General
Centre for Child Protection of the Institute of Psychology of the Pontifical Gregorian University (2012)
Symposium Toward Healing and Renewal, held at the Pontifical Gregorian University, February 6-9, 2012
The Centre for Child Protection of the Institute of Psychology of the Pontifical Gregorian University by Dr. Hubert Liebhardt and Hans Zollner, S.J.
The Centre for Child Protection was founded as a cooperation between the Institute of Psychology of the Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome, Italy), the Department for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of Ulm University Hospital (Germany), and the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising (Germany). Its main purpose is the creation of a global E-Learning training centre in academic resources for the pastoral professions responding to the sexual abuse of minors, taking into account multilingual and intercultural issues. At present, the Centre for Child Protection has been established for three years (2012-2014) to develop and implement an E-Learning program totalling 30 hours, in four languages (English, Spanish, Italian, German). Eight partners throughout the world (in Argentina, Ecuador, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy and Kenya) will participate, taking an active role in participant recruitment, certification and the ongoing evaluation of the training program. Later on the training program will be open to other interested users worldwide, in the Catholic Church and beyond.