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Resolution Number: 1988-D064
Title: Urge Training to Respond to Family Violence
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred As Amended
Final Text:

Resolved, That this 69th General Convention urge every bishop to direct an appropriate body within the diocese to:

  1. establish and conduct training workshops for clergy and laity to identify the signs of battering and sexual abuse of women and children;
  2. produce a register for the clergy and laity of available resources within their communities, such as support services, shelters and entitlement programs; and
  3. encourage clergy and laity to consult with and refer victims to professionally trained counselors and support groups;

and be it further

Resolved, That this Convention urge the seminaries of the church to include in their curricula appropriate education and training in the area of family violence.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Detroit, 1988 (New York: General Convention, 1989), p. 277.