us that as pastors, you know how to treat people properly & earn their trust.

@The_ACNA @StewartRuch @MidwestAnglican @ACNAtoo I still don't doubt that you mean well, @The_ACNA.

I don't doubt that you're working hard & that you are trying.

Just because you're exhausting yourselves in your efforts doesn't mean they will have the impact that you intend.

Listen to survivors. You will improve your impact

@The_ACNA @StewartRuch @MidwestAnglican @ACNAtoo @threadreaderapp and Justice, unroll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.