| Resolution Number: | 1985-B014 | |
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| Title: | Direct Bishops to Establish Workshops for Clergy on Child Abuse | |
| Legislative Action Taken: | Concurred As Amended | |
| Final Text: | ||
Resolved, That where legally and pastorally appropriate, each Bishop be requested to direct an appropriate body within his diocese to establish and conduct training workshops for clergy to enable better recognition of the indications of child abuse and child sexual abuse, and for the purpose of orienting the clergy to their own community's resources for dealing with this sensitive issue; and be it further
Resolved, That said workshops be repeated periodically in each diocese in order that new clergy be included.
| Citation: | General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Anaheim, 1985 (New York: General Convention, 1986), p. 594. |
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