Training & Professional Development

This section provides tools and opportunities to strengthen your professional skills when working with adult survivors of child sexual abuse. Here you will find policy frameworks, specialist training programs, and practical learning resources to support evidence-based and culturally safe practice. 

Policies & Reports

• Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse

• Responding to Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

•  Ministry of Health PARVAN (Prevention and response to violence, abuse and neglect) Adult Survivor Pilot Research

•  Responding to Sexual Assault (adult and child) Policy and Procedures

Training Providers

• NSW Health Education Centre Against Violence (ECAV) Training calendar

• Survivors & Mates Support Network (SAMSN) workshops designed for professionals working with male survivors of childhood sexual abuse

• Lifeline training calendar

• National Centre for the Action on Child Sexual Abuse 

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• Blue Knot: empowering recovery from complex trauma : training *& resources

• Centre for Community Welfare Training (ACWA/CCWT): working with Adult Survivors of Childhood Trauma

Educational Resources

• National Centre for the Action on Child Sexual Abuse – online free courses, webinars & practice tools

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• National Office for Child Safety - Engaging with victims and survivors of child sexual abuse: Practice guide for workers and organisations

• Emerging Minds Training, webinars, podcasts fact sheets

• First Nations Wellbeing training and consultancy

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• National Centre for the Action on Child Sexual Abuse – online free courses, webinars & practice tools

Educational Videos

• Dr Nadine Burke Harris – Understanding ACE’s (Adverse Childhood Experiences)

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• Understanding ACE’s: What are Adverse Childhood Experiences?

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• Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE’s)

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• Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation: We Were Just Little Boys

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• Intersectionality

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• Brene Brown on Empathy Vs Sympathy – supporting difficult conversations with connection