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Third alumni forum focused on clericalism and safeguarding
Alumni Coordinator Br. Tony Shanahan gives us a recap of the third alumni forum, held on 7 May 2022. The third in this year’s series of alumni forums took the difficult subject of Clericalism as its focus. Despite the challenge of technical problems with the Zoom link that kept some would-be participants from joining the […]
Los desafíos de la prevención y el trabajo en red
Este artículo forma parte de la sección “La misión de la vida consagrada frente a los abusos”, publicada mensualmente en la revista española ‘Vida Religiosa’. Los autores de los artículos son docentes, colaboradores y alumni del Instituto de Antropología de la Pontificia Universidad Gregoriana de Roma. Los desafíos de la prevención y el trabajo en […]
Croatian alumna pursues international cooperation
Alumna Marina Šijaković, head of the Center for Fostering the Wellbeing of Vulnerable Persons of the Catholic University of Croatia, shares about her efforts to build connections with other safeguarding organizations. A meeting between members of the Center for the Fostering the Wellbeing of Vulnerable Persons and Maria Rudan, head of the Human Dignity Strategy, […]
Second Online Alumni Forum
Today’s post is by our Alumni Coordinator, Br. Tony Shanahan, who shares about the online alumni forum held on 5 March. The sensitive and complex reality of abuse within the family was the subject of the second online forum for IADC alumni on Saturday, 5 March. Some 18 alumni from Europe, Asia and Africa joined […]
Another Step Along the Way
Today we hear from Br. Tony Shanahan, our Alumni Coordinator, about an online forum for alumni. In October last year I invited alumni to “a continuing collaboration with us and with our network around the world… we want to support and assist you, and we would like you to assist us from time to time […]
Our experience at the IADC: Be part of the solution
On Friday, 11 February, eleven students completed our diploma course in safeguarding. Four of those students — Henrieta Gomes (Bangladesh), Ignashious Amirtharaj Jeyachandren (India), Florence Wanjiku Njagi (Kenya), and Fransiskus Bram Tulusan (Indonesia) — wrote a brief reflection on their experience, which we share with you today. Congratulations to all of our diploma students! Be […]
Giving What We Have
Today we hear from one of our licentiate students, Stéphanie Ranavalonarivo, who is from Madagascar and a member of the Focolari Movement. She shares about the module on healthy relationships. From the 13th to the 17th of December 2021, students of the licentiate and diploma courses studied the topic of healthy relationships presented by Fr. […]
Los efectos negativos de la pornografía online
En una entrevista del pasado mes de diciembre en el programa ‘The Howard Stern show’ [1] la cantante norteamericana Billie Eilish declaraba: “Como mujer, creo que el porno es una desgracia. Siendo sincera, yo solía ver mucho. Empecé a ver porno cuando tenía como 11 años”. Eilish, que ahora tiene 19 años, compartía con el […]
My experience as an intern at the IADC
Theresa Oesselke from Germany recently completed an internship with the IADC. In today’s post, she shares her experience as our first German-speaking intern. During the four weeks of my internship, I gained more expertise regarding the topics of sexual abuse and safeguarding but also learned a lot didactically and personally. I also became more sensitive […]