Resources
Help for creating policies
A Presbyterian guide to child abuse prevention and healing. This comprehensive guide contains information on abuse identification, abuse prevention, and educational material.
PDS# 25793010 • $5.00
A training model for all who work with children
in the church to assist them in becoming aware of child abuse, in exploring how Christian faith provides support for keeping children
safe, learning about prevention, and in learning to respond effectively
when child abuse occurs.
PDS# 7265102002 • Free
by Karen A. McClintock. The Alban Institute, Herndon, Va., 2004.
by Joy Thornburg Melton, Discipleship Resources, Nashville, Tenn. Available from Cokesbury.
This is an excellent resource which presents the stories of victims/survivors of clergy sexual abuse and the PC(USA) policies on sexual misconduct. Originally published in 1995, it has been updated and reprinted.
PDS# 7271099012 • $1.00
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) developed this resource to assist youth-serving organizations as they begin to adopt prevention strategies for child sexual abuse.
Help for raising awareness
This brochure helps laity in the congregation understand clergy misconduct in the ministerial relationship. Available through the Faith Trust Institute.
A timely case study, designed for congregations for preventing and finding effective solutions for sexual abuse against congregants by clergy, by the Rev. Marie M. Fortune (Cleveland: The United Church Press, 1999).
A program of four training videos that increase awareness of the need for healthy boundaries in the clergy-congregant or student-teacher relationship. Available through the Faith Trust Institute.
The phenomenon of sexual abuse as committed by persons in fiduciary
relationships is widespread among helping professions. Those who perpetrate these
violations are not confined to any nation. This bibliography is oriented to several
specific contexts in which this phenomenon occurs. By James S. Evinger. Available
through the Faith Trust Institute.
Help for rebuilding trust
Useful to ministers and congregations in planning and leading worship, the Book of Common Worship provides orders of worship and liturgical texts for each Sunday and for every festival and season throughout the year. It includes the Lord's Supper, Baptism, daily prayer, marriage, funeral and pastoral liturgies. The lectionary, a collection of prayers for a variety of uses, and the psalms are also included.
PDS #219918 • $39.95
By Marie West Zinnerman. Liturgy Training Publications, Chicago, Ill. 1995.
edited by Marie Fortune and Joretta Marshall. The Haworth Press, Inc. 2002 (pages 71-85).
This liturgy was developed in response to a survivor of clergy sexual abuse who asked FutureChurch to sponsor a healing service for victims. The liturgy was used in a service that was held in Cleveland on October 14, 2002, and involved 22 co-participants from northeastern Ohio. The liturgy includes music and prayer written by a Cleveland survivor of sexual abuse who is also a musician. The complete liturgy is provided in PDF format for download. It includes a detailed planning guide, diagrams of stations that were set up in the worship space, a participants' booklet, the message that was preached and original music composed specifically for this service.
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