Case Study: Voice Up Australia

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Voice Up is a voluntary group of adult survivors of childhood abuse who began meeting in August 2013 . Voice up is being supported as a project of Coffs Harbour Neighbourhood Centre which is a project of incorporated association Volunteering Coffs Harbour Inc. Coffs Harbour Neighbourhood Centre is funded by NSW Department of Family & Community Services. • 45 people attended a panel in Child Protection Week delivered by Voice Up and involving the public to understand how JIRT (Joint Investigation Response Team )– Health, Police and Community services respond to accusations and reporting. • Victims Services Commissioner for NSW is also coming to Coffs at invitation of Voice Up to take public questions and responses. • Voice Up in 2014 is sponsoring ASCA Training for service providers and for clinical practitioners in public and private settings to deliver advanced therapeutic techniques as well as running a FREE SURVIVORS DAY fro ASCA to deliver …show more content…

Voice up Australia wants to empower its members to lift the veil of silence and break the societal taboos of secrecy in relation to child physical and sexual abuse. Voice Up Australia acknowledges that victim blaming occurs from the highest levels of government institutions, within our criminal justice system and permeates every sector of society. The revelation of child abuse comes in "fragments of whispers. Children infrequently declare abuse either voluntarily or under questioning. The authority of the abuser is a gag on the abused". For the survivor struggling to make sense of the experience there can be shame and embarrassment. Recent convictions of Rolf Harris and many others have shown that survivors of child sexual assault do not speak out for decades. In the meantime pedophiles continue to groom the vulnerable children and young people safe in the knowledge that their confused victims will stay

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