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Free Online Workshop, Sex Offenders and The Registry: What You Need to Know
Date/Time: Tuesday, March 28th from 6:30PM-7:45PM Location: Zoom We are proud to host a series of free workshops in 2023 sponsored by Lancaster County District Attorney's Office. During our next free online workshop, we will discuss the sex offender registry, it’s tiers and designations, common predatory behaviors, warning signs, and how to talk to children if you discover a Registered Sex Offender lives in your neighborhood, attends your church, or volunteers/ works at a location where children and youth gather. The workshop will be held via Zoom on Tuesday, March 28th from 6:30PM-7:45PM. A recording link will be sent to those registered after the workshop for those who cannot attend live. Select the link to register for this free workshop. |
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PA Dutch Court Certified Interpreter Training Introductory Workshop
Date/Time: Thursday, April 20th from 11AM-1PM Location: Historic Schoolhouse at Risser Mennonite Church 8360 Elizabethtown Road Elizabethtown, PA 17022 Scenario #1: Imagine you are a little Amish girl who speaks only PA Dutch in the dialect of your local church community, and you’ve been sexually abused. You are taken to a Child Advocacy Center where a man who does not speak the kind of PA Dutch you know interviews you. In your culture, a girl or woman would never talk to a man about sexual things, and this particular man is of an ethnicity you have never seen before; he is dressed in clothes that look very strange to you; and PA Dutch is not his native tongue. When you get out of the interview, you tell your mom you could not understand his PA Dutch, and you were very scared. Your case is not going to move forward – because you did not disclose. You will go back to the farm, and the uncle or brother or grandfather who molested you will likely do it again. And your mom will be in trouble with the church for going to outsiders. Click the button to keep reading for more information and how to register. Retreat: Resistance, Resilience, And Re-emergence: A Retreat for Survivors of Childhood Trauma and Their Friends
Date/Time: Saturday, April 22nd from 8AM-4PM Location: Hurst Home Bed and Breakfast 154 E Farmersville Road Ephrata, PA 17522 Those who have experienced trauma in childhood such as sexual, physical, or emotional abuse, carry a heavy burden. They are often more likely to experience additional trauma as adults. Pile on the disruptions stemming from the pandemic, and survivors get crushed under the weight. Friends and family members that want to support them are also exhausted by the social trauma we’ve all experienced, as well as often their own traumatic experiences. Spring is a time of re-birth. A time to heal. And this retreat offers that opportunity. After a multi-year hiatus due to the pandemic, Safe Communities will begin again to offer in-person retreats for adults who experienced childhood trauma, including sexual, physical, and emotional abuse, as well as friends and others who care for survivors and want to help support them. Our April 22 retreat will be held at a beautiful location in Ephrata, PA. Using our themes of Resistance, Resilience and Re-Emergence we’ll explore how we resist caving in to internal and external voices that deny our humanity and our reality; how we develop resilience so we can weather the storms that befall us; and how we want to re-emerge in this post-pandemic time when forced social isolation has diminished and multiple demands are being placed on us to “get back to normal” – which never really worked for most of us. Want to purchase a retreat gift certificate for someone in your life or a survivor you don’t know who needs a hand? Contact us at 717-560-9989 or email info@safecommunitiespa.org |
